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Ploughshares Winter 1991-92 : Traces of Struggle and Desire
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Stories and Poems. Contributors include: Peter Balakian, Cal Bedient, T. Begley, Susan Bergman, Olga Broumas, Alison Bundy, Maxine Chernoff, Killarney Clary, Mary Crow, Barbara Cully, Melinda Davis, Debra Kang Dean, Sharon Doubiago, Odysseas Elytis, Martín Espada, Lise Goett, Marea Gordett, Greg Grummer, Daniel Halpern, Vance Philip Hedderel, Paul Hoover, Fanny Howe, Peter Huchel, Colette Inez, Lawrence Joseph, Roberto Juarroz, David Kaufmann, Peter Klappert, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ann Lauterbach, Lyn Lifshin, Jaime Manrique, Carole Maso, Bobbie Ann Mason, Harry Mattison, Richard McCann, James Merrill, Jane Miller, Honor Moore, Evan Oakley, Suzanne Paola, Lucia Maria Perillo, Peter Jay Shippy, Charles Simic, Daniel Simko, James Tate, Susan Tichy, Quincy Troupe, Ioanna-Veronika Warwick, Rebecca Wee
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- Great Book
- It takes balls to make a street thief into a lady
- A great followup...
- A Superb Sequel and A Wonderful (and acceptable) Romance
- Extreamly Wonderful -- As Always!
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Magician's Ward
Patricia C. Wrede
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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ASIN: 0812520858 |
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Happy in her new life as an apprentice to the powerful magician Mairelon, 16-year-old Kim is horrified when a nosy relative determines to turn Kim - a former street urchin - into. . .a lady! But real trouble begins when several wizards of Kim's acquaintance disappear. Then Mairelon's magic disappears! It's up to Kim to unravel the mystery. And to do that she will have to return to her old life back in the dark and dirty streets of London.
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Great Book.......2006-02-23
I loved this book, I especially liked seeing the other side of Kim, it shows Ms. Wredes talent for really understanding what readers want to see.
It takes balls to make a street thief into a lady.......2005-05-27
"The Magician's Ward" is set in a fantasy Regency England featuring Richard Merrill, a.k.a. Mairelon the Magician, who turns out to be a toff, and his ward Kim, the former street thief. Genre-wise, it is a regency romance with an overlay of fantasy. Those who prefer their fantasy straight up might be bored with all of the romance bits: Aunt Agatha's attempts to introduce her 'niece' to Polite Society and find her a husband; all of the long, dull trips to the modiste; the requisite carriage ride through Hyde Park; the coming-out ball; the visit to the opera and various upper-crust house parties. Blah blah. Regency romance aficionados could write these parts in their sleep.
The less structured part of the novel involves magic. A burglar dressed like a gentleman attempts to steal a book from the Mairelon's library. Kim visits one of her former friends, a used clothes merchant, and learns that a moneylender of their acquaintance is scarpering up all of London's street magicians for his own nefarious purposes. Somehow, the moneylender coordinates an attack on one of the street witches, then Mairelon, himself. Both are stripped of their magic, and one eventually goes crazy.
Kim must somehow rescue her guardian and restore his magic while attending to the details of her coming-out ball, and all of the other fripperies and fribbles that Regency society demands of her.
This book is an improvement over its predecessor, "Mairelon the Magician" (1991), but Hutch is still chewing on his damn mustache, and most of the characters, with the exception of Kim and Mairelon are 'borrowed' whole-cloth from a million other regencies
A great followup..........2005-01-10
After reading Ms. Wrede's first novel in this duet, I couldn't wait to get my hands on Magician's Ward. It was quite satisfying and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If anything, it was better than the first. The characters stay true to their personalities, and the plot twists in unpredicted ways. The obvious changes in Kim's perception of Mairelon are funny and made me hide many a smiles. I'd recommend this book to anyone, especially if they've read the first [Mairelon the Magician].
