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L.A. in the late sixties. Sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, the sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll Daisy 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 Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour his girlfriend Camila finds out she's pregnant, and Billy goes a little wild on the...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Shy fifteen-year-old Cuban American Victoria Cruz feels trapped by the monotony of running on the cross country team and keeping up with her studies to maintain her scholarship to her prestigious college prep school, but the chance to join a rock band in need of a lead singer gives her the opportunity to confront her anxieties, find love and disappointment, and create a new playlist for her life.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the 1960s, Anke reveled in headline-grabbing romances with three members of the hugely influential rock band The Midnight Ramblers. Outside of the bandmembers themselves, Anke is the only one who fully understands the tangled relationships, betrayals, and suspicions that has...
9) The five
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Follows an eponymous rock band struggling to survive on the margins of the music business as they move through the American Southwest on what might be their final tour together, where the band members come to the attention of a damaged Iraq war veteran, and their lives are changed forever.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
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342 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Former punk rocker Laura Loss joins with two talented young musicians, Sean and Nathan, to form the group The Mistakes, and as they rise to fame, they must come to terms with their stardom and the volatile bonds among the three.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Nora Wakelin has always felt like an outsider in her own family. Her parents and older sister love her, but they don't understand her: neither her passion for music, her all-encompassing crush on her bandmate Daniel, nor her recklessness and impulsivity. Nora has always imagined that her biological mother might somehow provide the answer as to why she feels like such an outsider. Through Internet stalking and leaps of logic, Nora...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
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326 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Heidi Hawthorne, a FM radio DJ and recovering drug addict, is struggling with her newfound sobriety and creeping depression when she receives a myseriously shaped wooden box branded with a strange symbol. Inside the box is a promotional record for a band that identifies themselves only as The Lords. She decides to play it on her show as a joke, but when she does horrible things begin to happen. The strange music unleashes something evil in the town....
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Tor.com edition.
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127 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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I was home alone on a Saturday night when I experienced the most beautiful piece of music I had ever heard in my life. Beautiful Remorse is the hot new band on the scene, releasing one track a day for ten days straight. Each track has a mysterious name and a strangely powerful effect on the band's fans. A curious music blogger decides to investigate the phenomenon up close by following Beautiful Remorse on tour across Texas and Kansas, realizing along...
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Camden's friend Rufus Jackson receives a letter from his ex-wife, Bobbi, and he's surprised to learn he's the father of a baby. When Bobbi is found murdered in her home and her baby stolen, Rufus becomes suspect number one. PI David Randall immediately takes the case. But Randall is almost sidetracked from the case by a series of what appears to be never-ending favors. When he takes his friend Cam to the Carlyle House to sing for a concert, Cam encounters...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Four young musicians are determined to escape a ravaged industrial landscape by playing rock and roll...and they play it with a passion and brilliance that contrasts with their poverty. Music is the only hope they have. Set against a fleeting age when music seemed about to change the world, Robert Paston's The Hour of the Innocents tells the story of the band known as The Innocents and captures the true drama of the late 1960s-not the glitter of...
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
457 pages : musical notation ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Growing up, Antonia 'Toni' Bennett's guitar was her only companion... until she met Sebastian Quick. Seb was a little older, a lot wiser, and he became Toni's way out, promising they'd escape their small town together. Then Seb turned eighteen and split without looking back. Now, Toni B is all grown up and making a name for herself in Philadelphia's indie scene. When a friend suggests she try out for the hottest new band in the country, she decides...
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Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"When a new student transfers in from a posh private school, he falls in with a group of like-minded suburban stoners, artists, and outcasts--too smart and creative for their own good. His classmates nickname their new friend Nietzsche (for his braininess and bleak outlook on life), and decide he must be the front man of their metal band, now christened Nietzsche and the Burbs. With the abyss of graduation--not to mention their first gig--looming...
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John F. Blair
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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All his life, Luther Gaunt has heard songs in his head songs of sweet evil and blue ruckus, odes to ghosts, drinking hymns. In search of his past, he hits the road with his band, the Long Gone Daddies, and his grandfather's cursed guitar. While his band mates just want to make it big when they get to Memphis, Luther retraces the steps of his father and grandfather, who each made the same journey with the same guitar years earlier. Malcolm Gaunt could...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
18 CDs (21 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When the band hits it big, Kiera and Kellan must ask themselves if their love for each other can withstand the constant pressures of superstardom. The friendships they've formed, the new family they've found and the history they've forged will all play a part in helping them navigate the turbulent waters of the band's exploding popularity. A greedy executive hell-bent on success, a declining pop star looking for an edge and a media circus that twists...
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