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Author : Halvard Johnson
Release : 1971
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Book Rating : 163/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Dance of the Red Swan by : Halvard Johnson
Download or read book The Dance of the Red Swan written by Halvard Johnson. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffery Martin Botzenhart
Release : 2024-06-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Dance of the Red Swan by : Jeffery Martin Botzenhart
Download or read book The Dance of the Red Swan written by Jeffery Martin Botzenhart. This book was released on 2024-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst a nightmarish Hell, a moment of Heaven is found. In February of 1943, amidst the German Army’s relentless siege of Leningrad, Russia, the destruction of the city and starvation of the population has created an apocalyptic genocide. Yet the dangers within the city are far more perilous. Ilya, a young man forced into prostitution by his brutal father as a means to keep his disabled brother alive, understands this all too well. In his darkest hours, Ilya finds salvation when witnessing the graceful beauty of a ballerina. To him, Tatiana is the red swan of hope, an angel surrounded by devils. As horrific as the city has become, she is an enchanting light within the darkness. As the hours turn desperate, atonement, fate, and revenge become Ilya’s allies to freedom. The intensity of their love affair prompts them to risk all to escape from the carnage of war. And should they fail, Ilya willingly will greet death by having witnessed the sublime dance of the red swan. PUBLISHER NOTE: Historical Romance. 28,700 words. All characters depicted in this work of fiction are 18 years of age or older.
Author : Halvard Johnson
Release : 1971
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Book Synopsis The Dance of the Red Swan by : Halvard Johnson
Download or read book The Dance of the Red Swan written by Halvard Johnson. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bierhorst
Release : 1976-05-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 053/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Red Swan by : John Bierhorst
Download or read book The Red Swan written by John Bierhorst. This book was released on 1976-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of the American Indian myths are works of art, blending form and content into an organic whole in which the great themes of human experience are interwoven much as they are in a memorable short story or novella. But if the underlying themes are similar, the metaphorical and narrative conventions are vastly different; and it is this aesthetic gap that critic John Bierhorst intends to bridge in this companion volume to his well-known anthology In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations. Over forty cultures, including the Eskimo, the Iroquois, the Navajo, the Maya, and the Bororo, are here represented by sixty-four carefully selected myths and tales. Yet The Red Swan will be valued not so much for its scope or its quantity as for the superb quality of the stories themselves. Among the classic narratives included are "The Fight of the Quetzalcoatl" (Aztec), "The Rival Chiefs" (Kwakiutl), "The Hungry Old Woman" (Anambe), "Two Friends" (Greenland Eskimo), and "The Red Swan" (Chippewa). A number of the translations, the work of such ethnographers as Franz Boas, James Teit, and George Bird Grinnell, have been left untouched; others have been expertly revised; and some of the selections--all of which deserve to be much better known--appear in English for the first time.
Author : P. T. Deutermann
Release : 2017-08-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Red Swan by : P. T. Deutermann
Download or read book Red Swan written by P. T. Deutermann. This book was released on 2017-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the authority of twenty-six years of military and government service at sea and in Washington, Red Swan is a brilliant, provocative thriller about the contemporary war that no one sees, but which will shape the future of America and China. Set in contemporary Washington D.C., Red Swan begins with an ominous phone call from Carson McGill, the Deputy Director of Operations in the CIA, to retired CIA officer Preston Allender. Henry Wallace is dead. A behind-the-scenes operator at the CIA, Wallace was integral to the Agency’s secret war against China’s national intelligence service, which infiltrates government and military offices, major businesses, and systems crucial to our security. Wallace had severely damaged China’s Washington spy ring with a devastating ruse, a so-called “black swan,” in which a deep-undercover female agent targeted and destroyed a key Chinese official. Now, Wallace’s mysterious death suggests that the CIA itself has been compromised and that China has someone inside the Agency. But as Allender quietly investigates, he makes a shocking discovery that will upend the entire American intelligence apparatus. For Wallace’s black swan operation may have been turned against the CIA; a red swan is flying and the question is: who is she, what is her target, and where will she land?
