Download or read book The Dancing Granny written by and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider Ananse gets Granny started dancing so he can raid her garden, but his own trick does him in.

Download or read book Step to the Right written by Sheila Young and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are going to take many steps in life. They are going to take steps that may lead to a fork in the road. There will be choices to make. There will be questions and decisions that can be life changing. Which voice will they hear? Which voice will they follow? What part does prayer and faith play in their lives? What seeds were planted in them to make a good harvest? Will the seeds of religion or self-worth make a difference? Or not? With God and our guidance, they will step to the right. They will follow paths leading to great futures, to be the best that they can be. I pray that Step to the Right will be a blessing to all who read it, as it is to me.

Download or read book Love of Break Dancing written by Frida Love and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write in my Harlem apartment in Wagner Projects. And I come over with great ideas when sitting in my black painted room. Where I started writing Love of Break Dancing and My Life with My B-boy Husband along with the next book. While writing I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee and listening to music. You may have seen me on the internet due to me being different, having a lot of piercings. I hope the readers really enjoy the books that I have written in which I call the new line love. New line love means to write a romantic story that is different from the rest. I am a twenty-five-year-old black girl who’s a hopeless romantic and believes in love. I am also nerdy and wear black lipstick. Being different is brave, powerful, and wonderful and beautiful. Self-love is important. The greatest thing in the world is love.

Download or read book Firefly Lane written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.

Download or read book Inspired written by Rachel Held Evans and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she embarked on a journey to better understand what the Bible is and how it's meant to be read. What she discovered changed her--and it can change you, too. Evans knows firsthand how a relationship with the Bible can be as real and as complicated as a relationship with a family member or close friend. In Inspired, Evans explores contradictions and questions from her own experiences with the Bible, including: If the Bible was supposed to explain the mysteries of life, why does it leave the reader with so many questions? What does it mean to be chosen by God? To what degree did the Holy Spirit guide the preservation of these narratives, and is there something sacred to be uncovered beneath all these human fingerprints? If the Bible has given voice to the oppressed, why is it also used as justification by their oppressors? Drawing on the best in biblical scholarship and using her well-honed literary expertise, Evans examines some of our favorite Bible stories and possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original poetry, short stories, and even a short screenplay. Undaunted by the Bible's most difficult passages and unafraid to ask the hard questions, Evans wrestles through the process of doubting, imagining, and debating the mysteries surrounding Scripture. Discover alongside Evans that the Bible is not a static text, but a living, breathing, captivating, and confounding book that can equip us and inspire us to join God's loving and redemptive work in the world.

Download or read book Could I Have This Dance written by Harry Kraus and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can’t dance this dance unless it’s in your blood. Claire McCall is praying it’s not in hers. Claire McCall is used to fighting back against the odds. Hard work, aptitude, and sheer determination have helped her rise from adverse circumstances to an internship in one of the nation’s most competitive surgical residencies. But talent and tenacity mean nothing in the face of the discovery that is about to rock her world. It’s called the "Stoney Creek Curse" by folks in the small mountain town where Claire grew up. Behind the superstition lies a reality that could destroy her career. But getting to the truth is far from easy in a community with secrets to hide. As a web of relationships becomes increasingly tangled, two things become apparent. One is that more than one person doesn’t want Claire to probe too deeply into the "Stoney Creek Curse." The other is that someone has reasons other than the curse for wanting Claire out of the picture permanently. Somewhere in the course of pursuing her career as a surgeon, Claire lost touch with the God who called her to it. Now she realizes how desperately she needs him. But can she reclaim a faith strong enough to see her through this deadly dance of circumstances?

Download or read book Just Dance written by Daksha M. Patel and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rakesh was only twenty-three years old when he died after a three-year battle with leukemia. But he lives on in this memoir written by his aunt, Daksha M. Patel. She has collected the memories of family and friends as well as Rakeshs tweets and social media postings. Just Dance offers touching and charming stories that illustrate the short life a young man with heart and promise who positively affected the lives of all those around him. Patel tells about the extraordinary way he handled his three-year fight with acute lymphocytic leukemia and how he served as an exemplary example of faith and trust. It demonstrates how faith in God can help one through anything and everything in life. In Just Dance, Patel shares how Rakesh lived the life of a saint, exhibiting a sympathetic and caring attitude for friends and those who asked for his help. His legacy lives on through his dance team, a unit inspired by him.

