| International Standard Book Number |
153876752X (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781538767528 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Black, Regina, author.
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| Title Statement |
August Lane : a novel / Regina Black.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
325 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
"Author's note. This book contains discussions of domestic abuse, addiction, mental illness, a past (off-page) sexual assault, reproductive rights, grief, and dementia."
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Every Thursday night, former country music heartthrob Luke Randall has to sing 'Another Love Song.' God, he hates that song. But performing his lone hit at an interstate motel lounge is the only regular money he still has. Following another lackluster performance at the rock bottom of his career, Luke receives the opportunity of his dreams: opening for his childhood idol, '90s-era Black country music star JoJo Lane, who's being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. But the concert is in Arcadia, Arkansas, the small hometown he swore he'd never see again. Going back means facing a painful past of abuse and neglect. It also means facing JoJo's daughter, August Lane -- the woman who wrote the lyrics he's always claimed as his own. August also hates that song. But she hates Luke Randall even more. When he shows up ten years too late to apologize for his betrayal, she isn't interested in making amends. Instead, she threatens to expose his lies unless he co-writes a new song with her and performs it at the concert, something she hopes will launch her out of her mother's shadow and into a songwriting career of her own. Desperate to keep his secret, Luke agrees to put on the rogue performance, despite the risk of losing his shot at a new record deal. When Luke's guitar reunites with August's soulful alto, neither can deny that the passionate bond they formed as teenagers is still there. As the concert nears, August will have to choose between an overdue public reckoning with the boy who betrayed her, or trusting the man he's become to write a different love song."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Man-woman relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Singers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Betrayal Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women singers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Country musicians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American country musicians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Arkansas Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Love stories.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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