Download or read book And Then We Danced written by Henry Alford and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Captivating…equal parts memoir and cultural history, Henry Alford seamlessly interweaves heartwarming and hilarious anecdotes about his deep dive into all things dance” (Misty Copeland, The New York Times Book Review). When Henry Alford wrote about his experience with a Zumba class for The New York Times, little did he realize that it was the start of something much bigger. Dance would grow and take on many roles for Henry: exercise, stress reliever, confidence builder, an excuse to travel, a source of ongoing wonder, and—when he dances with Alzheimer’s patients—even a kind of community service. Tackling a wide range of forms (including ballet, hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, tap, contact improvisation, Zumba, swing), Alford’s grand tour takes us through the works and careers of luminaries ranging from Bob Fosse to George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp to Arthur Murray. Rich in insight and humor, Alford mines both personal experience and fascinating cultural history to offer a witty and ultimately moving portrait of how dance can express all things human. And Then We Danced “is in one sense a celebration of hoofer in all its wonder and variety, from abandon to refinement. But it is also history, investigation, memoir, and even, in its smart, sly way, self-help…very funny, but more, it is joyful—a dance all its own” (Vanity Fair).

Download or read book Tea with Jam and Dread written by Tamar Myers and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brand-new hilariously quirky mystery in the longrunning Pennsylvania-Dutch series. Deciding that the PennDutch Inn needs to go more upmarket, Magdalena Yoder is delighted to welcome the Earl and Countess Grimsley-Snodgrass and their family as honoured guests, looking forward to the challenge of introducing English nobility to traditional American culture. But, as Magdalena is about to find out, the Grimsley-Snodgrasses are by no means the easiest of guests, and at the same time she has to contend with the discovery of a mummified corpse trapped in her elevator shaft. Then tragedy strikes during a traditional Pennsylvania-Dutch picnic at Stucky Ridge, when one of the Grimsley-Snodgrasses disappears over the edge of Lovers’ Leap. Did he fall – or was he pushed? And where is the body...?

Download or read book Manning on Decoupage written by Hiram Manning and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear explanations of every step of every procedure by man who probably knows more about craft than anyone. 91 drawings, over 100 photographs. Index.

Download or read book Vintage Nabokov written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless imaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument of ecstasy. Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs and Symbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from his memoir Speak, Memory.

Download or read book The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

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Download or read book Listen to Your Heart written by Shivaun Gannon and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid account of nearly 100 years of passionate life, Shivaun Gannon takes us through eras, countries, and changing fortunes with her enchanted storytelling. Born into a large, spirited Irish nationalist family, Shivaun spent her childhood in the garden of Ireland, speaking Gaelic, cycling in the Wicklow Mountains and swimming in the Irish sea, as electricity, motorcars and wireless radios made their first appearances. A young woman when WWII broke out, she describes with heartbreaking and powerful clarity the parties, near misses and losses wrought on Ireland through the personal lens of her deeply involved family of doctors, nurses, motorcycle dispatchers, aeronautical engineers, and her own marriage and early family life in the midst of war. Post WWII, the Gannons made the difficult decision to emigrate, sight unseen, to Canada leaving behind deep, proud Irish family roots to begin life anew with six children in Winnipeg. There, harsh winters, poverty, as well as opportunity, incredible resilience and family bonds take the Gannons on a rollicking journey full of music, invention, faith and strength.

Download or read book Living the Serenity Prayer written by Jeanett Gardner Littleton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Download or read book Woven on the Wind written by Linda M. Hasselstrom and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grassroots publishing sensation that began with "Leaning Into the Wind" continues in this second volume of women's writing from the heart of the American West.

Download or read book Disturbing the Dead written by Kelley Armstrong and published by KLA Fricke Inc. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1860s and the other in the present day. The Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else’s body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she’s not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends—and feelings—in this century. So, understanding the Victorian fascination with death, Mallory isn’t that surprised when she and her friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping at the home of Sir Alastair Christie. When their host is missing when it comes time to unwrap the mummy, Gray and Mallory are asked to step in. And upon closer inspection, it’s not a mummy they’ve unwrapped, but a much more modern body.

Download or read book These Vengeful Souls written by Tarun Shanker and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn and her friends face ever greater dangers as they navigate tense battles, stunning revelations, and the limits of their own powers in this epic final novel in the These Vicious Masks trilogy. England, 1883. On the run with the grieving Sebastian Braddock, Evelyn wants two things: to be reunited with her friends, and to get revenge on the evil Captain Goode. Not only has he misused his and Sebastian’s powers to rack up a terrible death toll, but he's also completely destroyed any hope of Evelyn or her friends regaining the life they once knew. Evelyn is determined to make Captain Goode pay for what he's done, but is her revenge worth risking the lives of Sebastian and her friends? Or is it better to flee the city and focus on staying alive? And with the Captain spreading lies about Sebastian in an attempt to flush them out of hiding and turn the populace against them, does she even have a choice at all? You won’t want to miss These Vengeful Souls, the thrilling conclusion to the These Vicious Masks trilogy by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas from Macmillan’s young adult imprint Swoon Reads. Praise for the These Vicious Masks trilogy: These Ruthless Deeds: "Utter brilliance." —BookCrushin "It is a romance, a suspense, a comedy, a fantasy, an adventure." —thebookcorps These Vicious Masks: "This is a perfect pick for someone who wants a little magic in their Victorian novels, and its combination of historical fiction and mysticism will remind readers of Libba Bray’s Gemma Doyle trilogy." —Booklist "This tale has brisk pacing, plenty of action, and a heroine with more than her fair share of girl-power confidence." —School Library Journal

Download or read book The Magical Proposition Lady Apprentice Book One written by Karin De Havin and published by 9 Yards Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Victorian lady must learn more than needlepoint when a genie appears in her bedchamber to change her life. Georgina Worthington’s life as a soon-to-be spinster takes a powerful turn when a handsome genie named Wesley materializes inside her bedchamber. He explains that he is a tutor tasked with showing her the ways of magic. Georgina tells herself the whole thing is a prank perpetrated by her sisters. Yet how can she explain how her sisters have the power to enable a man to walk through walls. The genie informs Georgina if she follows his magical instruction, she will harness her latent abilities. Freeing her from her mother and sisters. Georgina wonders how the genie knows about her mother’s intentions to marry her off and her sisters desire to tease her daily. Can genies read minds? Wesley explains all she has to do to gain her freedom is conjure a few objects, learn the ways of genies, and Georgina will never have to marry a man she doesn’t know. The offer seems too good to be true. Determined to leave her home, Georgina soon finds her magical abilities are buried deep inside her. She confronts endless struggles trying to conjure the simplest of objects. To make things even more complicated, Georgina breaks a major rule and falls for her handsome genie. Her magical future and her desire to escape her marriage obsessed mother seems doomed. Find out if Georgina learns the ways of becoming a genie or ends up a spinster after all in Karin De Havin’s The Magical Proposition, the first book in The Genie and the Lady Apprentice Series. Series Titles are Best Enjoyed in Order: The Magical Proposition The Questionable Magical Apprentice A Second Chance at Magic The Challenge of Magic The Ultimate Magical Test **This five historical novella series has alternating character points of view between the lady apprentice and her genie tutor. For optimal enjoyment, you’ll need to finish all the books to see how it comes together and how it ends!** **The Genie Academy takes place in a similar world with Wesley Robertson once again making an appearance as a genie tutor in The Genie Academy Series. ** **If you enjoy genie stories The Jin In Time Series features a genie, but takes place in the modern world.**