From the award-winning author of Openly Straight, a story about two teens falling in love over a summer that throws everything possible to keep them apart.
I walk down the hall to see Shay. I watch her through the window in her door, sitting in a yellow chair, doing a finger play Doctor Beck taught us months ago. The plastic punching man is in Shay's room. Doctor Beck unlocks the door and ...
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When he closes the eye , Then from the lids one tear , his only possession , like the bee's sting , slips . The tear — round , pure , tensely concentric , a small reflecting globe , a secretion of pain — is Bishop's most justifiably ...
The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived.
Two teenagers, strangers to each other, have decided to jump from the same bridge at the same time. But what results is far from straightforward in this absorbing, honest lifesaver from acclaimed author Bill Konigsberg.
. . . This lovely novel is as satisfying and enlightening as the music that suffuses its every page.”—The Boston Globe “Magnificent . . .
The Music of what Happens
'You are the music / While the music lasts' T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets Do babies remember music from the womb?
“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's ...
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally ...