Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
If I stay volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour-a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust-must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be an effulgent...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable novel for fans of One Day and The Time Traveler’s Wife, a young Isaac Newton falls in love with a girl living in modern-day San Francisco, defying the laws of physics to forge a seemingly impossible connection.
“Thoughtful, magical, and alive with romantic alchemy, Love and Gravity is a rare gem of a book, both intellectual and beautiful.”—New York Times bestselling...
“Thoughtful, magical, and alive with romantic alchemy, Love and Gravity is a rare gem of a book, both intellectual and beautiful.”—New York Times bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
10) XOXO
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Cello prodigy Jenny's goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncle's Los Angeles karaoke bar, it's clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for one unforgettable night of adventure-- before he disappears without a word. Three months later, when Jenny and her mother arrive in South Korea to take care of her...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Chryssy Hua Williams comes from such a long line of women who are so unlucky in love that she has started to believe that her great-great-great-great grandmother has caused them to be cursed. Chryssy accepts that she may never have a happy ever after of her own so she sets out to discover how traditional Chinese medicine may bring lasting love to others. When Chryssy meets Vin, a serial dater who has found fame as a classical musician, she attempts...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestions Service. Make Purchase Suggestion