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Bravest Man - Book
RAN035
The story of Medal of Honor winner Richard O'Kane and U. S. submariners in the Pacific War. Relates in detail the astonishing and revolutionary exploits of the Tang and her daring officers and crew.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 4.25 x 7
Author: William Tuohy
ISBN: 9780891418894
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The Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 - Book
PGN004
America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling  In the Heart of the Sea  Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica,...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 9780142004838
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven - Book
PGWSP03
“Alexie’s prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to- anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts.”—The Boston Globe“Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.”—Chicago TribuneSherman Alexie’s celebrated first collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, established its author as one of America’s most important and provocative voices. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his...
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ISBN: 9780802121998
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We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms And The Revitalization Of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies - Book
UWP017
-"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.48 x 9"
Author: Cutcha Risling Baldy
ISBN: 9780295743448
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Salt: A World History - Book
PGN077
  Salt-the only edible rock-has made a large and often surprising contribution to man's history. This is very engaging history blending economic, scientific, political religious and culinary records into a memorable tale.  
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9780142001615
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World - Book
PER208
“A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement that will make you acknowledge your own entanglement in the ancient and ever-new web of being.”—Charles Foster, author of  Being a Beast Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 7.5
Author: Peter Wohlleben
ISBN: 9781771642484
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The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature - Book
PGN151
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest   Written with remarkable grace and empathy,  The Forest Unseen  is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Biologist David George Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Beginning with simple observations--a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter, the first blossom of spring wildflowers--Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology,...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.9 x 5.3
Author: David George Haskell
ISBN: 9780143122944
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The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen - Book
PER048
 The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries-the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole-remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Féted in his lifetime as an international celebrity,...
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Book Type: Paperback
Author: Stephen R. Bown
ISBN: 9780306822667
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The Sea and Civilization - Book
RAN329
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors’ first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt,...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.9
Author: Lincoln Paine
ISBN: 9781101970355
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Four Faces of the Moon - Book
IPS188
On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land—creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel.   In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and contain the Indigenous People onto reservations. On this path, Spotted Fawn knows she must travel through her own family history to confront the harsh realities of the past and reignite her connection to her people and the land. Her darkroom becomes...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Amanda Strong
ISBN: 9781773214535
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The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains - Book
PER218
With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. At thirteen, he learned to rappel when he joined the 1292 Lord Strathcone’s Horse Army Cadets. Soon kicked out for insubordination, he was already hooked on climbing and saw alpinism as a way to make his single mother proud and end his family’s cycle of poverty. He describes early climbs attempted with nothing to guide him but written trail descriptions and the cajones of youth. He slowly acquires...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.5
Author: Barry Blanchard
ISBN: 9781938340314
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Where The Language Lives: Vi Hilbert And The Gift Of Lushootseed - Book
IPS284
The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who, more than anyone, revitalized her native language—Lushootseed—and shared it and the culture it expresses with the world. In 1978, Seattle writer Janet Yoder took a Lushootseed class at the University of Washington. She was expecting to learn a little about this Salish language, and while Yoder did begin her Lushootseed lessons, what followed was lifelong learning and lots of adventures with Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert. Drawn from thirty years of friendship and interviews,  Where the Language Lives  is a tribute to Vi Hilbert’s life, work, and her quest to...
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5"
Author: Janet Yoder
ISBN: 9781954854260
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Final Patrol - Book
PGN007
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost 60 percent of Japanese shipping losses, and were a major factor in winning the war. 16 U.S. submarines - and one German U-Boat - that saw action during WWII are now open to the public. Most have been restored and authentically equipped.  Final Patrol  takes a fascinating look at these subs and the personal stories of the brave sailors who lived, fought, and often died in them. Now, visitors can climb into...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Don Keith
ISBN: 9780451219510
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Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch: A Guide to Curious Nautical Knowledge for Landlubbers and Sea Lawyers Alike
Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch: A Guide to Curious Nautical Knowledge for Landlubbers and Sea Lawyers Alike - Book
INT492
A nautical trivia book on steroids, learn why it is a Blue Monday and other expressions with a nautical past Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch  is a  Ripley's Believe It or Not  for the mariner—everything odd, weird, and unbelievable. Mariner and author Frank Lanier began to compile these entries when he served in the Coast Guard; they were included in the "plan of the day" published aboard the various ships Lanier was stationed on starting in the 1980s. In his book Frank explains in plain language the origin of curious nautical language and expressions. Sample Contents BLUE MONDAY:  A reference to Monday, the day traditionally...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
Author: Frank Lanier
ISBN: 9780071825269
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Secrets of the Viking Navigators - Book
OEP001
How the Vikings used their amazing sunstones and other techniques to cross the open ocean. Begins with retelling and examining the Norse sagas for clues to navigation techniques and progresses to well founded conjecture on sunstone use. Photos, maps, charts, and more.  
