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"Music teacher Ella Baker's plate is already full. But when single dad Beckett McKinley's wild twin boys need help preparing a Christmas song for their father, Ella agrees on one condition: they teach her to ride a horse. She's hoping that'll help mend her strained relationship with her rancher father; it certainly has nothing to do with the crush that's lingered since her one and only date with Beck. It isn't disinterest spurring Beck to keep his...

A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.

Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...

In The Music Teacher, a penetrating and richly entertaining look into the heart and mind of a woman who has failed both as an artist and as a wife, Barbara Hall, award-winning creator and writer of such hit television series as Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia, tells the story of a violinist who has accepted the limitations of her talent and looks for the casual satisfaction of trying to instill her passion for music in others. She gets more than she...

A tale on a music teacher and his pupil. The teacher is Bernard, an unsuccessful pianist, while the pupil is Lydia who sees in music a source of joy rather than a path to fame and this causes him to fall in love with her. But the lure of fame is not far off.

An Englishwoman discovers the destructive side of fear. Never at peace with herself, Clementine worries about rising crime, disease, offending God, she worries to the point where her boyfriend leaves her. Only then does Clementine realize the error of her ways and she takes steps to change her attitude. By the author of Guppies for Tea.

Hollis Darby is from a established family; Ana Newport isn't. But Hollis has a secret: the deep coffers that have kept his family afloat for generations are bare, so he supports himself by writing penny dreadfuls under a pseudonym. Ana Newport also has a secret: bankruptcy and scandal reduced her father's fortune, she teaches music during the day; at night she breaks into the homes of the wealthy to reclaim trinkets and treasures she feels were...