» książki » Fiction - Indigenous
 |
Kokopelli's Thunder: Fall of the Anasazi
ISBN: 9781491719817 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1938 in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon as Zed Moonhawk helps train a group of Civilian Conservation Corpsmen who are excavating and rebuilding Anasazi ruins. Moonhawk is exceptionally skilled at his masonry work--as well he should be. After all, he was there when the massive structures were erected eight hundred years earlier. Zed Moonhawk is the legendary figure known as Kokopelli.Cursed with eternal life, Zed and his twelve-year-old son, Turq, are the last of the Anasazi. For centuries, their people dominated the southwestern landscape with the help of the last pteradons on the...
It is 1938 in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon as Zed Moonhawk helps train a group of Civilian Conservation Corpsmen who are excavating and rebuilding Anasaz...
|
cena:
83,37 zł |
 |
Kokopelli's Thunder: Fall of the Anasazi
ISBN: 9781491719831 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
127,37 zł |
 |
The Powwow Highway
ISBN: 9780826354891 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Takes us into the places where Indians live . . . their jokes, their lovemaking, their hearts. . . . Leaves me feeling as if I had made the journey myself.--DenverPost
Takes us into the places where Indians live . . . their jokes, their lovemaking, their hearts. . . . Leaves me feeling as if I had made the journey my...
|
cena:
87,77 zł |
 |
Ghost Dance
ISBN: 9781497644588 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ghost Dance, it is through Chance's keen eyes and weary heart that readers embark on a journey of discovery and sorrow.
On the run across the plains, Chance stumbles upon Running Horse, a Sioux warrior enacting the sacred and violent ritual of the Sun Dance. Quickly, Chance is pulled into the world of the Sioux people. As their civilization teeters on the brink of destruction, the Sioux perform the mournful and frightening Ghost Dance. Clashes with the white man are frequent; the Wounded Knee Massacre approaches, still in the unknown distance; and violence and anger... In Ghost Dance, it is through Chance's keen eyes and weary heart that readers embark on a journey of discovery and sorrow.
On the ru... |
cena:
87,95 zł |
 |
The 53rd Parallel
ISBN: 9781611530766 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ***In his evocative debut novel Carl Nordgren weaves an ambitious tale about the power of dreams, the hope of new beginnings, and the dangers of ghosts who haunt our past.*** In The 53rd Parallel, book one of the River of Lakes series, Brian Burke emigrates from 1950s West Ireland to the wilderness of Northwest Ontario with his partner Maureen O'Toole. He's been exiled from his village, and she is running from her IRA past. The dreams of an Ojibway clan elder bring the Irish to the sacred place on the River, where they build The Great Lodge of Innish Cove. The dreams tell of a white man who...
***In his evocative debut novel Carl Nordgren weaves an ambitious tale about the power of dreams, the hope of new beginnings, and the dangers of ghost...
|
cena:
88,64 zł |
 |
Two of Hearts
ISBN: 9780451473257 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the Between Breaths novels comes a gripping romance about finding yourself while taking a second chance at your first love...
Dakota Nakos was always the resilient, strong-willed achiever. But when her father dies and she's entrusted with the family's casino, she feels vulnerable, scared, and more than a little emotional --not exactly the best time to see an old lover she's never really gotten over. Dakota once meant the world to Shane Garrity. Then suddenly he left town to train as a U.S. Marshal, and their love for each other crashed into a memory.... From the author of the Between Breaths novels comes a gripping romance about finding yourself while taking a second chance at your first lov...
|
cena:
96,79 zł |
 |
Listener in the Snow
ISBN: 9780991476305 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Listener abounds with Native stories, Algonquin legend, Indian characters, and heartrending strife set against the Northern Minnesota snowscape. Native mojo and a windigo vision stir up a storm in this adventure. The struggle between domestic commitment and deceit plays out through Tatty Langille, the Mi'kmaq storyteller. His path to save his marriage is anything but typical-events explode in surreal settings, through winter storms, and during tavern brawls in rural Minnesota, weaving Native culture with odd Scandinavian characters. Tatty believes his Mary goes north to midwife a cousin's...
Listener abounds with Native stories, Algonquin legend, Indian characters, and heartrending strife set against the Northern Minnesota snowscape. Nativ...
|
cena:
78,97 zł |
 |
No Mercy: A Mercy Gunderson Mystery
ISBN: 9781476798509 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
109,95 zł |
 |
Bitter Creek
ISBN: 9781497676589 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the latest installment of Peter Bowen's acclaimed mystery series, Gabriel Du Pre investigates a century-old crime
Lieutenant John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq and the son of Gabriel Du Pre's girlfriend, to accept the Navy Cross. First, however, Du Pre and Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussaint Saloon. They locate him soon enough, disheveled and stinking of stale booze, but a sobering visit to a medicine man's sweat lodge reveals a much greater mystery:... In the latest installment of Peter Bowen's acclaimed mystery series, Gabriel Du Pre investigates a century-old crime
Lieutenant John... |
cena:
74,75 zł |
 |
Antelope Woman
ISBN: 9780062375285 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich's 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new cover art, and a new foreword by the author--a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures. "Audacious and surprising... One of America's most distinctive fictional voices."--Boston Globe When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to... This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich's 1998 novel now features fascina... |
cena:
74,75 zł |
 |
Moon in the Water
ISBN: 9781491734834 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Moon in the Water" by STAN GORDON ..".an extraordinary novel. Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, it adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Apaches in their last, desperate bid for freedom and brings Lozen, who previously has been a shadow figure, to vivid and unforgettable life." -Jane Candia Coleman, author of "Tombstone Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers" "Lozen and the mythological world of her people, the Chiricahua Apache, rise from these pages in glorious, breathing visions. At last, a novel written as if from the insides of this fierce, mysterious tribe who... "Moon in the Water" by STAN GORDON ..".an extraordinary novel. Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, it adds a new dimension to our unders... |
cena:
78,97 zł |
 |
Along the Far Shores
ISBN: 9780993156700 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 12th century Irish woman sets out on the legendary voyage to America of Prince Madog of Wales. Aisling, despite her best efforts has failed to become the seer her mother desired, so when her mother dies leaving her alone, she departs Ireland for Wales to be with her brother, Cormac, at the royal court at Gwynedd. There she finds he is joining Prince Madog's voyage to the western lands in order to escape the threatening war. After Madog refuses to let her come with them she stows away, desperate to remain with her brother. A terrible storm arises and she is tossed overboard by a resentful...