Download or read book Grandma s Tales written by Joy Lee Larocque and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Lee Larocque, Author - Impressed from early childhood with a highly creative imagination presentes her interpretation "the magic of the Bahamas."

Download or read book No Thanks But I d Love to Dance written by Jackie Reimer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 2008 by Jackie Reimer."

Download or read book Dance Till the Music Stops written by Joyce Galewick (the huggin' grandma) and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To all my readers and everyone who buys this book, thank you! I know it's hard to write a story of your life when every life is a story-but maybe, because I had the courage and the drive to write my story, maybe you can now write yours. I know how hard it is to face challenges and wonder sometimes if you can ever make it. So, I didn't write this book because I'm rich or famous. I wrote this book to give you courage and hope and to let you know you are never alone in this big old world. If I can help just one person, then my life and this book will be worth it. I wrote this for the child facing months in bed for a disease they don't understand, for the single mother trying to keep it all together, for the wife who has to kiss a dying husband one last time, for the mother who hears her child is dying, for those with cancer facing chemo, for everyone who has ever been discouraged. I want to be your ray of sunshine and show you that you can go on and that life can truly be beautiful-one day and one step at a time. For as long as we wake up, we can listen to the music of life, and we can dance! So, dance till the music stops! Never Give Up and Never Give In You CAN reach the mountain top! No matter how tough LIFE seems, Just follow your dreams and Dance Till The Music Stops! Love, Joyce

Download or read book The Grandma S Drama written by Beverly J. Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some might say that she is an enigma: this sophisticated forty-year-old grandmother, a widow of twenty years, has been celibate for the duration. After Nyja raised her daughter, in an appropriate manner, she is ready to resume an active sex life. She finds the man of her dreams. However, after their marriage, all chaos breaks out. Nyja finds herself responsible for raising her grandson, just when all she really wants in life is the one thing she has denied herself of for so longa man. But can she turn her back on her daughter now, just when she needs her the most? Nyja finds that she is not the only grandmother, living the dilemma of grandmothers raising another generation; she and other grandmothers in this story learn that their will is strong, but what is even stronger is a grandmothers love.

Download or read book Calling for a Blanket Dance written by Oscar Hokeah and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * Finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize * Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction “A profound reflection on the intergenerational nature of cultural trauma… Hokeah’s characters exist at the intersection of Kiowa, Cherokee and Mexican identity, which provides a vital exploration of indigeneity in contemporary American letters.” —The New York Times Book Review A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. ​ Oscar Hokeah’s electric debut takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle, whose family—part Mexican, part Native American—is determined to hold onto their community despite obstacles everywhere they turn. Ever’s father is injured at the hands of corrupt police on the border when he goes to visit family in Mexico, while his mother struggles both to keep her job and care for her husband. And young Ever is lost and angry at all that he doesn’t understand, at this world that seems to undermine his sense of safety. Ever’s relatives all have ideas about who he is and who he should be. His Cherokee grandmother, knowing the importance of proximity, urges the family to move across Oklahoma to be near her, while his grandfather, watching their traditions slip away, tries to reunite Ever with his heritage through traditional gourd dances. Through it all, every relative wants the same: to remind Ever of the rich and supportive communities that surround him, there to hold him tight, and for Ever to learn to take the strength given to him to save not only himself but also the next generation. How will this young man visualize a place for himself when the world hasn’t made room for him to start with? Honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, Calling for a Blanket Dance is the story of how Ever Geimausaddle finds his way home. "STUNNING." —Susan Power, author of The Grass Dancer

