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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

Spanning five generations and moving from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, to the bleak landscape of World War I, and to the emerging jazz scene in New York City, this epic tale tells the story of four sisters

Fall on Your Knees

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#paperback #flint #budnotbuddy #jazz #newberymedal #family #hardships 

Michigan

(Newbery Medal Winner)

The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father--from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.
 
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:

1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!
 
Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him--not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
 
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
The New York Times
School Library Journal
Publishers Weekly
 
"[A] powerfully felt novel." --The New York Times
 
"Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last." --Publishers Weekly, Starred
 
"Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again." --Voice of Youth Advocates, Starred



Bud, Not Buddy

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California

The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women’s and civil rights Sarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers who followed in her wake, yet the breadth and depth of her impact—not just as an artist, but also as an African-American woman—remain overlooked. Drawing from a wealth of sources as well as on exclusive interviews with Vaughan’s friends and former colleagues, Queen of Bebop unravels the many myths and misunderstandings that have surrounded Vaughan while offering insights into this notoriously private woman, her creative process, and, ultimately, her genius. Hayes deftly traces the influence that Vaughan’s singing had on the perception and appreciation of vocalists—not to mention women—in jazz. She reveals how, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Vaughan helped desegregate American airwaves, opening doors for future African-American artists seeking mainstream success, while also setting the stage for the civil rights activism of the 1960s and 1970s. She follows Vaughan from her hometown of Newark, New Jersey, and her first performances at the Apollo, to the Waldorf Astoria and on to the world stage, breathing life into a thrilling time in American music nearly lost to us today. Equal parts biography, criticism, and good old-fashioned American success story, Queen of Bebop is the definitive biography of a hugely influential artist. This absorbing and sensitive treatment of a singular personality updates and corrects the historical record on Vaughan and elevates her status as a jazz great.

Queen of Bebop

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#paperback #Scholastic #CorettaScottKingAward #CalcuttaHonorBook #Teacher #BlackHistory #Music #Piano #TrumpIt #Jazz box 17

Texas

Duke Ellington

#hardcover #fiction #romance #magic #yafantasy #fantasy #neworleans #jazz 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

In 1920s New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Zora, banished after an incident in Harlem, struggles with her overbearing family, magical powers, love of jazz, and forbidden romance with a white man.

The Mirror Shattered Midnight

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Tennessee

The Great American Art

This inspiring series covers various aspects of black history and the black experience, from ancient civilizations to today's African social and political movements.This exuberant history of America's great art form -- from its origins to the present -- offers a look at where today's dynamic composers and performers might be taking the music. With photographs of legendary performers, a discography, and reading list, this book will captivate jazz enthusiasts and serve as a full introduction for those first exploring the world of jazz.

Jazz

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Has cover, edge wear, else it is in good condition. #music #paperback #jazz

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

America's Classical Music

Jazz: America's Classical Music is a delightful introduction and guide to this complex and compelling music and to its rich history. In an engaging and conversational style, renowned jazz teacher Grover Sales tells of the lives and music of the greats—Ellington, Tatum, Hawkins, Coltrane, Parker, Hines, Goodman, Armstrong, and many others—with a mix of important facts, fascinating anecdotes, and brilliant interpretations. Illustrated with astonishing photographs of the artists in performance, Jazz: America's Classical Music is a classic text, an ideal book for beginners and an inspiring one for serious students of the art of jazz.

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Has cover/edge wear, else it is in good condition. #jazz #music #nonfiction #history

The jazz handbook

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#paperback #fiction #drama #historicalfiction #1920s #actress #history #jazz #lauramoriarty #histfic 

North Carolina

Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever. For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive. Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.

The Chaperone

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#paperback #fiction #historical #rulesofcivility #historicalfiction #amortowles #jazz #relationships 

Florida

A Novel

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.

Rules of Civility

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#paperback #fiction #jazz #magicalrealism 

Pennsylvania

A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer traces the unlikely bond between a precocious 9-year-old jazz singer, a divorcée teacher who would reunite with her high-school sweetheart and a club owner facing the imminent loss of his Philadelphia business.

