The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. & the pure joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us" presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping spinning lifting kicking
- but in the midst of daily life: on the beach at a construction site in a library a restaurant a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up eager to see the next bit of magic. Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected. So dressed in a commuters suit & tie the dancer flew across a Times Square subway platform. & in that image Matter found what hed been searching for: a way to express the feeling of being fully alive in the moment unself-conscious present. Organized around themes of work play love exploration dreaming & more " Dancers Among Us" celebrates life in a way thats fresh surprising original universal. Theres no photo-shopping here no trampolines no gimmicks no tricks. Just a photographer his vision & the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks."
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Dances with Waves" has all the ingredients of a great adventure
- danger high drama narrow escapes bizarre encounters. On
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Wolfgang tied my wrists to the iron beam against the wall. His rough hands were all over me even before Ben had started photographing. His presumption was exhilarating. I struggled relishing my helplessness as he lifted me from the hips like a dancer & forced me to straddle him. It was a fantasy come true. Suddenly his hand connected sharply with my bottom & I yelped. He shoved me back against the wall & tore my dress open at the front exposing me. I trembled with excitement every nerve in my body awake & wildly alive. Niki Flynn tells her story in Dances with Werewolves
- a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey that dares to go even further. This is a no-holds-barred account from the ultimate submissive
- & every word is true. Niki is a young woman on a thrilling journey into the dark heart of sexual fantasy. This is her stunningly explicit & searingly honest memoir about her erotic life. But Niki is not just any submissive keeping her fantasies hidden behind closed doors. Shes the girl the whole world wants to dominate. & she is all too willing to please... After her first discovery of her submissive desires as a young girl at college Niki finds herself addicted to the rush her forbidden fantasies give her & starts off down a dark dark path. Her cravings lead her into the secretive underground of taboo film-making. Niki is an instant hit
- worldwide. From schoolgirl canings in England to spankings in California from a Stasi interrogation in Germany to a forced haircut in Prague Niki cant get enough. But it is when she meets Cameron her ultimate master that he unlocks her darkest desire of all...


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It is 1936 & harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters barely making ends meet their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack a missionary priest repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years & the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation but the wider landscape interior & exterior Christian & pagan of which they are a part. ...

A gentle & deeply moving story of a young girl & her bear told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains in a tiny village an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable beloved by the whole village -- safe until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear! ...

Millie Cameron is not at all pleased when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo who recently died. She hardly knew her aunt & besides she has her own career to think about. But when she arrives at Flo's basement flat Millie's interest is awakened. As she sorts through her aunt's collection of photographs letters & newspaper cuttings she finds herself embarking on a journey
- a journey to a past which

Includes:: a lost lover & a secret child. Picking through the tangled web of Flo's life Millie makes the startling discovery that all the threads lead to herself.. .


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A brilliant supernatural thriller with a modern twist & a triumphant return from one of Britain's best-loved writers. At the end of a track on the outskirts of an ordinary coastal town lies a dilapidated house. Once a group of amateur ghost hunters spent the night there. Two of them don't like to speak about the experience. The third can't speak about it. He went into the basement you see & afterwards he screamed so hard & so long he tore his vocal cords. Now a group of teenagers have decided to hang out in the old haunted house. Dismissing the fears of the others their leader Jezza goes down into the basement...and comes back up with a children's book full of strange & colourful tales of a playing-card world a fairytale world full of Jacks Queens & Kings unicorns & wolves. But the book is no fairytale. Written by Austerly Fellows a mysterious turn-of-the-century occultist it just might be the gateway to something terrifying...and awfully final. As the children & teenagers of the town are swept up by its terrible power swept into its seductive world something has begun that could usher in hell on earth. Soon the only people standing in its way are a young boy with a sci-fi obsession & his dad
- an unassuming maths teacher called Martin...
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When Jonni Kendal comes to London to pursue her dream of becoming an actress shes young naive full of courage & determined to excel. Just nineteen shes desperate to escape the narrow parochial life her parents have planned for her. Jean-Baptiste St. Michel is haunted by his father: the man who abandoned him as a child the man he can hardly remember the man he cannot forget. Driven by his determination to forge a life for himself outside of the shadow his fathers famous name casts hes ambitious talented & dangerously attractive
- but suspicious of emotional attachments. When Michel rescues Jonni one night & takes her home theres an immediate attraction. Jonni finds herself embraced by an exciting new world she never suspected existed & Michel ever wary of commitment finds himself growing used to her presence in his life. But before he can commit to any kind of future he must release himself from his past.
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Life has been cruel to Grace Collins. Orphaned as a child she is raised by her severely religious aunt Emily. Starved of love she falls for the first man who shows her affection Barry Swan. & when Grace falls pregnant Emily disowns her. Barry & Grace marry & for a while she knows happiness. Barry adores her & is a wonderful father but Grace feels that something is missing. When Barry indulges her passion for ballroom dancing the gap seems to be filled
- until she meets Philip Golding. He sweeps Grace off her feet showing her what she believes is a better way of life. But as he draws her into a web of deceit she discovers that all that glitters is not gold...
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Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed participated in & wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles through the French Revolution to Napoleons rule Lucie survived extraordinary times with great spirit. She recorded people politics & intrigue alongside the intriguing minutia of everyday life: food work illness children manners & clothes. Caroline Mooreheads richly novelistic biography sets Lucy & her dairies in their wider context illuminating a remarkable period of history. ...