Showing results for "Ballet" in Genre Fiction

His eyes stick to me, burning my skin as I twirl across the stage. My legs ache with exhaustion, and my head spins, but his hunger pushes me to excellence. His voice echoes in my mind with each step, reminding me that my best isn't enough anymore. This Christmas, he's the only thing between me and rock bottom.

1941, Lodz. When nineteen-year-old Jewish ballerina Eleonore Kantor arrives at the Lodz ghetto, she quickly learns how easy it is to break a person’s spirit. After the Nazis murder her mother before her eyes, she is left with nothing but a pair of ballet slippers. Painstakingly hand-stitched by her mother, they were a gift to remind Eleonore to continue pursuing her dream of becoming a ballerina, no matter what. Determined to find light even in the darkest of places, Eleonore joins the ghetto resistance to open a secret ballet studio for the children.

Sagaen om Emilie er en slægtskrønike fyldt med kærlighedsintriger og hemmeligheder. Vi følger den smukke husmandsdatter Emilie i 1880'ernes Trøndelag i Norge, et samfund med store kløfter mellem rig og fattig. Emilie har fået æren af at arbejde på den fornemme herregård til juleballet. Forventning og spænding hænger i luften, da de glade gæster ankommer. I lånt tøj ligner Emilie ikke længere en fattig bondepige. Flere af mændene fatter interesse for hende, mens gamle hemmeligheder kommer op til overfladen.

In a topsy-turvy ragtime era of side-shows and bamboozlers, Irish Maupin goes from street urchin to burlesque star. Plucked from the streets as a girl and fattened up for candy-factory advertising, she navigates a sensational career around heart-break and loneliness, gaining and losing hundreds of pounds, manipulated by the men around her even as she defies them.

The Bailey family - Frank, Liliane, and their children Shannon, Tommy, and Grace - find their lives increasingly intertwined with their charismatic parish priest, Father Dale. As Liliane grapples with past trauma and seeks validation through her relationship with Father Dale, Frank struggles with guilt from his work in the military-industrial complex, clinging to Catholic doctrine as a form of redemption.