The Dance Tree

Author : Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher : HarperVia
ISBN 13 : 9780063274785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dance Tree written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If some prose sings, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's truly dances. Although set in the early sixteenth century, The Dance Tree addresses issues of the utmost importance today--the subjection of women, class inequality, the dangers of religious fundamentalism. Ultimately, however, the book's wisdom, compassion, and beauty transcend historical boundaries: this is a timeless novel."--Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and Trust "An intriguing, haunting novel pulsing with raw, beautiful emotion. Kiran Millwood-Hargrave effortlessly intertwines the stories of women tenderly and sympathetically, creating a novel in which female courage and resilience shines brightly against a brilliantly evoked backdrop of claustrophobic horror."--Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in sixteenth-century France. Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees that are the family's livelihood. Though Lisbet is removed from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city's women, her own quiet life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law. Nethe has been away for seven years, serving a penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name. It is a secret Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, Lisbet becomes caught in a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion. Like the women of Strasbourg, she too, is dancing to a dangerous tune. . . . Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by true events, The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love, and women pushed to the edge.

Author : Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781529005165
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dance Tree written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chip Mattis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950051045
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Dancing Tree written by Chip Mattis and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle Wasserman
Publisher : Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781912021826
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Tree written by Michelle Wasserman and published by Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trevor is an African baobab tree who dreams of being able to dance. On full moon nights, while his family is sleeping, he watches the people in the valley below dance, twirl and clap around their campfire and he is filled with longing. But Trevor's roots anchor him so strongly into the soil that he doesn't think he would ever be able to free himself. Until, that is, he gets a strange visitor who asks him a question: how does he know he can't dance until he has really tried?

Author : Anne Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Tree's Secret written by Anne Smith and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dancing Tree's Secret is poem-story about three trees that grow together in the woods. The mother tree, portrayed as a Dancing Tree, has two daughters- a Singing Tree and a How Come? Tree, who dance, sing and seek answers to life throughout the four seasons. This natural setting becomes the stage upon which these three characters choreograph universal themes of life and death within a very poignant and unique context. The gorgeous illustrations are inspired by photos of NYC ballet students costumed as trees, and the book includes a glossary of ballet terms. This unique and spiritual portrayal of death-as-transformation transcends religious or traditional approaches to grief and loss, while opening the door to a very difficult subject with ease and grace. As the three trees grow, the children who play in the woods give them their names and the reader learns more about the tree's personalities; but one day, the trees are cut down to clear the forest. The children who watched the trees grow up are now adults with children of their own. They watch as the trees are made into logs and carried away.As they are transported to the lumberyard, the daughter trees ask their mother about what has just happened to them. Will they stay together? Have they stopped growing? Are they still trees? Can they still feel the wind? The Dancing Tree reveals the secret she has known all of her life: dancing means changing form in time and space. Ultimately, a new home is built in the clearing of the forest where the three trees once lived; inside the home, it is revealed that the trees have been made into wooden objects whose forms retained the specificity of their personalities as trees: The Dancing Tree becomes a cradle, the Singing Tree a wooden flute, and the How Come? Tree a child's toy chest that contains puzzles and games that question and challenge young minds. Praised by noted choreographers, grief counselors, child psychologists and clergy, The Dancing Tree's Secret will find its way into the hearts of children, parents, educators, and tree-lovers everywhere.

Author : Chinazom Iredu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998882901
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tortoise and the Dancing Tree written by Chinazom Iredu and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chrissi Shuff
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452000549
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Tree and Other Stories written by Chrissi Shuff and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simple whim of an ordinary worm, a naughty, thieving dog, a nervous hedge-hog and a fantasising tree achieve their far reaching desires. The unbelievable adventures of a small boy finding his way to the sea-side, having been thrown from the car or was he ? The antics of a toy rabbit who sits bored to bits all day on Cecelias bed. And the clever way that Daniel finds out what an Oggle Boggle really is. All are four intreguing stories, the characters sometimes interwoven, but individually told in an amazing yet gentle way. No scary dreams after hearing these. Well, maybe just a bit !

Author : Masiana Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772274790
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Trees written by Masiana Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780861164219
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dancing Tree written by Rebecca Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John W. Fisher
Publisher : UoM Custom Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 1921775009
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Health written by John W. Fisher and published by UoM Custom Book Centre. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As spirituality first appeared in Australian curriculum documents in 1994, it was important to establish how educators thought it related to student well- being. In this research a description and four accounts of spirituality - spiritual rationalism, monism, dualism, and multidimensional unity - were developed from available literature. The literature also revealed four sets of relationships important to spiritual well-being. These were the relationships of a person with themself, others, environment, and Transcendent Other.