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The Light People

Author : Gordon Henry
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954531
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Light People written by Gordon Henry and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Light People is a multi-genre novel that includes a series of nested stories about a tribal community in Northern Minnesota. Major themes include Oskinaway’s search for his parents and the legal wrangling over the possession of a leg that has been removed from a tribal elder. Each story is linked to previous and successive stories to form a discourse on identity and cultural appropriation, all told with humor and wisdom. Taking inspiration from traditional Anishinabe stories and drawing from his own family's storytelling tradition, Gordon Henry, Jr., has woven a tapestry of interlocking narratives in The Light People, a novel of surpassing emotional strength. His characters tell of their experiences, dreams, and visions in a multitude of literary styles and genres. Poetry, drama, legal testimony, letters, and essays combine with more conventional narrative techniques to create a multifaceted, deeply rooted, and vibrant portrait of the author's own tribal culture. Keenly aware of Eurocentric views of that culture, Henry offers a "corrective history" where humor and wisdom transcend the political. In the contemporary Minnesota village of Four Bears, on the mythical Fineday Reservation, a young Chippewa boy named Oskinaway is trying to learn the whereabouts of his parents. His grandparents turn for help to a tribal elder, one of the light people, Jake Seed. Seed's assistant, a magician who performs at children's birthday parties, tells Oskinaway's family his story, which gives way to the stories of those he encounters. Narratives unfold into earlier narratives, spinning back in time and encompassing the intertwined lives of the Fineday Chippewas, eventually revealing the place of Oskinaway and his parents in a complex web of human relationships.

Common People

Author : Alison Light
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633094X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Common People written by Alison Light and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 2014 by the Penguin Group"--Title page verso.

The Light in the Forest

Author : Conrad Richter
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417642496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Light in the Forest written by Conrad Richter and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Fifteen year old John Cameron Butler, kidnapped and raised by the Lenape Indians since childhood, is returned to his people under the terms of a treaty and is forced to cope with a strange and different world that is no longer his.

People of Light and Dark

Author : Maja Van Steensel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book People of Light and Dark written by Maja Van Steensel and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

People of the First Light

Author : Amy Cope
Publisher : Wordclay
ISBN 13 : 9781604811650
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book People of the First Light written by Amy Cope and published by Wordclay. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of five Wampanoags in the early 17th century, and their encounters with European settlers.

The Light Gray People

Author : Nancy McGown Minor
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 076184855X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Light Gray People written by Nancy McGown Minor and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Lipan Apache culture was studied by one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, many important questions remain. What is the meaning of the tribal name Lipan? Did Morris Opler's 1935 study of historical Lipan culture conform to practices seen by eighteenth century Spaniards? Only four in situ observations of Lipan Apache culture survive - observations made by a Spanish priest, a Spanish military officer, a Swiss botanist and an Anglo captive. Each source reveals fascinating insights into a hitherto unseen world of Lipan beliefs and practices. The sources reported, for example, that the Lipans were able to predict both solar and lunar eclipses, a practice which went far beyond the vision quest posited by Opler. The Light Gray People seeks to complete a comparative analysis of traditional Lipan Apache culture, as seen through the eyes of four eighteenth and nineteenth century observers and Morris Opler's theories.

The Light Between Oceans

Author : M.L. Stedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451681755
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Light Between Oceans written by M.L. Stedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

All the Light We Cannot See

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476746605
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

The Light Jar

Author : Lisa Thompson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338216325
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Light Jar written by Lisa Thompson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thoughtful and hugely empathetic" (The Guardian).The Light Jar is a compelling mystery that celebrates imagination and the light within. Nate and his mother are running away. Fleeing from a bad situation at home, they hide out in an abandoned cottage in the middle of a forest. Though it's old and run-down, at least it's a place of their own.Then Nate's mother heads off for groceries and doesn't return. Has she run into trouble, or simply abandoned him? He is left alone and afraid, with the dark -- and all his old fears -- closing in on him.But comfort can come from the most unexpected of places: like a strange girl trying to solve the mystery of a treasure hunt, and the reappearance of a friend from his past. Will Nate find the bravery he needs to face down his fears, survive on his own, and ultimately illuminate his future?The Light Jar is a captivating story of fear and hope, loneliness and friendship, and finding the light within, even in the darkest of times.

