Download or read book The Knife and the Fork Go Dancing written by Traudi Allen and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Knife And The Fork Go Dancing' is a delightful story in which the main characters of the dinner table discover a way to end all squabbles. A young boy is let into their secret world when they find, quite by accident, that helping each other can change not only their working lives, but dinner time for him too. A clue is the spoon's gleam that helps them to make-up and get along.
Download or read book Never Use a Knife and Fork written by Neil Goddard and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hide spaghetti in your hair, Keep crisps in your underwear. Never Use a Knife and Fork is an outrageous, tongue-in-cheek exploration of mealtime chaos that will have children in stitches. Full of mischief and mess, it shows exactly what you SHOULDN'T do with food -- squish it, slosh it, squirt it, squeeze it! Rollicking rhymes combine perfectly with Nick Sharratt's trademark witty illustrations for a laugh-out-loud look at table manners.
Download or read book The Old Green Chair written by Traudi Allen and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would have thought a chair could be so wise? The Old Green Chair tells in story form how solutions to seemingly impossible problems are there for the finding. The second in THE HOUSE SERIES OF PICTURE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, this charming story shows that when it seems things couldn’t get any worse, life can take a turn that could hardly be better.
Download or read book The Dance of the Pheasodile written by Tim Roux and published by Night Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith and Chrissie McGuire are determined to create a perfect life for themselves and their two children, having been brought up in care homes themselves. Everything is going well: Chrissie is a partner in a London law firm, Keith is an up-and-coming London architect, and the children have all the toys they want. However, when they decide to visit a hypnotherapist to address some residual childhood issues, Keith emerges from his hypnotic trance as Harry Walker, a petty gangster soiling the streets of Hull, loathed by everybody who knows him and locked in deadly rivalry with 'Planty', a notorious local hard man.
Download or read book Death of a Showman written by Mariah Fredericks and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady’s maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. “A lively upstairs/downstairs mystery.”—New York Times Book Review on A Death of No Importance It is the summer of 1914 and lady’s maid Jane Prescott is back in New York with the Tylers after a glittering society wedding in Europe. On their return, Jane learns another wedding has taken place. Her old dancing partner, Leo Hirschfeld, has married a chorus girl in his new Broadway musical. Jane and Louise Tyler are pulled into the sparkling and scandalous world of Broadway, as a star struck Louise invests in Leo's show, and Jane chaperones her at rehearsals. But behind the glittering facade of the theater, there are rivalries, secret romances, and some very dodgy business practices. When the show's abusive producer, Sidney Warburton, is murdered, the list of suspects is long. Was it the comedic star or her gambler boyfriend? The disgruntled costume designer? The beautiful, blond dancer, her jealous husband? Or was it Leo himself, who had more reason than anyone to hate Sidney Warburton? As the First World war looms in the distance, Jane and tabloid reporter Michael Behan must strip back the masks of these consummate performers before one of them kills again.
Download or read book I Was a Dancer written by Jacques D'Amboise and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.” In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary story of his life in dance, and of America’s most renowned and admired dance companies. He writes of his classical studies beginning at the age of eight at The School of American Ballet. At twelve he was asked to perform with Ballet Society; three years later he joined the New York City Ballet and made his European debut at London’s Covent Garden. As George Balanchine’s protégé, d’Amboise had more works choreographed on him by “the supreme Ballet Master” than any other dancer, among them Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux; Episodes; A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream; Jewels; Raymonda Variations. He writes of his boyhood—born Joseph Ahearn—in Dedham, Massachusetts; his mother (“the Boss”) moving the family to New York City’s Washington Heights; dragging her son and daughter to ballet class (paying the teacher $7.50 from hats she made and sold on street corners, and with chickens she cooked stuffed with chestnuts); his mother changing the family name from Ahearn to her maiden name, d’Amboise (“It’s aristocratic. It has the ‘d’ apostrophe. It sounds better for the ballet, and it’s a better name”). We see him. a neighborhood tough, in Catholic schools being taught by the nuns; on the streets, fighting with neighborhood gangs, and taking ten classes a week at the School of American Ballet . . . being taught professional class by Balanchine and by other teachers of great legend: Anatole Oboukhoff, premier danseur of the Maryinsky; and Pierre Vladimiroff, Pavlova’s partner. D’Amboise writes about Balanchine’s succession of ballerina muses who inspired him to near-obsessive passion and led him to create extraordinary ballets, dancers with whom d’Amboise partnered—Maria