false 94917 6 1 Mean Spirit. Her other honors include an American Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches English at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lives in Idledale."]]> 234072 0684825392 9780684825397 57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172967983m/234072.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172967983s/234072.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234072.Solar_Storms 4.20 242 Mean Spirit, was a finalist for the Pulitzer), ties a young woman's coming-of-age to the fate of the natural world she comes to inhabit.

Angela Jensen, a troubled 17-year-old, narrates the tale of her return to Adam's Rib, an island town in the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada. Tucked into a pristine landscape of countless islands, wild animals and desperately harsh winters, it's her Native American family's homeland. As a child, Angela was abandoned by her mother, Hannah Wing, but not before Hannah had permanently scarred half of Angela's face; earlier, Hannah herself had been separated from her family and unspeakably abused.

In Adam's Rib, Angela is reunited with her great-grandmother, Agnes Iron, and Agnes's mother, Dora-Rouge; she also spends a winter with Bush, a solitary woman who briefly raised her and, years earlier and also briefly, raised Hannah. Just as Angela discovers through her family's elemental way of life her own blood ties to the land, the threat of a huge hydroelectric dam project ruins her idyll. The four women -- Angela, Agnes, Dora-Rouge and Bush -- embark on a dangerous journey far northward to visit the homeland, where Hannah Wing is known to live.

Hogan's finely tuned descriptions of the land and its spiritual significance draw a parallel between the ravages suffered by the environment and those suffered by Angela's mother. And, as the land is transformed, so are the lives of the characters, often in deeply resonant ways. (Publishers Weekly)]]> 94917 4.06 890 167 1995 530878 0804108633 9780804108638 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175568768m/530878.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175568768s/530878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530878.Mean_Spirit 3.93 124 "Extraordinary...If you take up no other novel this year, or next, this one will suffice to hold, to disturb, to enlighten and to inspire you."
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Early in this century, rivers of oil were found beneath Oklahoma land belonging to Indian people, and beautiful Grace Banket became the richest person in the Territory. But she was murdered by the greed of white men, and the Graycloud family, who cared for her daughter, began dying mysteriously. Letters sent to Washington, D.C. begging for help went unanswered, until at last a Native American government official, Stace Red Hawk, traveled west to investigate. What he found has been documented by history: rampant fraud, intimidation, and murder. But he also found something truly extraordinary--his deepest self and abiding love for his people, and their brave past.]]> 94917 4.06 890 167 1990 606098 0393319687 9780393319682 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176237175m/606098.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176237175s/606098.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606098.Power_A_Novel 3.77 120 --Gail Hudson ]]> 94917 4.06 890 167 1998 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 36 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 3.99 92 A powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community.

Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind.

Linda Hogan, called our most provocative Native American writer, with "her unparalleled gifts for truth and magic" (Barbara Kingsolver), has written a compassionate novel about the beauty of the natural world and the painful moral choices humans make in it. With a keen sense of the environment, spirituality, and the trauma of war, People of the Whale is a powerful novel for our times.]]> 94917 4.06 890 167 2008 549952 0684830337 9780684830339 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662952m/549952.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223662952s/549952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/549952.Dwellings_A_Spiritual_History_of_the_Living_World 4.08 76 94917 4.06 890 167 1995 634427 0393323056 9780393323054 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176546079m/634427.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176546079s/634427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634427.The_Woman_Who_Watches_Over_the_World_A_Native_Memoir 3.89 70 94917 4.06 890 167 2001 634432 1566890101 9781566890106 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176546125m/634432.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176546125s/634432.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634432.The_Book_of_Medicines 4.41 37 94917 4.06 890 167 1993 164603 086547625X 9780865476257 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337354m/164603.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172337354s/164603.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164603.The_Sweet_Breathing_of_Plants_Women_Writing_on_the_Green_World 4.21 33 A bumper crop of the best writing by women on women and plants

Since prehistory, plants--as sources of food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and life itself--have been the province of women. Yet no previous book has attempted to bring together the rich literature this husbandry has inspired. This burgeoning collection amply addresses that lack, with more than three dozen selections of nonfiction and poetry.

As in Intimate Nature, their previous anthology on women and animals (edited with Deena Metzger), Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson illuminate their subject from a range of perspectives. Here are curranderas and craftswomen whose legacy of plant wisdom safeguards our connection to the green world; botanists and geneticists; and visionaries like Rachel Carson, who show us the world--and our power to protect or destroy it--in a blade of grass. Here are Zora Neale Hurston on voodoo herbs, Sharman Apt Russell on the perfume of plants, Annick Smith on huckleberries, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades' "river of grass," Isabel Allende on the language of flowers, Susan Orleans on "Orchid Fever," Diane Ackerman on the rain forest, and Kathleen Norris on "Dreaming of Trees." Here is an eloquent "ode to mold," a paean to mulch, an elegy for elders. Here is a book that celebrates an ancient and ongoing relationship in a new and appealing way.
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