Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Raúl Colón

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Prima Ballerina

A biography of Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso.

Alicia Alonso

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#childrens #picturebook #dancer #bedtime #dog #blanket #music #party #dance A sweet bedtime story for your little dancer.  Ex library book.  Stamps and stickers inside and on cover/spine.  Clear plastic on dust jacket.  Tape on interior page. For similar 🔖Bookmark Journey 📚 titles, click #bookmarkjourneyearlychildhood

Illinois

Mabel Dancing

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Hardcover no dust jacket. Small tear on bottom of one page (see pic). #hardcover #danceteacher #dancer #ballerina #ballet #childrens #kids #children #picturebook #teacher

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A beautifully illustrated, timeless story about ballet, effort and rewards, and a special relationship between a girl and her teacher

One day a little girl peers around the door of Miss Sylvie's dance studio. 'I want to be a ballerina,' she says.

Isabelle loves to dance. She practices her five positions over and over again. But does she have what it takes to achieve her dream, and one day become a prima ballerina? Celebrating the joy of dance and the role inspirational teachers can play in our lives, this lovely picture book will enchant readers young and old.

The Dance Teacher

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Jennifer Grey

A Memoir

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the iconic film Dirty Dancing

"Jennifer Grey peels back all the artifice, denial, obfuscation, and myriad assumptions and exposes a gorgeous, human portrait of her life."--Jamie Lee Curtis
 
"We all know Jennifer Grey as a talented actress, but Out of the Corner introduces us to a gifted writer."--Michael J. Fox

In this beautiful, close-to-the bone account, Jennifer Grey takes readers on a vivid tour of the experiences that have shaped her, from her childhood as the daughter of Broadway and film legend Joel Grey, to the surprise hit with Patrick Swayze that made her America's sweetheart, to her inspiring season eleven win on ABC's Dancing with the Stars.

Throughout this intimate narrative, Grey richly evokes places and times that were defining for a generation--from her preteen days in 1970s Malibu and wild child nights in New York's club scene, to her roles in quintessential movies of the 1980s, including The Cotton Club, Red Dawn, and her breakout performance in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. With self-deprecating humor and frankness, she looks back on her unbridled, romantic adventures in Hollywood. And with enormous bravery, she shares the devastating fallout from a plastic surgery procedure that caused the sudden and stunning loss of her professional identity and career. Grey inspires with her hard-won battle back, reclaiming her sense of self from a culture and business that can impose a narrow and unforgiving definition of female worth. She finds, at last, her own true north and starts a family of her own, just in the nick of time.

Distinctive, moving, and powerful, told with generosity and pluck, Out of the Corner is a memoir about a never-ending personal evolution, a coming-of-age story for women of every age.

Out of the Corner

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#thriller #murder #suspense #suspensethriller #dancer #missingperson #stripclub #realeasy #marierutkoski Ex library book.  Stamps and stickers inside and on cover/spine.  Clear plastic on dust jacket.  Crack in spine (see picture). For similar 🔖Bookmark Journey 📚 titles, click #bookmarkjourneysuspensethriller

A Novel

Born in Illinois, Marie Rutkoski is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Harvard University. She is a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College and a New York Times bestselling author of books for children and young adults. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Real Easy

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Edge/corner wear. Crease to lower left corner on front cover. Stamp inside. Pages in good condition. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Dance, Tanya

Sophie Flack

Washington

Hannah Ward, nineteen, revels in the competition, intense rehearsals, and dazzling performances that come with being a member of Manhattan Ballet Company's corps de ballet, but after meeting handsome musician Jacob she begins to realize there could be more to her life.

Bunheads

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Paulo Coelho

Mississippi

"A novel of Mata Hari's final days, as written by the woman herself while accused of espionage" --

The Spy

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Marie Rutkoski

Louisiana

#paperback #romance #noraroberts #dancer #dreamers #goals #hardwork #talent #love #partners

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

Short Stories Reflections / Dance of Dreams

Reflections and Dreams

Tobias Madden

New Jersey

All it takes is one missed step for your life to change forever.

Luca Mason knows exactly who he is and what he wants: In six months, he's going to be accepted into the Australian Ballet School, leave his fancy private high school, and live his life as a star of the stage--at least that's the plan until he falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his foot in a way he can never recover from.

With his dancing dreams dead on their feet, Luca loses his performing arts scholarship and transfers to the local public school, leaving behind all his ballet friends and his whole future on stage.

The only bright side is that he strikes up unlikely friendships with the nicest (and nerdiest) girl at his new school, Amina, and the gorgeous, popular, and (reportedly) straight school captain, Jordan Tanaka-Jones.

