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"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
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"When Dom's class is taken to hear a concert at Carnegie Hall, she expects to be bored out of her mind. But then she sees the boy in the front row, playing violin like his life depends on it--and she is transfixed. Posing as an NYU student, Dom sneaks back to New York City to track down Ben Tristan, a magnetic genius who whisks her out of her limited life in New Jersey and into a fantasy world of jazz clubs and opera, infatuation and possibility....
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Fifteen-year-old aspiring DJ "Dizzy" and her brother Lou were abandoned by their mother, now a famous singer, when they were young. Dizzy loves music but still longs for a relationship with her mother, whom she's forbidden to speak about. Spinning her mother's old songs on her sets brings the secret out into the open, forcing Dizzy to choose between her current life and stardom.
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Quinn has graduated high school, which means she has one last summer to figure out what she wants to do with her next four years--and, of course, the rest of her life. Rumors about what happened between her and her best friend have plagued her all through high school, and since her best friend is dead none of those rumors are good. Hopefully, a summer spent with her aunt at the Jersey shore can give her a fresh start, and Quinn hopes that fresh start...
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Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
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"Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn't mean that Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph's music lie forgotten under his bed after he's murdered--not when his rhymes could turn any Bed Stuy corner into a party. With the help of Steph's younger sister Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph's music under a new rap name: the Architect. Soon, everyone wants a piece of him. When his...