The Shape of Love
By: Gelsey Kirkland
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A ballet legend tells how she dedicated herself to recovery and to her dance students to make an am…
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1. The Paris Wife
By: Paula McLain
3.82
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love … read more
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"They love me like a pack of wolves. Ernest"-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more
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"Honey: I know these people ..."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. 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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4. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
By: Therese Anne Fowler
3.67
Format: None pages, ebook
A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda… read more
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5. Running With Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more
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- memoir
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"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
6. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
7. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
By: Jane Goodall
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more
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"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
8. 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
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"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
9. The Shape of Love
By: Gelsey Kirkland
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A ballet legend tells how she dedicated herself to recovery and to her dance students to make an am… read more
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- biography memoir
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