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Books in Figure Skating series

  • Ice Dancing

    Claire Throp

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2017)
    From the athletic moves to the costumes and music, ice dancing is a beautiful sport. Learn everything from the basics and the rules to the history of this breathtaking sport. It will have you wanting to lace up your skates!
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  • Synchronized Skating

    Mary Schulte

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2017)
    From the athletic moves to the costumes and music, synchronized skating is a beautiful sport. Learn everything from the basics and the rules to the history of this breathtaking sport. It will have you wanting to lace up your skates!
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  • Singles Skating

    Heather E. Schwartz

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2017)
    From the athletic moves to the costumes and music, freestyle skating is a beautiful sport. Learn everything from the basics and the rules to the history of this breathtaking sport. It will have you wanting to lace up your skates!
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  • Pairs Skating

    Heather E. Schwartz

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2017)
    From the athletic moves to the costumes and music, pairs skating is a beautiful sport. Learn everything from the basics and the rules to the history of this breathtaking sport. It will have you wanting to lace up your skates!
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  • Figure Skating Now: Olympic and World Stars

    Steve Milton, Gerard Chataigneau

    Paperback (Firefly Books, Sept. 6, 2003)
    Updated to include the 2003 Worlds competition. Today's most exciting figure skaters are spotlighted in this richly illustrated book. Combining grace, incredible athletic ability and artistic showmanship, figure stating is exhilarating and highly entertaining. Anything can happen on the ice and often does. As the fans of competitive figure skating know, beauty and danger add up to the greatest show on ice. Figure Skating Now covers the men, the women, the pairs teams and the dance teams. This second edition covers the reigning stars such as Timothy Goebel, Sarah Hughes, and Michelle Kwan, and introduces the next generation of competitors: Brian Joubert, Sasha Cohen, the pairs team Oberta and Sokolov and many others. With biographies and statistics, Figure Skating Now is an insider's view of international figure skating at its highest levels.
  • Ekaterina Gordeeva

    Pegi Deitz Shea

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Oct. 1, 1998)
    A biography of skating star Ekaterina Gordeeva who, with her husband Sergei Grinkov, won two Olympic gold medals, and who, since his untimely death in 1995, skates alone
  • Oksana Baiul: Rhapsody on Ice

    Linda Shaughnessy

    Hardcover (Crestwood House, Oct. 1, 1997)
    A biography of the young Ukrainian figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics
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  • Elvis Stojko: Skating from the Blade

    Linda Shaughnessy

    Paperback (Crestwood House, Oct. 1, 1997)
    A biography of the dynamic Canadian skater who successfully blended martial arts with figure skating to win the 1994 and 1995 World Championships
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  • Michelle Kwan: Skating Like the Wind

    Linda Shaughnessy

    Paperback (Crestwood House, Oct. 1, 1997)
    A portrait of Michelle Kwan, a national and world champion figure skater at the age of fifteen, describes her close-knit family, how she trains for competition, and how she is carrying on her quest for the gold. Simultaneous.
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  • Elvis Stojko: Skating from the Blade

    Linda Shaughnessy

    Hardcover (Crestwood House, Oct. 1, 1997)
    A biography of the dynamic Canadian skater who successfully blended martial arts with figure skating to win the 1994 and 1995 World Championships
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  • Oksana Baiul: Rhapsody on Ice

    Linda Shaughnessy

    Paperback (Crestwood House, Oct. 1, 1997)
    A biography of the young Ukrainian figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics
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  • Nicole Bobek

    Veda Boyd Jones

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Pub, Dec. 1, 1998)
    A look at the personal life and skating career of the young woman who became the National Figure Skating Champion in 1995