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A Dance with Indecency (Mills And Boon Historical Undone Ser.)
by Linda SkyeNew York City, 1920s Bootleggers are breathing down hotelier Harry McMahon’s neck. So when a beautiful, young, and very wealthy widow from Paris turns up at the Cotton Club, Henry sees it as the perfect opportunity to combine business and pleasure. First he will take her body, then her heart, and finally, her money…
Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter
by Pamela Jooste'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her hopalong leg, and me. The men in our family are not worth much. They are the cross we have to bear. Some of us, like my mother, don't live here any more. People say she went on the Kimberley train to try for white and I mustn't blame her because she could get away with it even if we didn't believe she would.' Through the sharp yet loving eyes of eleven-year-old Lily we see the whole exotic, vivid, vigorous culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened its destruction. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of Lily's past - and future - erupts. Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter is a powerful and moving tribute to a richly individual people.
Dance With the Dead: A Pc Donal Lynch Thriller
by James NallyAspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her centre stage role: her mutilated body is found dumped in North London’s red light district. Clasped in her hand is a piece of human hair belonging to an unidentified body of a woman murdered two weeks ago.
Dance with the Rancher (Stetsons & Scandals #1)
by Lauri RobinsonColorado, 1879. Jilted once, Garret McCoy has sworn never to fall in love again. But that doesn’t stop him from wanting to have a little fun, and he bets he can be the man to get the preacher’s shy daughter out on the dance floor. He never gambled on her stealing his heart, though!
Dance With Wings: A moving epic of love, secrets and family drama
by Amelia CarrThey fell in love as war waged... Now their secret is tearing a family apart...Dance With Wings is a heart-warming family drama spanning three generations, with an unforgettable wartime love story at its heart. Amelia Carr's novel is the perfect read for fans of Lucinda Riley, Kate Morton and Katherine Webb. '... a fraught wartime drama in which dark secrets, long buried, threaten to tear a family apart' - Vogue Australia When the telegram arrives on a bright sunny day in 1942, Nancy feels sick with dread. But instead of wartime bad news, it's from the legendary Jackie Cochran, asking Nancy to fly for Great Britain. For Nancy, a girl with flying in her blood, it's an opportunity she simply can't turn down. But that fateful decision is to trigger a series of events, with consequences that will reverberate through the generations.In summer 2006, Sarah is at a crossroads in her life when her adored grandmother Nancy asks her to help lay the ghosts of her past to rest. Sarah agrees, little suspecting the long-buried and shocking secrets that will be dragged to the surface.From the tension of World War Two right up to the present day, this is a sweeping family story that is both moving and unforgettable.What readers are saying about Dance With Wings:'An amazing exploration of the complexities of real life personalities and relationships that shape lives''A very atmospheric book which drew me in from the start''Continuously and seamlessly moves from past to present gradually revealing how the events that unfold and the choices that are made during World War Two impact their families over the next two generations'
Dance Your Troubles Away
by Pamela EvansPam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure to appeal to fans of Katie Flynn and Cathy Sharp.When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action, she brings up their young daughter Emmie alone. To make ends meet she gets a job at the Cherry Ballroom in West London and it is here that she meets James, a Canadian airman, and they fall in love. But then Polly's husband turns up, very much alive...Life is even harder for Polly after the war; James has gone; her husband is involved in a criminal gang; and their daughter suffers from an illness that leaves her deaf. But Polly's spirit remains strong and with courage and determination she find the happiness she and her daughter deserve.
Dancehall In/Securities: Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Patricia Noxolo H Patten Sonjah N. Stanley NiaahThis book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security. This collection draws together a multi-disciplinary range of key scholars in in/security and dancehall. Scholars from the University of the West Indies' Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit, as well as independent dancehall and dance practitioners from Kingston, and writers from the UK, US and continental Europe offer their differently situated perspectives on dancehall, its histories, spatial patterning, professional status and aesthetics. The study brings together critical security studies with dancehall studies and will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre, dance and performance studies, sociology, cultural geography, anthropology, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, musicology and gender studies.
Dancehall In/Securities: Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Patricia Noxolo ‘h’ Patten Sonjah N. Stanley NiaahThis book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security. This collection draws together a multi-disciplinary range of key scholars in in/security and dancehall. Scholars from the University of the West Indies' Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit, as well as independent dancehall and dance practitioners from Kingston, and writers from the UK, US and continental Europe offer their differently situated perspectives on dancehall, its histories, spatial patterning, professional status and aesthetics. The study brings together critical security studies with dancehall studies and will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre, dance and performance studies, sociology, cultural geography, anthropology, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, musicology and gender studies.
Dancer: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics Ser.)
by Colum McCannThis novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann's dancer: Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann's beautiful and daring new novel.
