Tap Dancing on a Hot Skillet is Gabrielle's debut memoir-a coming of age story about growing up in a Jewish family of six in the Deep South of the 1950s and '60s. As if navigating the racially charged atmosphere of the times is not challenge enough, the secrets her father has brought into his marriage causes him to swing from loving to unpredictably volatile at the spin of a dime. As the oldest, her desire to protect her three younger siblings from the chaos and injustices inside and outside her home is made harder by an emotionally absent mother. Using a combination of personal stories set against a backdrop of cultural context-the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam war, and pop culture references of films and music (from Elvis to the Beatles)-Gabrielle creates a scaffolding by which to hang the evolving angst of the '60s contrasted with the naiveté of the '50s told through the eyes of a young person caught at the center. The stories are told with a keen sense of visual detail, southern wit, and an authentic adolescent voice that helps the characters dance off the page and sit right along next to you.

The aim of this book is to explore the detectable properties of a material to the parameters of bond and non-bond involved and to clarify the interdependence of various properties. This book is composed of four parts; Part I deals with the formation and relaxation dynamics of bond and non-bond during chemisorptions with uncovering of the correlation among the chemical bond, energy band and surface potential barrier (3B) during reactions; Part II is focused on the relaxation of bonds between atoms with fewer neighbors than the ideal in bulk with unraveling of the bond order-length-strength (BOLS) correlation mechanism, which clarifies the nature difference between nanostructures and bulk of the same substance; Part III deals with the relaxation dynamics of bond under heating and compressing with revealing of rules on the temperature-resolved elastic and plastic properties of low-dimensional materials; Part IV is focused on the asymmetric relaxation dynamics of the hydrogen bond (O:H-O) and the anomalous behavior of water and ice under cooling, compressing and clustering. The target audience for this book includes scientists, engineers and practitioners in the area of surface science and nanoscience.

After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.

Jean Johnson had a vision, to create a senior women's tap dance group. Through her persistence, and with the support of Bernie Shrum, her collaborator, she built an award-winning world-renown precision dance team. Her Hot Flashes spell-bound hundreds of audiences. She proved that older women could be vibrant, respected and productive as they learned a new skill. The author danced with the Hot Flashes for eleven years, keeping journals of all their performances. She describes the challenges, humor, embarrassments, and successes of life on the stage and behind the scenes.

"If you like tap dancing and tap dancers--this is your book."--Gene Kelly From the vaudeville era, through the Astaire-Rogers movies, to the intricate artistry of bebop, tap has dominated American dance with its rhythm, originality, and humor. This book collects the voices and memories of thirty of America's best-loved tap-dance stars and two hundred rare theater, film, and publicity photographs. Here Shirley Temple recalls her magical duo with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; Fayard Nicholas describes his days at Harlem's Cotton Club performing with Cab Calloway; Fred Kelly visits his and his brother Gene's Pittsburgh dance studio; Hermes Pan reminisces about his work with George Gershwin, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire; and, in a chapter new to this edition, Toy and Wing tell about their days as the world's leading Asian tap duo. Appended with the most comprehensive listing of tap acts, recordings, and films ever compiled-newly updated for this paperback edition-Tap! brings to life the legends of one of America's most cherished and enduring art forms. Foreword by Gregory Hines

It seems everyone has been waiting for spring to arrive and awaken Angel Bay from its wintery cocoon. Even for Emmy, the eternal optimist, the long winter has taken its toll. To make matters worse, her love life has been on ice with her boyfriend working out of town. But there are some surprises before winter releases its icy grip. A series of gruesome killings threatens the town, and the arrival of a mysterious stranger could end everything between Emmy and Zane. When Emmy’s mom pops in from Heaven and finds out her daughter is dating a demon, all hell breaks loose, and Emmy dreads the repercussions—Heavenly or otherwise. In this hotbed of paranormal activity not everyone, or everything, is as it seems.

Jean Johnson had a vision, to create a senior women's tap dance group. Through her persistence, and with the support of Bernie Shrum, her collaborator, she built an award-winning world-renown precision dance team. Her Hot Flashes spell-bound hundreds of audiences. She proved that older women could be vibrant, respected and productive as they learned a new skill. The author danced with the Hot Flashes for eleven years, keeping journals of all their performances. She describes the challenges, humor, embarrassments, and successes of life on the stage and behind the scenes.

One of the Boston Globe's Best Crime Novels of the Year! One of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2013! Since private investigator Cal Weaver’s teenage son died in a tragic accident, Cal and his wife have drifted apart. Cal is mired in a grief he can’t move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Driving home one night, a rain-drenched girl taps on his car window and asks for a ride. He knows a grown man picking up a teenage hitchhiker is foolish—but he lets her in. Cal soon senses that something’s not right with the girl or the situation. But it’s too late. He’s already involved. Drawn into a nightmare of secrets, lies, and cover-ups in his small, upstate New York town, Cal knows that the only thing that can save him is the truth. And he’s about to expose the town’s secrets one by one—if he lives long enough.

Presents the voices and memories of thirty American tap dance stars, and includes a comprehensive listing of tap acts, recordings, and films