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  • To Dance, to Live

    A Biography of Thalia Mara

    by Carolyn J. Brown, Mona Nicholas ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    Thalia Mara’s story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study. During a tour in Europe and South America, she met her partner in dance and life, Arthur Mahoney, and they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples

    by Rodger Streitmatter ...
    For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many as fifty—years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any ... Read more

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  • The Book Itch

    Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

    by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ...
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    Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children's Book, CCBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Kirkus Best Children's Books, NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language ArtsIn the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial ... Read more

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  • Passion to Dance

    The National Ballet of Canada

    by James Neufeld ...
    This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics.Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination needed to keep it afloat, the bumps on the road to its success, and above all, its passion for ... Read more

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  • Tennessee Williams In Provincetown

    by David Kaplan ...
    Tennessee Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennessee Williams's four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts - 1940, '41, '44 and '47. During that time he wrote plays, short stories, and jewel-like poems. In Provincetown, Williams fell in love unguardedly for perhaps the only time in his life. He had his heart broken there, perhaps irreparably. The man he thought might replace his ... Read more

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  • The Guest List

    How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication—from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball

    by Ethan Mordden ...
    From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander Woolcott, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, the Lunts and Helen Hayes ... Read more

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  • Fortissimo

    Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers

    by William Murray ...
    H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song.In Fortissimo, Murray follows twelve young singers in the Lyric Opera ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The World of Tennessee Williams

    by Richard Freeman Leavitt and Kenneth Holditch ...
    The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America's greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983. Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee's and followed his career closeup. Kenneth Holditch, who has undertaken the task of completing the text was a friend of Leavitt's and knew ... Read more

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  • Molto Agitato

    The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera

    by Johanna Fiedler ...
    If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that ... Read more

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  • The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus

    by Peggy Schwartz, Murray Schwartz ...

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  • Black Ballerinas

    My Journey to Our Legacy

    by Misty Copeland ...
    Illustrated by Salena Barnes ...
    From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes an illustrated nonfiction collection celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage.As a young girl living in a motel with her mother and her five siblings, Misty Copeland didn’t have a lot of exposure to ballet or prominent dancers. She was ... Read more

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  • Shmoop Biography Guide: Tennessee Williams

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    Dive deep into the story of Tennessee Williams's life anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning Biographies are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is at night).Shmoop ... Read more

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