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Swan Dive

Author : Georgina Pazcoguin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250244291

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"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.

Swan Dive

Author : Brenda Hasiuk
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781773061474

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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.

Answered Prayers

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345803047

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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. "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.

A Widow's Awakening

Author : Maryanne Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643970518

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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.

The Boy Next Door

Author : R.L. Stine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780671894320

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The Boy Next Door by R.L. Stine Pdf

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.

Hunger of the Pine

Author : Teal Swan
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786784476

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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.

Red Teaming

Author : Bryce G. Hoffman
Publisher : Currency
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101905982

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Red Teaming is a revolutionary new way to make critical and contrarian thinking part of the planning process of any organization, allowing companies to stress-test their strategies, flush out hidden threats and missed opportunities and avoid being sandbagged by competitors. Today, most — if not all — established corporations live with the gnawing fear that there is another Uber out there just waiting to disrupt their industry. Red Teaming is the cure for this anxiety. The term was coined by the U.S. Army, which has developed the most comprehensive and effective approach to Red Teaming in the world today in response to the debacles of its recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the roots of Red Teaming run very deep: to the Roman Catholic Church’s “Office of the Devil’s Advocate,” to the Kriegsspiel of the Prussian General Staff and to the secretive AMAN organization, Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence. In this book, author Bryce Hoffman shows business how to use the same techniques to better plan for the uncertainties of today’s rapidly changing economy. Red Teaming is both a set of analytical tools and a mindset. It is designed to overcome the mental blind spots and cognitive biases that all of us fall victim to when we try to address complex problems. The same heuristics that allow us to successfully navigate life and business also cause us to miss or ignore important information. It is a simple and provable fact that we do not know what we do not know. The good news is that, through Red Teaming, we can find out. In this book, Hoffman shows how the most innovative and disruptive companies, such as Google and Toyota, already employ some of these techniques organically. He also shows how many high-profile business failures, including those that sparked the Great Recession, could easily have been averted by using these approaches. Most importantly, he teaches leaders how to make Red Teaming part of their own planning process, laying the foundation for a movement that will change the way America does business.

Your Constant Star

Author : Brenda Hasiuk
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459803701

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Your Constant Star by Brenda Hasiuk Pdf

Faye is the "good" adopted Chinese daughter. Bev is the wild child. Mannie is the unambitious stoner. What brings them together--and tears them apart--is a need to move beyond the clichés and commit to something--anything--that will bring meaning and joy to their lives. When Faye's long-lost childhood neighbor, Bev, turns up out of the blue, wanting something from her old friend, Faye goes along with Bev's plan. But Mannie, the joyriding daddy of Bev's baby, has a half-crazed romantic agenda of his own. As one cold, miserable prairie spring inches toward summer, a series of unexpected and sometimes explosive decisions sends the trio hurtling toward disaster. A darkly funny portrayal of three unforgettable teenagers feeling their way into adulthood in an imperfect world.

Turning Pointe

Author : Chloe Angyal
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781645036722

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A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

Restart

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338053784

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The amazing New York Times bestseller about what you can do when life gives you a second chance. Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows he's Chase. But who is Chase? When he gets back to school, he sees that different kids have very different reactions to his return. Some kids treat him like a hero. Some kids are clearly afraid of him. One girl in particular is so angry with him that she pours her frozen yogurt on his head the first chance she gets. Pretty soon, it's not only a question of who Chase is -- it's a question of who he was . . . and who he's going to be. From the #1 bestselling author of Swindle and Slacker, Restart is the spectacular story of a kid with a messy past who has to figure out what it means to get a clean start.

Black Swan Affair

Author : K. L. Kreig
Publisher : K.L. Kreig
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Romance fiction
ISBN : 1943443149

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I've loved him as long as I can remember. The gangly boy with big brown eyes and unruly hair who grew up into an intoxicating man. He wears scruff like he invented it and ambles with a swagger that makes panties drop. Killian Shepard. Shep. We grew up together. We played Ghost in the Graveyard. Had our own rock band. It didn't matter that he was five years older than me. It didn't matter that he looked at me as a kid sister even as I grew into woman. It didn't even matter when he left me behind to go to college and start his adult life. He'd be back. He was always meant to be mine. He came back, all right. But instead of smelling of promises, he stunk of betrayal. And he destroyed me-us-the day he married my sister instead of me. So I did the only thing a girl like me in my position could do. I got my revenge. I married his brother, Kael. Now we're one big happy f**king family.

Pilates − A Teachers’ Manual

Author : Verena Geweniger,Alexander Bohlander
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642381140

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Pilates − A Teachers’ Manual by Verena Geweniger,Alexander Bohlander Pdf

The Pilates book for professionals: Background information and extensive practical knowledge on using the Pilates approach in prevention and therapy. The foundations include, among others, the "Pilates Principles" (Breathing, Centering, Flow, Precision, Concentration, Control and Coordination). The extensive praxis part presents all techniques and exercises (mat and equipment training) with detailed photos of movement sequences and with precise instructions and explanations of each exercise. Class plans provide concrete suggestions for the design of course units with prevention orientation and patient examples illustrate treatment procedures and therapeutic effects of the Pilates approach for different symptoms. - A must-have for all Pilates professionals: teachers, trainers, physiotherapists.

The Sixth Man

Author : Harry McIntyre
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450277181

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This is the memoir of an eighteen-year-old World War II Army Air Corp Cadet. Join him as he matures over his three years in the military learning to fly, handle success, failure, and love. If you`re looking for the usual war story, this isn`t it, but you will experience the military environment at an unusual time in military history. There is a tragic part to Harry`s story that he secretly carries with him until the writing of his memoir. He now shares with his family and the reader in order to heal from it. The second half of the memoir is entitled "String of Pearls." It takes on after the war through the next sixty-five years of his life representing the string of his life`s necklace. The pearls are short memoir stories he wrote, and saved over the years, and now interejects them. Harry writes with humor and hope as he contemplates his long life`s journey.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UCBK:C098382821

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1806 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015066169635

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