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A Girl Called Wolf Paperback – December 9, 2015

by Stephen Swartz (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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Ice and snow are all 12 year old Anuka knows outside the hut in Greenland where she was born. When her mama dies, Anuka struggles to survive. The harsh winter forces her to finally journey across the frozen island to the village her mama always feared. But the people of the village don’t know what to do with this girl. They try to educate and bring her into the modern world, but Anuka won't make it easy for them. She sees dangers at every turn and every day hears her fate echoing in her mama’s voice. Her mama gave her that name for a reason. She is A GIRL CALLED WOLF who searches for the place where she belongs, a destination always just out of reach, on a path she will always make her own.
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    December 9, 2015
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1680630229
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1680630220
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Myrddin Publishing Group
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 9, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1680630229
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1680630220
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Stephen Swartz

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Stephen Swartz is the author of literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and contemporary horror novels. While growing up in Kansas City, he dreamed of traveling the world. His novels feature exotic locations, foreign characters, and smatterings of other languages--strangers in strange lands. You get the idea: life imitating art.

After studying music and even composing a symphony, Stephen planned to be a music teacher before turning to fiction writing. Today Stephen teaches writing at a university in Oklahoma. Stephen Swartz has published poetry, stories, essays, and articles for scholarly journals in the U.S. and Japan.

EXCHANGE (May 2020)

SUNSET (conclusion to the Stefan Szekely Trilogy, Book 3) (February 2019)

SUNRISE (sequel to A DRY PATCH OF SKIN, Book 2 of the Stefan Szekely Trilogy) (April 2018)

EPIC FANTASY *WITH DRAGONS (February 2017)

A GIRL CALLED WOLF (December 2015)

AIKO (June 2015)

A DRY PATCH OF SKIN (October 2014)

A BEAUTIFUL CHILL (February 2014))

THE DREAM LAND Book I "Long Distance Voyager" (The Dream Land Trilogy) (December 2013)

THE DREAM LAND Book II "Dreams of Future's Past" (The Dream Land Trilogy) (2013)

THE DREAM LAND Book III "Diaspora" (The Dream Land Trilogy) (2013)

AFTER ILIUM (2012)

Blog: stephenswartz.blogspot.com

Twitter: @StephenSwartz1

Facebook: Author Stephen Swartz

EXCHANGE (2020) In the wake of a mass shooting that killed his wife and daughter, a high school teacher struggles to put his life back together even with on-going crimes and the foreign exchange student who arrives not knowing what has happened.

SUNSET (2019) is the conclusion of the Stefan Szekely Trilogy, Book 3. Now Emperor of Europa, Stefan must avoid multiple assassination attempts while concocting the perfect escape from his unholy duties.

SUNRISE (2018) is the sequel to A DRY PATCH OF SKIN (2014), Book 2 of the Stefan Szekely Trilogy, the story of an innocent man transforming into a vampire against his will. In SUNRISE he realizes his desire to live the vampire playboy life but finds there are serious obstacles.

EPIC FANTASY *WITH DRAGONS (2017) is the brawny tale of a banished dragonslayer's quest through the Valley of Death to find and destroy the dragons' nesting ground, a quest that is not so simple as he imagines.

A GIRL CALLED WOLF (December 2015) is the tale of a poor Inuit orphan girl from Greenland who grows up and saves the world. Inspired by a true life.

AIKO (June 2015) is a mystery/romance set in 1980s Japan, a modern reversed version of 'Madame Butterfly' told from the man's perspective.

A DRY PATCH OF SKIN (October 2014) is the only medically accurate vampire thriller set in Oklahoma City, upstate New York, New Orleans, and Eastern Europe.

A BEAUTIFUL CHILL (February 2014) is a contemporary campus anti-romance where a forbidden relationship is turned inside out - available for Kindle and paperback.

AFTER ILIUM (2012: 2nd edition), a romantic adventure tale of seduction and betrayal set in modern Greece and Turkey with flashbacks to ancient Troy.

THE DREAM LAND Trilogy (2012-2013) is an epic of interdimensional intrigue and world domination by a pair of well-meaning nerds, marbled with twisted humor and steampunk pathos, a patina of psychological thriller, and the quirky conundrum of time and space.

