Dancing on Thorns


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When Jonni Kendal comes to London to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, she's young, naive, full of courage and determined to excel. Just nineteen, she's desperate to escape the narrow, parochial life her parents have planned for her. Jean-Baptiste St. Michel is haunted by his father: the man who abandoned him as a child, the man he can hardly remember, the man he cannot forget. Driven by his determination to forge a life for himself outside of the shadow his father's famous name casts, he's ambitious, talented and dangerously attractive - but suspicious of emotional attachments. When Michel rescues Jonni one night and takes her home, there's an immediate attraction. Jonni finds herself embraced by an exciting new world she never suspected existed, and Michel, ever wary of commitment, finds himself growing used to her presence in his life. But before he can commit to any kind of future, he must release himself from his past ...




Dancing with Chaos


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Dancing with Chaos is a memoir. It is an eclectic tale that centres around themes of mental illness and medicine, travel and the struggles of a single mother. The main character is raised in poverty and uncertainty by a single mother who suffers from schizophrenia. Later, as a vulnerable teenager, searching for love and acceptance, she finds nothing but heartache. Then, as a young adult, she begins to discover that the world is actually a fascinating and sometimes wonderful place. Heartaches resurface as the genetics of mental illness unfold.




Dancing on Knives


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At twenty, Sara is tormented by terror so profound she hasn't left her home in five years. Like the mermaid in the fairytale her Spanish grandmother once told her, Sara imagines she is dancing on knives. She feels suffocated by her family, especially her father, the famous artist Augusto Sanchez, whose volcanic passions dominate their lives. Then one stormy night, her father does not come home. His body is found dangling from a cliff face. Astonishingly, he is still alive, but the mystery of his fall can only be solved by the revelation of long-held family secrets. At once a suspenseful murder mystery and a lyrical love story, this novel is about how family can constrict and liberate us, how art can be both joyous and destructive, and how strength can be found in the unlikeliest places.




Wildwood Dancing


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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.




Keep Dancing


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The Complete Grimm Fairy Tales


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Once Upon a Time... All the enchanting stories you remembered as a child are here. This Books Includes: -The Full Text of 211 Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm -Links to 87 Free, Full length Audio Recordings of Fairy Tales, Over 14 hours of Audio Entertainment! -49 Stunning illustrations, including 20 Color Drawings by Renowned Illustrator Arthur Rackham. -Pictures of the Brothers Grimm, "Maleficent", "Once Upon a Time" and "Grimm" TV series cast. -A Fan Resource Bonus of a List of Films & TV Shows Based on Fairy Tales -Alternative Translation Included for 29 stories. -Easy to use clickable Table of Contents, with links to each tale All that at an unbeatable price of only 99 cents Included are popular tales such as: Cinderella Snow White Beauty and the Beast Rapunzel Little Red Riding Hood (Little Red-cap) Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose) Hansel and Gretel Rumplelstiltskin The Frog Prince plus hundreds of more tales This book includes ALL the Grimm's fairy tales. Margaret Hunt's translation is very true to the original German text. Includes the Complete Text of Two Famous Brothers Grimm Books: "Snowdrop & Other Tales" and "Children's and Household Tales". Most collections only give you one Grimm book. Only 99 cents, buy now! For More great book collections at a great price, search for "Sunsong Collection"




A. Sutzkever


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The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with the extinction of the Jews of Europe and with deeply personal reflection on human existence. In Sutzkever's poetry the Yiddish language attains a refinement, richness of sound, and complexity of meaning unknown before. His poetry has been translated into many languages, but this is the most comprehensive presentation of his work in English. Benjamin Harshav provides a biography of the poet and a critical assessment of his writings in the context of his times. The illustrations were originally created for Sutzkever's work by such artists as Marc Chagall, Yosl Bergner, Mane-Katz, Yankl Adler, and Reuven Rubin.




The Folktale


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As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.