A 12th century Irish woman sets out on the legendary voyage to America of Prince Madog of Wales. Aisling, despite her best efforts has failed to becom...
|
cena:
65,95 zł |
 |
Spider Woman's Daughter: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
ISBN: 9780062420589 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan careen into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office is hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie too wants in on the investigation, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is put in charge of finding the shooter. Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case... It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan careen into the parkin... |
cena:
83,55 zł |
 |
Oklahoma and Else
ISBN: 9780988384460 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first stories in this baker's dozen are set in the fictive Guess County, Oklahoma, and trace the county's evolution from the times of folk lore to today's manicured tourist traps. In them you will meet the shape-shifter Jake Skin, a pioneer couple who bring life back into their relationship by saving the life of an infant, and adolescents shedding their youth while coming to terms with their place and heritage. The Guess County tales are accompanied by stories set somewhere else. Two stories investigate "gothic" mental states, two stories have their origins in the Vietnam war, and two...
The first stories in this baker's dozen are set in the fictive Guess County, Oklahoma, and trace the county's evolution from the times of folk lore to...
|
cena:
70,35 zł |
 |
Ordinary Wolves
ISBN: 9781571311214 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known. Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by hunting, fishing, and trading. And yet, though he idolizes the indigenous hunters who have taught him how to survive, when he travels to the nearby Inupiaq village, he is jeered and pummeled by the native children for being white. When he leaves for the city as...
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dog...
|
cena:
74,79 zł |
 |
Montana Harvest
ISBN: 9780990568407 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder for profit meets Native American justice The FBI contacts Cedar County Montana, Sheriff Jim Buchanan concerning several missing person investigations. As the case consumes him and threatens the safety of his family, Jim is forced to own up to a clan secret and experience the mystical nature of his Native American heritage. Readers of Montana Harvest, the first novel in the Jim Buchanan Series will experience a clandestine, international crime syndicate operating in plain sight in the western Montana Rockies. It will take all the resources of Sheriff Buchanan's Native Ways to bring them...
Murder for profit meets Native American justice The FBI contacts Cedar County Montana, Sheriff Jim Buchanan concerning several missing person investig...
|
cena:
60,01 zł |
 |
The Legend of Everett Ruess: Pledge to the Wind
ISBN: 9780991118335 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eighty years ago a young man disappeared in the Utah wilderness. A large manhunt followed, but all they turned up was his last camp and a couple burros. Numerous historical books have been published that attempt to prove what happened to Everett, but his fate remains one of the biggest mysteries of the southwest. Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess follows the adventures of Everett Ruess from his appearance in the southwest in 1931 when he was barely seventeen, until his disappearance in 1934, shortly before he turned 21. This historical fiction novel focuses more on how he... Eighty years ago a young man disappeared in the Utah wilderness. A large manhunt followed, but all they turned up was his last camp and a couple bu... |
cena:
96,75 zł |
 |
Tears in the Grass
ISBN: 9781459732117 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction -- Shortlisted
For Elinor Greystone, the only way forward is back into the past. At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers and stuffed bison, sets out to find something that was stolen almost a lifetime ago. With what little time she has left, she is determined to find the child taken from her after she, only a child herself, was raped at a residential school. It is 1968, and a harsh winter and harsher attitudes await Elinor, her... Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction -- Shortlisted For Elinor Greystone, the only way forward is back into the past. |
cena:
79,15 zł |
 |
The Mustangers
ISBN: 9781942869078 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alfred Dennis produces another great western, historical fiction with plenty of action and adventure. Follow the Stallings family as they try to tame the wild mustang horses running free on the grasslands of the Brazos River Bottoms of Texas. The year eighteen forty six finds two families along the mighty Arkansas River locked in a bloodthirsty feud that seems to have no end. Ben Stallings finally decides he has lost enough of his sons to the senseless killings. Over the arguments of his wild son Corey, Ben crosses the Arkansas to meet with Levi Pike, the Pike family patriarch to declare a...
Alfred Dennis produces another great western, historical fiction with plenty of action and adventure. Follow the Stallings family as they try to tame ...
|
cena:
73,87 zł |
 |
The Raven Mocker's Legacy: Book 2: The Cherokee Chronicles
ISBN: 9780988771123 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "These books should and may eventually become the cinematic "Harry Potter of Native America." - K. T. Hutke Fields, principal chief, Nachez Nation
Take a riveting journey into the world of the ancient Cherokee in this new book that picks up the saga of the Raven Mocker witch and his legacy. "These books should and may eventually become the cinematic "Harry Potter of Native America." - K. T. Hutke Fields, principal chief, Nachez Nation |
cena:
87,99 zł |
Czytaj nas na:
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