A Superb Sequel and A Wonderful (and acceptable) Romance.......2004-06-01
I found 'The Magician's Ward' and excellent and satisfying sequel to 'Mairelon the Magician.' Kim is much more mature in this book, and her friendship with Mairelon is a bit closer than in the last. Of course, as anyone who read the first has probably guessed, both start to have feelings for one another in a different sort of way. Now, to clear up any misunderstandings: A ward is NOT the same as an adopted child. A ward's parents can be alive and the amount of time that they're someone's ward can be long or short or permanent until the child marries. But the child and gaurdian are by no means considered related as a father and child. It would be more like the relationship between an apprentice and mentor. I recommend looking the term up in the dictionary, which would give you a clear idea. Secondly, Mairelon is NOT that much older than Kim. He is below 30, as was clearly stated in this book, but older than Lord Franton, who's about 23. My guess is that Mairelon is 8 to 9 years older than Kim, who is 19, despite what the back cover says. She was seventeen in the first book, and almost two years have elapsed between the first and second books. And lastly, you do have to keep in mind that this was set in the English Regency. It was considered acceptable to marry someone twenty years older or more. And nowadays, the age difference between Mairelon and Kim is still considered acceptable.
Extreamly Wonderful -- As Always!.......2003-08-02
I absolutly love this book. The way Patricia writes is so wonderful. It always has enough detail as to what is going on that I can see it as I read it. I can almost see myself going through the streets with the charictors, or riding in the coaches with them. I could read this book again and again. This is one of those books that you can't put down, much like her others. I have never come across a better author.
Keep up the WONDERFUL work Ms. Wrede.
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Magician's Ward
Manufacturer: Tom Doherty Associates
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Druids: Magicians of the West (Esoteric Themes & Perspectives)
Ward Rutherford
Manufacturer: Borgo Pr
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Magician's Ward
Manufacturer: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Part-time magicians close-up notebook
Gary Ward
Manufacturer: Ward's World of Wizardry
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This isn't a novel; it's a collection of short stories.......2000-03-27
And it contains "Good Night, Mr. James," which was filmed as "The Duplicate Man" for the old _Outer Limits_ TV series. In that particular story, a man illegally imports a vicious, murderous alien onto Earth. . .and then must find someway to kill the creature before it begins to reproduce. I won't give the end away, but it one of the best 'surprise' endings I've encountered. The title story -- one of Simak's best -- is about a centuries-old robot who has to flee from Earth so he won't get his memories erased. The only way he can escape is by clamping himself to the outside of a spaceship. . .with truly amazing results. Simak may have been a science-fiction writer, but his was more fiction than science (which was always secondary for him). A compassionate, intimate, 'human' collection of some of his best short fiction.
Excellent.......2000-03-22
Magical collection of Saimak's short stories!!! Saimak is definitely is one of the best sci-fi writers of all-times, but unfortunately he is the most unappreciated one in my opinion. If you haven't read Saimak before - this collection is a wonderful way to get acquainted with his works - incredibly humane, compassionate, inventive and original. There is not a single one bad story in this collection, so it's definitely worth getting.
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- Good overall,... with some snags.....
- yeast-friend or foe?
- Good general information about food
- Excellent Guide for Food Allergies
- Not for the first weeks of your diet or for sensitivites
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The Yeast Connection Cookbook: A Guide to Good Nutrition and Better Health
William G. Crook , and
Marjorie Hurt Jones
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What exactly can you eat if you have a yeast-related problem? Here, in The Yeast Connection Cookbook, are hundreds of answers to that question.
The Yeast Connection Cookbook begins with a discussion of yeast-related disorders and the important role diet plays in their management. It also provides general information on the effects--both positive and negative--that some common foods can have on yeast sufferers, and crucial instructions on detecting the specific foods to which you are particularly sensitive or allergic. The authors then present over 225 recipes--for breads, soups, entrées, desserts, and more--that eliminate most common food allergens while providing beneficial complex carbohydrates. Throughout, tips and suggestions guide you in adopting a diet that is both healthful and satisfying.
