Download or read book Turning Pointe written by Chloe Angyal and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

Download or read book Pretty Funny written by Rebecca Elliott and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is filled with loveable characters, witty dialogue and proper LOLS which made recording the audiobook hard - because I kept giggling!" Sharon Rooney Does anyone ever really want to 'fall' in love? Knowing me I'll just trip over it and graze my knee on the gravel of humiliation. Haylah Swinton is fairly confident she's brilliant at being a girl. She's an ace best friend, a loving daughter, and an INCREDIBLY patient sister to her four-year-old total nutter of a brother, Noah. But she has a secret. She wants to be a stand-up comedian, but she's pretty sure girls like her - big girls, girls who don't get all the boys, girls who a lot of people don't see - don't belong on stage. That hasn't stopped her dreaming though, and when the seemingly perfect opportunity to write routines for older, cooler, impossibly funny Leo arises . . . well, what's a girl to do? But is Leo quite an interested in helping Haylah as he says he is? Will Haylah ever find the courage to step into the spotlight herself? And when oh when will people stop telling her she's 'funny for a girl'?!

Download or read book Chloe s Dogma written by B. Nichols, A. Evans, and T. Wiggins and published by LULU. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occasionally in life, fate places something or someone on your path, and your life is blessed in a way that you never could have predicted. Chloe's Dogma is one of those stories; the meeting of two people with a dog named Chloe. In her adventures, Chloe survives a series of near misses - overcoming adversity and neglect along the way to finding her forever family. In the time since Brian Nichols and Andrew Evans decided to bring her home, Chloe has taught them many of life's most important lessons. They started talking about what life advice Chloe might give, and the result of those conversations is this book. Chloe's Dogma is a concise guide that includes five simple but profound teachings to help anyone seeking to lead a happy life. Each teaching includes a set of practices that, when applied regularly, can help create a life of enthusiasm, gratitude, and living-in-the-moment happiness! Chloe's Dogma offers both instruction and inspiration for happy living.

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Download or read book The Yellow Note written by April Ann Roy and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school writing teacher, Don Graham, has been receiving strange notes on yellow stationary. The same kind of notes found on a tree outside of Laura Thayer's house the night she was murdered. Don wants to go to the police but something is holding him back. Pete Monson is a homicide detective for the Raile Police Department. His job is a bore until Laura Thayer, a seventeen-year old girl, is found murdered in her home. With the long hours Pete is putting in at work, his already unstable marriage hangs in the balance. Suspects turn up at Raile High School, all of them students, one of them friends with Pete's own rebellious, teenage daughter. Will Pete be able to save his marriage before his wife has had enough? And will Don Graham find out who's writing these yellow notes before it's too late? In her early years, April was raised in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota and as a teenager moved with her parents and younger sister in to a small log cabin in the great woods of the north eastern part of Minnesota. Since the age of thirteen, April has been writing poems, shorts stories and working on novels. The Yellow Note is her first published work as an author. Currently, April works as a manger for a canoe outfitters and makes her home in Ely, Minnesota with her husband Jason. In her spare time, April also enjoys writing original music, leading worship at her church and is a fashion designer for women's one-of-a-kind handbags, purses, jewelry and clothing. She also spends time oil painting and drawing.

Download or read book The Future of Sex The Complete 12 book Omnibus written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future that’s lost its soul, a prodigy rises. In the year 2060, an omnipresent network has made humanity into something new. Thought has been hijacked. Emotion has been co-opted. Sensation has been ramped up to eleven, and “what feels good” is all anyone needs. The monolithic O Corporation is the most powerful entity in what remains of the world, having manipulated society’s values for decades in the name of profit. O’s leader Alexa Mathis is genius, ruthless, obsessed with the idea of finding a digital savior nobody else believes in — and swings power even the rulers don’t know she has. Enter Chloe Shaw: too young, too inexperienced, and too naive for the task before her. In name, Chloe is an escort — the highest of the high in a world where sex is queen. But to those who’ve been searching, Chloe seems to be much more. Someone with strange abilities no one can explain. Someone, it seems, who’s able to control the next-gen AI network on the horizon — an omniscient and nearly omnipotent entity known as The Beam. Is Chloe who Alexa thinks she is? As society reaches its tipping point, she must try to stake a claim for our future … before our future is decided by The Beam. Sex sells, yes. But it’s never sold quite like this — with the soul of humanity as its ultimate price. The Future of Sex is a 12-episode serial that takes place in Platt and Truant’s award-winning world of The Beam.

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Download or read book Born and Made written by Sarah Franklin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the "new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method. Using detailed empirical evidence, the authors show that far from being a runaway technology, the regulation of PGD over the past fifteen years provides an example of precaution and restraint, as well as continual adaptation to changing social circumstances. Through interviews, media and policy analysis, and participant observation at two PGD centers in the United Kingdom, Born and Made provides an in-depth sociological examination of the competing moral obligations that define the experience of PGD. Among the many novel findings of this pathbreaking ethnography of reproductive biomedicine is the prominence of uncertainty and ambivalence among PGD patients and professionals--a finding characteristic of the emerging "biosociety," in which scientific progress is inherently paradoxical and contradictory. In contrast to much of the speculative futurology that defines this field, Born and Made provides a timely and revealing case study of the on-the-ground decision-making that shapes technological assistance to human heredity.