Download or read book Suitcase Full of Dreams written by and published by Hoy Kersh. This book was released on with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ballet and Then written by Maja Langsdorff and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What becomes of ballet dancers when they finally leave the stage, when their last curtain falls? Maja Langsdorff, journalist, writer and a former ballet dancer, interviewed 27 former dancers and recorded their life stories from their first ballet steps to their lives after dance. At the time of their interviews they were between 21 and 62 years old, their careers had ended from three months to 34 years ago. Dancers give a lot, if not everything, in the performances. They live their lives in the limelight. In ballet, profession and calling are united: passion and suffering are often close to each other. For most dancers, their time is up at thirty, thirty-five. They disappear from view. One doesn't hear anything about them anymore; as if they were swallowed up by the earth. This book investigates their fates. These short biographies show what formed them, what moved them, what influenced them. And the portraits leave no doubt, that dancers are special people; even if they no longer dance.

Download or read book Yer Granny written by Douglas Maxwell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on La Nona by Roberto Cossa Yer Granny is a riotous new comedy about a diabolical 100-year-old granny who’s literally eating her family out of house and home. She’s already eaten their fish and chip shop into bankruptcy and now she’s working her way through their kitchen cupboards, pushing the Russo family to desperate measures just to survive beyond 1977. As proud head of the family, Cammy is determined that The Minerva Fish Bar will rise again and that family honour will be restored – and all in time for the Queen’s upcoming Jubilee visit. But before Cammy’s dream can come true and before Her Maj can pop in for a chat, a single sausage and a royal seal of approval, the family members must ask themselves how far they will go to solve a problem like Yer Granny.

Download or read book Grandmother s Secrets written by Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Come, sit by me," says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world." So Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother's first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. Grandmother's Secretsalways circles back to this grandmother and this young girl, echoing the circular movements of the dance itself. Al-Rawi has written a strikingly graceful and original book that blends personal memoir with the history and theory of the dance known in the West as "belly dancing." It is the story of a young Arab girl as she is initiated into womanhood. It is a history of the dance from the earliest times through the days of the Pharaohs, the Roman Empire, to the Arab world of the last three centuries. It is a personal investigation into the effects of the dance's movements on individual parts of the body and the whole psyche. It is a guide to the actual techniques of the dance for those who are inspired to put down the book and move. Al-Rawi conveys in this book not only the history and technique of grieving and mourning dances, pregnancy and birth dances, but the spirit of these age-old rituals, and their possibilities for healing and empowering women today.

Download or read book The other dance step written by Caio Riter and published by Artes e Ofícios Editora. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ana, Bernardo e Celina são adolescentes. Amigos desde a infância, o trio A-Bê-Cê não se separa jamais. Desde pequenos, andam sempre juntos, e juntos vivem as experiências que a vida vai trazendo. Numa tarde comum, Ana sai de casa para se encontrar com a mãe. De repente, um outro encontro. Aquele que poderia não ter acontecido: Ana Lúcia e a bala. Uma bala (perdida?) encontra Ana Lúcia. A partir de um acontecimento que se tornou banal num país onde a violência faz parte do cotidiano, Caio Riter conta, nessa novela juvenil, a história de três adolescentes que se deparam, de repente, com a necessidade de amadurecer. A vida lhes trazendo dor até então desconhecida. O livro, ilustrado por Joãocaré, faz parte da coleção Papo-cabeça, cujo primeiro título, De carona, com nitro, de Luís Dill, foi vencedor do Prêmio Açorianos 2009 na categoria juvenil e finalista na categoria projeto gráfico. ------- Ana, Bernardo and Celina are teenagers. Friends since childhood, the trio A-Bê-Cê never separates. Since they were little, they always go together, and together they live the experiences that life brings. On an ordinary afternoon, Ana leaves home to meet her mother. Suddenly, another date. The one that might not have happened: Ana Lucia and the bullet. A bullet (lost?) Finds Ana Lucia. From an event that has become banal in a country where violence is part of daily life, Caio Riter tells in this youth novel the story of three teenagers who are suddenly faced with the need to mature. Life bringing them pain hitherto unknown. The book, illustrated by Joãocaré, is part of the Papo-cabeça collection, whose first title, De carona, com nitro, by Luís Dill, was winner of the 2009 Açorianos Prize in the juvenile category and finalist in the graphic design category.