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Last dance on the starlight pier

by Bird, Sarah
Series: Thorndike Press large print core Edition statement:Large print edition. Published by : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company (Waterville, ME) Physical details: 685 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm. ISBN:9781432897734; 143289773X.
Subject(s): 1929 | Dance marathons -- Fiction. | Dance -- Fiction. | Vaudeville -- Fiction. | Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Fiction. | Galveston (Tex.) -- Fiction. | United States | Large type books. | Fiction | Historical fiction
Year: 2022
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Large Print Fiction Bir (Browse shelf) Available Go Bond 112742

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"July 3, 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied--a family, a purpose, even love--waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight"--

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