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2) Dark tribute
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 24
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history,...
3) The fiddler
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetler, and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected--and the man she enlists to help her--in this heartfelt new romance by USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship before making a final...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Since becoming an unlikely millionaire and quitting the St. Paul Police Department, Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favors for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He's been asked to find a stolen Stradivarius, known as the Countess Borromeo, that only the violinist seems to want him to find. Stolen from a locked room in a B&B in the violinist's former hometown...
Author
Series
Belmont mansion novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A master violinist trained in Vienna, Rebekah Carrington manages to wheedle her way into an audition with the newly formed Nashville Philharmonic. But women are "far too fragile and frail" for the rigors of an orchestra, and Rebekah's hopes are dashed because the conductor bows to public opinion. Nationally acclaimed conductor Nathaniel Tate Whitcomb is Nashville's new orchestra leader, and despite a strange buzzing and recurring pain in his head,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Reckoning at Lost Hope, United States Deputy Marshals Hugo Dorling and Billy Young race across 1890s Wyoming in search of the killer, Elijah Thorn. They must stop Thorn before he locates Ivan Kradec, an itinerant violin player, and eleven-year-old Abraham. The boys father has dispatched the vicious Thorn with orders to return the boy to their cult in Nebraska and to kill Kradec and anyone who tries to stop him. The pursuit follows the old Oregon...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling novelist Nora Roberts captivates millions of fans with her provocative blend of scorching passion and chilling suspense. With Carnal Innocence, she creates a gripping tale of murder, infatuation, and true love in a small southern town. After beautiful concert violinist Caroline Waverly breaks up with her conductor and lover Luis, she escapes to her late grandmother's home in Innocence, Mississippi. Instead of peace and tranquility, however,...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Retired cleaning lady Alvirah Meehan sets out to reunite a mother with a daughter who was stolen as a baby eight years earlier. The mother left her pram outside a church and the pram was taken by a church thief to hide his loot.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
Author
Series
Frey and McGray novels volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a violinist is found brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home, Inspector Ian Frey investigates, leading him to mysterious black magic symbols on the floor and talk of a cursed violin once played by the devil himself.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A magnetic debut novel from world-renowned violinist Eugene Drucker
Set during the final weeks of World War II, The Savior is the story of Gottfried Keller, a young German violinist. Exempted from military service, Keller is burdened with the demoralizing task of playing for wounded soldiers in hospitals and makeshift infirmaries.
As he leaves his apartment one morning to pick up a new assignment at headquarters, Keller finds an SS driver waiting...
14) The landing
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ben thinks he will always be stuck at Cook's Landing, barely making ends meet like his uncle. But when he meets a wealthy widow from New York City, he sees himself there too. When she hires him to play his violin, he realizes his gift could unlock the possibilities of the world. Then, during a stormy night on Lake Muskoka, everything changes.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tasa Rosinski and five relatives, all Jewish, escape their rural village in eastern Poland--avoiding certain death--and find refuge in a bunker beneath a barn built by their longtime employee. A decade earlier, ten-year-old Tasa dreams of someday playing her violin like Paganini. To continue her schooling, she leaves her family for a nearby town, joining older cousin Danik at a private Catholic academy where her musical talent flourishes despite escalating...
16) Firebird
Author
Language
English
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Description
Firebird is a romance with a love triangle like you've never read before. The story takes place in ranch country in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Ethan Browne, with a Ph. D. in English and a repertoire enabling him to recite great romantic literature on demand, chooses Katie Anne as his future wife. However, he doesn't love her. He just feels that it's part of his dream to have a wife, much like the chores he accomplishes on his cattle ranch. Believing...
17) Passenger
Author
Series
Passenger volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles, but years from home. And she's inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she's never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful...
Author
Series
Thomas Lynley mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
20) One night only
Author
Series
Harlequin desire volume 2919
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Making beautiful music is what chamber violinist Megan Han lives for. But one night with a seductive stranger and a surprise pregnancy could jeopardize her hard work. Especially when that handsome stranger turns out to be Daniel Pak, CFO of her father's company. The only choice for these star-crossed lovers is to keep their fling--and Megan's pregnancy--a secret. But when passion reignites, will they risk one more sweet symphony?
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