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Playing Custer
ISBN: 9780875656069 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Playing Custer" is a novel narrated from varying points of view and time, illuminating personal and political events leading up to the death of General George Armstrong Custer. The historic events are framed by the story of two men from the late twentieth century--one white and one Native American--who travel together to the annual reenactment of the battle at the Little Bighorn National Monument battlefield.
Chatting during their journey, the two reenactors discuss their obsessions, personal ambitions, and failures of nerve. Interwoven with their progress toward the battle are... "Playing Custer" is a novel narrated from varying points of view and time, illuminating personal and political events leading up to the death of Gener...
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87,75 zł |
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Chiricahua
ISBN: 9780989324182 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Native American Fiction... action, suspense, and romance all unfold as Massai struggles to unlock shocking family secrets while facing life and death battles with formidable enemies. Mason Davis is a troubled half-breed youth raised by his wealthy father in New York City. When his rebellious ways land him in serious trouble, Mason is sent west to relatives on the San Carlos Indian Reservation. There, he is forced to confront his Indian heritage and a new way of life in a harsh and hostile land. Follow his footsteps as he strives to overcome many obstacles and... Native American Fiction... action, suspense, and romance all unfold as Massai struggles to unlock shocking family secrets while facing life... |
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64,52 zł |
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Catamount
ISBN: 9781942869016 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Native American, historical fiction novel with action, adventure, and romance. Nathan Buell, whom the Mohawk and other tribes call the Catamount, traverses the dangerous forest in the northeast. Join him on his quest to rescue and bring back the Indian girl he loves as well as returning the captive white to Canada.
The revolutionary war is over but the fight for the vast, fertile, unsettled lands of America begins. White settlers encroaching the Indians tribal, hunting grounds cause hostility and bloodshed on the wild frontier. Nathan with his great wolfhound venture into the land of the... Native American, historical fiction novel with action, adventure, and romance. Nathan Buell, whom the Mohawk and other tribes call the Catamount, trav...
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64,52 zł |
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Native Lands
ISBN: 9781502376732 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Native Lands is a novel rich in intrigue and history as a tribe of Native Americans, thought to be extinct, fight to save their beloved heritage. They join with others willing to sacrifice everything to save further destruction of the Everglades and St. Augustine. Forbidden loves, deceptions, and murder threaten to destroy nature and families in a saga stretching from the 1760s to the present day. Join Locka and Mali as they lead their tribe of Timucuans away from the Spanish near St. Augustine in 1760 and settle into a new life in the Everglades alongside the Calusa Indians. Their progeny...
Native Lands is a novel rich in intrigue and history as a tribe of Native Americans, thought to be extinct, fight to save their beloved heritage. They...
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76,63 zł |
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Sharp-eyes (scholastic version)
ISBN: 9781505834154 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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24,17 zł |
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The Last of the Mohicans: Bilingual Edition: English-French
ISBN: 9780986400605 / Angielski / Miękka / 686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 was published in 1826, the second and most popular in a series of five books by James Fenimore Cooper that make up the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, a series featuring the American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. This installment follows Natty, or Hawkeye, and his Delaware Indian companions as they escort the daughters of an English colonel to Fort William Henry in the wild frontier of New York during the Seven Years' War. This second novel in the series has been adapted for many films, TV, radio, opera, and comics, and continues to be...
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 was published in 1826, the second and most popular in a series of five books by James Fenimore Co...
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120,30 zł |
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When Raven Cries
ISBN: 9781508587774 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since high school Samuel John did not want to have anything to do with Tlingit history and culture. But as the potlatch to memorialize his father's passing is approaching, and under the watchful eye of Raven, events forces Samuel to lean upon the things he had learned from his father and the elders of the village of Yakutat. This novel by Native American author, Kadashan, is set in the village he grew up in during the mid-century. But the realities this story uncovers: the culture clashes, the alcoholism, loss of faith are still present in these Alaskan village are still real today. The...
Ever since high school Samuel John did not want to have anything to do with Tlingit history and culture. But as the potlatch to memorialize his father...
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39,34 zł |
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The Chief and Her Sister
ISBN: 9781508855231 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chief is dead. Politics, family feuds and the bonds- and breaking points- of sisterhood collide as the Carpenter sisters each vie to become the next Chief. Mary, the reluctant heir to the proverbial throne, has to choose between the life she loves in the city and the one on the Rez she's already turned her back on once. Younger sister, Amanda, is all too eager to prove she should have been the chosen one all along. But when another death on the Rez threatens to mar the reputation of the family, will they pull together for the better or both go down fighting?
The Chief is dead. Politics, family feuds and the bonds- and breaking points- of sisterhood collide as the Carpenter sisters each vie to become the ne...
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80,66 zł |
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Wages of Greed: A John Grisham meets Tony Hillerman-style legal thriller
ISBN: 9780991486977 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This John Grisham meets Tony Hillerman-style legal thriller, set in and around the vast Navajo reservation in the American Southwest, is fiction that became fact even as the author was writing it. Danny Whitehorse, a struggling attorney from Farmington, NM suddenly finds his tiny law office inundated with hundreds of clients from the reservation, none of whom can pay his fees. They all have the same complaint. Gannon Oil Company, the area's largest employer, has suddenly stopped paying monthly royalties on natural gas wells drilled on their tribal allotment lands. Gannon claims the wells have...
This John Grisham meets Tony Hillerman-style legal thriller, set in and around the vast Navajo reservation in the American Southwest, is fiction that ...