Book I: Long Distance Voyager

Book II: Dreams of Future's Past

Book III: Diaspora

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  • Connie J. Jasperson
    5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, and deadly
    Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2016
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    In the opening chapters, Swartz’s Greenland has a harsh, ethereal quality. The environment is shown as unearthly, beautiful, and deadly, as are the people. The story of his protagonist Anuka (later called Anna) and her early life stands out sharply against the nearly cinematic backdrop, yet Swartz shows it with an economy of words.

    Anuka's life is very hard, and she knows it in some small way. But it is all she knows, and she loves her mother, her life, and the abusive man who comes in and out of her life with some regularity.

    Later, when Anuka is forcibly taken to civilization, that village and its poverty, as compared to her prior life, is clear in the reader’s head. It is seen through her eyes, although the villagers themselves don’t see themselves as poor in comparison–just the opposite. Swartz manages to get that across without overstating it: it simply is. Anna's life, and her discovery of who she is and her place in the world is a gripping story.

    Conveying the mood of a piece and evoking a real sense of place is where artistry and skill on the part of the author comes into play. A book can be a simple recounting of events, or it can be an immersive experience. Swartz makes this a beautiful, harsh, immersive experience.
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  • bdtharp
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2021
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    A story so far from the world I know that I sometimes struggled to understand. The motivation of survival kept me guess where Wolf would be next. She changed so much over the course of the story. I always rooted for her to succeed and not just survive. This is a fascinating story.
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  • jay348
    4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting story of a young girl going from living in the wild to civilization.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016
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    A very engaging story. Several twists.
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  • Bill Anderson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating story
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2016
    Format: Kindle
    Few books capture my attention as did this book. I could not stop reading it. Anna, Stephen Swartz did a phenomenal job of telling your story.
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  • D. Cantrell
    4.0 out of 5 stars Compelling story of a woman's struggle to find her path.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2015
    Format: Paperback
    Inuits live in a harsh place that break some of them and toughen others. Anuka, wolf in her native tongue, faces that test in this compelling story. It’s all the more compelling because it’s based on a real person’s life. It’s not a biography, yet many of the events depicted actually occurred.

    Stephen Swartz uses prose to subtly underline the intellectual and social growth of an illiterate girl as she copes with many terrible and some wonderful experiences during her strange life. Initially, his prose is simplistic, almost childish, but is grows more complex as his heroine matures. I liked the technique and hadn’t seen it before.

    Swartz also uses flash-forwards and flashbacks to good effect which keeps the story moving and avoids what could have been the plodding pace of personal diary.

    This is the first of Swartz’s novels that I’ve read. It will not be the last. I heartily recommended it, but not to young adults, because of violence and adult sexual situations.

    Reviewers’ comment: I hate star ratings because they are too subjective, but I realize that they are a part of today’s world. For my purposes the stars mean: 3 stars = average, a fine read, 4 stars = above average, an excellent read, 5 stars = 4 stars plus it grabbed me emotionally in some way.
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  • Richard Birney-Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping story well told.
    Reviewed in Canada on May 9, 2017
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    This is a novel inspired by a real person. Stephen Swartz tells the story so well that I cannot separate fact from fiction. Anuka (or Anna as she is now known) is a real person who was born in Greenland, lived a difficult childhood there, and now is an adult living in Canada.

    This book is her personal story but also eye-opening visit into indigenous life in Greenland. Ice, snow, dog sleds, and hunting for food to eat are totally outside my experience.

    While there is much pain and sadness here, this is a story of the triumph of the human spirit in a cultural and geographical space that is unknown to most of us. I highly recommend it.

    Disclaimer: Although I have never met Anne nor her sister personally, I am Facebook friends with both.

    Richard Birney-Smith
    Hamilton, Ontario
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  • Marc (The Netherlands)
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wolf does not cry
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on June 19, 2017
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    Clearly I'm not a wolf. Especially in the first part where the writer managed to unleash a tidal wave of feeling powerless. I (or anyone) should have been there for her, her mom and the dogs.

    Reading this true (up to the last part) story should help you becoming a better person. Worked on me I'm sure.
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