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"The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling." — Los Angeles Times
A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable literary career.
It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting
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c2013
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252 p. : ill. 23 cm.
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For two years, Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut; some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope.
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[2000]
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29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Tink, tink, tink, tink, sang cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress. Jenna's heart beats to the brum, brum, brum, brum of the powwow drum as she daydreams about the clinking song of her grandma's jingle dancing. Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared by generations of women in her family, and she hopes to dance at the next powwow. But she has a problem -- how will her dress sing if it has no jingles?
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[2018]
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324 pages ; 21 cm
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"On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children...
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2011, ©2003
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2 videodiscs (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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En esta espectacular historia--basada en un antiguo mito--acerca de la madurez, un impulsivo niño llamado Kenai es mágicamente transformado en un oso. De esta forma, se ve forzado a ver al mundo desde los ojos de alguien más, aprendiendo así valiosas lecciones acerca de la vida, mientras lucha por regresar a su forma humana. Kenai, incapaz de comunicarse con su verdadero hermano, hace equipo con Koda, un comiquisimo osezno, para emprender un valeroso...
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[2024]
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1 videodisc (26 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Augustine, Charmaine, and Jim are some of the hundreds of thousands of Native American children placed in residential schools since the 1870s. The United States government funded over 360 boarding schools, which systematically destroyed native cultures and communities. The philosophy of the US Indian Boarding School policy was brutal: 'Kill the Indian, Save the Man.' Discover how three generations of boarding school survivors and their families...
10) Lost birds
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 27
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
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From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways. Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth...
12) Red Bird danced
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[2024]
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"Ariel and Tomah have lived in the city's intertribal housing complex all their lives. But for both of them, this Dagwaagin (Autumn) season is different than any before. From his bench outside the front door of his building, Tomah watches his community move around him. He is better at making people laugh than he is at schoolwork, but often it feels like his neighbor Ariel is the only one who really sees him, even in her sadness. Ariel has always danced...
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