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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in...
3) Swing time
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a city built on dreams, Trisha Holiday makes her living moving like one. But out of her dancer's costume, she's as down-to-earth as they come. That's why she ignores the admiring note--and the accompanying $1000 bill--that arrives backstage after one of her ethereal performances. Yet the sender, a wealthy foreign prince, isn't easily dissuaded. Seven years living and studying in the United States have made Malik long for the freedom to choose...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Get to know the plie, arabesque, and other basic steps, and see how ballet has changed over the years. From Anna Pavlova to Mikhail Baryshnikov to Misty Copeland, discover the dancers who added their signature style to this graceful dance form. Go behind the curtain to see what it takes to become a prima ballerina and how a performance comes together.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
5 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Sookie Stackhouse novels brings you a reader-favorite tale of passion and terror in a classic paranormal romance.
Rue LeMay is desperate for cash when she takes a job as a dancer at Blue Moon Entertainment. Her tough childhood has prepared her to handle just about anything, including the enigmatic vampires she has to dance with at Blue Moon. But she isn't prepared for the sparks that fly when...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 X 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
While exploring, Lola the cat comes across a stage with a ballet performance about to begin. Lola puts on a costume and joins right in, dancing beautiful pirouettes, arabesques, and pas de chats (the step of the cat). When she accidentally stumbles and trips, however, it is up to Lola to save the show.
Author
Series
Miramar Bay volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sometimes life flips the script... Billy Walker is a North Carolina boy whose Hollywood star is beginning to shine. His rough past is in the rearview. Now seeing the world from the back seat of a limousine, Billy has no regrets about what he had to do, and the choices he made, to get there. But all it takes is one death-defying moment for Billy's world to shift. When an on-set accident leaves him shaken, plagued by haunting dreams, he's in desperate...
16) Fancy Dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Finding himself in an awkward position when he is sentenced to community service--with his newly-found half-brother, Alex, as his parole officer--Jake St. Cloud decides to make the most of his work with Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at their foundation for neglected children.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about a tin soldier who falls in love with a toy ballerina.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 451 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a memoir of life in Maoist China, the author describes how he was taken from his family in rural China to study ballet in Beijing, his rise in the world of Chinese ballet, and his defection at age 18 to the United States.