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<title><![CDATA[The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316013697</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Alexie's YA debut, released in hardcover to instant success, recieving seven starred reviews, hitting numerous bestseller lists, and winning the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown Books for Young Readers]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316013697]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Alexie's YA debut, released in hardcover to instant success, recieving seven starred reviews, hitting numerous bestseller lists, and winning the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Ten Little Indians]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802141170</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even as they often make readers laugh, Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience. The result is a short-story collection that has been hailed as Alexie's "best in years" ("Austin American-Statesman").]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Ten Little Indians]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802141170]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Even as they often make readers laugh, Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience. The result is a short-story collection that has been hailed as Alexie's "best in years" ("Austin American-Statesman").]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[War Dances]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802119193</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[War Dances]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802119193]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Flight]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802170378</link>
<description><![CDATA[A gifted and accomplished storyteller returns with a powerful and timely novel of a troubled foster teenager. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, "Flight" is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Flight]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802170378]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A gifted and accomplished storyteller returns with a powerful and timely novel of a troubled foster teenager. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, "Flight" is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802141675</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this darkly comic collection of 22 interlocked tales, Alexia brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802141675]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this darkly comic collection of 22 interlocked tales, Alexia brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Reservation Blues]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802141903</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this bestselling winner of the American Book Award, the life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Reservation Blues]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802141903]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this bestselling winner of the American Book Award, the life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Toughest Indian in the World Toughest Indian in the World]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802138002</link>
<description><![CDATA[This acclaimed collection of stories presents the kind of native American rarely seen in literature--one portrayed without stereotypes--who pays his bills, holds down jobs, and falls in and out of love.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Toughest Indian in the World Toughest Indian in the World]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802138002]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This acclaimed collection of stories presents the kind of native American rarely seen in literature--one portrayed without stereotypes--who pays his bills, holds down jobs, and falls in and out of love.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Smoke Signals]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780786883929</link>
<description><![CDATA[Set in Arizona, Smoke Signals is the story of two Native American boys on a journey. Victor is the stoic, handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. Thomas is a gregarious, goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. Through storytelling, Thomas makes every effort to connect with the people around him: Victor, in contrast, uses his quiet countenance to gain strength and confidence.When Victor's estranged father dies, the two men embark on an adventure to Phoenix to collect the ashes. Along the way, Smoke Signals illustrates the ties that bind these two very different young men and embraces the lessons they learn from one another.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Smoke Signals]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Miramax Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780786883929]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Set in Arizona, Smoke Signals is the story of two Native American boys on a journey. Victor is the stoic, handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. Thomas is a gregarious, goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. Through storytelling, Thomas makes every effort to connect with the people around him: Victor, in contrast, uses his quiet countenance to gain strength and confidence.When Victor's estranged father dies, the two men embark on an adventure to Phoenix to collect the ashes. Along the way, Smoke Signals illustrates the ties that bind these two very different young men and embraces the lessons they learn from one another.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Business of Fancydancing]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780914610007</link>
<description><![CDATA[Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film with none other than Alexie himself in his directorial debut. The screenplay for the movie, which recently won the Audience Award at the San Francisco Film Festival, is loosly adapted from this book. Many film-goers will want to visit or revisit the elegaic poems and stories that set the tone for the film itself. "In an age when many 'Native American' writers publish books that prove their ignorance of the real Indian world, Sherman Alexie paints painfully honest visions of our beautiful and brutal lives"--Adrian C. Louis.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Business of Fancydancing]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Hanging Loose Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780914610007]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film with none other than Alexie himself in his directorial debut. The screenplay for the movie, which recently won the Audience Award at the San Francisco Film Festival, is loosly adapted from this book. Many film-goers will want to visit or revisit the elegaic poems and stories that set the tone for the film itself. "In an age when many 'Native American' writers publish books that prove their ignorance of the real Indian world, Sherman Alexie paints painfully honest visions of our beautiful and brutal lives"--Adrian C. Louis.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1992-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian Killer]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780446673709</link>
<description><![CDATA[A serial murderer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting and scalping white men. And the crimes of the so-called Indian Killer have triggered a wave of violence and racial hatred. Seattle's Native Americans are shaken and confused, none more so than John Smith. Born Indian, raised white, Smith desperately yearns for his lost heritage and seeks his elusive true identity. He meets Marie, a stormy Indian activist particularly outraged by people like Jack Wilson, the mystery writer who passes himself as part Indian. As a bigoted radio personality incites whites to seek revenge, tensions mount, Smith fights to slake the anger that engulfs him...and the Indian Killer claims yet another life. Lauded as a poet and author of exceptional lyricism and humor, Sherman Alexie now dips his pen in something stronger-and offers a gritty and eye-opening novel of alienation and justice.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Indian Killer]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grand Central Publishing]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780446673709]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A serial murderer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting and scalping white men. And the crimes of the so-called Indian Killer have triggered a wave of violence and racial hatred. Seattle's Native Americans are shaken and confused, none more so than John Smith. Born Indian, raised white, Smith desperately yearns for his lost heritage and seeks his elusive true identity. He meets Marie, a stormy Indian activist particularly outraged by people like Jack Wilson, the mystery writer who passes himself as part Indian. As a bigoted radio personality incites whites to seek revenge, tensions mount, Smith fights to slake the anger that engulfs him...and the Indian Killer claims yet another life. Lauded as a poet and author of exceptional lyricism and humor, Sherman Alexie now dips his pen in something stronger-and offers a gritty and eye-opening novel of alienation and justice.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Face]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781931236706</link>
<description><![CDATA[Brash, confrontational verse and prose have made Alexie the most famous, and the most controversial, Native American writer of his generation. Alexie (First Indian on the Moon), in this first book of poems since 2000, sometimes works in sonnets, rhymed couplets, short quatrains, even villanelles. The results are mixed and occasionally naïve (When I tell my wife about my adolescent rage/ She shrugs, rolls her eyes, and turns the page). More successful are his many experiments with footnotes and interpolated blocks of prose within poems, devices that let Alexie explore his self-consciousness, as he looks back on his childhood on the rez in Washington State, inward to his sex life and his happy marriage, and outward to public events, from the Clinton impeachment to Gonzaga University basketball. Alexie's self-interruptions also permit flights of comedy, with homages to Richard Pryor and to the porn star Ron Jeremy. The humor, in turn, lets Alexie brace himself for his most serious subjects: his love for his son, the history of his people and the last illness and death of his father, a flawed but durable example of the manliness for which Alexie so often strives
]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Face]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Hanging Loose Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781931236706]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Brash, confrontational verse and prose have made Alexie the most famous, and the most controversial, Native American writer of his generation. Alexie (First Indian on the Moon), in this first book of poems since 2000, sometimes works in sonnets, rhymed couplets, short quatrains, even villanelles. The results are mixed and occasionally naïve (When I tell my wife about my adolescent rage/ She shrugs, rolls her eyes, and turns the page). More successful are his many experiments with footnotes and interpolated blocks of prose within poems, devices that let Alexie explore his self-consciousness, as he looks back on his childhood on the rez in Washington State, inward to his sex life and his happy marriage, and outward to public events, from the Clinton impeachment to Gonzaga University basketball. Alexie's self-interruptions also permit flights of comedy, with homages to Richard Pryor and to the porn star Ron Jeremy. The humor, in turn, lets Alexie brace himself for his most serious subjects: his love for his son, the history of his people and the last illness and death of his father, a flawed but durable example of the manliness for which Alexie so often strives
]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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