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Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThere There\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RecReadingProduct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62421430567283,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0964\/9068\/4787\/files\/wandering_stars.jpg?v=1767723733"},{"product_id":"the-mighty-red","title":"The Mighty Red","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the Red River Valley of North Dakota, several lives revolve around a wedding fraught with desire, jealousy, and uncertainty. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed goth who can’t read her own future but will settle for fulfilling his. Her best friend, Hugo, a gentle, red-haired, homeschooled giant, also loves Kismet and is determined to steal her away and build a life together. Kismet’s mother, Crystal, drives a truck for Gary’s family, and on her nightly runs, tunes in to the darkness of late-night radio, experiences visions of guardian angels, and worries about what’s to come, for her daughter and herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mighty Red\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Louise Erdrich at her consummate best. A novel of tender humor, disquietude, yearning, community, and family, it is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. Human time, deep time, Red River time, and geological time are explored alongside the impact of crises in our own time—climate change, the depletion of natural resources, the economic meltdown of 2008. 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Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon’s traumatic time in an Indian boarding school in South Dakota, his mother’s devastation at racist bullying from coworkers, and the violent erasure colonialism demanded of the people and other animals indigenous to the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirding has always been Gannon’s escape and solace. He later found similar solace in literature, particularly by Native authors. He draws on both throughout this expansive, hilarious, and humane memoir. An acerbic observer—of birds, the environment, the aftershocks of history, and human nature—Gannon navigates his obsession with the ostensibly objective avocation of birding and his own mixed-blood subjectivity, searching for that elusive Snowy Owl \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e his own identity. 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Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNed Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. 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With this intimate perspective of the ongoing fight for Native sovereignty, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Indian Card\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esheds light on what it looks like to find a deeper sense of belonging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RecReadingProduct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62421430731123,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0964\/9068\/4787\/files\/indian_card.jpg?v=1767723741"},{"product_id":"rediscovering-turtle-island","title":"Rediscovering Turtle Island","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e“Brother Keen, with his infinite Indigenous and academic knowledge, brings forth amazing truths about ancient North American cultures the modern world was unaware of. Not only are the ancient earthworks extensive and scientifically and astronomically complex but Keen unveils they are all connected across the entire continent, mirroring the heavens. Simply incredible research.” ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScott Wolter, host of History 2 (H2) Channel’s America Unearthed, world-renowned forensic geol\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Careful analysis by Taylor Keen of the placement and designs of earthworks of the Indigenous people of North America reveals far more complex planning and design was involved than just random location selection of mounds for burials, as we were taught to think. His geographical analysis reveals the sacred earthworks designs were far more advanced and esoteric in nature, something he is uniquely qualified to understand as Indigenous himself and a member of several esoteric orders. He proves definitively the intricate level of knowledge of astronomy, heavenly body movements, mathematics, and cosmology involved in the creation of these earthworks, not only at a local level, but incredibly as long-range alignments as well. This revelation, Keen explains, was something that was dismissed and suppressed by early nineteenth-century archaeologists who breached and destroyed the sacred earthworks and burial mounds as part of the promotion of ‘manifest destiny,’ with the intent being justification of taking tribal lands for settlement. Keen’s incredibly important work gives a whole new perspective on the history of North America.” ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJanet Wolter, coauthor of America: Nation of the Goddess\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The official history of the United States begins with Spanish contact in the late fifteenth century. The oral traditions and legends of the various Native peoples of North America, however, stretch back much earlier, into the opaque mists of preliterate times. With a member of the Earthen Bison Clan of the Omaha Tribe to serve as our guide, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRediscovering Turtle Island\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eleads the reader along near-forgotten, overgrown paths that twist and turn throughout a resacralized landscape, decorated with ancient landmarks, populated with whispering ghosts and supernatural beings. The sacred geography of America will never again appear the same.” ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eP. D. 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The premise is staggering and the consequences far-reaching. Keen’s hard work pays off immensely in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRediscovering Turtle Island,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and readers will be gripped by that experience on every page.” ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSidian M.S. Jones, coauthor of The Voice of Rolling Thunder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brother Keen, with his infinite Indigenous and academic knowledge, brings forth amazing truths about ancient North American cultures the modern world was unaware of. Not only are the ancient earthworks extensive and scientifically and astronomically complex, but Keen unveils they are all connected across the entire continent mirroring the heavens. Simply incredible research.” ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScott Wolter, host of History 2 (H2) Channel’s America Unearthed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an excellent read for anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge of age-old wisdom about interconnectedness from an Indigenous worldview. As a decolonizing Filipina American, I appreciated Keen’s insights about the damaging generational effects of expressionist doctrine, Western expansion, and Federal Indian policies. Knowing about colonial history is important in appreciating the resilience of Indigenous peoples. The text is undoubtedly pro-Indigenous and written in a way that is relevant and accessible to non-Natives.” ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaileen Hamto, Seattle Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"RecReadingProduct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62421430763891,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0964\/9068\/4787\/files\/turtle_island.jpg?v=1767723743"},{"product_id":"we-are-the-middle-of-forever","title":"We Are the Middle of Forever","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Are the Middle of Forever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A refreshingly unique and incredibly informative collection of vital Indigenous wisdom.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Insights like these, and dozens more, deserve deep attention and will hopefully spur readers into action to save the planet and themselves.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Are the Middle of Forever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e does something incredible with time: it covers millennia of Indigenous history, grounded in conversations across the arc of the pandemic, all while giving the broadest platform for intellectuals whose visionary work today makes them ambassadors from the future. This is a book whose reading is medicine, a beautiful invitation to a more sacred world in the company of some of the brightest stars of contemporary Indigenous activism.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Raj Patel, co-author (with Rupa Marya) of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A timely and necessary volume that includes the perspectives and honesty of seasoned thinkers and powerful new voices. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Are the Middle of Forever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is, at its core, a call to stop, listen closely, and think and act with humility when it comes to identifying and applying Native-sourced wisdom and solutions to the problems facing humanity.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTsim D. 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