Download or read book Uncle Tom s Cabin a Tale of Life Among the Lowly Or Pictures of Slavery in the United States of America written by Harriet Beecher-Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bloodwyn Rose written by Meghan Jenkins and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a blossoming young woman, Chloe dreaded the day Madame Isabella would take her out of the kitchen and put her to work in the bawdy house. Beautiful and headstrong, Chloe, orphaned as a child, worked as a scullery maid for as long as she could remember. Raised by Madame, she hoped she would remain in her position indefinitely. Garret Bloodwyn, a bounty hunter by trade and vampire nobleman by birth, had little interest in anything other than collecting his next reward. When his father, Lord Bloodwyn, summons him to participate in the annual visit to the village of their namesake, Garret grudgingly accepts. When Chloe finds herself offered to the young vampire lord, she can't think of a worse circumstance. Yet, that fateful night changes the lives of not only the two young lovers but of everyone around them. As their passions run deep, along with tempers, their worlds are turned upside down. A whirlwind of desire, blood thirst, and testing the boundaries of the vampire/human relationships, the two face more challenges than any couple should. Will their bond be strong enough to bear all that falls before them or will the strain tear them apart?

Download or read book Hold Your Fire written by Chloe Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning Australian author Chloe Wilson comes Hold Your Fire, a debut short story collection that will haunt you long after you turn the page. A steely mother doubts her husband’s guts and her son's capability, until a playground incident dramatically escalates. A young couple move into a house in which there’s been a recent murder, and fall under the spell of their peculiar, commanding neighbours. Two sisters are determined to detoxify themselves into perfection. A diver pushes herself and those around her to dangerous heights. Interspersed with these stories are lightning strikes of flash fiction: we glimpse a leopard in the apartment next door; plants grown out of a strange and miraculous soil; the spirit of a girl who’s been thrown down a well. Needle-sharp, effortlessly surprising and beautifully controlled, Hold Your Fire is a debut collection that introduces a fierce new talent. At each turn, Chloe Wilson offers a unique insight, a tear in the veil of our moral certainties. Her stories strip away the varnish of our decency to reveal the raw, fascinating truth beneath.

Download or read book Avenging Angel written by Esther Carney and published by zeus. This book was released on 2008 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angie is a tough but good-hearted teenager, on a search to locate her father, a man whom she has never met. Escaping, with more than just physical scars, from the psychopathic Colonel Morgan, Angie travels to New York where her quest begins. Morgan, the man who trained her as a child soldier, now wants to destroy her, and is prepared to do almost anything to succeed.Things become complicated when Angie falls foul of the law, and even more complicated when she is also secretly recruited by the FBI Special Operations Unit. All she really wants is to find somewhere to belong ? but this is not as easy as it seems, as throughout the story Angie is relentlessly pursued by her enemies.Nothing is more important to her than her freedom. But if she is to defeat her enemies, how similar to them must she eventually become? How similar is she to Morgan already?

Download or read book 25 Plays written by John Galsworthy and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. This volume assembles 25 of his plays: The Silver Box Joy Strife The Eldest Son Justice The Little Dream The Pigeon The Fugitive The Mob A Bit o' Love The Foundations The Skin Game A Family Man Loyalties Windows The Forest Old English The Show Escape The First and the Last The Little Man Hall-Marked Defeat The Sun Punch and Go

Download or read book White Lies written by Brad Stratton and published by Second Wind Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Lies is a detective thriller concerning a beautiful missing woman, a compulsive boyfriend, a mysterious monthly $5000 payoff. Michael Chambers-cool, clever private investigator-has his work cut out for him with this case that takes him far away from his native LA and what seems at first to be a simple case. Fortunately, Michael manages to stay one step and a couple quips ahead of those who are trying to trick him, trap him and kill him.

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Download or read book Many Dimensions written by Charles Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you mean, ' Sir Giles said, 'that the thing never gets smaller?''Never, ' the Prince answered. 'So much of its virtue has entered into its outward form that whatever may happen to it there is no change. From the beginning it was as it is now.''Then by God, sir, ' Reginald Montague exclaimed, 'you've got the transport of the world in your hands.'Neither of the two men made any answer. The Persian, sitting back in his chair, and Sir Giles, sitting forward on the edge of his, were both gazing at the thing which lay on the table. It was a circlet of old, tarnished, and twisted gold, in the centre of which was set a cubical stone measuring about half an inch every way, and having apparently engraved on it certain Hebrew letters. Sir Giles picked it up, rather cautiously, and concentrated his gaze on them. The motion awoke a doubt in Montague's mi