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Good overall,... with some snags............2007-02-07
I have begun my journey with Candida Related Complex. This was the first book I purchased and I found that the inforamtion gets "jumbled up" from time to time. One section may say it's OK to eat a certain food,another sais it's not, and often it neglets to mention which foods are not to be eaten in the "elimination phase"... Recepies are alright, but many are not for the the elimination phase... Much of the ingredients are rather expensive and not always easily found locally (or only in healthfood stores). Overall,I found it to be a decent guide, but much more acurate information is needed on this condition.
yeast-friend or foe?.......2007-01-03
interesting material presented in understandable way. helpful info to let one decide if the banning yeast in their diet would be beneficial.
Good general information about food.......2006-11-26
If you want to get a quick course in general information about food, this is a very good reference. It gives a good layman's introduction to yeast related health problems and how to avoid them.
It teaches you how to rotate your diet to find out what foods you are potentially sensitive/allergic to. Basic allergy testing doesn't uncover problems for everyone, so this information can be pretty helpful--and it's a lot less expensive than extensive testing that some health practicioners provide.
I've lost 40 lbs on the Caveman diet shown in the book and feel better and have more energy than I have in a while. My dermotologist actually prescribed it for 6 months: the diet is legit. It's not easy nor is it delicious, and it takes discipline and a completely different way of looking at food: as fuel rather than comfort/security, entertainment, pleasure, social bonding, etc.
Like other reviewers, I can't eat a lot of the recipes in the book. I agree that the recipes are the least helpful part of this manual. The part of the book I really like is the reference section on vegetables. There is a quick paragraph about each veggie along with the family it comes from (did you know that white potatoes are in the nightshade family?) There are great tips for buying and preparing veggies, including some veggies I've never heard of before. That section is a must-read for people who don't know a lot about vegetables and want to start eating more of them.
The other part of the book I liked was the part about poisons and chemicals in the food supply. It's a pretty realistic look at what's happening to fish, meat, and poultry without being so scary that you choose to avoid these foods altogether.
If you are looking for a cookbook, you might want to look around. If you are trying to learn about yeast related illness and the cure, this one is worth a look.
Excellent Guide for Food Allergies.......2002-07-12
I have really enjoyed this book. I understand why the other reviewers rated it as they did though. I also have to stick to a much more restricted diet than the average person on a yeast-free & food allergy plan, however I found it easy to substitute items I could not have with those that I could. My favorite parts of this book are the section on selecting and preparing vegetables and the baked recipes (for which I do a great deal of substitutions). It may be a book for more advanced cooks and bakers, which I am, but it's been a great asset to me and I appreciate having it as a resource.
Not for the first weeks of your diet or for sensitivites.......2001-07-10
I found this book to contain many recipes that contain ingredients that I can't have (I'm in the early stages of treatment so fruits, nuts, some grains, etc. are out for now) and many ingredients that Dr Crook suggests avoiding for a while in newer books. I'm sure the recipes will be more usefull after I've completed treatment and I'm working on maintenance, but that's not what I needed right now. Some tips on how to cook beans and veggies were somewhat helpfull but I think there are better books out there for the early staged of treatment. Consider getting it from your library before buying it.
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The Whelping and Rearing of Puppies: A Complete and Practical Guide.......2007-08-15
Being a first time breeder; this book was FANTASTIC!! Was extremely practical & helped to have on hand to look at as a reference. I recommend this book to any one like me, a first time breeder. Out of the 2 books I purchased, this was the BEST!! 2 thumbs up..
Great book!.......2007-06-17
I am a first time breeder, and I bought a few whelping books to help me out.
I have to say this is the best book I have read on the subject.
It is very detailed and helps you plan on what may happen.
I would recommend this to anyone who is thinking about breeding there dog.
