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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...

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Song Of The Sparrow

by Lisa Ann Sandell

Published: 2008-08-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Since the days of King Arthur, there have been poems and paintings created in her name. She is Elaine of Ascolat, the Lady of Shalott, and now there is a book all her own. The year is 490 A.D. and 16-year-old Elaine has a temperament to match her fiery red hair. Living on a military base with her father,...

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Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

by Nancy Marie Brown

Published: 2012-10-30

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name o...

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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...