Silver Belles
Silver Belles

Author: Lauren Grove

Publisher: Stage Partners

Published: 2024-07-20

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Come celebrate the holidays with the Silver Belles! While the ladies of Silver Meadows Retirement Home are getting ready for Christmas, scheming mogul Frank Davenport has plans to evict them and turn their home into a luxury hotel. But when Frank’s son Nick is sent to deliver the news, he discovers his old flame Kate is Silver Meadows’ fiercely dedicated manager. The more time he spends with her and the wise, witty, wonderful women under her care, the harder it gets to tell the truth – but luckily for him, the Belles know a thing or two about handling life and love. Can they guide Nick to save Silver Meadows and have a happy holiday after all? Both heartrending and hilarious, Silver Belles gives the gift of laughter, tears, and old-fashioned Christmas magic. Reviews 4

The Bells
The Bells

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates

Published: 1881

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Tappin' at the Apollo
Tappin' at the Apollo

Author: Cheryl M. Willis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1476662703

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In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina "Salt" Evelyn and Jewel "Pepper" Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were Black show business headliners, playing Harlem's Apollo Theater with the likes of Count Basie, Fats Waller and Earl "Fatha" Hines. Their exuberant tap style, usually performed by men, earned them the respect of their male peers and the acclaim of audiences. Based on extensive interviews with Salt and Pepper, this book chronicles for the first time the lives and careers of two overlooked female performers who succeeded despite the racism, sexism and homophobia of the Big Band era.

Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers
Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers

Author: Cheryl M. Willis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-04-13

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1476649162

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While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? The author sought them out, interviewed them, and documented their stories for this book. Here are the personal stories of many Black women tap dancers who were hailed by their male counterparts, performed on the most prominent American stages, and were pioneers in the field of Black tap.

Hezok and the Dark Spirit
Hezok and the Dark Spirit

Author: Lance K. Aberle

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1463446624

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Dark spirits. Haunts existing only in tales told to children late at night around the fire. But there are those who believe otherwise, and to find their secrets a marauding wizard will stop at nothing. Summoned by the Count of Velos, the tracker Maraine has been commissioned to pursue the wizard. The trail leads into the goblin lands of the Runik. But what he finds is an old terror left forgotten in a dwarven tomb that has been loosed upon the world. Desperate to survive it, Maraine becomes entangled with a tribe of goblins and partners with its captain, Hezok. Together they track the trail of the dark spirit and discover the true intentions of the marauding wizard. This unlikely union becomes the only chance of stopping the dark spirit and its ceaseless mayhem, if it can be stopped.