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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Synopsis Alexie's National Book Award winner chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. Includes poignant drawings that reflect the character's art.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Staff Pick Ceremony cast a spell on me; I read it over the course of a day, reluctantly putting it down only to eat and walk with the dog. It is the story of Tayo, whose soul has been horribly broken, and of his perilous journey back to wholeness. How rare it is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie Staff Pick Darkly funny, sharply observant, Flight lays bare the experience of a teenaged outsider circa 2007. Alternately heartbreaking and wondrous, Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years tells the story of an orphan careening through foster homes until... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Medicine (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families — the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multigenerational portrait of strong... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Standing Woman (History & Heritage) by Winona Laduke Publisher Comments A powerful and poignant novel tracing the lives of seven generations of Anishinaabe (O)bwe/Chippewa).'...an impressive fiction debut....skillfully intertwines social history. oral myth and character study...." Publishers Weekly.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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War Dances by Sherman Alexie Synopsis In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Publisher Comments Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River area in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexi Publisher Comments In this "compelling and impressive collection" (Washington Times), Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly paints a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These interlinked tales are... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments In this darkly comic collection of 22 interlocked tales, Alexia brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Anna Lee Waldo Publisher Comments Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments This acclaimed collection of stories presents the kind of native American rarely seen in literature--one portrayed without stereotypes--who pays his bills, holds down jobs, and falls in and out of love.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria Publisher Comments This novel of the Dakota Sioux written by Sioux ethnologist Deloria takes protagonist Waterlily through the everyday and the extraordinary events of a Sioux woman's life.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch Publisher Comments Jim Loney is a half-breed Indian living in a small Montana town. He's 35 years old, and he's slowly going mad. A compelling story of the modern American Indian, out of warpaint and costume, with no tribe and no home in nature or the cheap substitutes... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale Publisher Comments A novel of urban Indian life.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the Whale by Linda Hogan Publisher Comments Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Indian Literature: An Anthology by Alan Velie Publisher Comments Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a large selection of poetry and fiction by American Indian women, including an excerpt from Louise Erdrichs Love Medicine and... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sun Tracks #0017: Secrets from the Center of the World by Joy Harjo Publisher Comments "My house is the red earth; it could be the center of the world." This is Navajo country, a land of mysterious and delicate beauty. "Stephen Strom's photographs lead you to that place," writes Joy Harjo. "The camera eye becomes a space you can move... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Native American Wisdom (Classic Wisdom Collection) by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments This book isolates the essence of Native American wisdom: the essential harmony of natural and human worlds--in short, accessible bits of philosophy. A major percentage of the profits will be donated to organizations supporting Native American causes.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hundred in the Hand (Lakota Westerns) by Joseph M. Marshall III Publisher Comments Seeking to complete the compelling story of the American West, best-selling Lakota author Joseph Marshall brings a new slant to the traditional Western: historical fiction written from the Native American viewpoint. The first novel in this new series... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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