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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995, c1983
Language
English
Formats
Description
A best-selling author known for her steamy, modern romances, Sandra Brown creates vivid portraits of flesh and blood characters. With her clever, clear plotting, she glowingly captures couples as they discover new passions. Fiery Blair Simpson's only ambition in life is dancing, but knee injuries force her to postpone her promising career on Broadway for six long months. Seeking a quieter life by moving to a small town, she focuses on her recovery...
Author
Language
English
Description
As the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has made history. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, anxious thirteen-year-old to become a ground-breaking ballerina.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Pérez-Reverte summons the romantic spirit of an old black-and-white movie: impossibly glamorous, undeniably wistful." – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"An intoxicating entertainment, pulsing with life."— Booklist (starred review)
"Sparkling with witty dialogue, this elegantly translated thriller is enthusiastically recommended to sophisticated readers and those who wish to be." – Library...
"An intoxicating entertainment, pulsing with life."— Booklist (starred review)
"Sparkling with witty dialogue, this elegantly translated thriller is enthusiastically recommended to sophisticated readers and those who wish to be." – Library...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janet Collins wanted to be a ballerina in the 1930s and 40s, a time when racial segregation was widespread in the United States. From her early childhood lessons to the height of her success as the first African-American prima ballerina in the Metropolitan Opera, this is the story of a remarkable pioneer.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
7) Pas de don't
Author
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing, an imprint of Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Heather Hays finally has everything she's worked for--she was promoted principal dancer and is engaged to her forever crush, ballet royalty Jack Andersen. But after Jack is caught cheating, Heather's near-perfect life comes crashing down. Determined to prove that she rose to the top on her own merits, she accepts a guest position from the only company that will hire her without Jack: the Australian National Ballet. There she meets Marcus Campbell,...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The memoir of a stateless man who grew up in a refugee camp in Syria and overcame family opposition, the horrors of war, and death threats to achieve his dream of becoming an international ballet star"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lukasiak knows that life would be easier without disappointments, bullying, and medical issues... but sometimes it takes challenges to inspire you to achieve big things. From the hit reality television show Dance Moms, she has found that self-acceptance and kindness are the key to getting over the rough spots in life and realizing your passions. Now she shares that message while inspiring readers to be their very best selves.
12) Ballerina
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France--a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained. Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who might or might not be the narrator's love interest, is revisited by menacing figures from her past, even as she tries to escape that past through her art. Set in the shimmering world of the Paris ballet, a world populated by giants such as Balanchine and Nureyev, Ballerina revisits the themes of memory,...
13) Swing time
Author
Language
English
Description
"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allworth Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
In Starting your career as a dancer, author Mande Dagenais explains what it really takes to get into the business, be in the business, and survive in the business. Based on more than twenty-five years of experience in the performing arts as a dancer, teacher, choreographer/director, and producer, Dagenais offers insider advice and shares her vast knowledge while answering questions asked by professionals and beginners alike. Aspiring dancers will...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For decades the prominent image of a ballet dancer has been a white body with pale clothing. It took 75 years for American Ballet Theatre to have its first African American female principal dancer, Misty Copeland. When TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian went to enroll her three-year-old daughter into her first ballet class, she immediately saw this lack of diversity and representation--even on her local dance studio's website. Within weeks TaKiyah, a freelance...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The friend zone is not the end zone for Bree Camden, who is helplessly in love with her longtime best friend and extremely hot NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. The only problem is that she can't admit her true feelings, because he clearly sees her as a best friend with no romantic potential, and the last thing Bree wants is to ruin their relationship. But those abs . . . Nope! Nothing but good old-fashioned, no-touching-the-sexiest-man-alive, platonic...
17) Roxie Hart
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Roxie agrees to be accused of murder so the publicity will advance her dancing career. Whether she actually committed the crime is irrelevant to the reporters, who fall all over themselves to give Roxie her 15 minutes of fame.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
19) The still point
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, arrives. documenting his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie, three mothers, amidst backstabbing, jealousy, disappointment and triumph, reveal the sacrifices they've made for their children, for friendship and for art.
Author
Series
Rita Myers novels volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When her return home to Graybridge coincides with the murder of her friend Kara, former professional ballerina Esmé Foster, haunted by a past tragedy, must shine a light into the darkness to learn what really happened in the woods the night Kara died to bring this nightmare to an end.
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