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56,45 zł |
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Spirit Wolf
ISBN: 9781508418788 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spirit Wolf, the second novel in The last Sheep Eater series takes you deep into the mystical realms of the Mountain Shoshone's world of spirit animals, shapeshifters, and the powerful Toyawo, the spirit of the magnificent Wind River Mountains. Jim is a wise but aging mountain man who has been living with Red Eagle's band of Mountain Shoshone high in the winds. They had saved his life, and during his mending time he had fallen in love with the young medicine woman tending to him. He ends up accompanying the young Tukadika Puhagant on her quest to find the paint rocks and recover the lost...
Spirit Wolf, the second novel in The last Sheep Eater series takes you deep into the mystical realms of the Mountain Shoshone's world of spirit animal...
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36,32 zł |
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The Turquoise Trader: A Zia Yazzie Novel
ISBN: 9780692412732 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young Navajo man encounters the lucrative Indian jewelry business. A traditional Navajo, Zia Yazzie suddenly finds himself working in his Anglo father's entrepreneurial world during the 1970s Indian jewelry boom in Gallup, New Mexico. With the exception of his Navajo family, Zia has been a secret for 21. He grudgingly accepts the situation, but nobody is to know he is the son of Ben Monroe, super-successful Indian arts and crafts dealer. A senior at the University of New Mexico, Zia's hopes of graduating in the spring seem to evaporate. Because he is an excellent student, UNM offers him an...
A young Navajo man encounters the lucrative Indian jewelry business. A traditional Navajo, Zia Yazzie suddenly finds himself working in his Anglo fath...
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60,49 zł |
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Joe Long Road
ISBN: 9781511755542 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joe Long Road is a native who lives in a dilapidated trailer so far out on the res you can't really get there from here unless you are meant to. Being lost, scared, lonely and simmering with disillusionment could be necessary guideposts to finding your way there. The quest for happiness and fearless inner peace is not an easy quest, but it is worthy one. Joe Long Road is at once heartbreaking and heartwarming, like all good journeys are.
Joe Long Road is a native who lives in a dilapidated trailer so far out on the res you can't really get there from here unless you are meant to. Being...
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60,49 zł |
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The Smallpox Incident
ISBN: 9781511679527 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Peyton McKean faces the greatest challenge of his life when he confronts a deadly new terror weapon: genetically altered smallpox A DEADLY MICROBE: When a U.S. Customs inspector at the Canadian border succumbs to a fatal viral infection, a terrifying fear becomes reality. Someone has smuggled a devastating genetically altered strain of smallpox virus into the country. But where is it? And just how lethal might it be? A MASTER MURDERER: Sheik Abdul-Ghazi, oil billionaire turned terrorist, has masterminded a plot to spread a plague that will kill millions. He and his ruthless henchmen are...
Dr. Peyton McKean faces the greatest challenge of his life when he confronts a deadly new terror weapon: genetically altered smallpox A DEADLY MICROB...
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44,34 zł |
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Los hijos del Capitan Grant en la America del Sur
ISBN: 9781512015263 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Los hijos del capitan Grant (Les enfants du Capitaine Grant) es una novela "geografica" del escritor Julio Verne. Publicada en la Magazin de ilustracion y recreo (Magasin d'Education et de Recreation) de Hetzel desde el 20 de diciembre de 1865 (volumen 4, numero 43) hasta el 5 de diciembre de 1867 (volumen 8, numero 90), y de manera integra como volumen triple el 23 de junio de 1868. Adelantandose a su tiempo y utilizando el tema clasico del naufrago, Verne expone la vision de los que sufren la desaparicion, y expone el sentir de dos jovenes por la ausencia de su padre y la desesperacion de...
Los hijos del capitan Grant (Les enfants du Capitaine Grant) es una novela "geografica" del escritor Julio Verne. Publicada en la Magazin de ilustraci...
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37,13 zł |
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3 Coyote Tales: Stories from the Sioux, Karok, and Zuni Indians with Full Color Photos
ISBN: 9780692460962 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,91 zł |
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The White Man's Brother
ISBN: 9781512224184 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,43 zł |
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The Ramblings of a Revenant: (An Oral History of the Vampires)
ISBN: 9781514184707 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story about vampirism, or colonialism? A story about an Indian boy and his tutor, or boarding schools? A story about not being allowed to live, or die?
A story about vampirism, or colonialism? A story about an Indian boy and his tutor, or boarding schools? A story about not being allowed to live, or d...
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40,31 zł |
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Chief of Chiefs
ISBN: 9781498438896 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colin McGee pens a thoughtful fictional drama centering on Native-American life and family. Through his thoughtful piece, he incorporates colorful characters-namely Easy and his family-as Easy finds Christ. This unique piece is written with McGee's close attention to detail and character attentiveness as he captures the value of spiritual growth and self-discovery.
Colin McGee pens a thoughtful fictional drama centering on Native-American life and family. Through his thoughtful piece, he incorporates colorful cha...
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77,43 zł |
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Maud's Line
ISBN: 9780544705241 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
A debut novel chronicling the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the U.S. Government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined practicality. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but... FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE A debut novel chronicling the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine |
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76,82 zł |
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Superstition Canyon
ISBN: 9781514812310 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hiking in The Fallgrove National Forest, Parker and Tristan come across a relic that once belonged to the Native American tribe in that area. Now Parker is changing and Tristan's friend Jay and his grandpa have to share a bit of the objects secret and horrific past before they have to find a way to get the relic back before Parker discovers how to use it.
Hiking in The Fallgrove National Forest, Parker and Tristan come across a relic that once belonged to the Native American tribe in that area. Now Park...
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40,31 zł |
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