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J GOIN / e-audio Quiet, polite Katy doesn’t know how she will adapt to Amadeus life in L.A. when her mother sends her from Canada Brilliant, funny, and suspenseful dramatiza- to live with her father, a recovered addict and mem- Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes tion of the rivalry between Mozart and his ber of the punk band Suck. J CAST Members of a fictional legendary rock band reflect on musical nemesis, Antonio Salieri. BLU-RAY how they came together in high school as outcasts August Rush Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon thrown together in detention and formed a band to A young music prodigy who hears music all around him goes compete in the school talent show. J HUGH Brokeland Records, a vintage vinyl store specializing in in search of his parents. Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell. DVD jazz, blues, and R&B, is just barely making ends meet. 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DVD Nick and Norah meet, argue, and talk music as they Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte scour New York City for a missing friend and their A sixteen-year-old trumpet player is conflicted when Immortal Beloved favorite underground band. he is brought into his family’s NASCAR racing busi- Addresses the mystery of Beethoven’s secret love and imagi- FIC COHN / e-audio / e-book ness—taking him away from his musical pursuits— nes the inspiration for several of his works. Gary Oldman, and he must choose between two love interests. Jeroen Krabbé. DVD Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan J LIPS The Hot-Time Swingers, a once legendary six-piece Love for Levon: A Benefit to save the Barn A 2012 tribute concert to the late Levon Helm of The Band, German-American multiracial jazz ensemble gigging in The Facades by Eric Lundgren featuring musicians who worked with him or were influenced Berlin on the eve of WWII, are torn apart after one When a mezzo-soprano star of the local opera disap- by him. DVD member is arrested by the Gestapo. FIC EDUG pears, her worrywart husband must explore the depths of a bizarre and labyrinthine city for clues to Once Adios to My Old Life by Caridad Ferrer her whereabouts. FIC LUND Magical, musical film about the chance meeting of two Indie musicians and their resulting collaboration. DVD As seventeen-year-old Ali Montero competes on a popular music reality show seeking the next Latin Born Blue by Han Nolan The Pianist superstar, she must deal with pressure, sabotage, and An intense novel of abuse and survival of a teen who True story of a Jewish pianist who hid in Warsaw during first romance. J FERR dreams of one day becoming the next Etta James. For World War II. Adrien Brody. DVD mature readers only; contains profanity and some The Blue Door by David Fulmer sexually explicit scenes. 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Ritter FIC GALL / e-audio / e-book 20 Feet from Stardom When skateboarding trumpeter Andy Ramos falls for his childhood nemesis, now a talented softball player, Documentary looking at the careers of Middle C by William H. Gass they bring out the best in each other in a way that is backup singers; “Some of the greatest vo- Joseph Skizzen's family fled from Austria to London in almost mystical. J RITT calists you never heard of.” DVD

1938, but then his father abandoned the family. They then relocated to an unwelcoming American Midwest where Joseph grew up to be a decent piano player but An Equal Music by Vikram Seth Walk the Line Two gifted musicians, separated in the past, are reu- Award-winning biopic of Johnny Cash star- a disturbed man with a single joy — his museum, the ring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese With- Inhumanity Museum. FIC GASS / e-book nited by a concert tour—though secrets still linger. FIC SETH erspoon. DVD