Serenade: A Balanchine Story
By: Toni Bentley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells …
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1. 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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2. Holding On to the Air
By: Toni Bentley , Suzanne Farrell
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Suzanne Farrell, world-renowned ballerina, was one of George Balanchine's most celebrated muses and… read more
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3. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
4. 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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"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
5. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
6. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- biography
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- memoir
7. Scarred
By: Sarah Edmondson
3.94
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
"'Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table, acutel… read more
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8. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
By: Gracie Gold
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more
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- nonfiction
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9. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
10. The Stolen Child
By: Ann Hood
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more
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11. Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
By: Sarah Berman
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more sec… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
12. A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird
By: Rosemary Mosco
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Pigeons are amazin… read more
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13. Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
By: Jennifer Homans
4.33
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - "A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
14. 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
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
15. 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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16. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
By: Katie Ledecky
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more
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17. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: Natalie Dykstra
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more
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18. Serenade: A Balanchine Story
By: Toni Bentley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells … read more
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19. Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself
By: Chloe Angyal
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, ra… read more
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20. Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece
By: Camille Laurens
3.46
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic scul… read more
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21. Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
By: Guy Trebay
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An evocative coming of age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead w… read more
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