Books about talented female musicians

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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Veil of Glass and Rain (A Touch of Cinnamon, #1)
A Veil of Glass and Rain (A Touch of Cinnamon, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 58,215 ratings
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Dragonsinger (Harper Hall, #2)
Dragonsinger (Harper Hall, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 48,275 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,565 ratings
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A Song for Arbonne
A Song for Arbonne 4.24 avg rating — 15,347 ratings
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Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)
Seraphina (Seraphina, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 88,792 ratings
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Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll 4.07 avg rating — 4,193 ratings
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Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways
Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways 3.74 avg rating — 341 ratings
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War for the Oaks
War for the Oaks
by: Emma Bull
4.01 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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Songs Unfinished
Songs Unfinished 3.80 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Music From Standing Waves
Music From Standing Waves 4.24 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Roll
The Roll
by: Joe Hnida
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Loose Gravel
Loose Gravel 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Scorpion Tail: Debut Album ~ Fade To Black
Scorpion Tail: Debut Album ~ Fade To Black 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Fires of the Faithful (Eliana's Song, #1)
Fires of the Faithful (Eliana's Song, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Offbeat Love Stories and More
Offbeat Love Stories and More 3.66 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Vanishing Fame
Vanishing Fame 4.03 avg rating — 117 ratings
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A Natural Woman: A Memoir
A Natural Woman: A Memoir 3.78 avg rating — 5,382 ratings
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The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1)
The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 113,749 ratings
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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bronwyn's Bane
Bronwyn's Bane 3.73 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Luthier's Apprentice (Violinist Detective Series, #1)
The Luthier's Apprentice (Violinist Detective Series, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Song in My Heart
The Song in My Heart 3.81 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1)
Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 3,058 ratings
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Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame 3.06 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Hilary and Jackie: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Shared a Passion, a Madness and a Man
Hilary and Jackie: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Shared a Passion, a Madness and a Man 3.83 avg rating — 534 ratings
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The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy (Darcy #2)
The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy (Darcy #2) 3.58 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
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Jolt
Jolt 3.75 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Listen to the Moon
Listen to the Moon 4.31 avg rating — 3,593 ratings
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The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend
The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend 3.99 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Hidden Gem (Hidden Gem, #1)
Hidden Gem (Hidden Gem, #1)
by: India Lee
3.78 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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Rooftoppers
Rooftoppers 4.06 avg rating — 16,841 ratings
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Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s
Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s 4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings
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What Happened at Midnight
What Happened at Midnight 3.67 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl 3.83 avg rating — 36,214 ratings
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The Nightingale
The Nightingale 3.74 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio
Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,798 ratings
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Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-girl Dance Band
Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-girl Dance Band 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Singing (The Books of Pellinor, #4)
The Singing (The Books of Pellinor, #4) 4.23 avg rating — 13,988 ratings
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter 3.93 avg rating — 3,371 ratings
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Destiny: Child of the Sky (Symphony of Ages, #3)
Destiny: Child of the Sky (Symphony of Ages, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 11,454 ratings
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens 4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Prophecy: Child of Earth (Symphony of Ages, #2)
Prophecy: Child of Earth (Symphony of Ages, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 13,117 ratings
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Mel Bay Danse ce soir : Fiddle and Accordion Music of Quebec
Mel Bay Danse ce soir : Fiddle and Accordion Music of Quebec it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Natalie Macmaster Cape Breton Island Fiddle
Natalie Macmaster Cape Breton Island Fiddle 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Harper Hall of Pern (Pern: Harper Hall, #1-3)
The Harper Hall of Pern (Pern: Harper Hall, #1-3) 4.46 avg rating — 6,949 ratings
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Rosie's Fiddle
Rosie's Fiddle 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Riddle (The Books of Pellinor #2)
The Riddle (The Books of Pellinor #2) 4.12 avg rating — 22,142 ratings
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Joni Mitchell -- Complete So Far: Guitar TAB, Hardcover Book
Joni Mitchell -- Complete So Far: Guitar TAB, Hardcover Book 4.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Naming (The Books of Pellinor, #1)
The Naming (The Books of Pellinor, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 27,475 ratings
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Joni Mitchell -- Hits: Authentic Guitar TAB
Joni Mitchell -- Hits: Authentic Guitar TAB 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm, #1)
Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 17,880 ratings
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Joni Mitchell : Misses
Joni Mitchell : Misses 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rhapsody: Child of Blood (Symphony of Ages, #1)
Rhapsody: Child of Blood (Symphony of Ages, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 20,098 ratings
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They're Playing Our Song: A Memoir
They're Playing Our Song: A Memoir 3.96 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985
Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Bards of Bone Plain
The Bards of Bone Plain 3.96 avg rating — 2,711 ratings
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Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time
Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time 3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland
Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Lucinda Williams: Sweet Old World (piano/vocals)
Lucinda Williams: Sweet Old World (piano/vocals) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams 4.11 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Lucinda Williams (33 1/3)
Lucinda Williams (33 1/3) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Dar Williams Songbook
The Dar Williams Songbook 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time 3.75 avg rating — 383 ratings
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And a Voice to Sing With
And a Voice to Sing With
by: Joan Baez
3.94 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten
Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten 3.92 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legaciesincludes audio CD
Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music / La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legaciesincludes audio CD really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People, Vol. 1
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People, Vol. 1 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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One Generation at a Time: Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival
One Generation at a Time: Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Five-String Banjo American Folk Styles
The Five-String Banjo American Folk Styles did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mel Bay's Frailing the Five String Banjo: An Instruction Manual
Mel Bay's Frailing the Five String Banjo: An Instruction Manual 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Old Time Stringband Workshop for Clawhammer Banjo: 40 tunes including hoedowns, jigs, waltzes and more
Old Time Stringband Workshop for Clawhammer Banjo: 40 tunes including hoedowns, jigs, waltzes and more did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Peggy Seeger Songbook: Forty Years of Songmaking
The Peggy Seeger Songbook: Forty Years of Songmaking 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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First Time Ever
First Time Ever 4.02 avg rating — 125 ratings
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PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK: WARTS AND ALL
PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK: WARTS AND ALL liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Wayward Saints
Wayward Saints 3.33 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Want to Be in a Band?
Want to Be in a Band? 3.09 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz
Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Broken Horses
Broken Horses 4.39 avg rating — 34,869 ratings
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The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era 3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music 4.27 avg rating — 3,803 ratings
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The Joni Mitchell Companion: Four Decades of Commentary (The Companion Series)
The Joni Mitchell Companion: Four Decades of Commentary (The Companion Series) 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology
Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology 3.48 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period
Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period 3.50 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell 3.76 avg rating — 3,324 ratings
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Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell
Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell 3.43 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light
Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light 3.50 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals
Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals 4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Here She Comes Now: Essays on Women in Music
Here She Comes Now: Essays on Women in Music 3.46 avg rating — 96 ratings
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From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra
From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Women of Country Music: A Reader
The Women of Country Music: A Reader really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000
Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000 4.33 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South
Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cookin' with Queen Ida, Revised 2nd Edition: Bon Temps Creole Recipes (and Stories) from the Queen of Zydeco Music
Cookin' with Queen Ida, Revised 2nd Edition: Bon Temps Creole Recipes (and Stories) from the Queen of Zydeco Music 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Bonnie Raitt: Just in the Nick of Time
Bonnie Raitt: Just in the Nick of Time
by: Mark Bego
3.35 avg rating — 55 ratings
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