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1	Cry to Heaven more books like this by Anne Rice add to wishlist Tonio Treschi is the young heir to a Venetian fortune. After his brother has him kidnapped and castrated, Tonio becomes a singer, one of the Italian male sopranos known as the castrati, and determines to take revenge on his brother. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Where Is Joe Merchant? more books like this by Jimmy Buffett add to wishlist Jimmy Buffett presents a novel about the eponymous Joe Merchant--a rock star at the height of his fame--who is missing and presumed dead, except by his sister. Accompanied by her former boyfriend--a seaplane pilot--and a pushy journalist in search of a story, she goes island-hopping in the tropics in search of Joe, encountering not only the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tears of the Moon more books like this by Nora Roberts add to wishlist First time in print, Roberts' second novel of an enchanting Irish trilogy featuring the dreams and passions of three extraordinary siblings. Shawn is a songwriter whose music tells a story of loneliness and desperate longing. It isn't until he gives into the mysteries of magic that he is gets the chance to become a successful musician and a man in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.79! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| SVS
5	Accordion Crimes more books like this by E Annie Proulx add to wishlist This ambitious historical novel analyzes the experience of working-class Americans through the 20th century by tracing the fate of an accordion, brought to America in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant. Annie Proulx's novel tells the successive stories of each person who acquires it, in the process providing a brief tour through American history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Rock Star more books like this by Jackie Collins add to wishlist Marcus Citroen is powerful figure in the music industry, a man who controls the lives of three rock stars whom he helped climb the slippery slope to fame. Their lives, their triumphs and defeats, their loves and their losses, are all detailed in this novel of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Reunion more books like this by Nora Roberts add to wishlist This collection from the "New York Times" bestselling author contains two classic romances set in a world where love the second time around is the greatest treasure of all. Includes "Once More with Feeling" and "Treasures Lost, Treasures Found." Reissue. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Oh My Stars more books like this by Lorna Landvik add to wishlist Now in paperback--Landvik's insightful, highly entertaining novels, in which a dreary bus accident in rainy North Dakota during the Great Depression proves to be the beginning of a marvelous life-transforming journey. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Piano Teacher more books like this by Lynn York add to wishlist Miss Wilma leads--by choice--a quiet life as a piano teacher in Swan's Knob, North Carolina. When her longlost daughter Sarah arrives in town, bringing a granddaughter, Wilma finds herself unexpectedly pleased. But when there's a murder in the neighborhood, and then Sarah's no-good husband turns up, she begins to reconsider--and to long for the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Reluctant Heiress more books like this by Eva Ibbotson add to wishlist In 1920s Austria, no one in the Viennese opera company knows that their wardrobe mistress Tessa is really a princess. But when the dashing self-made millionaire Guy Farne arrives at the opera, Tessa realizes that there may be more to life--and love--than just music. see all copies from $4.39! new only from $6.03! \| SVS
11 view cover	But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz more books like this by Geoff Dyer add to wishlist Geoff Dyer engages in "imaginative criticism" as he attempts to recreate dialogue and situations based on oral history. He offers portraits of jazz greats from Lester Young and Bud Powell to Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk. see all copies from $3.61! new only from $4.54! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Blue Door more books like this by David Fulmer add to wishlist As welterweight boxer, Eddie Cero makes his way home through a dark Philadelphia alley, he steps in on two punks beating up an older man. It's a favour that's going to turn Eddie's life upside down. Sal Giambroni buys Eddie a round and offers him a part-time gig helping with his private-detective work. Despite Eddie's reluctance, a few days on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Fountain Overflows more books like this by Rebecca West add to wishlist Rebecca West's engaging novel--based on her own girlhood--is about a high-minded but impoverished family, the Aubreys, in turn-of-the-20th-century London. Rose (the narrator) and Mary are gifted pianists--a gift inherited from their noble, long-suffering mother. Their older sister, Cordelia, is a violinist with very little talent but enormous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Tender more books like this by Mark Childress add to wishlist This novel about Elvis Presley is inspired by his life and music. Drawing on biographical information, the author imagined the private Elvis, the only child who re-invented himself using music and sexual audacity. The book recreates the characters and events in his life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Kill Your Friends more books like this by John Niven add to wishlist A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book . . . A realistic portrait of the music industry, doing for it what "The Player" did for Hollywood. . . . Cripplingly funny in the way that only the very darkest comedy can be.--Chris Power, "The Times" (London). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Juliet, Naked more books like this by Nick Hornby add to wishlist What happens when a washed-up musician looks for anther chance? And a childless woman looks for a change? "Juliet, Naked" is a powerfully engrossing, humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Fender Benders more books like this by Bill Fitzhugh add to wishlist After the death of his young wife, a country singer named Eddie Long capitalizes on his loss by writing a hit song, which changes his life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Lyre of Orpheus more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist This is the final volume in "The Cornish Trilogy" which began with "The Rebel Angels" and continued with "What's Bred in the Bone"(shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize). It describes the production of an opera and how the participants find its story uncannily mirrored in their own lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	The Musical Ascent of Herman Being: A How-To Novel more books like this by Robert Danziger add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Commitments more books like this by Roddy Doyle add to wishlist First published in 1988, THE COMMITMENTS follows a small band of musicians from the Barrytown area of Dublin as they try to make the big time. From the author of THE SNAPPER, THE VAN and PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Glass Harmonica more books like this by Louise Marley add to wishlist Two musicians, separated in time by more than 250 years, find their respective destinies entwined through visions of the past and future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson more books like this by Nicholas Meyer (Editor) add to wishlist While employed as a violinist by the Paris Opera in 1891, Sherlock Holmes discovers many surprises: the reappearance of his great love and a series of bizarre accidents allegedly arranged by the "Opera Ghost", an opponent more than equal to Holmes in cunning. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Joplin's Ghost more books like this by Tananarive Due add to wishlist An acclaimed suspense writer's latest chilling tale examines how the daughter of a musician and jazz club owner finds her life changed when she becomes haunted by the ghost of Scott Joplin. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn more books like this by Samuel Barclay Charters add to wishlist Samuel Charters, the eminent historian of jazz and the blues, evokes the character and spirit of the self-professed inventor of jazz. "Funny and moving."--The New Yorker* see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.63! \| first editions
25 view cover	Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects: A Novel in Liner Notes more books like this by Christopher Miller add to wishlist Written as liner notes to fictional music, Christopher Miller's uproarious debut novel skewers conventions in a work of high entertainment and imagination. In Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects, the complete works of the prodigiously cranky composer Simon Silber get their diablolical due from Silber's official biographer -- a man who grows to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS

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