Download or read book Being a Ballerina written by Gavin Larsen and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize A look inside a dancer’s world Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer’s continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist. Starting with her arrival as a young beginner at a class too advanced for her, Larsen tells how the embarrassing mistake ended up helping her learn quickly and advance rapidly. In other stories of her early teachers, training, and auditions, she explains how she gradually came to understand and achieve what she and her body were capable of. Larsen then re-creates scenes from her experiences in dance companies, from unglamorous roles to exhilarating performances. Working as a ballerina was shocking and scary at first, she says, recalling unexpected injuries, leaps of faith, and her constant struggle to operate at the level she wanted—but full of enormously rewarding moments. Larsen also reflects candidly on her difficult decision to retire at age 35. An ideal read for aspiring dancers, Larsen’s memoir will also delight experienced dance professionals and fascinate anyone who wonders what it takes to live a life dedicated to the perfection of the art form.

Download or read book Promise Christian Christmas Romance Three Book Set written by Tamie Dearen and published by Tamie Dearen. This book was released on with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three faith filled Christmas romance books in one set, each with a bonus song! Join the Holiday family and the people of Holiday, Inc. as they find love, hope and faith. The journeys aren't always smooth, but the happily-ever-afters will leave you with a smile on your face. PROMISE OF LOVE Just when Noelle throws in the towel on romance, two hunky gentlemen come calling. Something’s fishy in Denver! December isn't filled with the magic of Christmas for Noelle Holiday. Only the looming dread she's about to lose something or someone else dear to her. Will she ever be rid of her Christmas curse? When good things start happening, alarms go off in her head. It’s too good to be true. That’s why Noelle is worried when she adopts an adorable Golden Retriever and meets a guy who seems to really care for her. For the first time in a long time, she doesn’t feel alone. But she knows it can’t possibly last. Sure enough, disaster strikes. Noelle loses the dog and the guy, just like she feared. Or does she? PROMISE OF HOPE Take one estranged couple. Add two basset hounds, one interfering father, and a terrible secret. What do you get? A tricky recipe for a happily-ever-after! Haley uses skiing to escape her worries—especially those concerning her hated arch-competitor in college, Gavin Holiday. But a bad tumble on the icy slopes sends her headfirst into trouble. And guess who comes to her rescue! Gavin works hard to convince Haley that God wants them to be together. But just when it seems the two former enemies are ready to tie the knot, Haley disappears, leaving no explanation. Two years later, Haley accepts a job at Holiday, Inc. and finds herself working with Gavin and struggling to hide her enduring attraction to him. She tries to keep her distance, but their Basset Hounds bring them together again. Yet Haley knows Gavin deserves someone better. For one thing, her faith isn’t strong enough. But the main reason is a secret he must never know! Gavin finally learns the truth at a Christmas party, but not before they are separated by a fateful snow storm. Can he find her before it’s too late? PROMISE OF FAITH What’s better than an adorable, fluffy black puppy? Not having to share it with your ex-boyfriend! It’s love-at-first-sight, when Shara meets the Newfoundland puppy, but now she has joint custody with James until she wins the contest. Surely she can prove she’ll be a better puppy-owner. How hard can it be? But spending time with James is dangerous. She might fall in love with him, and that would make things even worse. No telling what he would he do if he discovered she was pregnant. Shara doesn’t even know what she’s going to do! This faith-filled romance tells the story of two young people finding grace and forgiveness and learning the true meaning of love. If you love Hallmark movies, you’ll love these sweet happily-ever-after stories by USA Today bestselling author Tamie Dearen. Grab your copy now! NOTE FROM AUTHOR: These sweet Christian Christmas romances touch on serious themes of guilt, abuse, alcoholism, and bulimia, with an uplifting message of hope in God’s grace. Bonus: Each book in the Holiday Family Christian Romance Series contains a free link to listen to an original song, as performed in the story. Enjoy! Previously published as Holiday Inc. Christian Romance Boxed Set, with Noelle's Golden Christmas, Haley's Hangdog Holiday, and Shara's Happy New-foundland Year.

Download or read book Gavin and Stacey written by James Corden and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin & Stacey (plus friends) take you on a tour of their home towns, showing you the world of their hit BBC comedy series as you've never seen it before.

