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Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White

by Tom Sancton

Published: 2006-06-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Former Time Paris Bureau Chief and bestselling author Tom Sancton returns to the New Orleans of his youth and the music that shaped and guided his life.Song for my Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging black ...

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A Song for My Mother

by Kat Martin

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 224 pages

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In this charming novel, Kat Martin brings readers back to the town of Dreyerville for another compelling story of love, loss, hope, and second chances... Years after running away with her boyfriend in her junior year of high school, Marly Hanson returns to Dreyerville at the request of her...

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The Song Is You: A Novel

by Megan Abbott

Published: 2008-02-19

Paperback: 256 pages

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Each song that shuffles through “that greatest of all human inventions” triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But when his family falls apart, even music loses its hold...

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The Song Is You: A Novel

by Arthur Phillips

Published: 2009-04-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod.Each song that shuffles through “that greatest of all human inventions” triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But w...

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* * * * Epic,
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The Song of Achilles: A Novel

by Madeline Miller

Published: 2012-03-06

Hardcover: 384 pages

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The legend begins... Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. ?The best of all the Greeks?'strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess?Achilles is ev...

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The Song of Kahunsha

by Anosh Irani

Published: 2007-03-28

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Ten-year-old Chamdi has rarely ventured outside his orphanage and entertains a fantasy of what Bombay is like beyond its garden walls – a paradise he calls Kahunsha, “the city of no sadness.” He runs away to search for his long-lost father and finds himself thrust into ch...

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Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2004-06-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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New York Times BestsellerMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story ...

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Song of the Brokenhearted (Women of Faith (Thomas Nelson))

Published: 2012-08-21

Paperback: 320 pages

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Ava has a loving family, a beautiful house, and a solid faith. Suddenly, her ideal life will be completely broken . . . in the best of ways. Ava’s life is full of great things. Her daughter is getting married to just the right guy, her husband’s company has kept them financially succe...

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Song of the Exile (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Kiana Davenport

Published: 2008-09-30

Kindle Edition: 382 pages

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In this epic, original novel in which Hawaii's fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, draws upon the remarkable stories of her people to create a timeless, passionate tale of love and survival, tragedy and triumph, survival and tran...

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* * * Informative,
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The Song of the Lark

by Willa Cather

Published: 2009-12-22

Paperback: 256 pages

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Subjects: Women singers Children of clergy Swedish Americans Young women Opera Chicago (Ill.) Colorado Fiction / Literary Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Classics...