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Does what it says on the cover! A great first book to read having just got a puppy mastiff, thank you. ... Read more

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Second Life was first published in 1995."Having sat out the U.S. civil rights movement and the Vietnam war protest during the sixties, I joined my first cause in the late eighties, a middle-aged academic on the other side of the world." So writes Janet Varner Gunn, who from 1988 to 1990 took time out from university teaching to do human rights work on the West Bank. During that time she became involved with the case of Mohammad Abu Aker, a Palestinian teenager who was critically shot during a stone-throwing demonstration. The years following Mohammad's injury, during which he was deemed a "living martyr" of the Intifada and which ended with his eventual death at nineteen in 1990, are recounted in this deeply personal book. Gunn interweaves her account of Mohammad's medical struggles and the politics surrounding his symbolic place in the Intifada with her own story of loss and recovery. As a human rights worker for whom Mohammad initially represented a "case," Gunn was involved in getting him the medical care he needed to survive. As a scholar, she became fascinated by the wayMohammad's injury and subsequent "second life" took on a larger significance because of its timing, which coincided with the declaration of an independent Palestine.The book contains rich accounts of the "small news" of daily life in Deheishe, the refugee camp where Mohammad lived with his family. Gunn describes the laughter with which residents of the camp have learned to meet the violent disruption of their daily lives, hoping that her readers will "be moved not by the victimization of an oppressive occupation but by the examples of hope and steadfastness I discovered in Deheishe's holding on for dear life." Janet Varner Gunn has taught in the Department of English at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, after completing a Senior Fulbright Lectureship. She is the author of Autobiography: Toward a Poetics of Experience (1982). ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gerald Vizenor, Janet Catherine Berlo, Paula Gunn Allen, Native American Studies, Janine Pease, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming, Lakota Woman, Ann Nolan Clark, American Indian Quarterly, Fourth Annual State of Indian Nations Address, the Sacred Hoop. Excerpt:American Indian Quarterly is an academic journal devoted to the indigenous peoples of North and South America.See also (online edition) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ann Nolan Clark , born Anna Marie Nolan (December 5, 1896 December 6, 1995) was an American writer who won the 1953 Newbery Medal .Born in Las Vegas, New Mexico , Clark graduated from New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas at age 21, and married Thomas Patrick Clark on August 6, 1919. She gave birth to an only son, Thomas Patrick, Jr., who later died in World War II .She began her career teaching English at the Highlands University. However, in the early 1920s, she transferred to a job teaching Native American children for the Tesuque pueblo people , which lasted for 25 years. Clark found that the underfunded Tesuque School couldnt afford any substantial instructional material. She wrote her own books for the 1st to 4th grade one-room schoolhouse .Between 1940 and 1951, the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs published 15 of her books, all relating to her experiences with the Native Americans. In 1945, the Institute for Inter-American Affairs sent Clark to live and travel for five years in Mexico , Guatemala , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Peru , and Brazil . Those experiences led her to write books such as Magic Money , Looking-for-Something , and The Secret of the Andes , which won the 1953 Newbery Medal . In the 1940s she also wrote books for the Haskell Foundation and the Haskell... ... Read more

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Welcome to Anorev, a land that has no concept or understanding of time because time itself has ceased to exist. A world where children have never grown up, machines have forgotten if they were built by humans or if they built humans themselves, and all clocks have been stopped at the same time since time itself stopped. This has been the way of things for longer than anyone can remember, until 314 dapper-looking gentlemen rain down from the sky to start the world anew.

Now Ayden, the only boy to still ask questions; Zoe, the robot girl all other machines hold dear; and the Dapper Man known only as "41" must repair whatever it was that caused time to stop, understand their true place in this world, and learn what "tomorrow" really means. But destiny is not always easy and choices must be made that will decide the fate of this land. The sun is setting for the first time in memory, and once that happens, everything changes!

The Return of the Dapper Men is a visually stunning fairy tale that combines steampunk with fantasy and science fiction with Renaissance style, brought to life from the minds of award-winning playwright and comic book writer Jim McCann (Marvel's Hawkeye & Mockingbird) and critically acclaimed visual artist Janet Lee. Together they have created a world where J.M. Barrie, Lewis Carrol, and Maurice Sendak meet Jim Henson and Tim Burton. All sharply dressed in a pin-stripe suit and a dapper bowler hat. ... Read more

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The Christy Miller Series #6 through #11;A Heart Full of Hope,True Friends,Starry Night, Seventeen Wishes, A Time to Cherish, and Sweet Dreams ... Read more