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  Ceremony

  by Leslie Marmon Silko

  "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual — a curative ceremony that defeats his despair.
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  Almanac of the Dead

  by Leslie Marmon Silko

  In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings.
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  Gardens in the Dunes

  by Leslie Marmon Silko

  A sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the Dunes is the powerful story of one woman's quest to reconcile two worlds that are diametrically opposed. At the center of this struggle is Indigo, who is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who... (more)
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  Storyteller

  by Leslie Marmon Silko

  Storytelling is an integral part of Native American tradition. It goes back hundred of years, and spans the continent from ocean to ocean. It was the means by which tribes and nations communicated from generation to generation their feats, legends, and religious beliefs. These stories had a magical quality; the were both real and wondrous, and they had the power to bring the people together as nothing else... (more)
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  Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

  Essays on Native American Life Today

  by Leslie Marmon Silko

  Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's... (more)
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  The Turquoise Ledge

  A Memoir

  by Leslie Marmon Silko

  A highly original and poetic self-portrait from one of America's most acclaimed writers. Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world, taking readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Silko weaves tales... (more)
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  Benjamin Weaver: Book 1

  A Conspiracy of Paper

  by David Liss

  Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family--until he is asked to investigate his father's sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and... (more)
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  "Yellow Woman" (Women Writers Texts and Contexts)

  by Leslie Marmon Silko

  In the past twenty-five years many Native American writers have retold the traditional stories of powerful mythological women: Corn Woman, Changing Woman, Serpent Woman, and Thought Woman, who with her sisters created all life by thinking it into being.  Within and in response to these evolving traditions, Leslie Marmon Silko takes from her own tradition, the Keres of Laguna, the Yellow Woman.  Yellow Woman... (more)
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  The Delicacy and Strength of Lace

  Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright

  The timeless exchange of advice and friendship between two of our greatest literary talents Dear Leslie: Of course I can’t know whether or not the world looks strange to God. But sometimes it looks strange to me. Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright met only twice. First, briefly, in 1975, at a writers’ conference in Michigan. Their correspondence began three years later, after Wright wrote to Silko praising... (more)
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  The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright

  by Ann Wright

  This moving, eighteen-month exchange of correspondence chronicles the friendship-through-the-mail of two extraordinary writers. Leslie Marmon Silko is a poet and novelist. James Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his Collected Poems . They met only twice. First, briefly, in 1975, at a writers conference in Michigan. Their correspondence began three years later, after Wright wrote to Silko praising her... (more)