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141) Tancerka z Kairu
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Polish
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Given the task of enforcing proper conduct at the Egyptian belly dancing exhibition, Dora Chambers' eyes are opened to the world beyond a life of social expectations and quiet servitude and finds the courage to break free of her self-imposed bondage.
143) The chosen maiden
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English
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"The passionate, sweeping story of Bronia, an extraordinary ballerina forever in the shadow of the legendary Nijinsky--Russia's greatest dancer and her older brother. Born on the road to dancer parents, the Nijinsky children seem destined for the stage. Vaslav is an early prodigy, and through single-minded pursuit will grow into arguably the greatest--and most infamous--Russian ballet dancer of the 20th century. His talented younger sister Bronia,...
144) Spotlight
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English
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Untamed: Jo Wilder's life revolves around the big top, and she is furious when straitlaced lawyer Keane Prescott threatens to take it all away from her. Keane had no interest in his late father's circus until he meets the fiery lion tamer. Jo is impossible to resist--at once graceful, fearless, commanding and about as unpredictable as the lions. Keane knows there's no way she'd fit into his life, yet all it takes is one kiss and suddenly running away...
145) Until we break
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English
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"As the only Black student at her ballet academy, Naomi Morgan knows her feelings of isolation and artistic sacrifice are the price she has to pay in order to win the Youth American Grand Prix, the country's most prestigious dance competition. Winning means access to a spot in a top ballet school and, ultimately, a place with The New York City Ballet. Nothing else matters. But when Naomi's dance instructor assigns her Odette's variation from Swan...
147) Love like ours
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Sugar Lake novels volume 3
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English
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Talia Dalton lives her life on cruise control. Despite her successful career as a professor, she prefers protecting her broken heart to taking chances. She's calm, cool, collected, and steady. Until the morning she takes her eyes off that familiar road and almost runs over the sexiest man she's ever seen. It may not be the best way to start the day, but it might be the type of shake-up she needs.
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When their dance teacher gets sick just as Julie, Lucie, and Alia's dance class is accepted into a national competition, Lucie steps up to choreograph a ballet for the competition, but the girls split into two groups when Carla decides she will choregraph a number, too.
149) Ballroom: a novel
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English
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"A group of strangers [is] united by a desire to escape their complicated and unhappy lives, if only for a few hours each Sunday evening, in a dilapidated Manhattan dance hall on the verge of closure"--
150) Butterfly: a novel
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English
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"A young girl fights to overcome her past after escaping rape, bullying, and homelessness"--P. [4] of cover.
153) Passion's prey
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Shadow shifters novels volume 3
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English
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When a deadly new breed of half-human killer marks Caprise, a beautiful exotic dancer and shape-shifter, as his mate, Xavier, a shifter working for the FBI who must keep the world's most savage predators on a short leash, must fight tooth and claw to save her.
154) Three muses
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English
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Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past. Katya Symanova...
158) A company of swans
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Language
English
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Ibbotson's latest romantic frolic concerns the delightful young daughter of a pompous, repressive Cambridge University professor. After escaping her father's stifling household (maintained by his spinster sister) and pursuing her dream to join a ballet company, Harriet Morton finds herself on a physically exhausting yet emotionally uplifting journey up the Amazon to perform in Brazil's famous opera house in Manaus. Naturally, she is pursued by her...
160) Święto ognia
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Polish
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"Święto ognia" to kameralna opowieść o przekraczaniu granic i cenie, jaką trzeba za to zapłacić. O zachłanności życia i konfrontacji z niemożliwym."--
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