Tallchief; Tanaquil LeClercq, a stick-skinny teenager who blossomed into an exquisite, witty, sophisticated “angel” with her “long limbs and dramatic, mysterious elegance . . .”; the iridescent Allegra Kent; Melissa Hayden; Suzanne Farrell, who Balanchine called his “alabaster princess,” her every fiber, every movement imbued with passion and energy; Kay Mazzo; Kyra Nichols (“She’s perfect,” Balanchine said. “Uncomplicated—like fresh water”); and Karin von Aroldingen, to whom Balanchine left most of his ballets. D’Amboise writes about dancing with and courting one of the company’s members, who became his wife for fifty-three years, and the four children they had . . . On going to Hollywood to make Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and being offered a long-term contract at MGM (“If you’re not careful,” Balanchine warned, “you will have sold your soul for seven years”) . . . On Jerome Robbins (“Jerry could be charming and complimentary, and then, five minutes later, attack, and crush your spirit—all to see how it would influence the dance movements”). D’Amboise writes of the moment when he realizes his dancing career is over and he begins a new life and new dream teaching children all over the world about the arts through the magic of dance. A riveting, magical book, as transformative as dancing itself.
Download or read book Dance of the Hornbills written by Benn Rhyens and published by Bennie Van Rhyn. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epic adventure of destiny and betrayal in Namibia, two people pursue their hearts’ desire, with devastating consequences. Sixteen-year-old Ruben Odendaal knows little about romantic love. His whole life has unfolded within the bounds of the family farm, steeped in the shadows of painful racial tension and volatile politics. Then he meets Isabelle Hoffman, a girl with a universe of promise and possibility in her eyes, and suddenly, anything seems possible. But for all their deep yearning and devotion, Isabelle's mother has other plans, and their love is severed as quickly as it takes bloom. Decades later, when fate conspires to bring Ruben back into Isabelle’s life, time has only exacerbated their differences. Isabelle is now married to an affluent businessman, while Ruben longs to leave Africa and find a new beginning elsewhere. Namibia has also changed, but violence simmers alongside hate and despair. Longings deepen and secrets grow. Bound to pursue rekindled feelings, Isabelle and Ruben find the twin wills of power and prejudice before them, demanding an impossible sacrifice.
Download or read book Dancing Dirty written by Ryan Field and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1978, it's the middle of the disco era, and dancing is one of the hottest trends. But 18 year old Junior has never seen the inside of a gay bar or danced with another man. His mother and father think he's just shy about meeting girls and that he'll grow out of it. His little sister drives him insane with her constant invisible companion, a talking dog named Elmer. All Junior cares about is meeting the right man and falling in love. But when his parents buy a summer home in an exclusive resort community in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, his prospects of finding love don't look too promising. His first day there he meets an aggressive, abrasive young woman who isn't the least bit shy about letting him know she wants to get to know him better. And the more he ignores her, the more she chases after him. While his mother and father are enjoying all the amenities of the resort, and his sister is flirting with one of the waiters, Junior mopes around watching everyone else have fun. That is until he meets a handsome young dance instructor named Carlo who changes his life in ways he'd never dreamed were possible. From the minute Junior lays eyes on Carlo, he knows he's in love. And in order to prove his love, he's willing to make personal sacrifices that no one else has ever been willing to make for Carlo...
Download or read book The Cat Who Said Dance written by Amanda J Harrington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dancer written by Evelyn Juers and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new book by prize-winning biographer Evelyn Juers, author of The House of Exile and The Recluse, portrays the life and background of a pioneering Australian dancer who died at the age of twenty-five in a remote town in India. A uniquely talented dancer and choreographer, Philippa Cullen grew up in Australia in the 1950s and 60s. In the 1970s, driven by the idea of dancing her own music, she was at the forefront of the new electronic music movement, working internationally with performers, avant-garde composers, engineers and mathematicians to build and experiment with theremins and movement-sensitive floors, which she called body-instruments. She had a unique sense of purpose, read widely, travelled the world, and danced at opera houses, art galleries and festivals, on streets and bridges, trains, clifftops, rooftops. She wrote, I would define dance as an outer manifestation of inner energy in an articulation more lucid than language. An embodiment of the artistic aspirations of her age, she died alone in a remote hill town in southern India in 1975. With detailed reference to Cullen’s personal papers and the recollections of those who knew her, and with her characteristic flair for drawing connections to bring in larger perspectives, Evelyn Juers’ The Dancer is at once an intimate and wide-ranging biography, a portrait of the artist as a young woman.
