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Yesterday's Song, a novel One simple song can change everything for those whose story began at a 1970 rock festival. As the 1970s dawn in Virginia, grieving guitarist Cal Leonardowski is ready to end it all when he hears Hendrix will play at the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival. He delays the devastating thought for the rock and roll respite, and there he falls for a kindred spirit, adventurous, Beatles-loving Nainsi Murphy, from County Dublin, who only wants to do what her late Ma never got: to build a music industry career in America. Yet love changes everything, as does an exploding world. Just as she painfully chooses between family, country, religion, and her own dreams, Cal opens the letter of a lifetime and makes a drunken, desperate choice of his own. What becomes of the broken-hearted, created in peace, love, and music, but torn apart in the times? The story follows the struggling characters searching for answers, longing for the truth, just as one forgotten, remorseful 1970s song hides the story of a lifetime... Told amid a backdrop of history and pop culture spanning the 1970s and 1980s, this coming-of-age story for two generations offers a nostalgic '70s playlist and thoughtful questions for a book club discussing the ways we find peace and know we're not alone. With an ode to the healing, enduring, connecting power of music in times of trouble, the sentimental, psychological saga YESTERDAY'S SONG explores recovery from loss, the definition of family, the necessity of love, and the nature of forgiveness and redemption. Maybe it's never too late to find your own voice-and hear another's-- if you can just get back to the heart of it all. Sometimes, hope is right under your ears.

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""Denholm's sweeping novel, steeped in references to the rock music of the era, goes deep inside the minds of the characters to capture the hopes, dreams, and fears of a generation."" - Kirkus Reviews ""Like a carefully curated mixtape, Yesterday's Song weaves together decades of musical references to create a powerful narrative about love and resilience."" -Annie Zaleski, author, Duran Duran's Rio; This is Christmas, Song by Song; Pink, Raise Your Glass; Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs (2024). ""Yesterday's Song is for those of us who always hold a song in our heart. Every scene, every character, every moment of our lives should have a soundtrack like the one that carries this story from page to page."" -Kristin Nilsen, Author, Worldwide Crush; Co-host, The Pop Culture Preservation Society podcast ""Yesterday's Song is a groovy page-turner best described as: Love, Loss, and What they Listened to. Perfectly attuned to those of us who came of age in the 1970s and '80s, it really rocks! When I was finished reading it, I missed the characters, which, to me, is always the mark of a great read. I can't wait to share it with my book club."" - Rebecca Rego Barry Author, The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author (2024).

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Author K. Meldrum Denholm is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post, Northern Virginia Magazine, Chicken Soup books, and dozens more. She earned a BA in journalism magna cum laude from Duquesne University, wrote for a federal press office in DC for ten years, and as a mom of three in Virginia, worked as a freelance journalist writing magazine and newspaper articles. With her children now grown, she returned to her hometown of Cleveland, where she writes and edits from the shores of Lake Erie. She's hopelessly devoted to working on her next novel, blasting '70s and '80s music, visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and rooting for the Cleveland Browns. One of those has been known to make her cry. One link: https: //my.linkpod.site/KMeldrumDenholmAuthor website and newsletter: https: //www.kmeldrumdenholm.com Yesterday's Song blog: https: //www.kmeldrumdenholm.com/blog

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