Fast Service.......2007-05-13
The company provided fast service. The book has been educational and we will be able to use the practical information when we finally start breeding our Danes.
survived 12 puppies!.......2007-04-12
This is an excellent book. Simple, to the point, and in layman's terms that can be easily understood. I am a veterinarian and I've had a lot of personal experience whelping and rearing puppies. But it was wonderful to have this book to turn to while raising my most recent litter of 12 puppies. It was reassuring to verify what I was doing correctly and helpful to be reminded of things that I should be doing.
New to whelping? This is very practical advice........2007-02-19
I work rescue and never had puppies born in my home before last September.
This book covers it all, and is easy and clear to understand.
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An indispensable field guide to a burgeoning area of collecting! In the past fifteen years Black memorabilia has become an increasingly popular area of collecting. The collectors span the nation and cross generational and racial lines and number well over 10,000 each with their own list of wants. With this reality and with the higher prices, it is a challenging area for the new and old collector alike. It takes a vigorous attempt and avid hunting to find them, but that's part of the joy of collecting! This guide will help you identify what is on the market as well as fair values for the piece. Newly revised with full color photographs, size, approximate date, and current prices, this will be an invaluable reference. The book also addresses more recent items on the market and helps the collector guard against unmarked and fraudulent reproductions.
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black memorabilia.......2007-03-16
I take this book with me every where it is a great help for my passion of collecting black memorabilia
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- Lots of great ideas with beautiful photos!
- Yes indeed, do look elsewhere....
- Look elsewhere for style and comfort
- A superb addition to an interior design reference collection
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The Comfortable Home: Stylish Ideas for Living
Jessica Elin Hirschman ,
Candace Ord Manroe , and
Candie Frankel
Manufacturer: MetroBooks (NY)
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Lots of great ideas with beautiful photos!.......2003-08-25
This book is wonderful! I checked it out from the local library, but now I've got to own it!
Yes indeed, do look elsewhere...........2003-07-26
I assume that the reviewer who called this book "superb" is a friend of the authors or works for the publisher. Like so many interior design books on the market, this one has lots of gorgeous pictures of gorgeous rooms, but little that is practical in terms of execution or upkeep by real people (e.g., an entire porch done in acres and acres of draped and shirred high-end fabric). The text is mostly descriptive and doesn't say what I really want to know, like "how did they do that?" "how much did it cost?" and "who keeps it clean?" In fact, the charming cover picture notwithstanding, the rooms shown are far more often opulent than they are comfortable-looking. Do real people actually live in them or are they just designer showcase rooms? Perhaps more egregiously, this also seems to be a hastily produced book. For example, somehow the editors and authors all failed to notice a glaringly misplaced caption within the first few pages. There are lots of imprecisions in the text: commonplaces like pitched-roof spaces in attics and stained-glass family crests in Tudor-style leaded windows are described by the authors as "unusual" or "unique." Crocheted textiles are called "woven" and marble slabs are called "large bricks." I know this kind of verbal carelessness is frequently to be found in design magazines, but shouldn't the standards be higher for writing books? If, like me, you enjoy looking at pictures of creatively done rooms to steal a design idea here or there, then go to the bookstore, flip through this book, then put it back on the shelf. Anyone with the financial resources to actually recreate and maintain such rooms can presumably also afford (and will absolutely need) their own design team; they don't need this book.
Look elsewhere for style and comfort.......2002-12-16
I wonder if the other reviewer and I looked at the same book. I found the photos to be outdated. The style was a by way of the 80's and I'm not talking cool retro. So, I did not find the book to be very inspiring. I was hoping for it to have more of an Arts and Crafts feel, or be along the lines of the Not So Big House series, which I recommend instead of this book.