Download or read book Cry Dance written by Helen Bonner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you believed there is no death? Beautiful young singer Lorinda LeClair risks her life for that belief. Cry Dance is a sweeping saga that catapults the reader from the sacred rituals of the Paiutes in the Sierras, to the penthouse of a Hollywood drug lord, to the beleaguered sands of Baghdad. Mystical and mysterious, Lorinda Leclaire is a heroine you'll never forget. Cry Dance is a book you won't put down.
Download or read book When You Dance With The Devil written by Gwynne Forster and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great story with wonderful life lessons . . .."—Books 2 Mention Magazine After the death of her demanding mother, Sara Jolene Tilman is alone in the world for the first time—and ready for a fresh start. Sara becomes Jolene, and moves into the Thank the Lord Boarding House, an oceanside sanctuary that houses eleven other "misguided souls," as proprietress Fannie Johnson thinks of them. Surrounded by strangers, Jolene sees how socially awkward—and lonely—she really is. Yet, as she naively begins her search for love and belonging, Jolene finds she's not alone. . . Disillusioned by romance and success, wealthy Richard Peterson has given up his career and registered at Thank the Lord Boarding House. But he is taken aback by the humble surroundings, and the down-to-earth housemates for whom his status means nothing. Still, Richard discovers simple pleasures—and a promising new relationship. Now, with a little help from Fannie, Jolene and Richard will struggle to find themselves—and each other—at last. "Ms. Forster has given more than a story of redemption; it is a story that encompasses the growth of the inner-self, the cleansing of souls, and an exposure to a time that is strikingly old-fashioned. This story should appeal to the innocence in readers." —The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
Download or read book Ceremonies of Innocence written by Annie Bullen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nineteen years of a loveless marriage, Angela Cruickshank's patience is exhausted at long last as she returns from France. Inevitably she goes to stay with her old friends Clem and Kattie - Kattie who catches people as other people catch colds, collector of strays and lame ducks, and who somehow fits into her big rambling house on the Downs. Kattie has other guests, of course - Hugh Hansard, a talented but disorganized composer whose wife has just left him, as well as Fergus Slack, not long out of a short stretch in Dartmoor, ex-dope dealer and practised layabout looking for his next move. To add to the mixture is Kattie's beautiful yet mythomaniac daughter Dorelia, home from her Swiss boarding school. The comic accidents of Kattie's random household give rise to more sinister events as Angela's husband comes to claim her while Fergus, pursued by the local police, takes off with Dorelia as his hostage. First published in 1989, the action is fast and funny, and Annie Bullen has a sharp ear for the accents of English country life in the 1980s.
