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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
An Indian girl returns home to find her identity. She is Angela Jensen, 17, whose stay in an Indian village in northern Minnesota turns into a depressing lesson in the lot of her people, but also brings self-discovery and love. By the author of Mean Spirit.
9) Shadow woman
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Jane Whitefield, who helps people in trouble to disappear, has to disappear herself after she becomes the target of killers who want to close her business. To find Jane one of the killers, a woman, puts her feminine charms to work on Jane's fiance, Carey, who is feeling lonely because of Jane's absence. By the author of Dance for the Dead.
12) Legacy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a...
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
"Adriana Mora, a Latina photojournalist born and raised in Los Angeles, haunted by childhood memories of her parents death, abuse and displacement, journeys south to Chiapas, Mexico, in search of images to record on film. Initially, Mora finds a place in a small village where her path also crosses that of Chan Kin, the aged Lacandon shaman and interpreter of his people's mysticism."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The boundaries between love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, and cooperation and competition among Native Americans and white settlers are explored in this stunning novel, set against the unforgiving wilderness of frontier Kansas in the mid-nineteenth century.
Iris, India, and Singing Bird. Theirs is an uneasy alliance - a makeshift trinity of mother, daughter, and ambiguously holy spirit - that together forges a family of necessity. The fates of...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than...
17) El legado
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
"En menos de una semana, Brigitte Nicholson se queda sin novio, sin trabajo y sin ganas de seguir con el libro que está escribiendo. Angustiada ante un...
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