A superb addition to an interior design reference collection.......2000-05-04
The Comfortable Home: Stylish Ideas For Living is a beautifully produced and illustrated, invaluable reference resource for interior decorators, redecorators, and do-it-yourself householders. With its accessible formate, stunning photography, and reader friendly text, The Comfortable Home offers hundreds of original ideas that will engender creativity and make home and apartment decorating fun, easy, and affordable. The Comfortable Home is organized into four main sections: Porches & Sunrooms; Family Rooms; Bedrooms; and Babies/Children Rooms. Highly recommended for personal, professional, and community library interior decoration and design reference collections..
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Libro del Blanco y Negro, El-Biblioteca del Color
Dale Russell
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- A Disappointment
- Herstory-Warrior, Peacemaker?
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- Exceptional Depiction of early Frontier Life
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Warrior Woman: The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief
James Alexander Thom , and
Dark Rain Thom
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ASIN: 0345445554
Release Date: 2004-11-23 |
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A bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing woman–one who led her people in war when she could not persuade them to make peace.
Her name was Nonhelema. Literate, lovely, imposing at over six feet tall, she was the Women’s Peace Chief of the Shawnee Nation–and already a legend when the most decisive decade of her life began in 1774. That fall, with more than three thousand Virginians poised to march into the Shawnees’ home, Nonhelema’s plea for peace was denied. So she loyally became a fighter, riding into battle covered in war paint. When the Indians ran low on ammunition, Nonhelema’s role changed back to peacemaker, this time tragically.
Negotiating an armistice with military leaders of the American Revolution like Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark, she found herself estranged from her own people–and betrayed by her white adversaries, who would murder her loved ones and eventually maim Nonhelema herself.
Throughout her inspiring life, she had many deep and complex relationships, including with her daughter, Fani, who was an adopted white captive . . . a pious and judgmental missionary, Zeisberger . . . a series of passionate lovers . . . and, in a stunning creation of the Thoms, Justin Case–a cowardly soldier transformed by the courage he saw in the female Indian leader.
Filled with the uncanny period detail and richly rendered drama that are Thom trademarks, Warrior Woman is a memorable novel of a remarkable person–one willing to fight to avoid war, by turns tough and tender, whose heart was too big for the world she wished to tame.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
A Disappointment.......2006-11-10
I was very disappointed by Warrior Woman. I had read Thom's Panther in the Sky, and it is one of my favorite books. This one didn't even come close. It was boring and soooo frustrating to note Warrior Woman constantly waiting for the white man to keep his promises.
Herstory-Warrior, Peacemaker?.......2006-09-21
My heart was filled with sorrow and pain at the many difficulties
Nonhelema faced as she struggled to fight for peace between the Long Knives and her people. It is excellently written, but I wonder at the title. There was only one scene in which she was a warrior. In truth her main efforts were devoted to peace. Somehow, I feel the title, Warrior Woman, misguides the reader who is picking the book. Time and time again, even when she has to go against her people, Nonhelema choses to speak to white people, asking for peace. Even when she sees family members killed, she clings to a belief in Christian beliefs of peace. It is only at the very end, when she is near death, does she come to realizations that were part of her life long before missionnaries came to these shores... James Alexander Thom and Dark Rain Thom have taken historical information and written a novel of rare understanding and beauty.
No fairy-tale ending for Warrior Woman.......2004-05-29
I told Dark Rain that it would be hard to read yet another Shawnee story, because it inevitably ends in tragedy, and I come away depressed. "Ah," she said, "but Warrior Woman ends on an uplifting note."
More like bittersweet, I think, after reading the life story of Nonhelema, the Shawnee woman chief and warrior. But the story is irresistible, as all Thom historical fictions are. Action combined with deep emotion, love and peace juxtaposed on a canvas of prejudice and war, all in that fascinating period of American history, the 18th century Old Northwest.
Nonhelema was a remarkable woman who gave up everything--her material wealth, the respect of her Shawnee people in the Ohio Valley, and many of her loved ones--all in the name of peace. "Blessed are the peacemakers," she read in white man's bible. The words touched her heart and, like her famous brother Cornstalk, she dedicated her life to being a peacemaker.
