Download or read book Sorry I Don t Dance written by Maxine Leeds Craig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the feminization, sexualization, and racialization of dance in America since the 1960s.
Download or read book Black Joy written by Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely collection of deeply personal, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of Black joy--in the vein of Black Girls Rock, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today. When Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote an essay on Black joy for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how deeply it would resonate. But the outpouring of responses affirmed her own lived experience: that Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, it is a tool for resilience. With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to recognize the power of Black joy as a resource to draw upon, and to challenge the one-note narratives of Black life as solely comprised of trauma and hardship. Black Joy is a collection that will recharge you. It is the kind of book that is passed between friends and offers both challenge and comfort at the end of a long day. It is an answer for anyone who needs confirmation that they are not alone and a brave place to quiet their mind and heal their soul.
Download or read book No Way to Live written by Chrissie McDill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still haunted, thirty years later, by memories of Jane, Claire and Angela, the bullies of her school years, imprisoned by the selfish demands of her invalid mother, betrayed by her boyfriend, Rose's only solace is the attic where she paints and invents an alter ego. When she's invited to a school reunion, Rose goes in disguise but flees when she's recognised by Maggie, her old Sports Mistress. Jane Rossetti, one of the trio who made Rose's school years a misery, now feeling remorse, is drawn into Rose's life through her abusive mother. Jane's ex-partner, Robyn, finds Rose "odd". Claire dies. Angela is murdered and Robyn warns Jane "she's a nutter...and you're the only one left". As Jane and Rose grow closer, Jane, ignores Robyn's warning until her daughter Lauren, disappears with Rose. Rose again feels rejection; more secrets emerge, and a terrified Lauren flees for her life.
Download or read book My Mama Had a Dancing Heart written by Libba Moore Gray and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors.
Download or read book Dance Dance Dance written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
Download or read book The Saturday Evening Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 2428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vanity Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Download or read book On the Seashore written by Saibal Gupta and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central character is a woman, Rupa, born into an affluent family of professionals that gets disrupted due to the untimely death of their father from cancer. The trauma is followed by career separation of the family of three, Rupa, her brother, and her mother. Brother Asim gets a job in the USA as an IT professional. Rupa, an honors graduate in physics, goes for her master's degree in Philadelphia. Mother relocates from Bombay to her ancestral home at Calcutta. Suddenly lonely, they manage their own lives, keeping tenuous contact. Rupa finishes her master's and, while doing PhD, falls in love, gets married, and a son is born. She manages to complete the PhD, taking care of her married life, until her mother has a heart attack and she has to visit her. She cannot return as Mother is weak, and her marriage breaks down. She settles in Calcutta, but Mother dies. A lonely single mother, she returns to the USA without support or jobs and, through struggles, grows to mature womanhood. The stories develop around her personality amid a bevy of female characters and a few male characters, forming a bouquet of feminine beauty and determination. She gets back her life and love on her own terms.
Download or read book TO BREAK EVERY YOKE written by Ms. J. E. Franklin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four works presented in this book are about freedom: breaking free, staying free, and helping others to freedom. A college student travels south to do her part in making Dr. King's dream of freedom for everyone a reality; a mother struggles for over two decades to free her blind son from bondage; a white man finds himself entrapped in the racial laws of the nation's One-Drop Theory; a high school drop-out tries to break free from negative family forces to pursue her dream of being a dancer. The familiar characters may make you laugh, but they may also make you cry; the questions raised may provoke, but they may also stir your imaginations and challenge long-held views. Hopefully, they will leave all of us with a broader understanding of our predicament and of ways in which we may address it.
