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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
22) Hidden currents
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Series
Drake sisters volume 7
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Kidnapped, Elle Drake, the youngest of the magically gifted Drake sisters, is rescued by her family and the man she loves, Jackson Deveau, but returns home a shattered shell.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In these intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business, Tony Award-winner and the star of TV's Younger Sutton Foster shares memoriable moments--including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the thrills she found on the stage; her breakout TV role in Younger;...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Although her family and friends know her as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, the world refers to her simply as Celia Cruz. Starting her career in 1950, Celia grew increasingly popular as the new lead singer of the Cuban band Sonora Matancera. Her exceptional vocal range and flashy costumes made fans fall in love with her. Celia's talent took her all around the world, including the United States. After Fidel Castro came to power in...
25) Star Island
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen-and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed"-meaning wasted-to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang...
26) Country strong
Language
English
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Description
A rising young singer-songwriter helps an emotionally unstable country star resurrect her career.
Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour steered by her husband/manager, that includes a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between the concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
27) Who was Selena?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Discover why Selena, the Queen of Tejano music, became one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the twentieth century.
28) Bright eyes
Author
Series
Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan series volume 5
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Zeke Coulter, who has no intention of getting married, moves next door to Natalie Patterson, a sexy divorcée with two troubled kids, a bizarre extended family, and a philandering ex-husband involved in shady business dealings, and after her twelve-year-old son vandalizes Zeke's property, he takes it upon himself to instill a sense of responsibility and self-worth in the children, help Natalie gain confidence and trust men again, and seduce her.
29) Run, Rose, run
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Language
English
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Description
On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but it's also where the darkness she's fled might find her--and destroy her.
30) Forever hidden
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Series
Treasures of Nome volume 1
Language
English
Description
"For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish. Havyn is determined to find a way to keep the family together, but her grandfather's health is declining and everyone seems to be holding secrets from each other, including...
31) The high note
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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100 Great Reads - Adult
2020 Lariat Reading List
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
Staff Recommends- Adult/YA
2020 Lariat Reading List
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
Staff Recommends- Adult/YA
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the preeminent cultural critics of her generation, a radiant weave of memoir, criticism, and biography that tells the story of black women in music--from the Dixie Cups to Gladys Knight to Janet, Whitney, and Mariah-- as the foundational story of American pop"--
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Series
Chicago Stars volume 9
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Opera diva Olivia Shore and Chicago Stars quarterback Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens embark on a nationwide tour promoting a luxury watch brand and must find a way to get along when they are plagued by a series of dangerous encounters with an overzealous fan.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Miley is going through a major identity crisis. Not only is she starting high school, but she's also has to make some tough decisions about taking back Jake and traveling to a concert without her super-cool dad there for support. Adding to the drama, Hannah totally croaks in concert and has to deal with possibly losing her stellar singing voice, not to mention her superstar identity.
38) The woman in me
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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The noted pop star offers a moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
39) La mujer que soy
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
Author
Series
Influence (Carl Weber) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Singing sensation Savannah Kirby has won thirteen Grammys and married the man of her dreams in superstar rapper/actor Kyle Kirby. Together they are of one of the most dynamic and powerful couples in entertainment--until Kyle is found murdered and Savannah is arrested for the crime.
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