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First published anonymously in 1872, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is Thomas Hardy's story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is the first of Hardy's "Wessex" novels and is one of his most gentle and pastoral stories. Dick falls in love with the beautiful and talented Fancy the moment he meets...
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Agatha nominee Sharon Kahn's Rabbi's Wife mystery series is universally hailed for its humor and cozy appeal. Ruby is startled and saddened when Serena, one of her choir members, dies of heart failure. But while traveling through the Canadian Rockies, Ruby learns the shocking truth-Serena was actually poisoned.
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Unicorn princesses volume 9
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Unicorn princesses Sunbeam and Moon start a show choir, inviting everyone in the enchanted Rainbow Realm to join, including human friend Cressida.
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Fosse House, home of the reclusive Luisa Gilmore, harbours curious secrets -- secrets that stretch back almost a century, to the ill-fated Palestrina Choir in its remote Belgian convent. When Oxford don Michael Flint travels to the house to trace the origins of the long-dead Choir, he is at once aware of the house's eerie menace. Who is the shadowy young man who lurks in the grounds, and why does his exact likeness appear in a sketch from 1917? What...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Four strangers in the midst of difficult life transitions find friendship, purpose, and perfect pitch in in this heartfelt comic novel. In the small English village of St. Ambrose, the members of the Bridgeford Community Choir have little in common. But when their singing coach dies unexpectedly before a big contest, the motley group must join forces and voices in pursuit of an impossible-seeming goal. Featuring an eclectic cast of characters including...
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"Louise Beeston is haunted... Louise has no reason left to stay in the city. She can't see her son, Joseph, who is away at boarding school where he performs in a prestigious boys' choir. And her troublesome neighbor has begun blasting choral music all hours of the night. And to make matters worse, she's the only one who can hear it. Hoping to find some peace, Louise convinces her husband, David, to buy them a country house in an idyllic, sun-dappled...
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"Although she hadn't known Leonard Mallett very well, nor liked him particularly, Carole Seddon feels duty bound to attend her fellow committee member's funeral. As she suspected, the hymns, readings and sermon are all very predictable - not unlike Leonard himself. What she couldn't have predicted was that the deceased's daughter would use the occasion to publicly accuse her stepmother of murder. Did Heather Mallett really kill her husband, as many...
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Poppy
Pub. Date
2010
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A prequel to the television show explores what happened before Mr. Schuester took over the glee club, showing the beginning of Puck and Quinn's romance and how the club functioned without its leader.
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Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Ten-year-old Jamie Jo's fear of bees keeps her inside most of the time, but a series of events that begins when her mother is excluded from the church choir brings about many changes, including new friendships and greater trust in God.