Dancing in Small Spaces
Title | Dancing in Small Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie A. Davidson |
Publisher | Brindle & Glass |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2022-10-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1990071090 |
An unstintingly honest and surprisingly humorous memoir that charts a couple’s parallel diagnoses of Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia. In 2011, Leslie Davidson and her husband Lincoln Ford were enjoying retired life to the fullest as ardent outdoor enthusiasts, energetic travellers, and soon-to-be grandparents. But when Lincoln’s confusion became a concern and Leslie began to experience a hesitant leg and uncontrollable tremors in one arm, a devastating double diagnosis completely changed their life. In this personal and unstintingly honest memoir, Leslie recounts the years that follow the diagnoses—her Parkinson’s and Lincoln’s Lewy body dementia—charting physical changes, mastering medications (and sometimes flubbing it), the logistical puzzles of caregiving, and the steady support of their close-knit community in the small town of Grand Forks in south central British Columbia. She describes her struggle to maintain perspective while questioning what having perspective even means, and the work of being an advocate while needing an advocate. And she explains how, amid all the challenges and tears, shared laughter remained all-important to their survival, especially in times when Lincoln saw her as an imposter. She shares powerful lessons in love, courage, and grace from the man who had always led the way and who, despite the ravages of his illness, in many ways, still did. At once poignant and unflinchingly frank Dancing in Small Spaces is the story of a long and adventurous marriage, of deep gratitude, and, ultimately, of writing one’s way toward understanding and acceptance.
The Sun is a Shine
Title | The Sun is a Shine PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie A. Davidson |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1459826280 |
Magical illustrations enhance evocative text in a delightful blend of cultural diversity, geography, science, rich language and gratitude. A gentle and poetic board book about weather systems across the world. Young readers will enjoy meeting children from around the globe and experiencing the phenomena of the sky as each child thanks Mother Earth for bringing the sun, wind, rain, snow, lightning and thunder to them. The sun is a shine, that wakens the day, sparkles the dew, makes everything new. Miigwetch, merci, golden Sun. Thank you, thank you, shining one.
Instructions for Dancing
Title | Instructions for Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Nicola Yoon |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 152471898X |
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A charming, wholehearted love story that's sure to make readers swoon."—Entertainment Weekly "Nicola Yoon writes from the heart in this beautiful love story."—Good Morning America “It’s like an emotional gut punch—so beautiful and also heart-wrenching."—US Weekly In this romantic page-turner from the author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star, Evie has the power to see other people’s romantic fates—what will happen when she finally sees her own? Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance Studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything--including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he's only just met. Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it's that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk?
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing
Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Allen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2002-04-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1440614504 |
Ballroom dancing is back! And now anyone can move like a pro. Includes step-by-step photos, footwork illustrations, and instruction covering all the common ballroom dances. The #1 selling ballroom dancing book. Includes hundreds of illustrations and instructions Allen is a renowned, award-winning ballroom-dance teacher
Dancing with an Alien
Title | Dancing with an Alien PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Logue |
Publisher | HarperTeen |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2002-02-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780064472098 |
When Tonia meets Branko, an alien who was sent to earth to bring a female back to his planet, her life is forever changed as their unusual relationship develops over one magical summer. Reprint.
Fierce and Delicate
Title | Fierce and Delicate PDF eBook |
Author | RENEE K. NICHOLSON |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2021-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781952271014 |
Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.
Yes? No! Maybe...
Title | Yes? No! Maybe... PDF eBook |
Author | Emilyn Claid |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2006-09-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134195486 |
Covering fifty years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock, Yes? No! Maybe is an innovative approach to performing and watching dance. Emilyn Claid brings her life experience and interweaves it with academic theory and historical narrative to create a dynamic approach to dance writing. Using the 1970s revolution of new dance as a hinge, Claid looks back to ballet and forward to British independent dance which is new dance’s legacy. She explores the shifts in performer-spectator relationships, and investigates questions of subjectivity, absence and presence, identity, gender, race and desire using psychoanalytical, feminist, postmodern, post-structuralist and queer theoretical perspectives. Artists and practitioners, professional performers, teachers, choreographers and theatre-goers will all find this book an informative and insightful read.