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'emor (Leviticus 21: 1-24: 23) and Haftarah (Ezekiel 44: 15-31): The JPS B'Nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary, Paperback - Jeffrey K. Salkin

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Reducere. 'Emor (Leviticus 21: 1-24: 23) and Haftarah (Ezekiel 44: 15-31): The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah...

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Winter Thunder, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

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Reducere. In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver-a mere boy-are stranded in the open country, mil...

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Expedition to the Southwest: An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, & Oklahoma, Paperback - James William Abert

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Lieutenant James William Abert (1820-97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers received orders in 1845 to explore the Canadian River re...

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Teddy Kollek: Builder of Jerusalem, Paperback - Abraham Rabinovich

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DescriptionIn this dramatic portrait of Teddy Kolleck, young readers will learn about the man who became one of the most daring and valuable leader...

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K'tonton's Sukkot Adventure, Paperback - Sadie Rose Weilerstein

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Reducere. K'tonton-the lovable Jewish "Tom Thumb"-has cast a magic spell on children (and their parents and grandparents) for generations, delighting countle...

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Hotel Splendid, Paperback - Marie Redonnet

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Reducere. These three short novels are the first works to appear in English by a remarkable contemporary French author, Marie Redonnet. Born in Paris in 1947...

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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians, Paperback - Morris Edward Opler

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Reducere. "We are dealing here with a living literature, " wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. Firs...

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It is a Good Day to Die: Indian Eyewitnesses Tell the Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Paperback - Herman J. Viola

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Reducere. ``I am an old man, and soon my spirit must leave this earth to join the spirit of my fathers. Therefore, I shall speak only the truth in telling wh...

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The Trickster and the Troll, Paperback - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

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Reducere. The friendship and adventures of Iktomi, the trickster figure from Lakota legend, and Troll, the familiar character from Norse mythology, are the s...

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Forever Valley, Paperback - Marie Redonnet

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Reducere. These three short novels are the first works to appear in English by a remarkable contemporary French author, Marie Redonnet. Born in Paris in 1947...

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Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri, Paperback - Leroy R. Hafen

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Reducere. John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward ...

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Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs, Paperback - Thomas Henry Tibbles

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Reducere. Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1...

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Wakinyan. Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Stephen E. Feraca

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Presents an overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through finely detailed description...

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Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary, Paperback - Dik Alan Daso

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On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle led a flight of sixteen B-25 bombers off the flight deck of the USS Hornet on one of the most daring ra...

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Madman at Kilifi - Clifton Gachagua

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Reducere. Clifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of c...

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Lana's Lakota Moons, Paperback - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

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Reducere. This charming and poignant contemporary story about two Lakota girls and their Laotian friend illuminates for children and adults the Lakota meanin...

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The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults, Paperback - C. L. R. James

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Reducere. After more than a decade in the United States, the Caribbean writer C. L. R. James ran afoul of McCarthyism in 1953 and was deported. In exile in L...

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Mosquitoes Suck!, Paperback - Katherine Richardson Bruna

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Reducere. Using a science comic format to engage readers of all ages, Mosquitoes SUCK! conveys essential information about mosquito biology, ecology, and dis...

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The Story Catcher, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

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Reducere. DescriptionYoung Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even grea...

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Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist, Paperback - Woody Kipp

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Reducere. It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody...

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Horsecatcher, The-Pa, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

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Reducere. Newbery MedalPraised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Wit...

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The Quality of Courage: Heroes in and Out of Baseball, Paperback - Mickey Mantle

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Reducere. As a man who played baseball brilliantly despite near-constant pain from a succession of injuries, Mickey Mantle knew something about courage. In T...

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The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe, Paperback - Francis La Flesche

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Reducere. The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern ...

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The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book, Hardcover - Ted Kooser

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Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsTed Kooser sees a writer's workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of exp...

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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Paperback - Nat Love

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Reducere. Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slave...

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Judaism's Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl, Paperback - Barry L. Schwartz

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Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: David Lerman and Shelley Wallock; D. Walter Cohen, Wendy and Leon...

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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee, Paperback - David Crockett

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Reducere. Even as a pup, Davy Crockett -always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger.- In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days i...

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Logotherapy, Paperback - Mukoma Wa Ngugi

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Reducere. Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi's poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile...

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Now We Will Be Happy, Paperback - Amina Gautier

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amina GautierNow We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Pue...

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Beating the Graves, Paperback - Tsitsi Ella Jaji

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Reducere. The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contempor...

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Without Proof or Evidence, Paperback - O. K. Bouwsma

81,99 RON

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): O. K. BouwsmaNumber of pages: 161Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 16Cover type: Pape...

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Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories, Paperback - Jane Holden Kelley

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Reducere. The four life histories collected here--personal accounts of the Yaqui wars, deportation from Sonora in virtual slavery, life as soldaderas with th...

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The Canoe and the Saddle, Paperback - Theodore Winthrop

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Reducere. DescriptionIn 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee sto...

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A Lantern in Her Hand, Paperback - Bess Streeter Aldrich

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Reducere. First published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer ...

