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1) There there
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to her family. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together and has come to work the powwow in his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself...
2) Re Jane
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jane Re--a half-Korean, half-American orphan--takes a position as an au pair for two Brooklyn academics and their daughter, but a brief sojourn in Seoul, where she reconnects with family, causes her to wonder if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures.
3) The emissary
Author
Series
A New Directions paperback original volume NDP1405
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Japan, after suffering from a massive, irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient -- frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry to learn about the place where he was born. He spends every free moment across the border in Juárez--perfecting his Spanish, hanging with a collective of young activists, and studying lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) for his graduate work in...
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