Devastated by her brother Jeffrey's suicide, Judy Valentine immerses herself in becoming a great drummer and forms a band with rock musician Strobe, but as her success and her desires conflict with her sadness, she must learn to live again

The Band Never Dances

Teen & Young Adult

Landis, J.D.

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Harpercollins

Working through the anguish of her beloved brother's suicide and trying to forge an identity of her own, sixteen-year-old Judy goes on tour as drummer for the hot new rock band Wedding Night and forms love-hate relationships with two handsome musicians.

Landis, James D.

HarperCollins, Publishers

Rich in historical detail and period characters, this multi-layered novel set against the backdrop of the Romantic era captures the lives and love affair of composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife, Clara, and their relationships with the artists and musicians of their time, in a lively and sensuous tale of music, madness, genius, and passion. 35,000 first printing.

Longing

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. These brilliant and complex people enrich this sweeping story of a love that could not be denied. Set amid an enthralling rich era with creative genius, Longing explores the nature and danger of passion with precision, sympathy, and wisdom. J. D. Landis has encompassed madness, genius, and passion that propelled characters, and he re-creates their lives with surpassing depth, wit, and intelligence. . . .

Longing: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Contemporary

Ballantine Books

In his critically acclaimed novel, Longing, J. D. Landis explored the volatile nature of passion as he brought to life the extraordinary marriage of Robert and Clara Schumann. It was a fervent love story that unfolded against the lavish backdrop of the Romantic Age. Now Landis tells a haunting story set amid a sylvan cluster of towns, villages, and graveyards in New England— nestled in a valley that would be purposely flooded in the late 1930s to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Communities would be destroyed, lives uprooted, connections to places of birth severed, and the dead would be exhumed and reburied. The fate of Swift River Valley holds a strange fascination for seventeen-year-old Sarianna Renway, a wayward student obsessed with the life and work of poet Emily Dickinson. Sarianna finds herself drawn to this little world whose end is predetermined and whose time is drawing near. In the small hamlet of Greenwich Village—abandoned, beautiful, doomed—Sarianna takes a job tutoring a minister’s son. A man of deep faith, Jeremy Treat strives to instill hope into a town destined to be taken and lost forever. He vows to be the last one in the valley to ensure his remaining flock leaves safely. Eleven-year-old Jimmy, “the perfect representation of God on earth,” is a curious and compassionate child prodigy. The matriarch of the household is twenty-six-year-old Una, a voluptuous eccentric who embraces scandal—and pines for the one true love who disappeared almost twelve years ago on the day she became Jeremy’s wife. When the mysterious Ethan Vear resurfaces, none will emerge unchanged—especially Sarianna, who finds herself ensnared in a triangle of shifting identities and warring passions. In lush, evocative prose, J. D. Landis takes these vivid characters—their secrets, their temptations, their desires—and creates a stunning New England gothic novel of sexual awakening, profound loss, and thwarted love. From the Hardcover edition.

Artist of the Beautiful: A Novel

Lily's beginning ballet classes draw her unexpectedly closer to her seemingly haughty older sister, already an advanced dancer.

The Sisters Impossible

Children's Books

Random House Childrens Books

THE SISTERS IMPOSSIBLE

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Rosie suspends her heavy dating schedule to pursue her best friend's older brother and coach her inexperienced mother and best friend in the fine art of dating.

Looks Aren't Everything

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Sisters Impossible

Bantam]

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The Band Never Dances

The Band Never Dances

The Band Never Dances

Longing

Longing: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Artist of the Beautiful: A Novel

The Sisters Impossible

THE SISTERS IMPOSSIBLE

Looks Aren't Everything

Sisters Impossible