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Stitch in Time volume 2
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English
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Paris, 1928. Having fled London and been on the run around Europe, Vita Casey has established a new life for herself, keeping a low profile as a dresser at a cabaret hall where Nancy is part of the risque dance troupe. It's a vibrant world of wild parties, drugs and jazz music. But despite the fun, hedonistic lifestyle they lead, Vita longs for a proper career and to re-kindle her dream of designing lingerie. When an opportunity to work for famous...
2) Swing time
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Two 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, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, 'Swing Time' is a story about friendship and music and...
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Tiny Pretty Things volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Being a dancer at New York?s most elite ballet school isn?t easy. Everyone wants to be the prima ballerina, and sometimes you have to play dirty. With the competition growing fiercer with every performance and harmless pranks growing ever darker, Bette, June and Gigi find themselves battling it out to stay at the top. And it?s only a matter of time before one small spark ignites? and even the best get burned?.
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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?Do you ever wonder if you?ve lived the life you were meant to?? I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. ?Even if I do, what difference will it make?? In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers. Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel blows that they walk away from each other...
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The seven sisters volume 5
Language
English
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Experience the grandeur of the remote Scottish Highlands and Madrid in this USA TODAY bestselling ?beautifully written...magical adventure? (Woman?s World) following two women connected across time and distance as they search for the truth of their place in the world. Tiggy D?Aplis̈e spends her days reveling in the raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands, where she works at a deer sanctuary. But when the sanctuary is forced to close, she decides to...
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Marcus Didius Falco volume 3
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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?Rats are always bigger than you expect?? Falco, ancient Rome?s hangdog investigator, hates sharing a cell with a rodent - though being bailed by his old mother is almost as embarrassing. His high-born girlfriend can?t decide if she wants him, and Titus Caesar?s reward for past services is a wet fish. Hoping for a better life, or at least a better apartment, he takes on new clients. On the elegant slopes of the Pincian Hill, three nouveau riche freedmen...
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Stitch in Time volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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The third novel in a dazzling historical trilogy from bestselling author Joanna Rees, following The Runaway Daughter and The Hidden Wife. For fans of Lucinda Riley and Penny Vincenzi.
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