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1) 77° North
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An extraordinary debut novel - thematically significant, profoundly timely, magical in intent and execution.... A MUST READ. The Author himself best defines the intent of this novel. • First is to advocate Inuit culture, specifically the role of shaman. 77° North recognizes this ancient tradition and hopes, within the confines of this mythical adventure, we bring new perspective to the forefront for the stewards of...
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In the late 1800s, post-Civil War, two young Cheyenne sisters are wrenched from a loving family, kidnapped and incarcerated at Rose Academy, a harsh, Indian boarding school established to assimilate native young people, teach them English, and eradicate their knowledge of traditional ways, considered inferior to the ways of the Washita (whites).Forbidden to speak their native language, the sisters are whipped and punished, however, the school harsh...
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Jandamarra is an aboriginal warrior of the spiritual Kimberley area of Australia, home to the tribe known as the Bunuba people. Jandamarra is a legendary hero of the 1890s known to his people as a Jalgangurru, a magic man, due to his extraordinary skills and abilities.
He is a cheeky, likeable boy, and a quick learner. At around 12 years of age, Jandamarra, named Pigeon by the whitefellas, begins working on a sheep station, where he learns to shoot,...
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La culture et les croyances inuites, pratiquées dans un environnement nordique exigeant, offrent des perspectives et des connaissances particulièrement pertinentes pour appréhender le monde moderne. Dans un esprit de transmission, ce livre rassemble les témoignages d'aînés abordant des sujets qui, espèrent-ils, permettront une compréhension plus profonde des pratiques et des savoirs inuits. Les enseignements transmis à travers leurs récits...
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The World Turtle Is a brief overview of the historical turtle that is found between lands in all of mythology. The world was full of beheadings from South America to the western countries an elephant in Hinduism. A war was walking the earth and arrows were piercing the shell. A tribe's daughter is thrown from the top of a pyramid with her heart ripped from her chest, The Aztecs holding a still beating heart up for the sun to please the gods. China...
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"Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic."-Tommy Orange, author of There, There
After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Diné...
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"The Language of Trees, like Whitman's Leaves of Grass though in a magic realist vernacular, refreshingly asserts that deeply American conviction: the gravest natural instinct is to heal and be healed. A shimmeringly heartfelt story."
-Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked
"Crafted with suspenseful pacing and delicate imagery, Ilie Ruby's book combines the qualities of an irresistible ghost story with a healing...
8) Betrayed!
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For ten long years Jodie Breault has been hounded by the mystery surrounding her mother's drowning and her father's disappearance in a boating accident on Lake Champlain, VT. A senior at a Connecticut high school, Jodie resides with her parents' friends,, a foreign-born couple that harbors many secrets. That year she falls in love with a classmate, C. Travis Jones, AKA Jonesy, but they are separated when he goes off to college in California and...
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We live a big world. There are so many locations to explore and learn about. This book has different types of categories about locations worldwide.This can be a fun activity to do by yourself to see how many places you know, or with others to see how much they know.
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A troubled Chicago physician sets off on an urgent road trip across the Plains to reach his dying father's bedside. When he arrives on the impoverished Indian reservation he fled as a teen, he discovers his dwindling family sick, the neglected hospital facing closure, and the tribe locked in a culture war with outside energy developers. It's not his fight, he thinks. Until he encounters a fierce young Lakota gang member, a sharp-tongued grandmother,...
11) A Call of Love
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Tess, a revered princess of the shamanic realm, bears the sacred responsibility of perserving the ancient ways. Yet, she finds herself entangled in the ways of the white man for far too long. It's causing her powers to wane rapidly. If she fails to find a suitable mate before her impending birthday, a dreadful curse will befall her, rendering her a mere hollow shell of a woman. When a shaman seeks a union, she emits a resounding call of love,...
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One man was hers for a season. The other, for a lifetime.Many moons have passed since the spirits threw Pretty Wolf together with a scrawny brave and left them to scratch out an existence in a deserted, war-torn village. Though he became dear to her, duty to the People lured her away. Back now with her fugitive clan in faraway Spanish Territory, she lives at the trade post with her longtime betrothed, the Englishman called Iron Wood. When their war...
13) The Arctic Sky
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Through the lens of Inuit astronomical knowledge and traditions, The Arctic Sky underscores the complexities of the Inuit worldview, where nature's realm is intrinsically one with human society. In essence, this work asserts another way of knowing the universe.
For Inuit, the celestial and atmospheric spheres were of primary concern. Time, seasonal and diurnal, was measured by the ever-changing positions of the sun, moon, and stars across the sky,...
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The situation between Deputy Brock Guthrie and Daphne Decker is complicated. Can he get past his hatred of Indians and accept Daphne for the woman she is within instead of seeing only her Comanche heritage? Will he take a chance and come down from the fence he sits on, or will he turn away from the possibility of a lifetime of happiness with Daphne?
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He was determined to stay single. Fate has other plans. James "Maverick" Lonetree heads to New Mexico for his mandatory leave. Out one night he finds himself in a bar where the stunning bartender, Tempest Burnell, makes him feel things he swore no woman would. She watched her past walk into her bar…and realized he has no idea who she is. Tempest recognizes him the moment her eyes land on him. His flirting is as natural as his breathing and she refuses...
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Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned,...
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In the Anishnaabe language and worldview, stones are alive, infused with life force or spirit. Although many of the stories are about loss, under that surface they are alive, celebrating the beauty and preciousness of life.-Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
In these 14 unique stories, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm takes on complex and dangerous emotions, exploring the gamut of modern Anishinaabe experience. Through unforgettable characters, these stories-about love...
19) Taste of Memory
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TASIMU is a youth who can call down the power of the northern lights to win a rock-throwing contest, but he is also a boy troubled by the mystery surrounding his birth. Others taunt him, claiming that he isn't truly human. Before he can discover the truth, gold is discovered on tribal land, and soldiers from the Empire come north with orders to remove his people from their northern home. Taste of Memory deals with issues of family breakup, ritual...
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Chance City Beginnings Part OneCome meet the early settlers of Chance in the first part of this short story prequel series to the Chance City Series. Learn how the town came into existence and become acquainted with the ancestors of Chance City, Oklahoma.Chance City Beginnings Part TwoContinue the adventure and meet more of the early settlers of Chance in the second part of this short story prequel series to the Chance City Series. When jaded soiled...
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