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9
Author: Leif K. Karlsen
ISBN: 9780972151504
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Haboo - Book - Paracay
Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound - Book
UWP022
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language. Haboo , Hilbert's collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human attributes. Prominent characters like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer and tricksters like Mink, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous, earthy stories that reflect...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9
Author: Vi Hilbert, Thom Hess
ISBN: 9780295746968
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A Most Beautiful Thing - Book
MPS262
REGIONAL BESTSELLER Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Growing up on Chicago’s Westside in the 90’s, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs, the hallways of his apartment complex are haunted by drug addicts he calls “zombies” with strung out arms, clutching at him as he passes by. His mother is a...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Arshay Cooper
ISBN: 9781250754776
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Over the Edge of the World
Over the Edge of the World - Book
HRW154
A vivid account of Magellan's thoroughly terrifying first circumnavigation of the globe. Includes first-person accounts never before available in English. Filled with sex, violence and unprecedented adventures.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Laurence Bergreen
ISBN: 9780062890481
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There There - Book
PGN379
NATIONAL   BESTSELLER   •   PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER   •   One of  The New York Times  10 Best Books of the Year   •   A wondrous and shattering novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Tommy Orange
ISBN: 9780525436140
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux - Book
IPS263
Marie L. McLaughlin delivers a memorable selection of Native American stories infused with folklore and oral traditions passed on from one generation to the next.  This book features vivid stories with larger-than-life characters and unforgettable adventures. Myths and Legends of the Sioux  is a collection of vast stories rooted in indigenous culture. The tales are striking and memorable, featuring both human and animal protagonists. In one story, a small rabbit uses its wits to outsmart a large bear. In another tale, a crane saves a family from an unfortunate circumstance. Each legend delivers a powerful message that’s applicable...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Marie L. McLaughlin,
ISBN: 9781513277462
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We Are The Land: A History Of Native California - Book
IPS297
 A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures. - Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as  California, there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 1.4 x 9"
Author: Damon B. Akins
ISBN: 9780520280496
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Reservation Blues - Book
PGWSP06
Sherman Alexie has been hailed as “one of the best writers we have” (The Nation). Reservation Blues is his “irresistibly stunning debut novel” (San Francisco Chronicle).One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire—storyteller, misfit, and musician—a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power,tragedy, and redemption among...
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ISBN: 9780802141903
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The Wolf at Twilight - Book
IPS267
A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood. In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577315780
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Ten Little Indians - Book
PGWSP04
Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.In Alexie’s first story, “The Search Engine,” Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she was denied while growing up poor. In “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above,” an intellectual...
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ISBN: 9780802141170
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The Wisdom of the Native Americans - Book
IPS264
These thought-provoking teachings from respected Native American leaders and thinkers provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning.
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781577310792
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Blasphemy - Book
PGWSP05
"Alexie once again reasserts himself as one the most compelling contemporary practitioners of the short story. In Blasphemy, the author demonstrates his talent on nearly every page. . . . Will appeal to fans of Junot Diaz, George Saunders, and readers new to Alexie will find this enriching collection to be the perfect introduction to a formidable literary voice. . . . [Alexie] illuminates the lives of his characters in unique, surprising, and, ultimately, hopeful ways."—Boston Globe"Told in [Alexie's] irreverent, unforgettable voice . . . You'll feel you've been transported inside the soul of a deeply wounded people. But they are a people...
