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1) Lucky
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky - and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then - through a combination of hard work and serendipity - started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Pippa MacMillan is a legend on the Irish folk music scene. But when her voice requires a time-out, she's left wondering how - and where - to find happiness in the silence... Seeking answers, Pippa leaves Ireland in favor of a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Turns out lovely Blue Hollow Falls is the perfect place to heal - and solitary Seth Brogan is the surprisingly perfect host. After all, Seth is beginning again too: turning...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Joni Mitchell painted with words. Sitting at her piano or strumming the guitar, she turned the words into songs. The songs were like brushstrokes on a canvas, saying things that were not only happy or sad but true. But before composing more than two hundred songs, Joni was a young girl from a town on the Canadian prairie, where she learned to love dancing, painting, birdsong, and piano. As she grew up into an artist, Joni took her strong feelings--feelings...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the life and music of one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs, laying down the marker for folk-rock and collaborating with the likes of such bands as Led Zeppelin before her tragic and untimely death in 1978,"--NoveList.