As Luca's bond with Jordan grows stronger, he starts to wonder: who is he without ballet? And is he setting himself up for another heartbreak?

Anything but Fine

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Leland Cooley

Discoloration on dustjacket, also some rips that have been taped, writing on inside page

New York

The glamorous, passionate world of a ballet dancer who becomes a stage and film star

The Dancer

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Russell Freedman

Minnesota

A Dancer's Life

A photo-biography of the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who was born in Pittsburgh in 1895 and who became a leading figure in the world of modern dance.

Martha Graham

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Debbie Allen

Florida

Sassy worries that her too-large feet, too-long legs, and even her big mouth will keep her from her dream of becoming a star ballerina. So for now she's just dancing in the wings, watching from behind the curtain, and hoping that one day it will be her turn to shimmer in the spotlight. When the director of an important dance festival comes to audition her class, Sassy's first attempts to get his attention are, well, a little wobbly. But Sassy just knows, somehow, that this is her time to step out from those wings, and make her mark on the world. Actress/choreographer Debbie Allen and Kadir Nelson collaborated on Brothers of the Knight, about which School Library Journal raved, "the strutting high-stepping brothers are full of individuality, attitude, and movement."

Dancing in the Wings

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Story of Mata Hari, the dancer in early 1900's Paris and Berlin.

Wisconsin

A behind-the-scenes look at the world of ballet as told, many times comically, by NYC Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin. #dancer #ballet #ballerina #auto-biography #soloist #non-fiction

North Carolina

The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet—the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don’t see from the orchestra circle. In this love letter to the art of dance and the sport that has been her livelihood, NYCB’s first Asian American soloist Georgina Pazcoguin lays bare her unfiltered story of leaving small-town Pennsylvania for New York City and training amid the unique demands of being a hybrid professional athlete/artist, all before finishing high school. She pitches us into the fascinating, dizzying shoes of dancers in one of the most revered ballet companies in the world with an unapologetic sense of humor about the cutthroat, survival-of-the-fittest mentality at NYCB. Some swan dives are literal: even in the ballet, there are plenty of face-plants, backstage fights, late-night parties, and raucous company bonding sessions. Rocked by scandal in the wake of the #MeToo movement, NYCB sits at an inflection point, inching toward progress in a strictly traditional culture, and Pazcoguin doesn’t shy away from ballet’s dark side. She continues to be one of the few dancers openly speaking up against the sexual harassment, mental abuse, and racism that in the past went unrecognized or was tacitly accepted as par for the course—all of which she has painfully experienced firsthand. Tying together Pazcoguin’s fight for equality in the ballet with her infectious and deeply moving passion for her craft, Swan Dive is a page-turning, one-of-a-kind account that guarantees you'll never view a ballerina, or a ballet, the same way again.

Swan Dive

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The binding of this book is broken in the front and the back.  SEE PICTURES!  This was a manufacturing flaw, and I didn’t notice it until I went to read it.  Purchased from B&N.

Georgina Pazcoguin

Declan Carville

Brandan Ellis

HC with dust jacket. DJ shows minimal wear. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition. 

Kathleen O'Byrne: Irish Dancer

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Michigan

Breanna Lynn

Book in great condition just curled on edges a little.

Hearts and music both have one thing in common...their beat.




Charlie

Dancing has been my dream-and my sanctuary-since I was three years old. After spending the last year recovering from an injury, I'm at a crossroads. I have no idea what comes next...or who.




Jax

Turns out, life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be. As one of the hottest up-and-coming singers in the music scene, all my dreams are starting to come true. Until I walk into a room where an angel dances before my eyes. Now my world-and my dreams-are turning upside down...again.




Written in the Beat is the first book in the Heart Beats series. If you like swoony rockstar heroes, sweet heroines, and plenty of steam you'll love the first track in Breanna Lynn's debut series.




Pick up Written in the Beat today and fall in love with every beat.

Written in the Beat

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Iowa

At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter poverty in his rural China home, ballet would be his family's best chance for a better future. From one hardship to another, Cunxin demonstrated perseverance and an appetite for success that led him to be chosen as one of the first two people to leave Mao's China and go to American to dance on a special cultural exchange. But life in the U.S. was nothing like his communist indoctrination had led him to believe. Ultimately, he defected to the west in a dramatic media storm, and went on to dance with the Houston Ballet for sixteen years.

This inspiring story of passion, resilience, and a family's love captures the harsh reality of life in Mao's communist China and the exciting world of professional dance. This compelling memoir includes photos documenting Li's extraordinary life.

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Real Easy

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