Download or read book Abigail s Christmas Ballerina written by Allison Romero and published by Grackle. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Abigail and her mother spend a wonderful day decorating for Christmas, Abigail grows more and more curious about one of the ornaments which holds special meaning for Mommy. Abigail had promised not to touch it, but the glass ballerina glistened so beautifully in the sunlight, just out of reach.

Download or read book Abigail written by Malcolm Macdonald and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved and final novel in the classic Stevenson family saga from epic master Malcolm Macdonald Daughter of the wealthy and storied Stevenson family, Abigail Stevenson should have been a creature of unawakened innocence. But one fateful day she tricks her maid, Annie, into telling her the facts of life, and soon comes to realize that the same shocking secret can be a glorious and life-enhancing mystery. Thus begins her path of passion and indomitable ambition that will lead her from England to the great capitals of Europe, from the passions of man and woman to those of intellectual, artist, and creator. A beloved novel by a beloved author, Abigail is a gripping and passionate tale of one woman's struggles to break free of the bonds of her heritage "Malcolm Macdonald is a skilled storyteller who gets inside of his people and uses every inch of his vast canvas in action and relationships." -Los Angeles Times "A cracking yarn by a born storyteller." -Daily Mail "An enthralling Victorian saga." -Daily Telegraph

Download or read book A Christmas Love Story Nicholas Nutcracker Brittany Ballerina written by Maureen L. McCabe and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This children's Christmas story is an old-fashioned, sweet tale about two engaging Christmas ornaments. Nicholas Nutcracker is a retired toy-soldier from a small village in Germany and Brittany Ballerina is a renowned prima ballerina with "The Christmas Ornament Ballet." They are both in search of their true love. "I will find my true love with 'word-of-mouth marketing!'" exclaims Nicholas determined to find his true love this Christmas. Or, maybe they will meet at the annual "Meet and Mingle of the Christmas Ornaments?" With the accidental help of the family's adorable basset hound, Bellamy, with the oh-so-long ears, Brittany tumbles off the tree. When she is repositioned, it is near Nicholas. She thinks to herself, "What a brave toy soldier with so much character." Then, it happens - they both fall in love at first sight! One might ask, "Why a Christmas Love story for kids?" But really, who doesn't love a story about finding true love, whether it is between two people or two engaging Christmas ornaments? We all want to love and be loved! Does it really matter whether you are seven years old or eighty-seven years old? Deep in mankind's DNA, love is the ingredient that has given life meaning and made the world go around since the beginning of time.

Download or read book Painful Choices written by Margy New and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Norris adjusts quickly to the college environment and develops a close friendship with her roommate, Ruth. What she does not expect is to fall in love with Jake Murphy. The two are from completely different socio-economic backgrounds, and a self-assured Jake has met his match in Abby. Combine a hilariously funny Thanksgiving weekend, a tender Valentine's Day, and a rambunctious touch-football game with passion and you will delight in this book. The couple's relationship deepens to an emotional and physical level that neither had anticipated. But constant conflicts test their love beginning with a serious cattle disease, numerous separations, substance abuse, a life-threatening automobile accident, and infidelity. Soon after they marry, Jake and Abby face more tragedy when their newborn son dies. They are ill equipped to deal with their sorrow and are unable to be of comfort to one another. Jake buries himself in farm business and Abby seeks solace in the arms of an old acquaintance. Just when life begins to seem normal, cancer rears its ugly head and death again enters their lives. A life-threatening pregnancy drives a wedge between the two when Abby refuses the doctor recommendation to end the pregnancy. A Painful Choice. Wealth and power aren't enough to sustain them as they work to restore the close personal ties with friends and reclaim the lost passion and love they once shared. Painful Choices have cost them dearly.

Download or read book Abigail s Special Christmas written by Doug Case and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Abigail visits her Grandma GiGi for Christmas, she has her heart set on a very special Christmas tree. When Abigail's parents and Grandma take her to find the most beautiful tree, they learn a valuable lesson from Abigail about what true beauty really is. And Abigail will learn a valuable lesson herself about the role played by tradition and heritage in the true Spirit of Christmas

Download or read book A Ring for Miss Briar A Regency Romance written by Janet S Wood and published by Janet S Wood. This book was released on with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Ring for Miss Briar: A Regency Romance By Janet S Wood “There is only one thing Catrin needs and that is a husband, very quickly.” Aunt Euphemia replied. Miss Catrin and Miss Abigail Briar live a simple life with their godmother Aunt Euphemia in a cottage by the sea, however, things are about to get more complicated. Their newly married uncle has decided to visit them, eager to present his good lady wife to his nieces and Catrin’s husband. But Catrin is unmarried, with a fictional husband and family created so that they would receive her dowry. Now with his visit approaching all they have to do is find a ready-made family. Will Catrin’s long time admirer, Mr David Logan be willing to help and make the arrangement permanent or will their uncle see through their charade? ~BOOK FOUR of Rakes & Ribbons~

Download or read book Abigail s Christmas Christmas Morn Reveals A Newborn written by Paula Jeanne Spangler and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational Christmas story shares how three special angels care for Abigail as she and her sisters await a special Christmas gift.