Download or read book A Whyte Christmas written by Michele Brouder and published by Michele Brouder. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling romantic comedy. Christmas has always been Kate O’Connor’s favorite time of the year, but this season—despite her battery-operated twinkle-light earrings—she’s feeling far from festive. In fact, she’s wallowing in a generous dose of self-pity over the loss of her father, the train wreck that was her engagement, and an unsavory setback in her career. To make matters worse, her boss at the Cline & Co. ad agency has volunteered her to be the one-woman welcoming committee for Gavin Whyte, the VIP client from across the pond who could be the key to saving their struggling business. Eager to prove she’s a team player, Kate resolves to show Gavin a good time, hoping his dazzling blue eyes, his delicious Irish accent, and her own propensity for disaster don’t cause her to torpedo the company’s chances of recovery. Gavin Whyte would rather be anywhere than the Cline & Co. ad agency. Tasked with overseeing the ad campaign for his pharmaceutical firm, he’s not impressed with the second-rate ad agency that’s been awarded the contract. And there’s one employee, Kate O’Connor, who confirms his suspicions that the ad agency just isn’t up to the task at hand. She can’t seem to do anything without something going wrong or the police showing up. Yet there’s something about Kate that makes Gavin stop and take a second look. Each book in The Happy Holidays series is a standalone novel and therefore can be read in any order.

Download or read book Greenville written by Beverly Sheets Goodwin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her husband in an automobile accident caused by a drunk driver, Tierci Morgan sells her thriving law practice in Illinois to return to the small town in West Virginia where she was born. She agrees to take over the law offices of her mentor who wants to retire to a life of fishing in Florida. Soon after returning to Greenville, Tierci hires a construction company to build a house for her. She is shocked and elated to discover that the owner of Greenville Builders is her long ago friend and soul mate Gavin CaIdwell. From childhood until she went away to law school, Gavin had been her rock to lean on and shoulder to cry on when boys she dated found greener pastures. In renewing their friendship, Tierci discovers that Gavin had lost his wife five years earlier to cancer and raised his teen-aged son alone. As they work together planning her dream house, they discover an attraction and feelings for each other that had never occurred to Tierci when she knew Gavin as a boy. lie had always loved her but was afraid to voice his feelings as a boy and settled for just being her friend and confidant He has grown into a ruggedly handsome man who is gentle and sensitive and had never lost the special connection he has always had with Tierci. Tierci becomes the target of a vengeful stalker who blames her for letting him go to prison years ago in Illinois because she refused to represent him in court. In leaning on Gavin once more and in his efforts to protect her, they discover a love that was meant to be all of their lives. Greenville is a suspenseful, poignant love story that evolves around meeting, and becoming friends with some of the main players from the book Arizona Macgregor and the frightening terror caused by the stalker who is maniacal in his determination to punish Tierci.

Download or read book This Is Not a Book about Gavin Turk written by Gavin Turk and published by Trolley Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If this is not a book about 'the artist', then it is also not a book about our perception of the artist. Instead the concerns, preoccupations, observations and forms that catch the artist's thoughts and eyes are unpacked, transposed, explored and investigated by a jamboree of perspectives"--Preface.

Download or read book Cross My Heart written by S.N. GARZA and published by SNGarzaBooks. This book was released on 2024-07-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evony Summers grew up knowing one thing. She was, is, and always will be nothing but a useless, worthless mistake. When Gavin Winters moves in next door, she has no idea what to make of the lonely boy with dark, sad eyes. Until he saves her one dark, stormy night. Just when she needs him the most, he vanishes without a trace, leaving Evony broken and alone. More damaged than she's ever been. Evony learns that promises are nothing but empty words. And Gavin became nothing more than a memory. Twelve years later, he's back and wants nothing more than to see Evony all grown up. The girl he had no choice but to leave for, turned into a sexy-as-sin, hard-to-handle woman who wants nothing to do with him. There are questions that need to be answered, but they just might be more than he can take. But one thing Evony will learn is that Gavin isn’t giving her up. Cross his heart and hope to die.

Download or read book Deep in a Dream written by James Gavin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeard on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter's dark journey.

Download or read book Holiday Games written by Jaci Burton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jaci Burton’s “must-read” (Fresh Fiction) Play-By-Play series now arouses the sexy holiday spirit as a passionate young couple discovers the boundless rewards of pleasure. All Elizabeth and Gavin Riley want for Christmas is a baby. Despite over a year of trying, conception hasn’t been successful. But for a high-achiever like Elizabeth, she must succeed at everything. That means making the very most of every opportunity with her husband. And when it comes to nonstop sex Gavin’s not really complaining. Exhausted, maybe... Unfortunately, this holiday season they’re not exactly given a lot of private time. Elizabeth is hosting the holiday, Gavin’s sister is getting married, and the house is wall-to-wall with family. For Elizabeth and Gavin the nights may be chilly, but the urge is still hot. And they’re not about to let any distraction get in the way of their necessary pleasures during a holiday game that yields so many unexpected surprises. This all-new Play-By-Play novella Includes a preview of Jaci Burton's upcoming novels Melting the Ice and Hope Flames.