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ISBN: 9780802121752
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Old Indian Legends - Book
IPS262
Old Indian Legends  (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá. Published while Zitkála-Šá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist,  Old Indian Legends  collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-Šá popularized and protected these cultural treasures for generations to come. In “Iktomi and the Ducks,” spider-trickster spirit Iktomi befriends a group of ducks by playing them music to dance to. Gaining their trust, he sends them into a dancing frenzy causing them to...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Zitkala-Sa
ISBN: 9781513278292
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Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine - Book
PGN222
The history of the Confederate submarine  H. L. Hunley  is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron “fish boat” vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of the Hunley  remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Civil War. Then, on August 8, 2000, with thousands of spectators crowding Charleston Harbor, the  Hunley  was raised from the bottom of the sea and towed ashore. Now, award-winning journalists Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf offer new insights into the  Hunley ’s final hours and recount...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2
Author: Brian Hicks & Schuyler Kropf
ISBN: 9780345447722
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Lonesome Traveler - Book
IPS197
In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story of the years when he was writing the books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascade Mountains. Resembling his novels in its exuberant style and “jazzy impressionistic prose” ( The New Yorker ),  Lonesome Traveler   gives us “Kerouac’s nerve ends vs. the universe, with flashes of poetry, truth, and daffiness’ ( The New York Times Book Review ).
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780802130747
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Neither Wolf nor Dog - Book
IPS266
Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas,  Neither Wolf nor Dog  tells the story of two men, one white and one Indian, locked in their own understandings yet struggling to find a common voice. In this award-winning book, acclaimed author Kent Nerburn draws us deep into the world of a Native American elder named Dan, who leads Kent through Indian towns and down forgotten roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Along the way we meet a vivid cast of characters — ranging from Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, to Annie, an eighty-year-old Lakota woman...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608686384
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Portsmouth - Then and Now - Book - Paracay
Portsmouth - Then and Now - Book
ARC183
Residents and visitors strolling through the streets of Portsmouth may wonder about the changes the city has seen over the years. Though much of Portsmouth's charm comes from an appearance that little has been altered, the community has transitioned over the centuries from rural farms to a bustling port to a modern New England city that carefully balances the best of old and new. In Then & Now: Portsmouth, authors William T. and Constance S. Warren share their collection of photographs, postcards, and maps to illustrate Portsmouth scenes of days gone by alongside contemporary photographs. Readers will enjoy the country seaport...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.3 x 0.3"
Author: William T. Warren & Constance S. Warren
ISBN: 9780738509013
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy - Book
PGN281
Now available in paperback,  The Moth Snowstorm  is a one-of-a-kind environmental work that combines memoir, anecodotes, and hard facts to make a case for preserving an ever-dwindling natural world. The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths "would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard," is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm  is unlike any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with the polemical, it is a...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Michael McCarthy
ISBN: 9781681372426
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The Toughest Indian in the World - Book
PGWSP08
A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise." Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World, which received universal praise in hardcover, is available in paperback. In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A...
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ISBN: 9780802138002
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Voices in the Stones - Life Lessons from the Native Way - Book - Paracay
Voices in the Stones - Life Lessons from the Native Way - Book
IPS260
The genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways. For three decades, author Kent Nerburn has lived and worked among the Native American people. Voices in the Stones is a unique collection of his encounters, experiences, and reflections during that time. He takes us inside a traditional Native feast to show us how the children are taught to respect the elders. He brings us to an isolated prairie rock outcropping where a young Native man and his father show us how the power of ceremony connects the present with the ancient voices of the past. At a dusty...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.5 x 0.5"
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608683901
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Indian Killer - Book
PGWSP09
“Part thriller, part magical realism, and part social commentary, Indian Killer . .. lingers long past the final page.”—Seattle WeeklyA national best seller, Indian Killer is arguably Sherman Alexie’s most controversial book to date—a gritty, racially charged literary thriller that, over a decade after its first publication, remains an electrifying tale of alienation and justice. A serial murderer called the Indian Killer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting, scalping, and slaughtering white men. Motivated by rage and seeking retribution for his people’s violent history, his grizzly MO and skillful elusiveness both paralyze the city with fear...
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ISBN: 9780802143570
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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years - Book
WWN860
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman,  Boston Globe ) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9781324036487
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War Dances - Book
PGWSP07
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 relationships from the most diverse angles. War Dances brims with Alexie’s poetic and revolutionary prose, and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our country’s finest writers.With bright insight into the minds of artists, entrepreneurs, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with average men on the brink of exceptional change: In the title story, a son recalls his...
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ISBN: 9780802144898
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The Journals of Captain Cook - Book
PGN134
Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts based on Cook's journals were issued at the time, but it was not until this century that the original journals were published in Beaglehole's definitive edition. "The Journals" tells the story of these voyages as Cook wanted it to be told, radiating the ambition, courage and skill which enabled him to carry out an unrivalled series of expeditions in...
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Book Type: Paperback
Author: Capt. James Cook
ISBN: 9780140436471
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The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo - Book
IPS265
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the “old ones” still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex, unforgettable characters we have come to know from  Neither Wolf nor Dog  and  The Wolf at Twilight . Part history, part mystery, part spiritual journey and teaching story,  The Girl...
