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1) Born to Run
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Traces the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's life from his childhood in a Catholic New Jersey family and the musical experiences that prompted his career to the rise of the E Street Band and the stories behind some of his most famous songs.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
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"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
3) Sara's song
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"A brilliant career and loving friends weren't enough to heal Dr. Sara Killian's aching heart. For brief, magical moment, world famous rock star Dallas Lord was part of her life. Then he was suddenly and tragically taken away." -- website.
5) M train
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From the National Book Award���winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the caf��s and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf�� where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook....
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2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
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This book describes John Lennon's life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid in Liverpool to the years after the Beatles when he struggled to make sense of his own artistic life--one that had turned from youthful angst to suffocating fame in almost a split second.
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2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Meet Shawn Mendes! In this engaging title, readers will follow Mendes's career from his first single "Life of the Party" and The Shawn Mendes EP to his first full-length album Handwritten and its hit song "Stitches" to later works Illuminate "There's Nothing Holding Me Back" and the Shawn Mendes hit single "In My Blood." His charitable work with Musicians on Call and DoSomething.org is also featured. Table of contents, map, "Did You Know" fact boxes,...
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[2011]
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For almost forty years, Sammy Hagar has been a fixture in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the band Montrose to his multiplatinum solo career to has ride as the front man of Van Halen, Sammy's powerful and unforgettable voice has set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever written.
12) Wreck and Roll
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 185
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Vette Smash, one of the hottest new rock bands in Bayport, is playing a gig-- and thanks to their friend Phil's backstage passes, Frank and Joe are in the center of the action!
13) Audrey, Wait!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.
14) Sentries
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter, with the lives of three veterans of past wars.
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2022.
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"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
16) Cobain unseen
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2008
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An unparalleled look inside the brilliant mind of one of America's most revered rock legends, "Cobain Unseen" collects previously unseen artifacts and photographs from the estate's archives to form a fascinating portrait of the creativity, madness, and genius of Kurt Cobain.
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2009
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This collection of photographs and condolences pays tribute to Michael Jackson, his career and his fans. Photos from the King of Pop's childhood will bring back memories, the concert images will move you just like his music does, and scenes of mourning fans will illustrate the love and adoration he enjoyed around the world. This book is a celebration of Michael's life.
18) Rocketman
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An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years
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[2008]
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"An indispensable reference full of strange facts, lucky escapes, top-ten death discs, and hundreds of photos of the good, the bad, and the silly, The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars is guaranteed to rock the worlds of trivia buffs and diehards alike."--BOOK JACKET.
20) Crying in H Mart
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2021.
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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