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Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun
ISBN: 9780060977283 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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58,91 zł |
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Drowning in Fire
ISBN: 9780816521685 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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84,00 zł |
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Forever Island
ISBN: 9780393336917 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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80,00 zł |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
ISBN: 9780520289376 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 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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124,51 zł |
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Raven's Lament
ISBN: 9781771453998 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What if a native legend came back to life and was saddened by the destruction of his people, their culture and their environment? What if that legend was the Haida creator god Raven and he spirited away the girl you were falling in love with? What if you didn’t believe in native spiritualism and found yourself battling Raven with only a shaman to help you? What if a native legend came back to life and was saddened by the destruction of his people, their culture and their environmen... |
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74,22 zł |
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The Round House
ISBN: 9780062065254 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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71,58 zł |
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Forever Island
ISBN: 9781561645640 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,95 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. 16-18 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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67,37 zł |
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Green Grass, Running Water : A Novel
ISBN: 9780553373684 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam project. These three--and others--are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance and there they...
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform ...
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71,58 zł |
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Arbat Square - A Story of Our Time
ISBN: 9781621373322 / Angielski / Miękka / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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122,92 zł |
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Plaza Mayor - A Story of Our Time
ISBN: 9781621373339 / Angielski / Miękka / 622 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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122,92 zł |
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Spirit on the Run
ISBN: 9781939927972 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Derek has always been a runner. He's spent his life running from his problems, his hurts and from the person he hates above all others-himself. This time though running doesn't involve a change of address, disconnected phone or a drinking binge, but an actual pair of running shoes. And this time, he's running for his life. On the surface Derek is a family man who seems to have it all: a loving wife and kids, beautiful home and a great job-only Derek knows the truth. As a Native American kid from an unknown tribe, bounced around in an abusive foster system, he eventually found a home but never...
Derek has always been a runner. He's spent his life running from his problems, his hurts and from the person he hates above all others-himself. This t...
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76,98 zł |
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In the Valley of the Smoking River: Coming of Age
ISBN: 9781530900749 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the Valley of the Smoking River: Coming of Age A synopsis Welcome first time readers and returning readers, Welcome back "In the Valley of the Smoking River: Coming of Age," is the second book of the "In the Valley..." series. Key tribal members from book one continue their spiritual and life's journeys, while new members join the story, adding color and depth to the total experience. Come join us in the valley of the smoking river and walk with the ancient ones. Become part of the ancient culture. Come experience times of hunger, times of feast, times of danger, times of joy, times of...
In the Valley of the Smoking River: Coming of Age A synopsis Welcome first time readers and returning readers, Welcome back "In the Valley of the Smo...
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44,16 zł |
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Woman of the Mists
ISBN: 9780692527979 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Long before the arrival of Columbus to the new world, a magnificent and brave people flourished in a verdant tropical land. Their culture, steeped in spiritual life and tradition, provided them sacred wisdom and strength that survived generations. In this land of abundance, a young a woman, Teeka, surrendered her heart to the shaman's son, Auro. But when a raiding rival tribe invaded their peaceful village and she was stolen away by their leader, her life changed forever.
Long before the arrival of Columbus to the new world, a magnificent and brave people flourished in a verdant tropical land. Their culture, steeped in ...
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70,52 zł |
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White Cloud and the Golden Canyon
ISBN: 9781942899914 / Angielski / Twarda / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,43 zł |
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The Last Shaman
ISBN: 9781512379143 / Angielski / Miękka / 790 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set against the grandeur and majesty of the Alaska of today, here is a story of the first citizens... the first of North America, actually... a people who have reside in this frozen land for over 30,000 years... Follow them in their quest for fairness in their dealings with the corruption of modern society...
Set against the grandeur and majesty of the Alaska of today, here is a story of the first citizens... the first of North America, actually... a people...
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113,84 zł |
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Enemy Arrows : Toronto in the Year 1420
ISBN: 9781460209288 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Hunting. Being hunted. Voyages to distant lands by canoe. Punishing games of lacrosse, the Little Brother of War, and the frightening realities of Big Brother War. These are the experiences of three young men who lived in what is now called Toronto during the early 15th Century. The three friends learn skills they need to survive in a beautiful but dangerous world. Their skills are tested when they must make difficult choices that will affect not only their survival, but the continued existence of their people. The events described in ENEMY ARROWS took place along the rivers and ancient...
Hunting. Being hunted. Voyages to distant lands by canoe. Punishing games of lacrosse, the Little Brother of War, and the frightening realities of Big...
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113,64 zł |
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Josanie's War: A Chiricahua Apache Novel
ISBN: 9780806144962 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. On May 17, 1885, five small bands of Chiricahua Apaches left their camps on Turkey Creek, seventeen miles southwest of Fort Apache, Arizona, and fled the reservation. Three of these bands, led by Chihuahua, Naiche, and Geronimo, were of the old Chokonen division of the tribe. The other two bands, led by Nana and Mangas, were Chihenne, or Warm Springs, Apaches. Together they numbered 35 men, 8 boys tagged by reservation officials as capable of bearing arms, and 101 women and children. Charles F. Lummis, a journalist who accompanied General George Crook during some of his attempts to recapture...
On May 17, 1885, five small bands of Chiricahua Apaches left their camps on Turkey Creek, seventeen miles southwest of Fort Apache, Arizona, and fled ...
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91,37 zł |
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The Journal of Penrose, Seaman
ISBN: 9780957679115 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This long-forgotten factional novel was the literary sensation of its day. The Poet Laureate Robert Southey said of it 'Truth is often stranger than falsehood; and so it is in this case'. This is the account of the privateer William Williams's adventures after being marooned upon the Miskito Coast. It is the first story of a message in a bottle, of buried treasure, the first novel written in America, and incredibly anti-slavery, at a time when America's first three presidents owned slaves. The descriptions of flora and fauna are unparalleled, and some of Williams' stories of mammoth bones and...
This long-forgotten factional novel was the literary sensation of its day. The Poet Laureate Robert Southey said of it 'Truth is often stranger than f...
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110,52 zł |
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Powhantuwa's River
ISBN: 9780692202395 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fictional story of a First Native American Tribe living on the Choptank River in the wilds of ancient Maryland. Of a young mother desperately fleeing for her life, and that of her one week old daughter, Powhantuwa, who grows up to become the mother of another First Native American girl, Shaahatuck, heroine in the next book in the series, "Run To My River." It is about the haunting spirits that weave throughout their lives, until one ancient manages to haunt a millennial, Irish American young woman, Shannon Fitzpatrick in a following book, Run to My River
Fictional story of a First Native American Tribe living on the Choptank River in the wilds of ancient Maryland. Of a young mother desperately fleeing ...
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44,22 zł |
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