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Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.

Follows Sara's struggle at Juilliard as she confronts a rival, falls in love with a professor and must decide between her dream of becoming a ballerina and her new interest in hip-hop.

"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties,...

A passionate tale of love and liberation set within the conservative modern society of the Republic of Georgia, the film follows Merab, a devoted young dancer who, with his partner Mary, has been tirelessly training to land a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of Irakli--a confident and gifted male dancer with the perfect form and rebellious streak Merab lacks--at once sparks both an intense competitive rivalry and a burgeoning romantic...

"[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's] tour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna's anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection" — Booklist, starred review

**A People Pick for Best New Books**

Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life.

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"On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends for their father's past neglect. At least, that's the plan. When their initial meeting goes badly, a distraught Jake crashes his car and is sentenced to...

"Did you know that many Highland dances use swords to prove their strength? Or that bharatanatyam dancers perform with bells around their ankles and red dye on their hands and feet? There's a whole world of dances out there! Told with simple language and shown with vivid photographs, A World of Dancers is perfect for emerging readers curious about the fascinating and varied dancers worldwide"--

When the dance class adapts "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" into a ballet, complications quickly arise, including incorporating the lower school students into the performance and Carla possibly playing the lead.

Brother and sister dance team Tom and Ellen Bowen are on their way to England when Ellen strikes up a shipboard romance with Lord John Brindale. Meanwhile, confirmed bachelor Tom grows smitten with dancer Anne Ashmond. Will romance break up the act?

Joshua and Dinah Barkley are a successful (but argumentative) musical-comedy team. But their duo is threatened when a serious playwright envisions Dinah as a great dramatic actress.