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STRINGS ATTACHED is a powerful memoir about resilience in the face of unspeakable tragedy, an inspiring and poignant tale of how one man transformed his own heartache into a legacy of joy for his students.His students knew Jerry Kupchynsky as "Mr. K" - the fierce, foot-stomping Ukrainian-born music teacher who rehearsed them until their fingers almost bled, and who made them better than they had any right to be. Away from the classroom, though, life seemed to conspire against him at every turn. STRINGS ATTACHED takes you on his remarkable journey, from his childhood on the run in Nazi Germany, to his life in America caring for his disabled wife and their two young daughters, to his search for his younger daughter after she mysteriously disappears - a search that would last for seven years.



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Joanne Lipman

Joanne Lipman is the bestselling author of THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together. One of the nation's leading journalists, she most recently was Chief Content Officer of Gannett and Editor-in-Chief of USA TODAY and the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprising the flagship publication plus 109 local newspapers, totaling more than 3,000 journalists. Under her leadership, the Network earned three Pulitzer Prizes. Joanne began her career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, ultimately rising to deputy managing editor - the first woman to attain that post - and supervising coverage that won three Pulitzer Prizes. She subsequently was founding editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine, which won National Magazine and Loeb awards. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune and Harvard Business Review, and her television appearances include CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC and PBS. She is also co-author, with Melanie Kupchynsky, of the acclaimed music memoir "Strings Attached."A winner of the Matrix Award for women in communications, Lipman is also a member of the Yale University Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the boards of the Knights Orchestra, the World Editors Forum, and the advisory boards of Breastcancer.org and the Yale School of Music. She and her husband live in New York City and are the parents of two children.THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID is a New York Times Editors' Pick, a Washington Post Bestseller, and a Financial Times "best book" selection. It was also the inaugural pick of the World Economic Forum's new book group.



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