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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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When Constable Evan Evans is persuaded to join the local male choir for the upcoming eisteddfod (cultural festival), he doesn't think the addition of his mediocre voice will do them much good. In spite of all the effort that choirmaster Mostyn Phillips puts in to the choir, it is not exactly first class. Hope arrives in the form of world renowned tenor Ifor Llewelyn, come home to Llanfair to rest, on doctor's orders. Llewelyn immediately sets about...
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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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2014.
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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650L
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Eleven-year-old Augie Boretski dreams of escaping his run-down Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood, but things start to turn around with help from a Big Brother, a music teacher, and a mysterious bookstore owner, so when his school is in trouble, he pulls the community together to save it.
8) The choir
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A financial crisis within the church creates a rift within the community when no one can agree whether the boy's choir should be sacrificed in order to save money.
9) Testimony
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Award-winning, #1 Blackboard best-selling author Felicia Mason delivers a soul-stirring novel of faith, family, and friendship. For 18 years Roger McKenzie has led The Triumphant Voices of Praise, a gospel singing group. But The Voices have failed to win commercial or critical success, and their close bond is deteriorating. Only by confronting the demons of their past will the singers have a chance to reach new heights.
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2016.
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"The good news for Faith is that she has met Perry. He's rich, gorgeous, and has vowed to leave his playboy ways behind forever and marry her. The bad news is that Perry's mother is planning Faith's nightmare wedding, including the dress from hell. While dreaming about her ideal ceremony, Faith goes to her mother's church -- and ends up joining the choir! Here she meet a man who makes her feel safe, perhaps even safe enough to share the dark secrets...
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2022.
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Freycinet Barnes has built herself the perfect existence. With beautiful children, a successful husband and a well-ordered schedule, it's a life so full she simply doesn't fit. When she steps outside her calendar and is accidentally thrown into the generous bosom of the West Moonah Women's Choir, she finds music, laughter, friendship and a humming wellspring of rage. With the ready acceptance of the colourful choristers, Frey learns that voices can...
12) Happy hour choir
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Ellery volume 01
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2015.
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"Life has dealt Beulah Land a tough hand to play, least of all being named after a hymn. A teenage pregnancy estranged her from her family, and a tragedy caused her to lose what little faith remained. The wayward daughter of a Baptist deacon, she spends her nights playing the piano at The Fountain, a honky-tonk located just across the road from County Line Methodist. But when she learns that a dear friend's dying wish is for her to take over as the...
13) Pieces of why
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
14) The orphan choir
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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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Gracie Parks becomes involved in a mystery right in her own church choir! Amy Cantrell, a young choir member, suddenly becomes sick, maybe even poisoned. There is some speculation that Estelle Livett, the only member with professional vocal training, might be involved. Just when Amy seems to be getting better, she mysteriously disappears from the hospital. When Gracie tries to find out what happened, Amy's family is not very forthcoming. Then,...
20) The comatose cat
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Church choir mysteries volume 15
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Join Gracie Parks -- choir member, caterer, and community sleuth -- as she tries to determine why the animals and people of Willow Bend are becoming ill. When the illness befalls her beloved cat, Gooseberry, Gracie needs prayer as well as determination to get to the bottom of things. Before the mystery is solved, assumptions are made, friendships are strengthened, and people in the town of Willow Bend learn that progress is not necessarily a good...
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