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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The apocalyptic 2019-2020 Australian bushfires were a dire warning: respect the environment and listen to indigenous wisdom, or our world will become a living hell. INFERNO WITHOUT BORDERS both raises awareness of a climate solution, and serves as a call to action to ensure the atrocity’s of Australia’s bushfire crisis is never endured again.
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1997.
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English
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The story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandildjara people to be living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the remote Gibson Desert of central Australia. Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal Elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr...
3) Ever Deadly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Throughout her ground-breaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna—the Land—a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to the New York Times, “demands full attention, whether she’s whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.” EVER DEADLY weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal...
4) Downwind
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living… downwind.
5) 77° North
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An extraordinary debut novel - thematically significant, profoundly timely, magical in intent and execution.... A MUST READ. The Author himself best defines the intent of this novel. • First is to advocate Inuit culture, specifically the role of shaman. 77° North recognizes this ancient tradition and hopes, within the confines of this mythical adventure, we bring new perspective to the forefront for the stewards of...
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Jandamarra is an aboriginal warrior of the spiritual Kimberley area of Australia, home to the tribe known as the Bunuba people. Jandamarra is a legendary hero of the 1890s known to his people as a Jalgangurru, a magic man, due to his extraordinary skills and abilities.
He is a cheeky, likeable boy, and a quick learner. At around 12 years of age, Jandamarra, named Pigeon by the whitefellas, begins working on a sheep station, where he learns to shoot,...
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In the late 1800s, post-Civil War, two young Cheyenne sisters are wrenched from a loving family, kidnapped and incarcerated at Rose Academy, a harsh, Indian boarding school established to assimilate native young people, teach them English, and eradicate their knowledge of traditional ways, considered inferior to the ways of the Washita (whites).Forbidden to speak their native language, the sisters are whipped and punished, however, the school harsh...
8) Betrayed!
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For ten long years Jodie Breault has been hounded by the mystery surrounding her mother's drowning and her father's disappearance in a boating accident on Lake Champlain, VT. A senior at a Connecticut high school, Jodie resides with her parents' friends,, a foreign-born couple that harbors many secrets. That year she falls in love with a classmate, C. Travis Jones, AKA Jonesy, but they are separated when he goes off to college in California and...
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A troubled Chicago physician sets off on an urgent road trip across the Plains to reach his dying father's bedside. When he arrives on the impoverished Indian reservation he fled as a teen, he discovers his dwindling family sick, the neglected hospital facing closure, and the tribe locked in a culture war with outside energy developers. It's not his fight, he thinks. Until he encounters a fierce young Lakota gang member, a sharp-tongued grandmother,...
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We live a big world. There are so many locations to explore and learn about. This book has different types of categories about locations worldwide.This can be a fun activity to do by yourself to see how many places you know, or with others to see how much they know.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned,...
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The situation between Deputy Brock Guthrie and Daphne Decker is complicated. Can he get past his hatred of Indians and accept Daphne for the woman she is within instead of seeing only her Comanche heritage? Will he take a chance and come down from the fence he sits on, or will he turn away from the possibility of a lifetime of happiness with Daphne?
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One man was hers for a season. The other, for a lifetime.Many moons have passed since the spirits threw Pretty Wolf together with a scrawny brave and left them to scratch out an existence in a deserted, war-torn village. Though he became dear to her, duty to the People lured her away. Back now with her fugitive clan in faraway Spanish Territory, she lives at the trade post with her longtime betrothed, the Englishman called Iron Wood. When their war...
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Chance City Beginnings Part OneCome meet the early settlers of Chance in the first part of this short story prequel series to the Chance City Series. Learn how the town came into existence and become acquainted with the ancestors of Chance City, Oklahoma.Chance City Beginnings Part TwoContinue the adventure and meet more of the early settlers of Chance in the second part of this short story prequel series to the Chance City Series. When jaded soiled...
15) Taste of Memory
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TASIMU is a youth who can call down the power of the northern lights to win a rock-throwing contest, but he is also a boy troubled by the mystery surrounding his birth. Others taunt him, claiming that he isn't truly human. Before he can discover the truth, gold is discovered on tribal land, and soldiers from the Empire come north with orders to remove his people from their northern home. Taste of Memory deals with issues of family breakup, ritual...
16) A Call of Love
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Tess, a revered princess of the shamanic realm, bears the sacred responsibility of perserving the ancient ways. Yet, she finds herself entangled in the ways of the white man for far too long. It's causing her powers to wane rapidly. If she fails to find a suitable mate before her impending birthday, a dreadful curse will befall her, rendering her a mere hollow shell of a woman. When a shaman seeks a union, she emits a resounding call of love,...
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He was determined to stay single. Fate has other plans. James "Maverick" Lonetree heads to New Mexico for his mandatory leave. Out one night he finds himself in a bar where the stunning bartender, Tempest Burnell, makes him feel things he swore no woman would. She watched her past walk into her bar…and realized he has no idea who she is. Tempest recognizes him the moment her eyes land on him. His flirting is as natural as his breathing and she refuses...
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"The Whispering Trail: A Journey Beyond the Veil of Nature" by C.A. Greenwood is a captivating narrative that transports readers into the heart of the Appalachian wilderness, where ancient secrets and supernatural forces intertwine with the fabric of reality. This spellbinding tale follows a group of friends whose search for adventure leads them to confront their deepest fears and uncover the mystical heritage of the land. As they delve deeper into...
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There are many stories in a bead. We must listen to the stories they tell us. Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories held in a bead. Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom...
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