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1964 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)

Download or read book Stormy Weather written by James Gavin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, the first serious biography of entertainment legend Lena Horne -- the celebrated star of film, stage, and music who became one of the first African-American icons. At the 2001 Academy Awards, Halle Berry thanked Lena Horne for paving the way for her to become the first black recipient of a Best Actress Oscar. Though limited, mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals, "the beautiful Lena Horne," as she was often called, became a pioneering star for African Americans in the 1940s and fifties. Now James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, draws on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews -- one of them with Horne herself -- to give us the defining portrait of an American icon. Gavin has gotten closer than any other writer to the celebrity who has lived in reclusion since 1998. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Arthur Laurents, and several of Horne's fellow chorines from Harlem's Cotton Club, Stormy Weather offers a fascinating portrait of a complex, even tragic Horne -- a stunning talent who inspired such giants of showbiz as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin, but whose frustrations with racism, and with tumultuous, root-less childhood, left wounds too deep to heal. The woman who emerged was as angry as she was luminous. From the Cotton Club's glory days and the back lots of Hollywood's biggest studios to the glitzy but bigoted hotels of Las Vegas's heyday, this behind-the-scenes look at an American icon is as much a story of the limits of the American dream as it is a masterful, ground-breaking biography.

Download or read book The Happy Holidays Box Set Books 1 3 written by Michele Brouder and published by Michele Brouder. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the first 3 books of The Happy Holidays series: A Whyte Christmas, This Christmas, and A Wish for Christmas. Over 800 pages of reading! Because every holiday deserves a happy ending. A Whyte Christmas Kate O’Connor has had a rough year and Christmas looks to be no better but a dashing Irishman is about to change all of that. This Christmas This year Holly is dreading Christmas but the next store neighbor is about to change her mind. A Wish for Christmas With his weapons-grade dangerous good looks, India Ramone soon learns there's more to billionaire John Laurencelli than bad press and rumors.

Download or read book The Cloud Collector s Handbook written by Gavin Pretor-Pinney and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep your head in the clouds with this whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky from an award-winning science writer. In The Cloud Collector’s Handbook, cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds. This fun and fact-filled book features gorgeous full-color photographs that showcase various types of clouds, from fluffy cumulus to the super rare horseshoe vortex to the wispy noctilucent clouds that hang at the fringes of space. Sure to be a hit with both aspiring and seasoned cloud gazers, this clever handbook comes from the bestselling author, BBC presenter, and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society.

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Us Three written by Ruth Jones and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'A touching celebration of the beauty and endurance of female friendship. There is nothing mightier. Fact.' DAWN FRENCH The new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the smash-hit, number one bestselling debut, Never Greener. Friends forever is a difficult promise to keep... Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school when they swore an oath on a Curly Wurly wrapper that they would always be there for each other, come what may. After the trip of a lifetime, the three girls are closer than ever. But an unexpected turn of events shakes the foundation of their friendship to its core, leaving their future in doubt - there's simply too much to forgive, let alone forget. An innocent childhood promise they once made now seems impossible to keep . . . Packed with all the heart and empathy that made Ruth's name as a screenwriter and now author, Us Three is a funny, moving and uplifting novel about life's complications, the power of friendship and how it defines us all. Prepare to meet characters you'll feel you've known all your life - prepare to meet Us Three. ***** Praise for Us Three: 'A warm, smart, uplifting tale of true friendship.' BETH O'LEARY 'This novel oozes warmth and honesty. A big-hearted book that provides a cast of characters you'll lose your heart to.' ADELE PARKS 'I loved this brilliantly gripping depiction of the complexities of female friendship over the years. Love, betrayal, comedy and loss - Us Three has it all.' FIONA NEILL ***** Readers love Us Three: 'I love the way Ruth Jones writes. The relationship between the 3 friends is perfect and a wonderful book to read about friendship' 'I absolutely loved this so much. There were moments that made me cry and other moments that made me laugh.' 'Best book of the year so far. To sum it up I'd say "it was bloody lush"' ****RUTH'S BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL LOVE UNTOLD IS COMING SOON AND AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW****

Download or read book All I Want for Christmas written by Jennifer Gracen and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Baines almost has it all: a flourishing career as one of the youngest English Lit assistant professors at NYU, an apartment in a city she adores, and a close circle of lifelong girlfriends that are like sisters. The only thing she doesn’t have is someone special to share it with. She’s been married to her work since Sean McKinnon broke her heart seven years ago. Musician and bar owner Sean McKinnon keeps busy – too busy for a love life. He blew it with Cassie all those years ago, and no one has held a candle to her since. But then one fateful night, of all the people in New York City, Cassandra walks into his bar, and he’s drawn to her as strongly as ever. She wants nothing to do with him, but he’s not going to give up so easily. Can a bit of New York Christmas magic help two people take a second chance on true love?

Download or read book The Bromance Book Club written by Lyssa Kay Adams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first rule of book club: You don't talk about book club. Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him. Welcome to the Bromance Book Club. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.