Download or read book The Swan and The Sergeant written by Alana Albertson and published by Bolero Books, LLC (new account). This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: $50,000 to appear on Dancing with the Stars. $50,000 to humiliate myself on national television, lose my privacy, and become the laughingstock of the Marine Corps. But I can’t say no. Not even if it means I have to face the woman who once destroyed me. Ten years ago, reality star Selena Martinez was my dance partner and my girl. Though the self-professed ugly duckling is now a beautiful swan, the girl I fell in love with is long gone. Consumed with being a celebrity, her inner beauty has been replaced by an ugly lust for fame. When our coach offers me $5,000 a week to appear on TV’s hot ballroom dance reality show, I have no desire to relive my painful past with Selena, but I made a promise to my buddy that I’d take care of his wife and kids if he died on the battlefield. One season, ten weeks, a small sacrifice to make for the man who saved my life. Hand me my dance shoes. I’m in. (A version of this book was originally published as Love Waltzes In and Swing. This edition has been completely rewritten.)
Download or read book Wave Dance written by DC Douglas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DC Douglas graduated from Colorado State University with a journalism degree, and was formerly the editor of the Fronti ersman newspaper in Palmer, Alaska. He att ended graduate school at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, has worked as an Alaska State Park Ranger, owned a commercial salmon fi shing business in Bristol 8ay, and built over 250 homes as a contractor in his hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He and his wife have bred Chesapeake Bay Retrievers for over 30 years. They currently share their ti me between Alaska and their Colorado ranch, where they raise Gypsy Vanner horses.
Download or read book The Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evelyn and the Polka King written by Carl Finch and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dance of the Firefly Ubuntu African Romance written by Kathy Bosman and published by Decadent Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mix together a beautiful ballerina and ballet teacher, a sexy single dad, and a precocious-yet-sweet daughter, and emotions run high. Add racial and cultural differences, work contracts coming to an end, and hurts and memories from the past and sparks fly. Rowena loves to dance but has ended up teaching ballet instead. When she helps out Cameron’s difficult daughter, a bond develops between the two dancers. Cameron makes Rowena uncomfortable because he stirs up new, unwanted feelings which make no sense when he intends to leave Zambia soon when his contract ends. Cameron can’t resist sanguine live-wire Rowena who makes his daughter smile for the first time in years. But can he risk his heart again when memories of his late wife come back to haunt him? And Rowena has a lot more at stake in giving her all.
Download or read book Key s Daughter written by Rick Copper and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you run far enough away to escape your past? Reid Brantley should be at this time in his life, settled. He's proprietor and co-owner of Linner, a lunch-early dinner establishment in the center of Key West on Duval Street, has a nice house in Key West just off the Atlantic Ocean, and a wonderful wife, Gretchen Malloy. She's the owner of Tiki Lounge, co-owner of the adjacent Linner, and an excellent mother to their child Meghan and his daughter from his first marriage, Gerty. As he creates a Key Lime pie from scratch for Gerty's birthday, he's grilled by two FBI agents about his St. Louis past; his ex-wife and her family hell-bent on revenge; and a charred severed right hand found in a fire's debris at Gretchen's Tiki Lounge after Tropical Storm Ernesto.
Download or read book Diary of the Beloved Book One written by Alesa Acorn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 13 years old, Catherine Hepburn is described by her friends as the prettiest girl in the county. However, the description favoured by her family is that of a good girl with big ears. In fact, her mother and housekeeper often take the time to help Catherine style her hair in a manner to help hide her big ears. Gifted by her Uncle Nicholas with a diary one Christmas, Catherine begins to record in it the events and circumstances involving the lives of her family and friends. Unknowingly, she records the events of the Hidden, children of noble birth who are hidden in common households until they are of an age to inherit their nobility. At 25 years old, trying to realize her dream as the CEO and Founder of the National Paralegal Foundation is a daunting task for Simone Devereaux. Her days are spent caring for her mother who suffers from a hereditary mental disorder. Her nights are spent in the arms of her fiancé, District Attorney Jacque Parker and her lover, trust attorney Wolf Carlyle. On the death of her grandfather, Simone inherits his private library which contains an extensive collection of books known as the Diary of the Beloved written by Catherine Hepburn, her mother's college roommate. As she reads the diaries to her mother, soon it becomes clear to Simone that Catherine's diaries hold the secrets of the Hidden, children of noble birth who are hidden amongst commoners until they are of an age to inherit their nobility. With the help of her fiancé and her lover, Simone must learn the identities of the hidden in order to save the life of her mother.
