Haynes, Elizabeth
Summary: Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body that is linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members' club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYPochoda, Ivy
Summary: "In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner... These women in the club... These women who won't stop asking questions... These women who got what they deserved... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Donoghue 2014Roberts, Nora.
Summary: Abby O'Hurley, the widow of a notorious race car champion, hides her past from arrogant biographer Dylan Crosby, and professional dancer Maddy O'Hurley shows ruthless businessman Reed Valentine the importance of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBGray, Amelia
Summary: "Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and ... spirit, Amelia Gray delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist. In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of 1913 she was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gray 2017Mallery, Susan.
Summary: When an injury forces her to return home to Fool's Gold, and into the fold of her estranged family, dancer Evie Stryker, who doesn't believe in Christmas miracles, agrees to stage the winter festival and then plans to leave town, but her brother's best friend has other plans for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALCraft, Kathryn.
Summary: Waking up after a near-fatal, fourteen-story fall, Penelope tries to pick up the pieces of her life and come to terms with the fact that she can never dance again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRADonoghue, Emma
Summary: Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONFowler, Christopher.
Summary: When a bomb explodes in the office of London's most unusual police unit, it claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant. As his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity, he finds his investigation taking him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWSwamy, Shruti
Summary: 'A young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAShea, Jamison
Summary: "Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHEStevenson, James
Summary: Stanley and the the other animals of Mud Flat take dance lessons from some touring tap dancers and prepare for a big show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2004
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Summary: "After a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020