Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life
By: Gavin Larsen
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities …
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1. The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
By: Kiera Cass
3.81
Format: 72 pages, ebook
Before America Singer's story began, another girl came to the palace to compete for the hand of a d… read more
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- audiobook
"But underneath that, his laugh was childlike."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
"I’d decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
"This was joy. This was love. So many words you hear about or read about and now...now I knew them."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
"Still, the ghost of a smirk on his face was enough to paralyze me. I was fine with not seeing more."-Kiera Cass, The Queen (The Selection, #0.4)
2. Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words
By: Andrew Morton
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In a shocking, headline-making story (coming as an NBC TV movie), Andrew Morton goes beyond specula… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society."-Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words
"Não fico ressentida por conta disso, mas seria muito bom fazer coisas como passar um fim de semana em Paris, mas isso não é possível para mim no momento. Porém, sei que um dia, se seguir as regras da…"-Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words
3. Astonish Me (Vintage Contemporaries)
By: Maggie Shipstead
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel "Seating Arrangements," winner of the Dylan Tho… read more
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- audiobook
"Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth."-Maggie Shipstead, Astonish Me (Vintage Contemporaries)
4. Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
By: Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra
5.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their … read more
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- audiobook
5. Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal
By: Toni Bentley
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a se… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
6. The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
By: Mary Doria Russell
3.77
Format: None pages,
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico… read more
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7. Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)
By: Donna Leon
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In Death in a Strange CountryCommissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a… read more
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8. Along the Infinite Sea
By: Beatriz Williams
4.32
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
Each of the three Schuyler sisters has her own world-class problems, but in the autumn of 1966, Pep… read more
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9. Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
By: Jennifer Homans
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year For more than four hundred years,… read more
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10. Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6)
By: Kiera Cass
4.11
Format: 500 pages, ebook
The contents of Happily Ever After are as follows: -The Prince (with the two bonus chapters), Maxon… read more
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11. Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.02
Format: 288 pages, School & Library Binding
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away … read more
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- audiobook
"…hate's got to be a disease with me."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
"We always hate people who surprise our secrets…"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
"A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing..."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
"Today has been a day dropped out of June into April."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
12. Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous … read more
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13. The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
By: Kiera Cass
3.69
Format: 64 pages, Unknown Binding
Before America Singer met Prince Maxon . . . Before she entered the Selection . . . She was in love… read more
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"Let the world go to hell around you so long as you can get to her"-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
"What would I fight for in this world if I wasn’t fighting for her?"-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
"I want her to stay. It seems like everyone leaves when I need them to stay."-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
"Any girl who would risk her life for someone she loves certainly deserves to be called a lady."-Kiera Cass, The Guard (The Selection, #2.5)
14. The Paris Novel
By: Ruth Reichl
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more
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- audiobook
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
15. They're Going to Love You
By: Meg Howrey
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more
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- audiobook
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
16. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
By: Scott Weidensaul
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
By: Julie Andrews Edwards
3.88
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"All my life I have struggled with making decisions—which I blame on being a true Libra—"-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
"I know that I am—all that I am. And all that I am is full and ripe. All that I am is standing still, waiting and watching and bursting with life. Holding the straining seams of my skin, my passion an…"-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
"Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After …"-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
"Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After …"-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
18. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
By: Amy Bloom
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By: Olivia Campbell
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
21. The Last Train to London
By: Meg Waite Clayton
4.13
Format: 480 pages, ebook
The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World … read more
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"The thinnest of silver linings on clouds banishing all light."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
"Most of us say what everyone else says, or we say nothing at all, so we won’t look like fools."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
"My father used to say courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather going forward in the face of it."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
"It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
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22. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]
By: Chelsea Devantez
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. The Meaning of Mariah Carey
By: Mariah Carey
4.07
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the st… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Protect your dreams."-Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey
"I was barely conscious but my standards were still awake."-Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey
24. Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
By: Alice Robb
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas de… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and convert…"-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
25. The Ballerina Mindset: How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence
By: Megan Fairchild
3.96
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Learn how to thrive in intense, competitive environments with these secrets from one of America's p… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
26. Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina
By: Georgina Pazcoguin
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives reade… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life
By: Gavin Larsen
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist
By: Lillian Stone
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From one of the Internet’s favorite self-deprecating commentators comes Everybody’s Favorite, a lau… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Ballerina
By: Monica Loughman
3.82
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
Monica Loughman’s story is the enchanting tale of a 14-year-old girl leaving the comforts of home t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
30. Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
By: Gail Carson Levine
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and … read more
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"Love shouldn't be dictated"-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
"If I couldn't sleep, I could read."-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
"I want to be with you forever and beyond..."-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
"Amor (qué placer escribir esta palabra), amor, amor..."-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
31. Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Pour Rilla, dernière-née d’Anne Shirley et Gilbert Blythe, pas question d’études comme ses frères e… read more
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- audiobook
"If I can't love you I mean to be proud of you."-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)
"Ah yes, you're young enough not to be afraid of perfect things."-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)
"Dream after dream comes true—or rather is made true by persevering effort."-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)
"After all it was not a hard thing to fight for a land that bore daughters like this."-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)
