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Author: Lyn Gardner
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0857630369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlivia is sad and lonely and angry -- angry that she's been dumped with her sister eel at her grandmother's school, and angrier still that that school turns out to be a stage school where there's no encouragement for her to do what she loves best: practice her circus skills.
Author: Lyn Gardner
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0857630407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlivia is waiting impatiently to tell her best friends the good news about the highwire act -- it's been picked to perform in New York for a night! But her friends have news of their own... Olivia loses herself in learning the trapeze, while Tom begins his West End stage career in The Sound of Music. But weird things keep happening, and soon Tom is on the verge of losing everything he's ever wanted. It wouldn't have anything to do with the return of Katie Wilkes-Cox, would it? In a nail-biting finale, Olivia performs not one but two daring rescues before tragedy strikes... As for Katie, could it be So Long, Farewell ... for ever...
Author: Lyn Gardner
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0857631357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's winter at the Swan Academy, and that means panto! While Olivia practises being the back end of a horse, everyone else is auditioning for a major new movie. Soon the school is full of rivalry and suspicion, nasty tricks and strange mysteries. To lighten the mood, Eel organises a festive ice-skating trip. But as the skaters twirl and leap among the twinkling lights, Olivia realises that the season of goodwill is anything but.
Author: Lyn Gardner
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0857630776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Swan Academy is under threat from closure due to a building development next door. Into this tense atmosphere come Cosmo and Cosmina, the famous singing/acting twins from Hollywood. They are staring in Peter Pan and are learning to fly! A series of mysterious accidents in the theatre threaten to close the production. Who is out to sabotage everything...and why?
Author: Dorothy Strachey
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 014313440X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name." --André Aciman "Perfectly captures the breathless excitement of adolescent passion." --Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet The classic novel about a teenage girl's infatuation with her headmistress at a boarding school in nineteenth-century Paris A Penguin Classic A groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love, Olivia--based loosely on the author's own life--was first published in 1949 under a pseudonym. It tells the story of Olivia, a sixteen-year-old girl who is sent from England to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher, Mademoiselle Julie, who introduces her to art, literature, and fine cuisine. But Mademoiselle Julie's life is not as straightforward as Olivia imagines. As they grow closer, their relationship is threatened by jealousy and rivalry, and the school year seems destined to end in tragedy.
Author: Lyn Gardner
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 0857632086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlivia and her friends are auditioning for a production of 'Romeo and Juliet' in the West End. It makes Olivia realise just how much she wants to be an actress, like her mum was. But her father asks her to perform with him in a high-wire stunt instead. How can she choose between her parents? And love is in the air at the Swan School of Theatre and Dance. But when the curtain falls, will everyone get their fairytale happy ending?
Author: Lyn Gardner
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 0857631535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack Marvell's latest stunt is to stay on a high-wire for thirty days and nights. Olivia is worried for her father, but very proud of him. Then the rumours start, claiming that Jack's cheating. Olivia must give her all to her role in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and also prove to the world that her father is no fraudster...
Author: Olivia Laing
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0393608786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.
Author: Olivia Dade
Publisher: Hussies & Harpies Press
Published: 2019-05-30
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1945836008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheir lesson plans didn’t include love. But that’s about to change… When Martin Krause arrives at Rose Owens’s high school, she’s determined to remain chilly with her new colleague. Unfriendly? Maybe. Understandable? Yes, since a loathsome administrator gave Rose’s beloved world history classes to Martin, knowing it would hurt her. But keeping her distance from a man as warm and kind as Martin will prove challenging, even for a stubborn, guarded ice queen. Especially when she begins to see him for what he truly is: a man who’s never been taught his own value. Martin could use a good teacher—and luckily, Rose is the best. Rose has her own lessons—about trust, about vulnerability, about her past—to learn. And over the course of a single school year, the two of them will find out just how hot it can get when an ice queen melts.
Author: Lyn Gardner
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2012-06-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0857630490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlivia can't believe she's really at the legendary Edinburgh Festival. Every summr, people put on plays, they dance and tell jokes, and this year, it's the magnificent Swan Circus! But the run doesn't go smoothly. The Circus ends up homeless, it keeps raining and there's a thief in their midst who's determined to steal the show. As the Festival draws to a close, can anything turn Olivia's soggy summer into a truly enchanted one?