Warrior Woman follows Nonhelema through her life, delving into her deep faith in Jesus, her love affairs with prominent white men of the frontier, her family dynamics, and her exasperating relationship with Brother Zeisberger, a missionary at Gnadenhutten, the fateful home of the "praying Indians." As a village chief, Nonhelema is responsible for leading her people in their ancient ceremonies. She wants her people to stay together and preserve their ways, yet she also wants to be written in God's Book of Life. Zeisberger torments her, claiming she cannot have both. She must renounce all her so-called heathen ways, or God will never claim her as one of His children.
She works as an interpreter for white men at the fort at Point Pleasant, along the Ohio River. Some of her people call her a traitor, and they no longer trust her. Repeatedly she is betrayed by those white men she helps, and repeatedly her beloved family members fall victim to the white man's violence and hatred. Yet not until her life nears an end does she decide to never again help the white Americans do anything.
Throughout the book, I want Nonhelema to wake up, to realize the treachery around her, the way white men were using her as a means to their own end. Especially Brother Zeisberger, with his pious, self-righteous platitudes and the way he constantly shames her into compliance. But for much of her life, Nonhelema seems confused. Eventually she ponders, "When war and the Jesus God got mixed up together, nothing much makes sense."
Finally, though, she does see the truth about those around her, and she no longer has a need for Zeisberger's approval. I love her best when she goes to him after a near-death experience and, when he complains that her promiscuous ways have taken a toll on her "comely" appearance, she tells him, "My `promiscuity' always made me radiant. What has `ravaged' me is peacemaking." She puts what remains of her mangled hand before the missionary and says, "Our American soldier friends did this when I tried to prevent them killing my uncle. Such have been the rewards for peacemaking."
Nonhelema's life is far more complex than I can express in these few words. Dark Rain Thom and James Alexander Thom have created another rich narrative, this time a story whose Shawnee protagonist lends a rare female voice to the tumultuous 18th century American frontier. Uplifting? Maybe not. But we're all adults here, and most of us have long ago stopped expecting fairy tale endings. We gain so much more enlightenment from the courageous exploits of real-life figures of our history. Or herstory.
Exceptional Depiction of early Frontier Life.......2004-02-21
One cannot read this exceptional biographical fiction of the famous grenadier squaw without feeling like one of its characters, Justin Case, who while cowardly crouching in the bushes experiences an epiphany to see the remarkable Nonhelema
in battle and hear her voice. That's exactly what happened to me! What a brilliant and courageous and tragic figure she is. Betrayed by the Long Knives. Betrayed by her own. The real gift of this book is the forgotten education we have all missed, no, an IGNORED history that the Thoms now bring to us. Women warriors? Were you ever introduced to a native woman warrior in your history classes? And she lived; she is not invented. She is our provocative American heroine. And she was born right here in Oldtown, Maryland. So beautifully rendered and historically accurate. If the film industry doesn't grab this one, they're crazy!
Warrior Woman.......2004-02-06
I just finished reading "Warrior Woman". I could not put it down, finally a book about true native life told from a native point of view and about the normally forgotten native woman!! Exceptionable, husband/wife team writting!Reading this book makes me want to revisit these places again and say a prayer of thanks, that there lives & efforts were not in vain. Thank you Jim Thom & Dark Rain for making this book come alive with our heritage, the good and the bad.
Books:
- Rancher Ferrets on the Range (Ferret Chronicles)
- Returning as Shadows
- RUDYARD KIPLING SOMETHING OF MYSELF AND OTHER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS
- San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory
- Sextravaganza
- Slo Mo!: My Untrue Story
- Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse
- The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut
- The Big Book of Bible Bloopers: A Lighthearted Look at the Misquotes, Misconceptions, and Misunderstandings of the World's Bestselling Book
- The Book of Proper Names: A Novel
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