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The Dancer and the Thief: A Novel

by Antonio Skármeta

Published: 2009-02-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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"Traps the reader from the first page with its political undertones and its undeniable charm." ?Isabel Allende This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager you...

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* * * Romantic,
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The Dancer Upstairs: A Novel

by Nicholas Shakespeare

Published: 2002-02-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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The Peruvian guerilla leader Ezequiel is responsible for tens of thousands of fiendishly cruel murders, yet he consistently eludes capture. But in Agustn Rejas he has an indefatigable pursuer. From secluded city streets to the paths of a mountain village the policeman persists, tracking ...

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Dancer: A Novel

by Colum McCann

Published: 2009-06-23

Paperback: 352 pages

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Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitio...

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Dancing at the Harvest Moon

by K.C. McKinnon

Published: 1999-03-29

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At forty-five, Maggie McIntyre has been abandoned by her husband for a much younger woman. But some old letters in the attic from the first love in her life remind her of the precious summers she spent at the Harvest Moon dance hall so many years ago.Now she is returning to Little Bear Lak...

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* * * * * Epic,
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Dancing at the Rascal Fair

by Ivan Doig

Published: 1996-09-11

Paperback: 405 pages

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The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple ...

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Dancing Backward In Paradise: A Novel

by Vera Jane Cook

Published: 2006-11-22

Paperback: 346 pages

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At the Paradise Trailer Park in Hixson, Tennessee, life for Grace Place is all about sucking on ?meat jerkys? and having amorous encounters with Lenny Bean, her handsome lover. However, Grace's mother has loftier plans for her daughter and insists that Grace save her money and move to New ...

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Dancing for Degas: A Novel

by Kathryn Wagner

Published: 2010-03-16

Paperback: 384 pages

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In the City of Lights, at the dawn of a new age, begins an unforgettable story of great love, great art?and the most painful choices of the heart.�With this fresh and vibrantly imagined portrait of the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, readers are transported through the eyes of a young Pa...

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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District

by Louise Brown

Published: 2005-07-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Dancing in My Nightgown: The Rhythms of Widowhood

by Betty Auchard

Published: 2010-01-01

Paperback: 140 pages

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Married when she was barely 19, Betty Auchard went straight from her parents' home to her husband's bed. She raised four children, returned to college, taught art in the public school system, and became a grandmother, a published artist, a retiree, and then a widow. When she loses her husband of almost...

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Dancing in the Dark

by Caryl Phillips

Published: 2006-10-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874?1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision...