Summary: Pierre is a ballroom-dance instructor with courtly manners whose pupils tend to be well-heeled teenagers. Partly as a dare and partly as a joke, he is offered the job of supervising a South Bronx high school detention class, where the students regard him as a visitor from the moon. They resist him, but he fascinates them, and before long, Pierre has talked them into learning a few steps. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: For the first time in decades, Lorraine Kindred has returned to the ballroom where she was swept away by the big bands during the 1940s--and by a star-crossed romance. As she takes in the magnificent energy and brassy sounds of her youth, the past comes to life, along with the fateful decision all those years ago that forced her to choose between personal conviction and social expectation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ELLMueller, Jenna
Summary: Cinderella is too busy cleaning and fixing things around the house that she runs out of time to get ready for the ball with her stepsisters, but then her Fairy Godmother shows up to help the aspiring interior designer and Clementine go to the party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUEStephenson, Richard M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.33 STEEllsworth, Loretta
Summary: " For the first time in decades, Lorraine Kindred has returned to the ballroom where she was swept away by the big bands during the 1940s--and by a star-crossed romance. As she takes in the magnificent energy and brassy sounds of her youth, the past comes to life, along with the fateful decision all those years ago that forced her to choose between personal conviction and social expectation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ellsworth 2017Rylant, Cynthia.
Summary: Reluctantly, Mr. Putter and his cat, Tabby, agree to go ballroom dancing with Mrs. Teaberry and her dog, Zeke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books 2012
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Summary: "Kelly Wilder becomes recently widowed from a much older wealthy man with whom she spent her married life doing charity work, building a lovely home, and, as she says, "pretending to be a whole lot more conservative and stupid and nicer than I really am." Now, with too much time and money on her hands, Kelly has absolutely no idea what happens next. So on a whim she signs up for a ballroom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIOwens, Sharon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OWESummary: Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing, and from their candid and hilarious perspectives, reveal pieces of themselves along the way. This school program started in 1994 and today has over 6,000 kids from 60 schools involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAD
Contents: Tango -- Rhumba -- Swing -- Fox trot -- Waltz -- Cha cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turn Up The Music 2005
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Contents: Isle of Capri -- Cherry pink and apple blossom time -- Me gusta el cha cha -- Sweet and gentle -- Tropical sands -- Never on Sunday -- Everything's cha cha -- Tea for two cha cha -- Sugar and spice cha cha -- Poco pelo -- Never again -- Tropical cha cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conversa-Phone 1980
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING BETWhite, Betty
Contents: Adios -- Amapola -- Begin the Beguine -- On the street where you live -- Rhumba at the Waldorf -- Ave Maria Lola -- Besame mucho -- Miami Beach rhumba -- I've got you under my skin -- Amor -- Take it away -- African beat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conversa-Phone 1980
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING BETSummary: Follow along with the gorgeously fit pro dancers Chelsie, Edyta and Kym, and you will Tango, Paso, and Rock your way to sexy dancer's curves. Learn how to dance like a star while tightening the belly, sculpting the waistline, and lifting those buns. Each workout includes easy-to-follow steps that gradually develop into complete, body-sculpting routines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.715 DANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DANAllen, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.33 ALLArtist Not Provided
Summary: Champion ballroom instructors Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinska teach four different dances, breaking them into beginning, intermediate, and advanced sections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Retroactive Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.3307 DANWhite, Betty
Contents: Sundancer (Disco) -- Cha Cha Charlie (Cha Cha Cha) -- Dorotea Merengue (Merengue) -- Two sleepy people (Fox trot) -- Rock and roll all night (Rock and Roll) -- The Silver ballroom (Waltz) -- Miller's mood (Lindy) --Mambo #5 (Mambo) -- Ain't she sweet (Charleston) -- Girl from Ipanema (Bossa Nova) --Orchids in the moonlight (Tango) -- Play that funky music (Hustle) -- Swanee (Peabody) -- Green...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conversa-phone 1980
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING BETSummary: A championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules and his ugly duckling dancing partner make their dreams come true together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STRBottomer, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog and Leventhal 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 793.33 BOTThrop, Claire
Summary: There's more to ice dancing than beautiful costumes, awesome music, and the ability to skate. Learn the rules of the sport as well as the steps it takes to become an unstoppable athlete on ice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2018
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Summary: Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong, having grown up in New York's Chinatown as the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker, is torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Contents: Tug of war -- Take it away -- Somebody who cares -- What's that you're doing -- Here today -- Ballroom dancing -- The pound is sinking -- Wanderlust -- Get it -- Be what you see (link) -- Dress me up as a robber -- Ebony and ivory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPL 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MCCBillingham, Mark
Summary: "Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner), Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILSummary: "From suspected ghosts to the torrid world of Shakespearian escorts, not to mention the fiendish passions and bitter rivalries of ballroom dancing, it's business as usual for the debt-laden ex-policeman and his much more credible partner-in-crime. And the pair also have demons of their own to wrestle with - Lu joins a slimming club and clashes with her sister, while Frank finds himself on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022