The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin: Inspector Maigret #10 (Inspector Maigret #10)
by Georges Simenon Sian ReynoldsThe city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Liège, book ten in the new Penguin Maigret series.In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. A great empty space. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. They stop a moment to catch their breath, and work out how far they have still to go. And suddenly the match falls to the ground, as Delfosse gives a sharp cry and rushes back towards the washroom door. In the dark, he loses his way, returns and bumps into Chabot.Maigret observes from a distance as two boys are accused of killing a rich foreigner in Liège. Their loyalty, which binds them together through their adventures, is put to the test, and seemingly irrelevant social differences threaten their friendship and their freedom.Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret at the "Gai-Moulin".'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent
The Dancer from Atlantis
by Poul AndersonAN ACCIDENT IN TIME...Duncan Reid was snatched out of the twentieth century from a cruise liner in the mid-Pacific. Oleg Vladimirovitch came from Novgorod in medieval Russia. Udin was a Hun barbarian who lived by cunning and the axe. Erissa had been a sacred priestess in a lost continent. And a mistake in a time-experiment by a race from the far future had thrown these four unlikely comrades together, pulling them through a warp in the fabric of space and time to a world which was ancient history.The strange alliance that Duncan and his comrades formed in that unfamiliar world was to take on a significance that none of them could have foreseen. For not only their own future, but they very future of the world they had found was at stake...
Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
by Andrew Holleran'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers 'A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert Everett Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene. Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies - at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free. First published in 1978, Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. Told with wit, eroticism and unashamed lyricism, it remains a heart-breaking love letter to New York's hedonistic past, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURSTThe perfect read for fans of It's A Sin
A Dancer in Darkness
by David Stacton'Dancer in Darkness is a unique three-way collaboration - the tragic tale of the murdered Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, as told in Renaissance Italian sources, then in The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster's masterpiece of Jacobean revenge and fate, and now here by David Stacton, the literally incomparable American historical novelist. Black as stage velvet, Stacton's version is as full of chilling insights and dreadful doings as Webster's, but at bottom all his own.' John Crowley (Little, Big, Engine Summer)'The prose of David Stacton is like that of no other writer. It suggests a corridor in a dark Gothic tower, ill-lit by tapers, at one end of which a gong sounds incessantly. Stacton's gong clashes are malevolent aphorisms, asides spoken to Nemesis, hard little explanations of motive.' Time
A Dancer In The Dust
by Thomas H. CookA story of guilt, murder and politics set in Africa and New York from the acknowledged master of psychological suspense. Twenty years ago, Ray Campbell was an idealistic aid worker in Africa. He fell in love there with Martine, a local farmer, who tried to make Ray see that all actions have consequences. But he couldn't, not until it was too late... When a friend from his time in Africa is found dead in a New York alley, Ray is forced to return to a past he's spent a lifetime trying to forget...
A Dancer to God: Tributes to T. S. Eliot
by Ted HughesA Dancer to God brings together three short pieces written in homage to T. S. Eliot. They were prompted, in turn, by the unveiling of a plaque, by a reading of The Waste Land in a London theatre, and by a centenary dinner. But each piece far transcends its occasion, and may be read as part of a sustained meditation on the very nature of Eliot's greatness as a poet.Readers of Ted Hughes's Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, will find in this smaller book a comparable incisiveness and understanding of the spiritual demands imposed by supreme creative genius.
The Dancer Upstairs: A Novel
by Nicholas ShakespeareThis novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism. Colonel Rejas was the policeman charged with the task of capturing the Peruvian guerrilla leader Ezequiel, but having been dismissed he finds the burden of silence and secrecy too heavy. On meeting Dyer, a foreign correspondent, he is moved to relate the tortuous progress of the manhunt for the first time. The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John le Carré - tense, intricate and heartbreaking.
Dancers from the ballet Swan Lake (Large Print)
This page shows two images of characters from the ballet Swan Lake. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. The two images are separated by a fine dashed vertical line. On the left of the page is Odette, the heroine of the story, on the right is Prince Siegfried. Odette is seen from the side and facing to the right. Her arms are held up; one is at the top centre of the image and the other points to the top right. Down and left is her head; it is tilted back with her face pointing upward. Further down and right is her body, her tutu (ballet dress) and two legs. She is wearing ballet shoes and standing on the points of her toes. On the right of the page, the image of Prince Siegfried is seen from the side and facing to the left with his upper body turned to the front. He is leaping across the stage, which cannot be seen. At the top of the image is his head facing left with a feather stuck in a band around his hair. Down the page, he is holding his arms out straight from his body to the left and right. Further down his legs can be found, stretched out to the left and right. He is wearing tights, ballet shoes and a skintight top.
