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Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Danny Danziger

Published: 2008-11-25

Paperback: 304 pages

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An ?intriguing? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Entertainment Weekly) Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York?s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the arist...

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Music for Torching

by A. M. Homes

Published: 2000-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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The Music Lesson: A Novel

by Katharine Weber

Published: 2000-01-02

Paperback: 192 pages

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Patricia Dolan is alone with a stolen Vermeer painting in an Irish cottage by the sea. How she got here is part of the story she tells us: about her father, a Boston cop; the numbing loss of her daughter; and her charming Irish cousin, who has led her to this high-stakes crime.Her vigil be...

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Music Minus One Jazz Drummer: Northern Lights

by Northern Lights

Published: 2005-12-01

Paperback: 40 pages

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The Music of a Life: A Novel

by Andrei Makine

Published: 2002-08-15

Hardcover: 109 pages

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The Music of Dolphins

by Karen Hesse

Published: 1998-02-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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The Music Room: A Memoir

by William Fiennes

Published: 2010-09-13

Paperback: 216 pages

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A bittersweet description of an ancient family house in an enchanted setting, and of growing up with a damaged brother. "Sublimely evocative."?The New Yorker.William Fiennes spent his childhood in a moated castle, the perfect environment for a child with a brimming imagination. It is a hou...

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks

Published: 2007-10-16

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.� But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies mor...

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Oliver Sacks

Published: 2008-09-23

Paperback: 425 pages

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Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical ...

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Must Love Dogs

by Claire Cook

Published: 2003

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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A "funny and pitch-perfect" (Chicago Tribune) tale of thirty-something love. First time in trade paperback. "Can another novel about a 40-year-old divorcee creating a new life for herself actually be of interest? Surprisingly, yes . . . this novel is a hoot." (The Boston Globe) "'Eternally hopeful...