"Things are finally looking up for Amelia Jones: she's officially a Mystwick student, and she even has a teacher to help her learn how to use her rare Composing magic...The only problem is that she still doesn't understand how her powers work. But then she hears about a super exclusive Midnight Orchestra--half performance, half magical black market...But the Midnight Orchestra is far more sinister than it initially appears and if Amelia can't unlock...

After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.

Nashville is filled with stars, lovers, writers, and dreamers. It's also teeming with lunatics, grifters, and moochers. And Gerry House knows them all. Host of the nationally syndicated, top-rated morning show, "Gerry House & the House Foundation" for twenty-five years, he has won virtually every broadcasting award there is including a place in the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Gerry also spent that time deep inside the songwriting...

Continue your study of the Hammerklavier, focusing on the paradoxical fourth movement fugue, composed seemingly without limits or limitations. The Hammerklavier has been called "monstrous and immeasurable," a sonata like no other. With it, Beethoven opened the door to a new expressive world.

"Composed of several interconnected stories, each taking place in a year ending with the number six, ironically a number that in Chinese divination signifies "a smooth life," Dear Chrysanthemums is a novel about the scourge of inhumanity, survival, and past trauma that never leaves. The women in these stories are cooks, musicians, dancers, protestors, mothers and daughters, friends and enemies, all inexplicably connected in one way or another"--

"I cheerfully acknowledge the elementary school students who illustrated their dream travels and cued me about their stories when I visited their schools in the Poets-in-the-Schools Program. Written cues ranged from thought bubbles, as in 'Acrobatic,' to a run-on sentence, as in 'Aeronautic.' I made notes of oral cues and kept true to the students' word choices (though not always to their grammar) when writing the corresponding poems." -- Margaret...

Following his Grammy Award winning album, Chain Breaker, Zach Williams is back with his highly anticipated sophomore album. One of the songs, There Was Jesus, features country music legend Dolly Parton.