Download or read book Cabaret The Beat of My Heart written by Krystal Predoux and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candice and Sarabella became friends in college, not troubled by their race. They see past the color of their skin. Sarabella is a wealthy white twenty one year old and Candice is a African American twenty year old. The two college students go to Fordham University in New York and are roommates. Sarabella and Candice grow found of each other, they share their secrets and life while living as roommates. Sarabella has a boyfriend named Jonathan who wants to be a major league baseball player. He plays for Fordham University and is their top player. Johnathan was discovered to be unfaithful in his relationship to Sarabella. Sarabella struggles with taking him back, but because she loves him, they make it work. While Sarabella is growing into a woman, Candice is still trying to find her way in life. Candice meets a African American man named Olivier that she is smitten by. They go to a baseball game and they hang out together. Although Candice likes Olivier.She only sees him as a friend and is in love with Broderick. Candice's crush Broderick is already in a relationship and is in love with his girlfriend. Candice sees that and begins to come to her senses. She realizes that being with Broderick is a fantasy. Candice sees Olivier as more than a friend sometime down the line. Eventually she starts to see Oliver as a candidate for a potential lover. Olivier talks to Candice on the phone. While on a trip to San Francisco and they agree to move their friendship to lovers. Their relationship blossoms and they enjoy each others company. Jerry, Olivier's cousin got him into some trouble. While in San Francisco they kill a club owner.Olivier didn't want it to go that far but he wanted to get back to New York. In order for him to get to New York he had to rob someone that Pat, Jerry's friend knew. The guilt weighed on Olivier's mind, Sarabella is wanting to become an actress and gets a part in Wind In My Hair, where she stars as the main character. Before the audition she is worried that she wouldn't make it on time, and has a nervous breakdown. Jonathan calms her down and she makes it to her audition. She played the role well and got the part. Candice is also finding herself .She sings at bars and clubs with her band. She holds onto the dream that one day she will make it. Candice meets a record executive at a cafe she was performing at. The record executive likes what he sees in Candice. They talk and she is offered a record deal and she begins to perform and travel with Charles. Charles becomes likened to Candice and he desires her to be his companion. Candice is seeing past all his advances and she focuses on her career. Olivier is a successful lawyer and is in love with Candice and Candice feels the same love for Olivier. During this time Olivier is succeeding in his career. Jerry gets into some trouble that leads Olivier into doing Jerry a favor. As a favor to his cousin he meets the head boss of an Italian crime gang. He helps them with their legal cases and gets money for his services. Oliver gets paid extremely well so he continues to be involved with the mob. He starts to realize that he was becoming someone his mother didn't raise him to be, but because he was making so much money he didn't think of his morals.Candice and Olivier get married and for a while the relationship is good. But within the relationship, Olivier is holding a secre
Download or read book After the Dance is Over written by Joan Jonker and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With love on the horizon for their children, but sabotage just around the corner, two friends fight for those they love... while having a blast, of course. In After the Dance is Over, Joan Jonker brings us another instalment of her hugely popular Molly and Nellie series, as the two friends get up to more mischief in their beloved Liverpool. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn. 'There's something for everyone and all delivered up in that inimitable Jonker style which is guaranteed to delight her large number of fans' - Middlesborough Evening Gazette There's never a dull moment when Nellie McDonough and Molly Bennett get together, and there's always something to keep them busy in their Liverpool street. First, Molly's son Tommy sets the date for his wedding to Rosie O'Grady, and everyone's saving hard to ensure their day is perfect. Then a new family arrive in the area and their daughter is determined to put a stop to the budding romance between Nellie's son Paul and Phoebe Corkhill. Meanwhile, Molly's daughter Doreen and her husband Phil make an announcement, and Nellie and Molly are determined to track down Phil's long lost family, so that they can share in the joyful news... What readers are saying about After the Dance is Over: 'Being an enthralled fan of Joan's books, I couldn't wait to read this book... this book is definitely the funniest yet! Molly and Nellie are hilarious, warm, honest and very touching' 'Enjoy a stroll down a Liverpool street in the early 40s, feel the warmth of the residents, laugh at the antics of two very humorous ladies, but also have a hanky ready to collect your tears of laughter'
Download or read book Dance Little Lady written by Lilian Harry and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing Sunday Times bestselling wartime saga from this much-loved author. Kate, Sally, Maxine and Elsie work at the naval armament depot on the shores of Portsmouth harbour. The hours are long and the work difficult and dangerous, but even in the dark days of the Second World War they still find time to enjoy themselves, at the ENSA concerts and hops in the local drill hall. However, beneath the careless laughter each girl nurses a secret. Kate is terrified that she carries a jinx, while Maxine has discovered a family secret which turns her bitterly against both her parents. Elsie is still grieving the loss of her son Graham, killed in the Blitz. And spirited young Sally has lied about her age in order to get her job. Each faces a dilemma that will be resolved only after D-Day in June 1944. What happens then brings each woman face to face with her own strengths and failings and, ultimately, her own destiny.
Download or read book Ian McEwan written by Sebastian Groes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date reader of critical essays on Ian McEwan by leading international academics, covering McEwan's most recent novels including Saturday, On Chesil Beach and an analysis of the film adaptation of Enduring Love.