A Little Life

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172706
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

People's War

Author : Anthea Jeffrey
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868429970
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book People's War written by Anthea Jeffrey and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political violence, and the memory of the trauma has faded. Nevertheless, some 20 500 people were killed between 1984 and 1994. Conventional wisdom has it that most died as a result of the ANC's people's war. Many books have been written on South Africa's political transition, but none has dealt adequately with the people's war. This book does. It shows the extraordinary success of the people's war in giving the ANC a virtual monopoly on power, as well as the great cost at which this was done. The high price of it is still being paid. Apart from the terror and killings it sparked at the time, the people's war set in motion forces that cannot easily be tamed. Violence, once unleashed, is not easy to stamp out. 'Ungovernability', once generated, is not readily reversed. For this new edition, Anthea Jeffery has revised and abridged her seminal work. She has also included a brief overview of the ANC's National Democratic Revolution for which the people's war was intended to prepare the way. Since 1994, the NDR has been implemented in many different spheres. It is now being speeded up in its second and more radical phase.

Beacons of the Light

Author : Marcus Braybrooke
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846941857
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Beacons of the Light written by Marcus Braybrooke and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beacons of Light is a priceless and inspiring gift from the good and open heart of one of the global interfaith movement's wisest and most respected leaders, Marcus Braybrooke. It is impossible to read without being spiritually enriched. Your heart and mind will be opened by this treasure of a book that shines with the brightness of 100 of humanity's greatest lights.

By the Light of the Lanthorn

Author : Siegfried W Rudel
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906999279
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book By the Light of the Lanthorn written by Siegfried W Rudel and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Council Inspector Paul Clark visited the Peredur Trust in Cornwall more than twenty years ago, he was under pressure to serve a legal notice to comply with various regulations or face closure. He expected to encounter a cult organization with weird and unpalatable practices. In fact, he found something quite different. As he says in his foreword, "I came to inspect--I stopped to evaluate--and I remained to admire " Paul later became the trust's chief executive. The Peredur Trust has been caring for disadvantaged and differently abled individuals, effectively and successfully, for more than sixty years. Siegfried Rudel, its president and one of its four founders, tells the story of how the impulse behind the organization--inspired by the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner-- first transpired. However, this is not simply a narrative and history of a single organization; rather, this book represents a universal cultural impulse that embraces the needs of our time, and one that reappears today in many residential communities for people with special needs around the world. In a fascinating presentation, and with the aid of many archival photographs, In the Light of the Lanthorn tackles interrelated themes including the arts, the environment, sustainability, agriculture and nutrition--all in the light of working with individuals with special needs.

People of the Light

Author : Anne Caroline Akers
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426912412
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book People of the Light written by Anne Caroline Akers and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People of the Light" answers deep questions people have asked down through the ages. One lone spiritual warrior shares her story of how she arrives at "self-realization".

How Raven Brought Light to People

Author :
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book How Raven Brought Light to People written by and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raven gives the sun, the moon, and the stars to the people of the world by tricking the great chief who is hoarding them in three boxes.

Drawn to the Light

Author : Elbert Witt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450711944
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Drawn to the Light written by Elbert Witt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transformed by the Light

Author : Melvin Morse
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780749912666
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Transformed by the Light written by Melvin Morse and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people throughout the world have had a near-death experience. In this fascinating and moving book, Melvin Morse presents the extraordinary stories of people who have returned from 'death', and shows how the lives of these people who return from the brink of death are usually changed for the better - spiritually and physically. This transformation stays with them for the rest of their lives. The compelling and powerful evidence for the transformative effect of a near-death experience will permanently alter your views on death and dying.