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…
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1. Dancing on My Grave
By: Greg Lawrence , Gelsey Kirkland
3.86
Format: 363 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The shattering story of a dream which became a heartbreaking nightmare for one of America's most fa… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- memoir
2. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, & My Midlife Quest to Dance The Nutcracker
By: Lauren Kessler
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw Th… read more
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4. 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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5. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
6. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
7. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
8. 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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- art
- race
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Parasol Against the Axe
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more
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- audiobook
10. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
By: Chanel Miller
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more
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- audiobook
11. 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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- memoir
- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
- sports
- 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
12. 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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- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
13. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. On the Bright Side
By: Anna Sortino
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a … read more
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- audiobook
15. First Position
By: Melanie Hamrick
3.37
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A dancer’s fall from grace ignites a dark ambition in this propulsive novel about the seductive, cu… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
16. Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
By: Thea Glassman
3.84
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Lif… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- audiobook
17. The Dance of the Dolls
By: Lucy Ashe
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara M… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?"-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
"Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant."-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
"I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art."-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
"He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last."-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
18. 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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- art
- race
- history
- memoir
- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sports
- audiobook
19. Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
By: Michelle T. King
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable food-infused cultural history, centered on the life of celebrity television chef and c… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
By: Maggie Mertens
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive, edge-of-your-seat story of how… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
21. Kuinka baletti nousi jaloista päähäni
By: Henna Raatikainen
3.68
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Kurkistus klassisen baletin kulissien taakse Olen 39-vuotias. Jos olisin balettitanssija, eläke… read more
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