Ghost Dancer is an absorbing novel about values, choices, relationships, and tradtions as seen through the eyes of Charlie Red Cloud, a Lakota Sioux from South Dakota. In the book, Charlie and his brother Tom have been estranged for many years. When the tribes beloved healer and storyteller Star Flower (their blood Aunt) is murdered, Charlie and Tom have to make choices in their relationship as brothers. The murder of their Aunt must be solved. Charlie and Tom find themselves in the center of the gripping drama that overtakes their lives and overshadows the tribe. This book was written with...

This book, "Seasons of the Heart" by Allene Joyce (i.e. Joyce Halvorsen) uses the subjects of time and seasons in her poetry. She has divided her book into seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter and written thoughtful and reflective poems which manifest the simple but complex parts of nature and time. As Allene Joyce writes, "Every person sees the world about them in a different manner. Somone or Something much greater than ourselves has the final say." The poetry in this book recollects the great and small images or moments from lifes enduring cycle. In these days of uncertainty and...