Author : Michael Flynn
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765357793
Captain Amos January and his rivals struggle to obtain an ancient pre-human artifact of great power that incites murderous actions in those who seek it.
Author : Michael Flynn
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765362827
Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning science fiction writer Flynn returns to space opera and the world of "The January Dancer," with this fast, wonder-filled novel.
Author : Jamie Carie
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080544534X
Free spirited Isabelle Renoir, captured by Indians during the American Revolution, falls in love with a fellow prisoner, the spy Samuel Holt. Only faith can set them free.
Author : Colum McCann
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466848693
Novelist Colum McCann's Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him. There is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the eighties, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn and John Lennon. And at the heart of the spectacle stands the artist himself, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection.
Author : Stephanie Maze
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1999-07-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152021085
Provides an overview of the many types of dance that exist and describes what is involved in becoming a dancer.
Author : Deirdre Purcell
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2003-12
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781860591945
Author : Michael Flynn
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429923555
It's a big Spiral Arm, and the scarred man, Donavan buigh, has gone missing in it, upsetting the harper Mearana's plans for a reconciliation between her parents. Bridget ban, a Hound of the League, doubts that reconciliation is possible or desirable; but nonetheless has dispatched agents to investigate the disappearance. The powerful Ravn Olafsdottr, a Shadow of the Names, slips into Clanthompson Hall to tell mother and daughter of the fate of Donovan buigh. In the Long Game between the Confederation of Central Worlds and the United League of the Periphery, Hound and Shadow are mortal enemies; yet a truce descends between them so that the Shadow may tell her tale. There is a struggle in the Lion's Mouth, the bureau that oversees the Shadows—a clandestine civil war of sabotage and assassination between those who would overthrow Those of Name and the loyalists who support them. And Donovan, one-time Confederal agent, has been recalled to take a key part, willingly or no. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Sarah Rubin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545491940
A ballerina tale with a thoroughly modern twist! Casey Quinn has got more grace in her pinkie toe than all those prissy ballet-school girls put together, even if you'd never guess it from the looks of her too-long legs and dirty high-top sneakers. It's 1959, and freckle-faced Casey lives in the red-dust countryside of South Carolina. She's a farm girl: Her family can't afford ballet lessons. But Casey's dream is to dance in New York City. And if anyone tries to stand in her way, she's going to pirouette and jete right over them! Casey's got the grit, and Casey's got the grace: Is that enough to make it in Manhattan someday? Or might the Big Apple have something even better in mind? When she meets a visionary choreographer she calls "Miss Martha," Casey's ballerina dream takes a thoroughly, thrillingly modern twist!
Author : Marisa Polansky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1466897759
The Today I'm a . . . shaped board book series takes young children on a week in the life of different careers. In Today I'm a Dancer, kids will follow Ellie, and see the various dances she learns including flamenco, tap-dance, line-dance, ballet, and hip hop. Filled with colorful images and fun dance vocabulary, kids will get a taste of what it's like to be a dancer.
Author : Emily Coates
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0300195834
"A fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancer--and an engaging introduction to both disciplines. From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides--a former member of New York City Ballet, Emily Coates, and a CERN particle physicist, Sarah Demers--show us how their respective disciplines can help us to understand both the quotidian and the deepest questions about the universe. Requiring no previous knowledge of dance or physics, this introduction covers the fundamentals while revealing how a dialogue between art and science can enrich our appreciation of both. Readers will come away with a broad cultural knowledge of Newtonian to quantum mechanics and classical to contemporary dance. Including problem sets and choreographic exercises to solidify understanding, this book will be of interest to anyone curious about physics or dance."--Jacket.
