Showing results by narrator "Betsy Beard" in Biographies & Memoirs

Fictional drama about the meeting between Nadia Boulanger and Astor Piazzola that changed both the history of tango and the life of the musician. The famous author of Adios Nonino, Libertango, and Oblivion abandoned when young the tango and the bandoneon to learn and compose classical music. The meeting with the famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger helped Piazzola to retrieve his musical roots and to revolutionize the Argentine tango with new techniques.

After divorcing her husband and moving to Arizona, Nancy is eager to build a brand new life for herself - but it’s not until she meets Tim that she feels like she has a second chance at romance. He’s boyish and fun, twenty years old to her thirty-two, and she feels herself blossom under his affection. Even more unexpected is the development of a meaningful friendship with his mother, Lynda, who Nancy is drawn to from the start.

A memoir about hope and second chances. Elise, my mother, fell in love for the first time when she was 19. Peter was his name. She became engaged to him at 21 but didn't marry him until she was 75!