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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The Master's Muse is an exquisite, deeply affecting novel about the love affair between two artistic legends: George Balanchine, widely considered the Shakespeare of dance, and his wife and muse, Tanny Le Clercq. A talented young ballerina whose dreams were coming true, Tanny was married to the love of her life, George Balanchine. She danced the best roles, and was featured in fashion magazines and television dramas. She socialized with renowned artists...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A polio victim and her 13-year-old daughter work miracles from their Tupelo, Miss., home during the summer of 1964. Having contracted polio at 22 while pregnant, Paige Dunn delivers her baby from an iron lung, and ends up raising her daughter, Diana, alone after her husband divorces her. Able to move only her head, Paige requires round-the-clock nursing care that social services barely cover. Now 13, Diana has taken over the night shift to save them...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
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Description
"As the young daughter of an affluent Parsee family in Lahore, Lenny is keenly observant of the city's astonishing diversity. Crippled by polio but lively in spirit, she spends many of her days in Queen's Park, basking in the hot sun and listening to a colorful cast of characters--Muslims and Hindus, Christians and Sikhs--discuss poetry, love, and politics. But as Lahore descends into sectarian violence due to the partition of India and Pakistan,...
4) Red scare
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be left alone, but then she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to overturn the tense political stalemate, and Peggy finds...
5) House of men
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"Following the breakup of her engagement, Kate Mitchell applies for a job as a part-time secretary at TorFret, the lonely house above the village on Neete Fell. There she works for Maurice Rossiter, head of a strange household composed only of men."--P. [4] of cover.