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Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Kent Nerburn
ISBN: 9781608680153
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Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage - Book
ARC182
Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River's naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it became home to one of the U.S. Navy's first federal shipyards, the harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, was protected by gun batteries, mainly at Fort Point, New Castle, New Hampshire. By the end of World War II, modern concrete batteries mounting guns of ever longer range had been constructed at this and three other forts straddling the river's mouth. These fortifications reflected the increasingly...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780738536477
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Killers of the Flower Moon - Book - Paracay
Killers of the Flower Moon - Book
RANSP45
#1   NEW YORK TIMES   BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of   The Wager   and   The Lost City of Z,   “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."— New York Magazine •   NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST   •   NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”— USA Today “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” — The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 X 8
Author: David Grann
ISBN: 9780307742483
$1700
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: Penguin Modern Classics Edition - Book
PGN395
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.   Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
ISBN: 9781039000612
$1950
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Portsmouth: An Old Town by the Sea - Book
ARC181
From Strawbery Banke to the Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth has always been the economic, cultural, and political hub north of Boston. Brightly-colored saltbox homes and towering lighthouses line the churning currents of the Piscataqua, and narrow lanes echo with the footsteps of John Paul Jones, the Reverend Joseph Buckminster, and centuries of hunters, lumberjacks, merchants, and tourists.
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Russell M. Lawson
ISBN: 9780738524276
$2499
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Fire Song - Book
PGW290
How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves - his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane's dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone....
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Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25"
Author: Adam Garnet Jones
ISBN: 9781554519774
$995
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Path Between the Seas
Path Between the Seas - Book
SIM081
The full story of the astonishing engineering feats, extraordinary medical advances, political power plays, heroic struggles, and human tragedies that went into the construction of the Panama Canal. Superb writing and scholarship.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: David McCullough
ISBN: 9780671244095
$2299
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Last Fish Tale - Book
PGN096
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Cod, Salt," and "The Big Oyster" comes the colorful story of a way of life that for hundreds of years has defined much of America's coastlines but is slowly disappearing. Illustrated.  
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7.75
Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9781594483745
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My Good Man - Book - Paracay
My Good Man - Book
HCB137
A literary tour-de-force sure to turn the coming-of-age genre on its head from Printz honoree Eric Gansworth Brian, a 20-something reporter on the Niagara Cascade's City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, being lumped into reporting on stereotypical stories that homogenize his community, the nearby Tuscarora reservation. But when a mysterious roadside assault lands Tim, the brother of Brian's mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian must pick up the threads of a life that he's abandoned. The narrative takes us through Brian's childhood and slice of life stories on the reservation, in Gansworth's...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.4 x 1.35 x 9.3"
Author: Eric Gansworth
ISBN: 9781646141838
$2199
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Sixth Extinction - Book - Paracay
The Sixth Extinction (10th Anniversary Edition): An Unnatural History - Book
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE   NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A   NEW YORK TIMES   BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST The 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic,   The Sixth Extinction , now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.37 x 8.31
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
ISBN: 9781250887313
$1995
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Man Made Monsters: Man Made Monsters - Book - Paracay
Man Made Monsters: Man Made Monsters - Book
HCB136
Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection from werewolves to vampires to zombies all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are predators of a distinctly American variety the horrors of empire, of intimate partner violence, of dispossession. And so too the monsters of Rogers' imagination, that draw upon long-told Cherokee stories of Deer Woman, fantastical sea creatures, and more. Following one extended Cherokee family across the centuries, from the tribe's...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.35"
Author: Andrea Rogers
ISBN: 9781646141791
$1999
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Sound Like A Sailor - Book - Paracay
Sound Like a Sailor: The Book of Nautical Expressions - Book
IPS383
An essential collection for every sailor’s library, this fun dictionary of phrases and terms is anchored in nautical history. Life-long sailor Bruce Macdonald knows a thing or two about the language of the sea and, in  Sound Like a Sailor , he catalogs nautical terms and idioms that are used in the common vernacular. Delving deep into the colorful history behind each word or phrase, this alphabetical reference will help readers understand the maritime origins of our most ubiquitous expressions. Discover how minding your p’s and q’s originates in how bartenders kept track of pints and quarts on sailors’ tabs, how “going...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.51 x 8.5
Author: R. Bruce Macdonald
ISBN: 9781998526239
$1995
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