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Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.
As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular...
As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular...
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Red Comet Press
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English
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Since the day that Ano was born, her heart has been connected to her home. But, this adventurous child has a lot to learn! When Ano begins to dance hula -- a storytelling dance form that carries the knowledge, history, and folklore of the Hawaiian people -- Ano comes to understand the true meaning of aloha.
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Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
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English
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Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
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English
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"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
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Amy Wu volume 4
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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Amy Wu loves to move, so when she sees Chinese ribbon dancing for the first time, she has to try it out, but first she must find the perfect ribbon.
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University of Nevada Press
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English
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"Lyman "Bean" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, reassesses his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and-through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society-political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt. Rushmore"--...
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2015.
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English
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"February 1913. Seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution....
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Español
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Max and Mercedes first meet in 1928, when she is the wife of a noted composer and he is a professional dance partner on the ship taking her to Buenos Aires, and their romance does not end although life takes them in different directions.
"Un extraño desafío entre dos músicos, que lleva a uno de ellos a Buenos Aires en 1928; un asunto de espionaje en la Riviera francesa durante la Guerra Civil española; una inquietante partida de ajedrez en el...
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 9
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Gerald the elephant is certain that he cannot dance but his friend Piggie convinces him to try.
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Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as Congo-Kinshasa or DRCongo, has had a series of names since its founding. The name of Zaire best corresponds to the experience of the novel's characters. The years of Mobutu's regime were filled with utopias, dreams, fantasies and other uncontrolled desires for social redemption, the quest for easy enrichment and the desecration of places of power. Among these events: Zairians' immigration to Angola...
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Ballerina kitten Mia is back in a seventh I Can Read Book by Robin Farley. Adorable full-color illustrations by Olga and Aleksey Ivanov and a dance dictionary add to the fun. In Mia and the Girl with a Twirl, Mia and her friend Ruby are excited to welcome a new girl-Sara-to Miss Bird's dance class. They try to teach her exactly how to do their dance. But Sara doesn't do it right. She adds a new twist to every step! By watching Sara dance, Mia and...
13) The callback
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Audition trilogy (Maddie Ziegler) volume 2
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Harper McCoy, twelve, joins the school musical hoping to get past "dancer's block," but her Dance Starz teammates are not pleased, especially since they will soon compete against their biggest rivals, The Belles, in Regionals.
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Sunbird Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"When the music starts playing, everyone can dance... except the ants. They can lift, build, and dig, so why can't they twirl, dip, and jig? As the ants try to dance, they discover they are better together in this toe-tapping tale of cooperation and teamwork."--Back cover.
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When Jordan Buchanan, a beautiful, smart and successful high-tech entrepreneur, is told a fantastic story about her family's ancient feud, dating back to medieval Scotland, she is caught up in a lethal mystery and in a knee-buckling relationship with an FBI agent who was her old friend.
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English
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"From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she's been arrested on: treason leading to the deaths of thousands of French...
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2022.
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English
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"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into...
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"Vidya, a rebellious young dancer and motherless daughter, comes of age in 1960s and 1970s Bombay"--Provided by publisher.
"A young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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The Thea Sisters are in Hawaii to compete in an international hula festival. The mouselets are having a great time -- until they learn that the festival is located on the side of a volcano that is about to erupt! No one else seems know about the danger. The Thea Sisters don't have any time to lose.
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Gnome Road Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When Moni sets off to her Abuela's house, her feet can't resist the magical rhythm that calls to her in the woods. But an encounter with Lobo and his bandoneón turns Moni's pace from a tango to milonga as she races to save her sweet Abuela"--Back cover.
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