Swan Dive

Author : Georgina Pazcoguin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250244293
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swan Dive written by Georgina Pazcoguin and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't expect just tulle and toe shoes. In this fascinating insider's tale, NYCB dancer Pazcoguin reveals her world. . . . A striking debut." —People Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet—the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don’t see from the orchestra circle. In this love letter to the art of dance and the sport that has been her livelihood, NYCB’s first Asian American female soloist Georgina Pazcoguin lays bare her unfiltered story of leaving small-town Pennsylvania for New York City and training amid the unique demands of being a hybrid professional athlete/artist, all before finishing high school. She pitches us into the fascinating, whirling shoes of dancers in one of the most revered ballet companies in the world with an unapologetic sense of humor about the cutthroat, survival-of-the-fittest mentality at NYCB. Some swan dives are literal: even in the ballet, there are plenty of face-plants, backstage fights, late-night parties, and raucous company bonding sessions. Rocked by scandal in the wake of the #MeToo movement, NYCB sits at an inflection point, inching toward progress in a strictly traditional culture, and Pazcoguin doesn’t shy away from ballet’s dark side. She continues to be one of the few dancers openly speaking up against the sexual harassment, mental abuse, and racism that in the past went unrecognized or was tacitly accepted as par for the course—all of which she has painfully experienced firsthand. Tying together Pazcoguin’s fight for equality in the ballet with her infectious and deeply moving passion for her craft, Swan Dive is a page-turning, one-of-a-kind account that guarantees you'll never view a ballerina or a ballet the same way again.

Author : Brenda Hasiuk
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 177306147X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swan Dive written by Brenda Hasiuk and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage refugee adapts to a new country, a new language, new school and even finds a wonderful best friend, until the pressures of past and present collide and lead to a lie that changes everything. Refugees from the Bosnian War, Lazar’s family flees the Siege of Sarajevo and arrives in Winnipeg in the early 1990s. Despite various mini dramas unfolding at home, as his parents and older sisters navigate a new language, the bitter cold and a strange city and country, Lazar manages to find a place for himself at school, largely by making friends with Elle, a sassy, outspoken girl who divides her time between living with her hoarder mother (who stuffs their tiny apartment with bargains she finds at Liquidation World) and her hippie father, Jimmy, who lives in British Columbia. But as two geeky loners, Elle and Lazar are happy in their own bubble of friendship, especially after they form a pop duo and dream of making it big on Star Search. Soon Lazar’s desperate escape out of Sarajevo seems far away, even as the trauma of his broken homeland looms large with his family at home. Then Elle comes back from Vancouver after a summer at Jimmy’s, and things are different. They’re in high school, Elle has lost weight and blossomed into popularity, while Lazar remains small, skinny and forgettable. She seems to have forgotten all about their singing plans and starts spending time with a new kid, Ivan. Lazar is unmoored and filled with new longings — for Elle, for Ivan, for a sense that he belongs somewhere. His mother and older sisters worry about his health, that he’s so thin, that he’s not interested in sports, even though the doctors can’t find anything wrong. And then, in an impulsive moment, Lazar tells Ivan that he’s seriously ill. And with this one reckless lie he suddenly gets — and loses — everything he thought he wanted. Key Text Features author’s note historical context Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345803043
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Answered Prayers written by Truman Capote and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. • Includes the story La Cote Basque featured in the major FX series Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans. "Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly." —The New York Times Book Review Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently finny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.

Author : Teal Swan
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786784475
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunger of the Pine written by Teal Swan and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aria Abbott has never had a home. Drifting through the foster system for most of her life, she finally finds herself in a situation so unbearable that she has no choice but to run away. Sleeping on the streets pushes Aria beyond any suffering she has felt before; the only thing worse than seeing no escape is the knowledge that no one in the world cares enough to try and find her. Enter Taylor, a homeless young man with a charismatic smile and a dream of fame, fortune, and the sunshine of LA. Swept up in his energy, Aria and Taylor board a greyhound bus and never look back. In this bright new world, Aria will discover a whole community of people living in the shadows, in the margins of society. As Taylor follows his dreams, Aria follows her heart. But she will discover that it isn’t always clear who you can trust, that strangers can be kind, or treacherous, or sometimes as familiar as your own reflection, if you’re willing to look hard enough.

Author : Michael Burke
Publisher : Caravel Mystery Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swan Dive written by Michael Burke and published by Caravel Mystery Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. SWAN DIVE focuses on "Blue" Heron, a down-and-out detective with a roaming eye who gets much too involved in a complex business deal, a deal which results in embezzlement, swindling, sexual misconduct, and murder. Along the way, Blue discovers a great deal about himself while trying to understand the subterfuge. One of his problems is that he often gets too entranced with whatever woman is nearest to be able to concentrate on the job he's being paid to do. That makes for trouble.

Author : Beth Ferry
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763672882
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirate's Perfect Pet written by Beth Ferry and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates, pets and puns run amok as a swaggering but softhearted captain swashbuckler embarks on a daring quest to find a perfect animal sidekick.

Author : Elizabeth Kostova
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316071641
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swan Thieves written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Theives is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

Author : R.L. Stine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671894323
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Next Door written by R.L. Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren and Crystal would do anything to get to go out with Scott. But neither of them realize that Scott's last girlfriend is dead.

Author : Maryanne Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643970516
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Widow's Awakening written by Maryanne Pope and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WIDOW'S AWAKENING is engaging, powerful, heart-wrenching, and at times humorous. This honest look at the first year of a widow's grief after the death of her husband captures the immense difficulty of learning how to accept the unacceptable while transforming loss into positive change-and is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Author : Bishakh Som
Publisher : Feminist Press
ISBN 13 : 9781936932818
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apsara Engine written by Bishakh Som and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In trans illustrator Bishakh Som's debut work of fiction, questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity are explored over the course of eight speculative and graphic short stories"--