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Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, Paperback - Gerald Vizenor

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Reducere. DescriptionGerald Vizenor counters the cultural notions of dominance, false representations, and simulations of absence, and, by documents, experie...

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April Twilights (1903) (Revised), Paperback - Willa Cather

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Before Willa Cather turned primarily to the fiction that made her reputation, she produced striking poems that were collected in April Twilights. I...

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The Lady in White, Paperback - Christian Bobin

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Reducere. To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in American poetry. This "lady in white, " who shut herself away from the world...

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Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMiss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the ...

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From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian, Paperback - Charles A. Eastman

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Reducere. In an earlier book, Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) recounted the story of his traditional Sioux Childhood and youth. From the ...

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Some Went West, Paperback - Dorothy M. Johnson

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Reducere. Including a wealth of significant detail and drawing heavily on her heroines' own stories, this book creates the early West from a feminine viewpoi...

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Cannibal, Paperback - Safiya Sinclair

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Reducere. Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and histor...

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Hard Damage, Paperback - Aria Aber

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Reducere. DescriptionHard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Ar...

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The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Paperback - Sonja Livingston

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Reducere. DescriptionWith organized religion becoming increasingly divisive and politicized and Americans abandoning their pews in droves, it's easy to quest...

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Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works, Paperback - Tillie Olsen

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Reducere. A century after her birth, Tillie Olsen's writing is as relevant as when it first appeared; indeed, the clarity and passion of her vision and style...

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Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932, Paperback - Robert Walser

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Reducere. The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place, " Robert Walser...

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Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation, Paperback - Douglas M. George-Kanentiio

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Reducere. In their homelands in what is now New York state, the Iroquois have assumed a prominent role in public debate as residents of the region seek ways ...

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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System, Paperback - Sonya Huber

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Reducere. Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universa...

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Extinction Events: Stories, Paperback - Liz Breazeale

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DescriptionIn this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the proces...

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Breaking Into the Backcountry, Paperback - Steve Edwards

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Reducere. In 2001 Steve Edwards won a writing contest. The prize was seven months of "unparalleled solitude" as the caretaker of a ninety-two-acre backcountr...

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The Museum of Useless Efforts, Paperback - Cristina Peri Rossi

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Reducere. DescriptionIn The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at...

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The Gospel in Brief, Paperback - Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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Reducere. "Are you acquainted with Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief? At its time, this book virtually kept me alive. . . . If you are not acquainted with it, th...

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Exodus, Paperback - 'gbenga Adeoba

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Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trad...

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'mamaseko, Paperback - Thabile Makue

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Named after the poet's mother, 'mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationsh...

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Reliquaria, Paperback - R. A. Villanueva

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Reducere. In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino Am...

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South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush, Paperback - James Chisholm

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Reducere. "James Chisholm was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical ...

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Some Are Always Hungry, Paperback - Jihyun Yun

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Reducere. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family's wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom traum...

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Sacrament of Bodies, Paperback - Romeo Oriogun

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Reducere. In Sacrament of Bodies Romeo Oriogun interrogates what it means to be queer, male, and Nigerian. In this groundbreaking work, Oriogun seeks to unde...

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Cartography. Navigating a Year in Iraq, Paperback - Katherine Schifani

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Cartography is the story of Katherine Schifani's experience as a gay woman serving as a counterterrorism advisor in Iraq in 2011, surrounded by str...

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Dear Diaspora, Paperback - Susan Nguyen

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Reducere. Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light...

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Ojibway Tales, Paperback - Basil Johnston

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Reducere. The Ojibway Indians' sense of humor sparkles through these stories set on the fictional Moose Meat Point Indian Reserve, connected by a dirt road t...

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Careless Seamstress, Paperback - Tjawangwa Dema

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Reducere. DescriptionThis dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize ...

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The Hard Way Home: Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt, Paperback - Steve Kahn

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Reducere. A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the "metropolis" of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood o...

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Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks: A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's - Lela Knox Shanks

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Reducere. DescriptionYour Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks is Lela Knox Shanks's personal account of caring for her husband, Hughes, in their home after he was...

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Your Body Is War, Paperback - Mahtem Shiferraw

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Reducere. DescriptionYour Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to...

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Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, Paperback - Tanella Boni

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Reducere. DescriptionTanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be tra...

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Your Crib, My Qibla, Paperback - Saddiq Dzukogi

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Reducere. Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the langu...

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In the Net, Paperback - Mahmoudan Hawad

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Reducere. In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuare...

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The Jewish Kids' Catalog, Paperback - Chaya M. Burstein

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Everything a kid could want to know about being Jewish, in one volume This book is a fun-filled, illustrated look at key people and events in Jewis...

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More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser, Paperback - Jessica Poli

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Reducere. More in Time is a celebration and tribute to Ted Kooser, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Presidential Pro...

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Indian Boyhood, Paperback - Charles A. Eastman

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Reducere. "One of the first Indian autobiographies written. Revealing and provocative, Indian Boyhood remains a pivotal text to be understood by new generati...

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