Pretending To Dance

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125001073X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretending to Dance written by Diane Chamberlain and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, and they are trying to adopt a baby because they can't have a child on their own. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about Molly's past and her family-the family she left behind in North Carolina twenty years before. The mother she says is dead but who is very much alive. The father she adored and whose death sent her running from the small community of Morrison's Ridge. Her own birth mother whose mysterious presence in her family raised so many issues that came to a head. The summer of twenty years ago changed everything for Molly and as the past weaves together with the present story, Molly discovers that she learned to lie in the very family that taught her about pretending. If she learns the truth about her beloved father's death, can she find peace in the present to claim the life she really wants? Told with Diane Chamberlain's compelling prose and gift for deft exploration of the human heart, Pretending to Dance is an exploration of family, lies, and the complexities of both.

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230764053
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretending to Dance written by Diane Chamberlain and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . . It's the summer of 1990 and fourteen-year-old Molly Arnette lives with her extended family on one hundred acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The summer seems idyllic at first. The mountains are Molly's playground and she's well loved by her father, a therapist famous for books he's written about a method called 'Pretend Therapy'; her adoptive mother, who has raised Molly as her own; and Amalia, her birth mother who also lives on the family land. The adults in Molly's life have created a safe and secure world for her to grow up in. But Molly's security begins to crumble as she becomes aware of a plan taking shape in her extended family – a plan she can't stop and that threatens to turn her idyllic summer into a nightmare. Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, is a fascinating and deftly-woven novel, that reveals the devastating power of secrets.

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1743540450
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretending to Dance written by Diane Chamberlain and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping story of a girl's relationship with her father." Woman and Home When the pretending ends, the lying begins... It's the summer of 1990 and fourteen-year-old Molly Arnette lives with her extended family on one hundred acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The summer seems idyllic at first. The mountains are Molly's playground and she's well loved by her father, a therapist famous for books he's written about a method called 'Pretend Therapy'; her adoptive mother, who has raised Molly as her own; and Amalia, her birth mother who also lives on the family land. The adults in Molly's life have created a safe and secure world for her to grow up in. But Molly's security begins to crumble as she becomes aware of a plan taking shape in her extended family - a plan she can't stop and that threatens to turn her idyllic summer into a nightmare. Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, is a fascinating and deftly-woven novel, that reveals the devastating power of secrets. PRAISE FOR PRETENDING TO DANCE "Twisty and smart..." Heat Magazine "Prepare to have your heartstrings tugged by this cleverly crafted family drama" Sunday Mirror

Author : Karen Kingsbury
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1418578711
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time to Dance written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John and Abby Reynolds were the perfect couple, sharing a love born of childhood friendship and deep family ties. They are envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But John and Abby are about to lose it all. On the verge of having an affair, John is no more the man Abby married than she is the long-ago girl of his dreams. They are strangers whose days of dancing seem gone forever. They gather their three children to announce their plans, but before they can speak, their daughter makes an announcement of her own: she's getting married in the summer. Abby and John determine not to ruin their daughter's season of happiness, but as the wedding nears they are haunted by questions. Is the decision they've made irreversible? Are there times when marriage--even the marriage between two people of faith--is truly beyond repair? And is it possible, alone in the moonlight on an old wooden pier, to once more find ... a time to dance?

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466890029
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dance Begins written by Diane Chamberlain and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short story prequel to Pretending to Dance, psychologist Graham Arnette longs to dance the way he used to, before illness stole his ability to walk. Graham lives on one hundred acres of family land with his daughter Molly and his wife Nora-and with Amalia, a green-eyed beauty with whom Graham shares his hopes and fears. Six-year-old Molly is the light of Graham's life. As he and his extended family turn an old springhouse into a playhouse for her, long buried hostilities emerge that lead to anger and resentment. . . and, ultimately, to the healing power of family love.

Author : Michelle Painchaud
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 0670014974
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretending to be Erica written by Michelle Painchaud and published by Viking. This book was released on 2015 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Violet has been preparing her entire life to step into the shoes of the missing heiress Erica Silverman, in order to pull off the biggest inside job in Las Vegas history. She doesn't count on having a conscience"--

Author : Jules Feiffer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374363633
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rupert Can Dance written by Jules Feiffer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Rupert liked watching his owner Mandy dance during the day, he secretly enjoyed dancing at night while Mandy slept.

Author : Wendy Oliver
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063450
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance and Gender written by Wendy Oliver and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses of data from institutional sources, and action research studies. Dancers, dance artists, and dance scholars from the United States, Australia, and Canada discuss equity in three areas: concert dance, the studio, and higher education. The chapters provide evidence of bias, stereotyping, and other behaviors that are often invisible to those involved, as well as to audiences. The contributors answer incisive questions about the role of gender in various aspects of the field, including physical expression and body image, classroom experiences and pedagogy, and performance and funding opportunities. The findings reveal how inequitable practices combined with societal pressures can create environments that hinder health, happiness, and success. At the same time, they highlight the individuals working to eliminate discrimination and open up new possibilities for expression and achievement in studios, choreography, performance venues, and institutions of higher education. The dance community can strive to eliminate discrimination, but first it must understand the status quo for gender in the dance world. Wendy Oliver, professor of dance at Providence College, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches. Doug Risner, professor of dance at Wayne State University, is coeditor of Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader. Contributors: Gareth Belling | Karen Bond | Carolyn Hebert | Eliza Larson | Pamela S. Musil | Wendy Oliver | Katherine Polasek | Doug Risner | Emily Roper | Karen Schupp | Jan Van Dyke

Author : Jenny Lawson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425261018
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Pretend This Never Happened written by Jenny Lawson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

Author : Manisha Jolie Amin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451672047
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing to the Flute written by Manisha Jolie Amin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterfully evoking the breathtaking beauty of India, Amin's lyrical debut novel follows a young boy whose life takes an unexpected turn when he is sent to live with a reclusive but renowned musician.