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(0)Sherman Alexie
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother, Lillian, was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past but created an elaborate facade to hid the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection they so desperately...
4) War dances
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A bestselling collection of stories and poems from literary icon Sherman Alexie Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from a story about a famous writer caring for a dying but still willful father, to the tale of a young Indian boy who learns to value his own...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
420 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A gritty, smart thriller from a literary superstar A killer has Seattle on edge. The serial murderer has been dubbed "the Indian Killer" because he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers. As the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension, a possible suspect emerges: John Smith. An Indian raised by whites, John is lost between cultures. He fights for a sense of belonging that may never be his-but has his alienation...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen new stories and fifteen classics by the National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of War Dances.
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades—from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning...
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades—from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
Description
2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category
"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie
Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves
Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?
read by Keir Dullea
A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wife's Story
read
...Author
Language
English
Description
In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In these nine stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine poignant stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love. Driven by a naked candor that cuts to the heart of the human experience, these stories -- even as they make us laugh -- shed light on what happens when we grow into...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie's brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock 'n' roll, and redemption Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State-and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers...
12) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
13) Blasphemy
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage
15) Smoke signals
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
xi, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
16) Smoke signals
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father
Author
Language
English
Description
"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...
18) The exiles
Series
Publisher
Exclusively distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (72 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"[C]hronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles -- transplants from Southwest reservations -- as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance"--Container
An account of the problems encountered by Native Americans living in urban areas and caught between two conflicting...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.