Download or read book Angelina s Christmas written by Katharine Holabird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. in full color. "Angelina prances home and sees the former postman, Mr. Bell, all alone. Holabird and Craig have teamed up again to offer simple lessons that create a real celebration."--School Library Journal.

Download or read book Abigail Twas the Night Before Christmas written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the night before Christmas, and you're nestled snug in your bed. Your stocking is hung by the chimney with care-will Santa visit your house? Follow Santa's journey in this magical retelling of a Christmas classic starring YOU!

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of World Ballet written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations, enabling ballet to thrive and delight audiences all over the globe. In The Encyclopedia of World Ballet,Mary Ellen Snodgrass surveys the emergence of ballet from ancient Asian models to the present, providing overviews of rhythmic movement as a subject of art, photography, and cinema. Entries in this volume reveal the nature and purpose of ballet, detailing specifics about leaders in classic design and style, influential costumers and companies, and trends in technique, partnering, variation, and liturgical execution. This reference covers: Choreographers Composers Costumers Dance companies Dancers Productions Set designers Techniques Terminology Among the principal figures included here are Alvin Ailey, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pierre Beauchamp, Sergei Diaghilev, Agnes DeMille, Nacho Duato, Isadora Duncan, Boris Eifman, Mats Ek, Erté, Martha Graham, Inigo Jones, Louis XIV, Amalia Hernández Navarro, Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Agrippina Vaganova. This work also features dance companies from the Americas, Australia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and Vietnam. Productions include such universal narrative favorites as Coppélia, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Scheherazade, Firebird, and Swan Lake. Featuring a chronology that identifies key events and figures, this volume highlights significant developments in stage presentations over the centuries. The Encyclopedia of World Ballet will serve general readers, dance instructors, and enthusiasts from middle school through college as well as professional coaches and performers, troupe directors, journalists, and historians of the arts.

Download or read book The Little Bakery of Hopes and Dreams written by Kellie Hailes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One of my favourite Christmas books for 2019... this one was pure magic!’ Rachel’s Random Reads The most magical time of the year...

Download or read book Weird Dance written by Tim Rayborn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attend a grand ball of the bizarre and never look at dance the same way again! Weird Dance processes through the odd, grim, and unintentionally humorous history of dance, uncovering strange stories and weird facts. These dark tales of murder, rivalry, insanity, and more reveal all sorts of grim goings-on, proving that—for dancers—life was not just one grand plié. Stories include: An elderly woman who stepped out of her Strasbourg home one summer day in 1518 and began to dance furiously; nothing and no one could stop her. Soon, dozens more joined her, and so began another strange epidemic of the deadly dancing plague. The horrific fate of a young ballerina who had a run-in with a gaslight and saw her career go up in smoke. The medieval Dance of Death that reminded all of their inevitable doom. The controversial ballet that sparked a riot. The strange and macabre fate of the infamous Mata Hari’s head after her execution. The grotesque scarf accident that led to Isadora Duncan’s demise. From Roman Bacchanals to medieval and Renaissance dancing plagues, from the bloody world of ballet to scandals, ghosts, spirit possessions, superstitions, and more, you will attend a grand ball of the bizarre that shows just how awful dancers, choreographers, and even audience members have been to each other over the centuries.

Download or read book Abigail and Mistletoe written by Karen Rose Smith and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Special Edition 90s. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail And Mistletoe by Karen Rose Smith released on Oct 25, 1994 is available now for purchase.

Download or read book Beth s Snow Dancer written by Charlotte Emerson and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the family prepares for Christmas, Beth befriends a beautiful but sickly pony that strays into the March's yard and tries to keep it from being taken to Boston to be sold as a "useless beast."

Download or read book A Company of Swans written by Eva Ibbotson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction by Joanna Nadin. Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down . . . 'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson . . . her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' Nigella Lawson, The Times Rediscover Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, in her sweeping historical romances, including The Morning Gift, A Song For Summer and The Secret Countess, originally published as A Countess Below Stairs, Magic Flutes, originally published as The Reluctant Heiress, Madensky Square and A Company of Swans.

Download or read book The Misanthrope written by Molière, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affection I can endure, affectation I abhor. Empty phrases, meaningless gestures of faked good-will. These affable dispensers of embraces make me ill. Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But could the woman he adores be the worst culprit of them all? And in this rarefied world will his revolution prove merely revolting? Considered by many to be Molière's best work, The Misanthrope was first performed in 1666 in Paris by the King's Players. Following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac master wordsmith Roger McGough once again dips his quill into a Molière classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid seventeenth-century French aristocracy and written in verse.

Download or read book The Christmas Nutcracker written by Ann Bryant and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh title in the lively Ballerina Dreams series, written by trained dancer and successful author, Ann Bryant. The Central School of Ballet has been involved in the creation of these realistic stories capturing the dreams and dramas of three budding ballerinas. Synopsis Poppy, Jasmine and Rose are thrilled to have won parts in a professional production of The Nutcracker. But with demanding rehearsals and a whole host of new people to work with, the girls face many challenges, both in their dancing and to their friendships. Worst of all, when they most need her advice, Miss Coralie is ill in hospital, and no one knows if she will even be better in time to see their special Christmas Eve performance.