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(0)Sherman Alexie
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English
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Sixteen new stories and fifteen classics by the National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of War Dances.
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades—from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning...
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades—from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning...
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of multiple award-winning books comes this powerful, fast, and timely story of a troubled foster teenager—a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father—who learns the true meaning of terror.
About to commit a devastating act, young "Zits" finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He
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Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
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2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category
"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie
Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves
Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?
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A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime
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...Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences,...
7) War dances
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Language
English
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As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views--until he becomes the target of media distortion.
12) Thunder Boy Jr
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Language
English
Description
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in 1931, and was murdered seven years later. He reappears in 1992 on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.
15) Blasphemy
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.
18) Indian killer
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2008], c1996
Language
English
Description
While a serial killer stalks and scalps white men in Seattle, John Smith, a Native American adopted into a white family, becomes dissatisfied with his life, and, as the killer searches for his next victim, John descends into the madness of Seattle's homeless.
20) Smoke signals
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Victor and Thomas have lived their entire lives on the same Indian Reservation but couldn't be more different. When Victor is called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. The catch: Victor has to take Thomas along for the ride.