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1) Bel canto
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
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Daisy Justine had no idea that she was auditioning for her life. From the moment he heard her sing, Jason Hayes, the reclusive genius and composer, knew he'd found the star he'd been searching for his whole life. Jason tries to persuade Daisy to return Broadway with him but she has made a promise to another man that she couldn't break. The closer Jason gets to her the closer danger comes. There's more than artistic temperament behind his legendary...
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"From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller--a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy...
5) Lion & Lamb
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Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are rival PIs working the same intense headline-making case. Philadelphia is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to...
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A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted -- and divided -- family, set against the backdrop of postwar America On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and--against all odds and better judgment--they marry. They vow to raise their...
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The California sunshine's not quite so bright for three sisters who get dumped in the same week... Finola, a popular LA morning-show host, is famously upbeat until she's blindsided on live TV by the news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation who has set their affair to music. While avoiding the tabloids and pretending she's just fine, she's crumbling inside, desperate for him to come to his senses and for life to go back to normal....
9) Fallen skies
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Lily Valance is determined to forget the horrors of World War I by throwing herself into the decadent pleasures of the 1920s and pursuing her career as a music hall singer. When she meets decorated veteran Captain Stephen Winters, she's immediately drawn to his wealth and status. And Stephen, burdened by his guilt over surviving the Flanders battlefields where so many soldiers perished, sees the possibility of forgetting his anguish in Lily, but his...
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Chicago Stars ; 9
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Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a man with a low tolerance for divas. Olivia Shore, international opera superstar, has a monumental grudge against the egotistical, lowbrow jock she's stuck with for a nationwide tour promoting a luxury watch brand. When threatening letters, haunting photographs, and a series of dangerous encounters complicate their lives, is it the work of an overzealous fan or something more...
11) Larger than life
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From New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper comes a novel of romantic intrigue about a pop music sensation with an unforgettable voice—and a secret past she keeps hidden even from the man she loves.
What makes Saber Duncan sing with such passion? Her sensual voice moves women to tears and makes men want to go out and slay dragons to get close to her. Yet a few years ago this budding superstar was just another lightweight pop...
What makes Saber Duncan sing with such passion? Her sensual voice moves women to tears and makes men want to go out and slay dragons to get close to her. Yet a few years ago this budding superstar was just another lightweight pop...
13) Mama dearest
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Yancey Harrington Braxton's plans to star in a reality television series are threatened by Madison B., an up-and-coming star and Yancey's long-lost daughter, and her own mother, Ava Middlebrooks, who is desperate for a comeback.
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When her wedding to John “Basil” Henderson didn’t come off as planned, Yancey Harrington Braxton flew off to L.A. and remade herself as mega-diva Yancey B. And Basil started concentrating on his career as a high-powered sports agent. But then Yancey’s first single, “Any Way the Wind Blows,” hit the charts, and now it threatens to blow Basil’s cover—if anyone learns who it’s really about. And it looks...
16) Song of my heart
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When Thad McKane, the new sheriff of Goldtree, Kansas, uncovers a connection between the crime he's investigating and singer Sadie Wagner, the woman he's courting, he wonders if she's as innocent as she seems.
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"When a mix-up forces has-been drummer Remy Young to spend hours on a tour bus with mega pop star Vivi Swan, he falls for a side of her the public never sees. But when Remy accidentally compromises Vivi's image, the fallout has him wondering if he's been helping her write his own breakup song"--
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When opera singer Roma Toscana brings drama to Autumn Vale, New York, which leads to the murder of postmistress Minnie Urqhart, her sworn enemy, muffin baker Merry Wynter must prove the innocence of this woman by mixing together the clues to catch the real killer.
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In 1903, young Harvard-educated obstetrician Dr. Ravell has a growing reputation for helping couples conceive. He's treated women from all walks of Boston society, but on meeting Erika, an opera singer whose beauty is surpassed only by her spellbinding voice, he knows their doctor-patient relationship will be like none other. After struggling for years to become pregnant, Erika has no hope. But Ravell will change her life in ways she never imagined....
20) Capturing Cleo
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Silhouette
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2002.
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When Cleo Tanner's ex-husband is murdered, all eyes turn to her. She made no secret of the fact that she hated him; if anyone had reason to want him dead, it was her. Homicide Detective Luther Malone trusts no one, not even the gorgeous singer with the voice of an angel. Her ex is dead and all the clues point in her direction. His gut tells him she didn't do it, but can he trust his instincts with a woman like this one? Cleo has given up on love,...