2 A. M. at the Cat's Pajamas

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#fiction #africanamericanwomen #africanamericans #paperback #harlem #renaissance #Marthasvineyard #community #bourgeoisie #jazz 

South Dakota

The wedding

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#bestsellingauthor #historicalromance #historicalfiction #1920 #jazz #paperback 

Kentucky

Presenting a dazzling new historical novel … The Girl From The Savoy is as sparkling as champagne and as thrilling as the era itself. ‘Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives you a Chanel gown …’ Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but her life has been fractured by the Great War. Memories of the soldier she loved, of secret shame and profound loss, by turns pull her back and spur her on to make a better life. When she finds employment as a chambermaid at London’s grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dolly takes a step closer to the glittering lives of the Bright Young Things who thrive on champagne, jazz and rebellion. Right now, she must exist on the fringes of power, wealth and glamor—she must remain invisible and unimportant. But her fortunes take an unexpected turn when she responds to a struggling songwriter’s advertisement for a ‘muse’ and finds herself thrust into London’s exhilarating theatre scene and into the lives of celebrated actress, Loretta May, and her brother, Perry. Loretta and Perry may have the life Dolly aspires to, but they too are searching for something. Now, at the precipice of the life she has and the one she longs for, the girl from The Savoy must make difficult choices: between two men; between two classes, between everything she knows and everything she dreams of. A brighter future is tantalizingly close—but can a girl like Dolly ever truly leave her past behind?

The Girl from the Savoy

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#paperback #fiction #historical #rulesofcivility #historicalfiction #amortowles #relationships #jazz 335 pages. Well-loved book. Has writings on inside cover page. See my 5-star review in the photos. 

#fiction #paperback #coldwar #Washingtondc #affair #jazz #JFK #romance #1960s #NewFrontier 

In 1960, Mary van der Linden, a loyal daughter, wife, and mother approaching forty, moves with her family from London to Washington, D.C., where she escapes her narrow world for the larger issues of politics and the Cold War with the help of Frank, a New York journalist, who introduces her to Miles Davis, Greenwich Village, and adultery. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

On Green Dolphin Street

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#hardcover #nonfiction #jazz #americanhistory #neworleans #politics

Massachusetts

A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City
 
     Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world.

Empire of Sin

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New York

#paperback #nonfiction #ericclapton #clapton #music #jazz #autobiography #memoir #documentary #education

The Autobiography

The legendary guitarist recounts the story of his life and his career, recalling his work with the Yardbirds, Cream, and as a solo artist; years of drug and alcohol abuse; failed marriage to Patti Boyd; and the accidental death of his young son.

Clapton

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#hardcover #Dazzle #Jazz #celebrityphotographer #portraitphotography #WickedStepMother #WickedStepsisters #cindarella-esque #1990 #firstedition 

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Inside the fun-filled photographers' studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photographers in the world.

But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating --- and fascinated --- men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves Jazz to battle her father's vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her own half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess ... and Jazz will do anything to protect. Absolutely anything.


Arkansas

First Edition

"Captivating. Krantz's latest tome... is her  most erotic yet.Dazzle  sizzles." --Daily News, Los  Angeles. Now, Judith Krantz, best-selling author  ofScruples,Mistral's  Daughter, andTill We Meet Again,  invites you into the luscious, monied world of  Jazz Kilkullen, her most daring, provocative,  impetuous heroine yet. "Deliciously sexy."  --Cosmopolitan.   Inside the fun-filled  photographers' studio in California known as  Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine,  this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman  has become one of the most successful celebrity  portrait photo in the world. "Enjoyable... Jazz is  one of the most likable free souls to emerge from  the novel industry." --The Pittsburgh  Press. But her charmed career and her  dashing private life, which includes three  fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an  unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father's  vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her  half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a  three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California  land that developers all over the world would do  anything to possess... and Jazz will do anything to  protect. Absolutely anything. "Judith Kratz's  best novel sinceScruples."  --Associated  Press. "Steamy." --Los Angeles  Times. "Hot... bubbling with sex, intrigue, and-most of  all-money. Krantz is at the height of her form here."  --Booklist From the Paperback edition.

Dazzle

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Song of John Coltrane

Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.

Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Before John Was a Jazz Giant

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fall on Your Knees

Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy

Elaine M. Hayes

Queen of Bebop

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Duke Ellington

Dhonielle Clayton

The Mirror Shattered Midnight

Gene Seymour

Jazz

Grover Sales

Jazz

Barry McRae

The jazz handbook

Laura Moriarty

The Chaperone

Amor Towles

Rules of Civility

Marie-Helene Bertino

2 A. M. at the Cat's Pajamas

Dorothy West

The wedding

Laura Moriarty

The Chaperone

Hazel Gaynor

The Girl from the Savoy

Amor Towles

Rules of Civility

Sebastian Faulks

On Green Dolphin Street

Gary Krist

Empire of Sin

Amor Towles

Rules of Civility

Laura Moriarty

The Chaperone

Eric Clapton

Clapton

Amor Towles

Rules of Civility

Judith Krantz

Dazzle

Carole Boston Weatherford; Sean Qualls (Illustrator)

Before John Was a Jazz Giant

Hazel Gaynor

The Girl from the Savoy