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* Mozart's Sister: A Novel, by Nancy Moser. Bethany House Publishers (www.bethanyhouse.com; 1 (800) 877-2665), 2006. $12.99.
Although five years older than her famous brother, Maria Anna Mozart seemed destined to live in his long shadow. Did she possess as much musical talent as he, and yet was her fate wrapped up in the reality of the times in which she lived that denied females the same opportunities afforded to one born of the opposite gender? Mozart's Sister: A Novel reads like the personal diary of Wolfgang's sister Nannerl, who spends the formative years of her life on the cusp of stardom. Initially taken with her brother on the infamous whirlwind concert ...