One Maryland\, One Book selection Tommy Or ange's "There There" brings news from a distinct corner of American life. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the famil y she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life t ogether after his uncle's death and has come to work the Powwow and to hon or his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear S hield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather\; Orvil has taught hi mself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oak land Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as hi s past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.
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\n"Symphony of Secrets" is a gripping page-turner fr om the celebrated author of book club favorite "The Violin Conspiracy" by Brendon Slocumb. Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secre t about the most famous American composer of all time--his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth that a powerful organization wants to keep hidden\, Bern will stop at nothing to right history's wrongs and give Josephine the recognition she deserves. "At once a celebration of music and also a caut ionary tale about legacy\, privilege\, and creative genius." --Nita Prose\ , #1 New York Times bestselling author of The MaidBern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney\, Bern knows eve rything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Robe rts\, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct de scendant of the man himself\, asks for Bern's help authenticating a newly discovered piece\, which may be his famous lost opera\, RED\, he jumps at the chance. With the help of his tech-savvy acquaintance Eboni\, Bern soon discovers that the truth is far more complicated than history would have them believe.In 1920s Manhattan\, Josephine Reed is living on the streets and frequenting jazz clubs when she meets the struggling musician Fred Del aney. But where young Delaney struggles\, Josephine soars. She's a natural prodigy who hears beautiful music in the sounds of the world around her. With Josephine as his silent partner\, Delaney's career takes off--but who is the real genius here?In the present day\, Bern and Eboni begin to unco ver more clues that indicate Delaney may have had help in composing his mo st successful work. Armed with more questions than answers and caught in t he crosshairs of a powerful organization who will stop at nothing to keep their secret hidden\, Bern and Eboni will move heaven and earth in their d ogged quest to right history's wrongs.
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