Author: Luciano Lozano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773212470
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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"Diana is restless and can't sit still in class. She's having trouble with math, and her mother is worried. But when she takes Diana to see a doctor, they discover that there's nothing wrong with Diana--she just loves to dance."--
Author: Gertrude K. Colby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Jo Salas
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1930337841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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A bright young man with cerebral palsy has his destiny intertwined with Princess Dianas. Visiting a school for disabled boys, the future Princess Diana singles out wheelchair-bound Alex to dance witha five-minute encounter that colors the rest of his life, though quickly forgotten by her. Alex, a survivor of severe school bullying, thinks constantly of the tall girl with blue eyesuntil one day he sees her on television, the new fiancée of Prince Charles. Alexs story interweaves with Dianas final day before her fatal accident in the late summer of 1997. In the unsatisfying company of her billionaire boyfriend she careens from one luxurious, alien Paris location to another, tormented by paparazzi. All day she tries to reach a friend in London, hoping to hear news that will bring a new direction to her life. Dancing with Diana is a beautifully wrought story that takes us deep into two hard-to-imagine worlds. Alex, a bright young man with cerebral palsy, has his destiny intertwined, in double-helix fashion, with Princess Diana. The latter we meet in her last few hours, and Alex we accompany from childhood through manhood. His ungainly yet triumphant progress towards self-acceptance and independence has an extraordinary echo in Dianas own brave, doomed search for an authentic life. This is a very fine book that side-steps clichés about celebrity to create a new awareness of Diana, and also gives us a startling sense of life lived strongly and meaningfully with cerebral palsy. Dan Yashinsky, author of Tales for An Unknown City and The Storyteller at Fault
Author: Lost Century of Sports Collection
Publisher: The Lost Century of Sports Collection
ISBN: 1964197368
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Diana’s Fitness, Fashion & Beauty is one of 4 volumes in the Sports She Wrote series written by the first woman with her own weekly sports column in a major American newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, from 1898 to 1901. Her real name (which she never revealed in print) was Mary Lagen, a prolific writer and bicycling pioneer, who inaugurated her “Athletic Woman” column at the age of 46. Diana was a strong proponent of physical fitness and athletics for women. She advocated exercise and good health as foundational aspects of well-rounded womanhood and lifelong happiness, as well as fundamental aspects of female beauty. Her devotion to fashion, diet, beauty and health endured for years beyond her “Athletic Woman” column, as she later became one of the first women editors of the “Woman’s Page” in a major American newspaper. This volume features 213 articles (120,000 words) presented in the following categories: fitness & athletics (60), fencing (12), boxing (5), dance (5), fashion (91), and beauty (40). Diana is an engaging writer with a keen observational eye and clever wordplay. The other three volumes presenting Diana's column are Diana's Ball Sports, Diana's Outdoor Sports, and Diana's Anecdotes & Aphorisms. Additional articles on fitness, fashion and beauty are included in the following volumes of the Sports She Wrote series: Physical Fitness, Health, & Beauty; Physical Education & Culture; 7 Exercise Manuals; What to Wear; and Adelia Brainerd, The Outdoor Woman of Harper’s Bazar. Sports She Wrote is a 31-volume time-capsule of primary documents written by more than 500 women in the 19th century.
Author: Rosalind Coward
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740747134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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Supplemented by many never before published photographs, offers a personal look at the woman known for her humanitarian inspiration to the world.
Author: Rosalind Coward
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740767925
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Supplemented by photographs, offers a personal look at the woman known for her humanitarian inspiration to the world.
Author: Judith Mackrell
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447253965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Glamorized, mythologized and demonized – the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signalled another cataclysmic world change. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world. Diana’s Story is extracted from Judith Mackrell’s acclaimed biography, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation.
Author: Bernard Slade
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573617201
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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"Moving" profiles the friendship of two quite different women over twelve years.
Author: Janet Clare
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719044823
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Presents a collection of five dramatic works originally published when English was nominally a Republic. The five texts, three of which have been edited for the first time, include The Tragedy of that Famous Roman Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (Anonymous), Cupid and Death by James Shirley; and William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes, The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, and The History of Sir Francis Drake. In her introductory piece, editor Janet Clare (English, University College, Dublin, UK) argues that theater forced into a novel state of opposition did more than survive in reduced form; it adapted, offered oblique critiques of Caroline policies, and revealed complex and shifting alliances. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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