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Mutant Message from Forever: A Novel of Aboriginal Wisom
ISBN: 9780060930264 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following her modern classic and worldwide bestseller A Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan's long-awaited second novel is a tale of self-enlightenment about aboriginal twins separated at birth and the searchfor roots that reunites them from opposite sides of the globe. Message from Forever is an incredibly moving story in which the power of purity, acceptance, and openness transcends injustice and degradation, directing is to live our lives in accordance with ageless values and simple wisdom.
10 Messages of Aboriginal Wisdom You Will Explore In Message From... Following her modern classic and worldwide bestseller A Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan's long-awaited second novel is a tale of sel...
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69,34 zł |
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Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun
ISBN: 9780060977283 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,000 copies have been sold worldwide.
Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun follows in this bestselling tradition. Rooted in the ancient... With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writin...
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69,34 zł |
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Compass of the Heart: A Novel of Discovery
ISBN: 9780385496711 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love is very tricky, warns Winona Pathfinder, the elderly medicine woman who has introduced psychologist Meggie O'Connor to the spiritual ways of Lakota prayer and healing. Soon, however, Meggie's teacher and friend will cross over to the Other Side, leaving Meggie, just forty and newly divorced, to make her way on her own. But before she goes, Winona nudges her younger cousin Hawk to walk alongside Meggie on a journey of the heart and soul. Wary yet optimistic, these two seek out the Pipe Road -- the path that will lead them to harmony with the world and with each other. Love may indeed be...
Love is very tricky, warns Winona Pathfinder, the elderly medicine woman who has introduced psychologist Meggie O'Connor to the spiritual ways of Lako...
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82,39 zł |
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The Grass Dancer
ISBN: 9780425159538 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by the lore of her Sioux heritage, this captivating (New York Times Book Review) critically-acclaimed novel from Susan Power weaves the stories of the old and the young, of broken families, romantic rivals, men and women in love and at war...
Set on a North Dakota reservation, The Grass Dancer reveals the harsh price of unfulfilled longings and the healing power of mystery and hope. Rich with drama and infused with the magic of the everyday, it takes readers on a journey through both past and present in a tale as resonant and haunting as an ancestor's memory,... Inspired by the lore of her Sioux heritage, this captivating (New York Times Book Review) critically-acclaimed novel from Susan Power weaves...
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78,06 zł |
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Man Who Killed The Deer
ISBN: 9780804001946 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Martiniano, The Man Who Killed the Deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough understanding of Indian values.
The story of Martiniano, The Man Who Killed the Deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and ...
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72,57 zł |
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People Of The Valley
ISBN: 9780804002431 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Frank Waters s most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change."
One of Frank Waters s most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking ...
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67,38 zł |
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The Woman At Otowi Crossing
ISBN: 9780804008938 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development. In keeping with its tradition of allowing the best of its list to thrive, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press is particularly proud to reissue The Woman at Otowi Crossing by best-selling author Frank Waters. This...
Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen ...
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95,18 zł |
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Drowning in Fire: Volume 48
ISBN: 9780816521685 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Josh Henneha has always been a traveler, drowning in dreams, burning with desires. As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for something he cannot tame. Quiet and skinny and shy, he feels out of place, at once inflamed and ashamed by his attraction to other boys. Driven by a need to understand himself and his history, Josh struggles to reconcile the conflicting voices he hears--from the messages of sin and scorn of the non-Indian Christian churches his parents attend in order to assimilate, to the powerful... Josh Henneha has always been a traveler, drowning in dreams, burning with desires. As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Cre... |
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108,19 zł |
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The Way We Make Sense
ISBN: 9781879960664 / Angielski / Miękka / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiction. Native American Studies. Rendered in intertwining passages of prose and poetry, this novel begins with the story of Indiana Redpaint, whose father traded her for a rodeo entry fee, and follows the path of her daughter, Manna, whose life has been deeply marked by her mother's losses. Hitch-hiking her way to Gallup, NM, Manna finds wholeness and healing in unexpected people and places.
Fiction. Native American Studies. Rendered in intertwining passages of prose and poetry, this novel begins with the story of Indiana Redpaint, whose f...
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51,82 zł |
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Forever Island
ISBN: 9780393336917 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
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The Red Indian Fairy Book
ISBN: 9781604597530 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Red Indian Fairy Book" was originally published in 1917. This edition contains all sixty-four of the original stories and all seventeen of the original illustrations and the original color plate (used on the cover). Of special interest to storyteller
"The Red Indian Fairy Book" was originally published in 1917. This edition contains all sixty-four of the original stories and all seventeen of the or...
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132,59 zł |
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House Made of Dawn
ISBN: 9780061859977 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world -- modern, industrial America -- pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust. And the young man, torn in two, descends into... The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a for... |
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69,34 zł |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
ISBN: 9780520289376 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant children's books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of a girl left alone for eighteen years in the aftermath of violent encounters with Europeans on her home island off the coast of Southern California. This special edition includes two excised chapters, published here for the first time, as well as a critical introduction and essays that offer new background on the archaeological, legal, and colonial histories of Native peoples in California. Sara...
This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant children's books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, |
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136,37 zł |
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The Round House
ISBN: 9780062065247 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Riveting and suspenseful, arguably... The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Na... |
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138,77 zł |
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The Round House
ISBN: 9780062065254 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Riveting and suspenseful, arguably... The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Na... |
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82,35 zł |
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Forever Island
ISBN: 9781561645640 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,25 zł |
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary Edition)
ISBN: 9780802121998 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexie s prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts. "The Boston Globe"
Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" is for the American Indian what Richard Wright s "Native Son" was for the black American in 1940. "Chicago Tribune" Sherman Alexie s celebrated first collection, " The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," established its author as one of America s most important and provocative voices. The basis... Alexie s prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with ...
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73,72 zł |
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X Y Z
ISBN: 9781447478645 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1883 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. X Y Z is one of Greens novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was years bestseller, establishing Greens reputation. Green wrote at a time...
This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1883 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. X Y Z is one of...
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72,81 zł |
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The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock
ISBN: 9781447478744 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1895 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock is one of Greens novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was years bestseller, establishing Greens...
This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1895 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. The Doctor, His...
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58,23 zł |
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The Mayor's Wife
ISBN: 9781447478638 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. The Mayors Wife is one of Greens novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was years bestseller, establishing Greens reputation. Green wrote at...
This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. The Mayors Wife...
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111,66 zł |
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