A phonics-based nonfiction book for level-one beginning readers, providing information about the practice involved in becoming a dancer. Presented in large print with a word list review. Nonfiction Level 1 Readers offer children subject matter they will appreciate, in a clean, familiar format. Each page provides straightforward sentences of simple words, ensuring easy mastery by students beginning to feel the attraction of reading to learn. Large...

The backdrop to this story is set many years in the past, before our world and universe was created. Planets in a galaxy far away are dying and disintegrating. Powerful, despotic rulers govern and control the inhabitants of these planets with extreme, repressive brutal measures. Everything, even down to what can be performed and who can work in theatres, is controlled. Candle Dancers is the name of a variety troupe who travels between the planets...

Corrections is a demanding field, dealing with individuals who are attempting to stay relevant in a world that no longer trusts them to play within the rules. One of my duties was to listen to radio traffic particularly for calls for help or Officer needs assistance! I then directed that traffic, we routinely ran to help! Upon retirement that intensity remained. I continually listen, which is a definition of meditation. Yoga is an exercise in learning...

"I Am the Lightning Flashing and Streaking!" Beneath the stars or flying up among them, the Ga'an dance a deadly dance. Apache Devil Dancers take to the skies to defeat the ruthless Gulo, an alien race bent on the destruction of humanity. Led by Captain Victorio "Tomorrow's Wind" Nantan, the 3rd Sol fighter Wing follows a long tradition, adapting the dance to make them an ace squadron, but will it be enough? It is hard to hold faith in the face of...

Murder takes center stage when a song-and-dance man is targeted, in an Albert Campion whodunit from "the best of mystery writers" (The New Yorker). When entertainer Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling-gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate, and an aging starlet is killed. Under...

Northern Britain, c. 300 BC. Former slave, indomitable survivor and now matriarch Rian returns with her daughters to her Celtic homeland. She navigates everything from plundered riches and feuding warlords to betrayals and menacing curses. But when a disaster befalls her older daughter mirroring the cruelest events in Rian's own past, Rian finds herself conflicted. A beautifully written, engrossing tale, The Lyre Dancers takes place in a richly imagined...

A curious and terrifying story about an artist who sold his soul that he might paint a living picture.