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The Song Reader

by Lisa Tucker

Published: 2005-04-26

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Leeann's older sister Mary Beth has a gift. When the two sisters are left alone after the death of their mother and the disappearance of their father, Mary Beth becomes the hero of both her younger sister and their entire town. She is a "song reader." She doesn?t read palms or tarot cards;...

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The Song Remains the Same

by Allison Winn Scotch

Published: 2012-12-31

Paperback: 352 pages

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She’s a wife, a sister, a daughter…but she remembers nothing. Now she must ask herself who she is and choose which stories—and storytellers—to trust. One of only two survivors of a plane crash, Nell Slattery wakes up in the hospital with no memory of it, or who she is, or was. Now ...

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Song Yet Sung

by James McBride

Published: 2008-02-05

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher. Nowhere has the drama of American slavery played itself out with more tension than in the dripping swamps of Maryland's eastern shore, where ...

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The Songcatcher

by Sharyn McCrumb

Published: 2002-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Capturing the enduring beauty of the Appalachian mountains where she sets her novels, Sharyn McCrumb returns with a beautifully written, historically accurate tale of a song's passage through history-from the 1700s to the present, from the shores of Scotland to western North Carolina...whe...

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The Songlines

by Bruce Chatwin

Published: 1988-06-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Bruce Chatwin-author of In Patagonia-ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians, racist policemen and mysterious Aboriginal holy men, he discovers...

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Songs for the Missing

by Stewart O'Nan

Published: 2008

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Songs for the Missing: A Novel

by Stewart O'Nan

Published: 2008-10-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community?s efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a famil...

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Songs in Ordinary Time

by Mary McGarry Morris

Published: 1997-06-01

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Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen...

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Songs of the Earth (Wild Hunt Trilogy 1)

by Elspeth Cooper

Published: 2011-06-16

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Gair is under a death sentence. He can hear music - music with power - and in the Holy City that means only one thing: he's a witch, and he's going to be burnt at the stake. Even if he could escape, the Church Knights and their witchfinder would be hot on his heels while his burgeoning power threatesn...

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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism

by Dawn Prince-Hughes Ph.D.

Published: 2005-03-22

Paperback: 240 pages

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In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman, when she entered the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and became immediately fascinated with the gorillas. By observing them and, later, working ...