Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World

New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis

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Ann, undercover stunt double for pop star Cherry Pye, is mistakenly kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo. Now Cherry's handlers must rescue Ann while keeping her identity secret from the public--and from Cherry.

After a bomb goes off backstage at one of her concerts, pop singer Kendra Blake flees to a remote cabin in Arizona. Little does she know, FBI agent Charlie Whitmore has been assigned to keep her safe and is staying right across the street. The two develop a friendship that hovers on the verge of romance--but there may be a link between a notorious serial killer and Kendra that threatens them both.

Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to turn his life around. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his ten-year-old disabled neighbor. Together they learn to take small steps. But when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along. The scheme leads X-Ray to a chance encounter with a teen pop sensation, and suddenly his life...

Luigi the rooster wins fame and fortune when the star of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company and his understudy both come down with chicken pox on the same night.

When Jack Ryan asks Miley out, she turns him down because she thinks that he is conceited, but after Miley's alter ego, Hannah Montana, interacts with Jack, she quickly realizes that he is a good guy after all and becomes jealous when Jake goes on a date with Lilly.

Miley Stewart adjusts to life in the country when she visits Tennessee with her father.

On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but it's also where the darkness she's fled might find her--and destroy her.

When her triplet sister Cara's diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her deams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?

Fourteen-year-old Hudson is a gifted singer/songwriter like her mother, pop sensation Holla Jones, but while working on her debut album, Hudson struggles to convince her mother that she would rather stick with her own, intimate style than follow her mother's path to fame.