Voice Lessons: A Sisters Story (signed)

Mentzel, Cara (signed)

ISBN 10: 1250105242 / ISBN 13: 9781250105240

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 2017

About this Item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. SIGNED by both Cara and Idina Mentzel on the half title page (their signatures only, NOT personalized to anyone). SIGNED copies are SCARCE, especially when signed by BOTH sisters. Cara's signature is directly on the page. Idina's scribbled signarture is on a "SIGNED EDITION" bookplate affixed to that same page. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today from Henderson, Nevada. Fine condition in a bright and shiny but only Good dust jacket. The jacket would be FINE but for two small (5 cent coin size) corner chips to the jacket. NOT price clipped ($27.99). NO creases or fading. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently seldom if ever read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original blue boards, lettered in pink on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister-looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms. As Cara Mentzel, studied, explored, married, gave birth (twice) and eventually became an elementary school teacher, she watched her sister, Idina Menzel, from the wings and gives readers a front row seat to opening night of Rent and Wicked, a seat at the Tonys, and a place on the red carpet when her sister taught millions more, as the voice of Queen Elsa in the animated musical Frozen, to Let It Go. Voice Lessons is the story of sisters - sisters with pig tails, sisters with boyfriends and broken hearts, sisters as mothers and aunts, sisters as teachers and ice-queens, sisters as allies and confidantes. As Cara puts it, 'My big sister is Tony-Award-Winning, Gravity-Defying, Let-It-Go-Singing Idina Menzel who has received top billing on Broadway marquees, who has performed for Barbra Streisand and President Obama, at the Super Bowl and at the Academy Awards. The world knows her as 'Idina Menzel', but I call her 'Dee'. Voice Lessons is their story.". SIGNED by both Cara and Idina Mentzel. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xii, 259pp. + 16 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voice Lessons: A Sisters Story (signed)
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250105242
• ISBN 13: 9781250105240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: NOT a library discard
• Edition: First Printing of the First Edition.
• Condition: Fine condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Entertainers / Hollywood / Broadway / TV
  • Autobiography
  • Music / Music History

About this title

Synopsis

Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister―looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms.

As Cara Mentzel, studied, explored, married, gave birth (twice) and eventually became an elementary school teacher, she watched her sister, Idina Menzel, from the wings and gives readers a front row seat to opening night of Rent and Wicked, a seat at the Tonys, and a place on the red carpet when her sister taught millions more, as the voice of Queen Elsa in the animated musical Frozen, to “Let It Go.” Voice Lessons is the story of sisters―sisters with pig tails, sisters with boyfriends and broken hearts, sisters as mothers and aunts, sisters as teachers and ice-queens, sisters as allies and confidantes.

As Cara puts it, “My big sister is Tony-Award-Winning, Gravity-Defying, Let-It-Go-Singing Idina Menzel who has received top billing on Broadway marquees, who has performed for Barbra Streisand and President Obama, at the Super Bowl and at the Academy Awards. The world knows her as 'Idina Menzel', but I call her 'Dee'.” Voice Lessons is their story.

About the Author

CARA MENTZEL is a writer and a teacher. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with her Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1996. She returned to CU Boulder in 2004 for her teaching certificate and Masters in Elementary Education with an emphasis in child literacy. She received her National Board certification as a reading teacher in 2011.

Cara lives in Boulder, Colorado with the love of her life. She has two teenage boys who like to reprimand her for cursing too much, and an older stepson who is an aspiring musician. She also has two dogs with whom she has much in common, a Border collie with OCD and a Maltipoo with a weak bladder. Voice Lessons is her first book.