Harpercollins. 01/01/1995. This novel tells of a girl's maturing into young womanhood. The narrator begins her tale in the 1950s and 1960s in a New York City housing project. Her mother is homesick for Germany, her father is distant, and the girl reads and listens to stories, escaping into the world of ballet. Later, as an adult, she becomes an English teacher and gets involved with a Russian student. A delicately-told story about coming of age, "A Feather on the Breath of God" is Sigrid Nunez's debut novel. Originally published at $18.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1996. 279 pgs. A novel based on the 1948 movie, "The Red Shoes", about a prima ballerina and the wrenching decision she must make between love and art. Originally published at $17.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/2001. 276 pgs. Tensions are running high at a ballet company that is putting together a piece based on GREAT EXPECTATIONS. When one of the lead dancers dies, the cops thinks it's a suicide, but literary consultant and novelist Juliet Cherry knows it's murder, and she sets out to prove it. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 11/01/2002. Reprint. WHITE SWAN, BLACK SWAN is a collection of stories by a former New York City ballerina, and all of them are set in the world of dance. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 07/01/2003. Reprint. A longtime violinist with the New York City Ballet finds himself falling for a young ballerina, who then falls in love with the violinist's son. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 08/01/2001. 262 pgs. In 1917, a celebrated Russian ballerina flees to Puerto Rico to escape the political furor at home, but her devotion to her art never falters. The relationship between the dancer and her servant, Masha, is at the heart of the novel, which questions the nature of art, life, and love. Originally published at $24.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 04/01/1999. Reprint. 368 pgs. This portrait of a gay man's coming of age is told from his teenage perspective, then 20 years later. At 15, Walter McCloud is so obsessed with becoming a dancer that he is oblivious to his brother's illness; as an adult, he flounders in his career and his personal life until everything is changed by an unexpected act of grace. Originally published at $13.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 06/01/1999. 223 pgs. At the time of her death, Granny Dan was known simply as a fun-loving grandparent, beloved for her kindness and wisdom. But when her granddaughter stumbles upon her only legacy--a small box wrapped in brown paper--she finds the key to Granny Dan's amazing past. Time thus folds to St. Petersberg, Russia, 1902, when Granny Dan, then known as Danina Petroskova, grew to become an accomplished ballerina and favorite of the czar and czarina. When revolution erupts in her beloved homeland, both the discovery of true love and the perils of war change her life forever. Originally published at $19.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/1998. 278 pgs. Four people live in a rambling Victorian house--and all of them have secrets: Theo, a former ballerina; her brother Anton; reclusive Lynn; and a Brazilian illegal alien who orchestrates a feast that propels the plot to its disastrous conclusion. Originally published at $12.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 05/01/1994. Reissue. Originally published at $4.99 You save 61% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 08/01/2001. Reissue. 418 pgs. Miami lawyers and former flames Gail Conner and Anthony Quintana search for a killer when a business executive is murdered during a family yacht party. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Pocket Books. 02/01/2001. 390 pgs. After being dismissed from her schoolteaching job because of her progressive views on sexuality, Truvy Valentine finds herself teaching dance classes in Harmony, Montana (even though she knows nothing about dancing). She soon falls for gym-owner Jake Brewster, once known as "The World's Strongest Man." Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Consortium Book Sales & Dist. 09/01/1999. 206 pgs. Mrs. Kamsky is the old ballerina--a woman who is trying to cope simultaneously with the difficulties of aging, the loss of one of her protegées, and the brand new challenge of teaching ballet to a class of tough teenage boys. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/30/2005. 786 pgs. Rebecca Horsfall digs deep into the glamorous and kaleidoscopic world of classical ballet in this huge, almost epic novel (800 pages) revolving around a love story. Set mostly in London, and crammed with episodes of courage, success, determination, and passion (as well as of failure, decline, and tragedy), DANCING ON THORNS is a panoramic look at a fascinating profession, and at the driven people who pursue it. Originally published at $23.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 07/07/2005. 341 pgs. It's the 1980s, and 20-year-old Adam is an up-and-coming dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York. Sandra is a dancer with the New York City Ballet, and has been pretty much down on her luck until George Balanchine suddenly elevates her status: she will dance the starring role in THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. Sandra and Adam are lovers, a relationship complicated by Adam's cocaine habit and his resentment of Balanchine, his former mentor. In addition, an older dancer and family friend is dying of AIDS, Sandra's father is in the grip of a longstanding depression that's getting worse--and of course, the legendary Balanchine, who died in 1983, is seriously ill. This sad, involving, ballet-centered story is Adrienne Sharp's first novel. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 01/17/2006. 416 pgs. In her eighth suspenseful adventure, New York Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper, head of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, works two cases: that of a Turkish psychiatrist who spiked the drinks of two visiting Canadian graduate students and sexually assaulted their unconscious bodies, and the mystery of an aging, temperamental ballerina who vanished mid-performance at Lincoln Center. Originally published at $26.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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