Sherman Alexie
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this bestselling collection from master storyteller Sherman Alexie tackles love, loss, basketball-and everything in between The characters that populate the lyrical and affectionate tales in Ten Little Indians battle stereotypes and navigate the crossroads of culture in life off the reservation. Richard, the narrator of "Lawyer's League," grows up in Seattle the son of "an African American giant who...
4) War dances
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English
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Contains short stories and poems from Native-American writer Sherman Alexie, including selections entitled "The Limited," "The Senator's Son," "Ode to Mixed Tapes," "Salt," and others.
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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 War Dances-have...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian inAuthor
Publisher
Hachette Book Group USA
Pub. Date
2022
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,...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The bestselling, award-winning author’s “fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change,
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Language
Deutsch
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Arnold Spirit, genannt Junior, gehört zum Stamm der Spokane-Indianer. Als er mit 14 Jahren beschließt, die Trostlosigkeit des Reservates zu verlassen und zur Reardan Highschool wechselt, ändert sich ein ganzes Leben. Er wird zum Aussenseiter bei den Indianern ebenso wie unter den gutsituierten Schülern an der neuen Schule. Junior versucht seinen Weg zwischen den beiden Welten zu meistern und muss sich dabei immer neuen Herausforderungen stellen....
12) Blasphemy
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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.
13) Indian killer
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A murderer, dubbed the Indian Killer, is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle, and John Smith, a Native American man who was adopted by a white couple at birth and who is slowly descending into madness due to his alienation from either the white or Indian culture, seems to be a likely suspect.
14) Thunder Boy Jr
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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"--
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the...
17) Heart Berries
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English
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A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest—this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is “an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR).
Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing...
Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing...
18) Smoke Signals
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Language
English
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Though Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town, they couldn't have less in common! But when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. There's just one thing Victor has to do: take Thomas along for the ride! This most unlikely pair leaves home on what becomes an unexpected adventure of friendship and discovery!