Book Description
A memoir of growing up in the 50s on the shore of Long Island Sound in Connecticut.
Author : Jane M Gullong
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2018-04-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780692064580
A memoir of growing up in the 50s on the shore of Long Island Sound in Connecticut.
Author : Vernon Castle
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN :
Author : Brian Hicks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0743280083
Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew abandoned ship.
Author : Vernon Castle
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN :
Written by one of the most famous exhibition ballroom teams of the century, the manual covers a large variety of dances popular during the ragtime era, including the tango, one step, hesitation waltz, and maxixe. A large portion of the book is devoted to grace and etiquette, appropriate dance dresses for women, and music. Many photographs of the famous couple enhance the manual.
Author : Kate Castle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0753479419
From barres and ballet shoes to plies and performances—a step-by-step introduction to the magic of ballet
Author : Boni Ashburn
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1613124430
In this clever reworking of the classic folk song “Over in the Meadow,” readers meet villagers who spent their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, dancing, and more. The text counts up from one baby dragon to ten court jesters, and kids will enjoy counting along with each of the characters as they go about their daily work. At the end of the day, all the villagers look out their windows for a special surprise from their dragon neighbors. Readers will pore over illustrations filled with the same unexpected, warm humor of Boni Ashburn and Kelly Murphy’s first book, Hush, Little Dragon.
Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330438285
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Castles
ISBN :
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Author : Eve Golden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813172691
Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights advocates decades before it became a public issue. Irene was also a fashion innovator, bobbing her hair ten years before the flapper look of the 1920s became popular. From their marriage in 1911 until 1916, the Castles were the most famous and influential dance team in the world. Their dancing schools and nightclubs were packed with society figures and white-collar workers alike. After their peak of white-hot fame, Vernon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps, served at the front lines, and was killed in a 1918 airplane crash. Irene became a movie star and appeared in more than a dozen films between 1917 and 1922. The Castles were depicted in the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), but the film omitted most of the interesting and controversial aspects of their lives. They were more complex than posterity would have it: Vernon was charming but irresponsible, Irene was strong-minded but self-centered, and the couple had filed for divorce before Vernon's death (information that has never before been made public). Vernon and Irene Castle's Ragtime Revolution is the fascinating story of a couple who reinvented dance and its place in twentieth-century culture.
Author : Suzanne Weyn
Publisher :
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416905790
Discovering that Rowena, his youngest daughter, is sneaking out of the house every night, Sir Ethan puts out a challenge to the single men of the kingdom to find out the truth about her escapades, thus Bedivere, King Arthur's knight, takes on the task which forces Rowena to be extra-cautious with the secrets she has been keeping from all. Original.