Dancers from the ballet Swan Lake (UEB Contracted)
This page shows two images of characters from the ballet Swan Lake. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. The two images are separated by a fine dashed vertical line. On the left of the page is Odette, the heroine of the story, on the right is Prince Siegfried. Odette is seen from the side and facing to the right. Her arms are held up; one is at the top centre of the image and the other points to the top right. Down and left is her head; it is tilted back with her face pointing upward. Further down and right is her body, her tutu (ballet dress) and two legs. She is wearing ballet shoes and standing on the points of her toes. On the right of the page, the image of Prince Siegfried is seen from the side and facing to the left with his upper body turned to the front. He is leaping across the stage, which cannot be seen. At the top of the image is his head facing left with a feather stuck in a band around his hair. Down the page, he is holding his arms out straight from his body to the left and right. Further down his legs can be found, stretched out to the left and right. He is wearing tights, ballet shoes and a skintight top.
Dancers from the ballet Swan Lake (UEB Uncontracted)
This page shows two images of characters from the ballet Swan Lake. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. The two images are separated by a fine dashed vertical line. On the left of the page is Odette, the heroine of the story, on the right is Prince Siegfried. Odette is seen from the side and facing to the right. Her arms are held up; one is at the top centre of the image and the other points to the top right. Down and left is her head; it is tilted back with her face pointing upward. Further down and right is her body, her tutu (ballet dress) and two legs. She is wearing ballet shoes and standing on the points of her toes. On the right of the page, the image of Prince Siegfried is seen from the side and facing to the left with his upper body turned to the front. He is leaping across the stage, which cannot be seen. At the top of the image is his head facing left with a feather stuck in a band around his hair. Down the page, he is holding his arms out straight from his body to the left and right. Further down his legs can be found, stretched out to the left and right. He is wearing tights, ballet shoes and a skintight top.
Dancers In Mourning (The\albert Campion Mysteries Ser.)
by Margery AllinghamA VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there’s only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling – Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate and an ageing starlet is killed. Under pressure to uncover the culprit, and plagued by his growing feelings for Sutane’s wife, Campion finds himself uncomfortably embroiled in an investigation which tests his ingenuity and integrity to the limit…
Dancers in the Afterglow
by Jack L. ChalkerFirst came the tourists...Ondine was a resort planet. Sixteen million tourists travelled there from just about every world you could think of to live and love in sixteen million different ways.Then came the machists...They had gobbled up world after world, spreading their culture to thousands of different races with a brutal, vicious, but most effective system. They were inhuman, unthinking...uncaring. The Combine had already seen what they had done on other worlds, seen whole populations converted into something horrible...something not quite human, non-thinking and no longer caring.Now they had captured Ondine, and no human could save the planet.And then Daniel came to Judgment.Daniel was a cyborg, a former fighter pilot now wedded to a master computer and life-support system housed in a flying golden egg. He was the Combine scientists' finest creation, a spaceship that could control twenty-two robot slaves. He was the perfect saviour for Ondine, but for one thing. Everyone seemed to forget that deep inside that golden egg was a very human being...
Dancer's Lament: Path to Ascendancy Book 1 (Path to Ascendancy #1)
by Ian C EsslemontIt was once a land ravaged by war, minor city states, baronies and principates fight for supremacy, and then the rival cities of Tali and Quon formed an alliance and so Quon Tali came into being. However that was generations ago, that dynasty has collapsed and the regional powers are now clawing at each others throats once more. But at the heart of Quon Tali lies the powerful city state of Li Heng which has for centuries enjoyed relative stability under the guidance of the powerful sorceress known as the “Protectress”. She is not someone likely to tolerate the arrival of two particular young men into her domain: one is determined to prove he is the most skilled assassin of his age; the other is his quarry - a Dal Hon mage who is proving annoyingly difficult to kill. The sorceress and her cabal of five mage servants were enough to repel the Quon Tali Iron Legions, so how could two such trouble-makers upset her iron-fisted rule?And now, under a new and ambitious king, the forces of Itko Kan are marching on Li Heng from the south. His own assassins, the Nightblades, have been sent ahead into the city, and rumours abound that he has inhuman, nightmarish forces at his command. So as shadows and mistrust swirl and monstrous beasts that people say appear from nowhere, run rampage through Li Heng's streets, it seems chaos is come - but in chaos, as a certain young Dal Hon mage would say, there is opportunity . . .
The Dancers of Noyo
by Margaret St ClairLike so many others before him, reluctant Sam MacGregor was sent on a pilgrimage for the Grail Vision by the Dancers: androids grown from the cells of one man, with the powers of hypnotism and illusion - androids who held the tribes of the Republic of California in thrall. But soon Sam began to doubt his own identity, for he experienced, in close succession, extra-lives in different corridors of time and space.And he count not know whom his search would destroy: the Dancers . . . or himself.
Dancers on the Shore (Howard University Press Library Of Contemporary Literature #No. 13)
by William Melvin Kelley'There is no need of prophesying that Mr. Kelley will one day be among the best American short story writers. Dancers on the Shore proves that he already is' New York Herald TribuneIn 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published his first collection of short stories, Dancers on the Shore. Reissued in a new edition by riverrun, these seventeen stories expand Kelley's literary world, showcase his limitless imagination and spotlight his inimitable talent.