From Sand Creek
10 best books like From Sand Creek (Simon J. Ortiz): Dawn, In the Time of the Butterflies, Chasing Redbird, House Made of Dawn, The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, Rasputin's Daughter, Ceremony, The Grass Dancer, Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 01, Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0809037726 |
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death...
In the Time of the Butterflies
| Author | Julia Alvarez |
| ISBN | 0452274427 |
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.
From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost...
| Author | Sharon Creech |
| ISBN | 0330397826 |
To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti - she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It's a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt's life - and her own. And while Zinny...
| Author | N. Scott Momaday |
| ISBN | 0072434201 |
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land.
He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The...
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
| Author | Robert Alexander |
| ISBN | 0142003816 |
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to...
| Author | Robert Alexander |
| ISBN | 0143038656 |
From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure.
Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs....
| Author | Leslie Marmon Silko |
| ISBN | 0140086838 |
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy...
| Author | Susan Power |
| ISBN | 0425159531 |
What I said in the secrecy of my thoughts was: Fanny, mazaska, the white iron you call money, is useless to me. Even the goods I take from the sutler's store, the flour, coffee, sugar, and tobacco, the knives and blankets, are things I do not want. I give them to my cousins who live upriver.These words belong...
| Author | Yoshihiro Togashi |
| ISBN | 1591167531 |
Hunters are a special breed, dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people. But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. Those who do pass gain access to restricted areas, amazing stores of information,...
| Author | Janusz Bardach |
| ISBN | 0520221524 |
FROM THE BOOK:"The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size with a stick, made lines on the forest floor, and told me to dig. He wanted to make sure I'd fit well inside."
In 1941 Janusz Bardach's death sentence was...
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0809023091 |
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book Review
The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the...
