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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this heartfelt novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a young woman with an unforgettable voice fights for the freedom to pursue her dreams.
Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience....
Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience....
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Visionary gardener Tammy Hollins is making a new life for herself and her children after a tragic marriage. Plants she understands, but men ... well, they're of the weed variety. She's started her own landscaping business, catering to her country music rock star brother's friends. Her first client is sexy, soulful, Alpha hero material, and the one man who tantalizes her and scares her to death. John Parker McGuiness is a man of many talents, working...
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Backbeat Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC
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English
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Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western singer, turned author, turned politician, Kinky has dined on monkey brains in the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed with Bob Dylan in the tiny fishing village of Yelapa, Mexico. A satirist who loves pushing the envelope, he's been attacked onstage, received bomb threats, and put on the only show in Austin City Limits' history deemed too offensive to air....
9) 'Scuse me while I whip this out: reflections on country singers, Presidents, and other troublemakers
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W. Morrow
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1st edition
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English
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Kinky Friedman is back with 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out, and gets it on with all manner of egos. In this collection of twisted takes on life, the Kinkster gives us funny, irreverent, and insightful looks at outsized personalities, from people he's known -- Bill Clinton and George W. to Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, not to mention Joseph Heller and Don Imus -- to people he's known in spirit -- Moses, Jesus, Jack Ruby, and Hank Williams. With his...
10) Small town girl
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer, "famous for her heartrending slices of Americana," is at her best in this sweet, small-town romance about a country music star discovering the true meaning of love ...
Eighteen years ago, Tess McPhail left her tiny hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri, for the bright lights of Nashville and never looked back. Now, one of country music's biggest stars, "Mac" is a hardworking woman with little time for...
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TCU Press
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1st ed.
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English
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Profiles twenty-seven influential country singers from Texas, discussing the personal lives, career accomplishments, and legacies of stars such as Gene Autry, Tommy Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Buck Owens, George Strait, Tanya Tucker, and others.
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New American Library
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From the heart of one of the most beloved performers in music comes a candid memoir of professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory--a coming-of-age account of a very private search for harmony and a very public rise to fame. This book is the result of that emotional journey--a song of personal discovery that taught Wynonna to love not just what she does, but who she is. From a truly exceptional woman comes an unexpected memoir of...
17) Country: a novel
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English
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After the death of her husband, Stephanie Adams, a devoted stay-at-home mother, meets country music megastar Chase Taylor, who opens his whole world to her.
18) Crazy heart
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Widescreen version.
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The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
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"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...
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A.A. Knopf
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First edition.
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English
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"This book is a rare look at Lynn's handwritten lyrics and memorabilia, personal photographs, and anecdotes that give deeper insights into her childhood in Butcher Holler, Kentucky; her marriage and relationship with Doolittle Lynn; her experience as a mother; her meteoric rise to the top of the charts; [and more]."--Front jacket flap.
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