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Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Yellow Raft in Blue Water more books like this

by Michael Dorris

A novel that works its way backwards from the 1980s to the 1950s to tell the stories of three generations of women.

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Broken Cord

Broken Cord more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Michael Dorris's heart-wrenching story of the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome on his son Adam, a Native-American child Dorris adopted.

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Morning Girl

Morning Girl more books like this

by Michael Dorris

In alternating chapters, a 12-year-old Taino Indian named Morning Girl and her young brother, Star Boy, tell of their lives on an island in the Bahamas in 1492. Both Morning Girl and Star Boy describe life in their family and community, their lyrical commentary informing readers about the Taino culture. However, the siblings also face such ...

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The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome more books like this

by Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich (Designer)

Michael Dorris's heart-wrenching story of the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome on his son Adam, a Native-American child Dorris adopted.

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Cloud Chamber

Cloud Chamber more books like this

by Michael Dorris

This novel moves from 19th century Ireland to contemporary America, telling the story of one family's passions and anger through a multiplicity of narrators, including part-black Rayona, heroine of Dorris's previous novel, YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER.

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Guests

Guests more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Thanksgiving from the viewpoint of the Native Americans present at the feast.

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Paper Trail: Essays

Paper Trail: Essays more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Essays by fiction writer and anthropologist Dorris reveal his perspective on his life and work.

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Crown of Columbus more books like this

by Michael Dorris

The love story of two college professors, Vivian Twostar and Roger Williams. They have little in common beyond a physical attraction and the fact that both are involved in research about Christopher Columbus. Vivian, a Native American and a single parent, is writing an academic piece on Columbus from the Native American viewpoint. Roger, an ...

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Working Men: Stories

Working Men: Stories more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Fourteen stories, mostly about men, many of them Native Americans. Stories include "Quiana," "Me and the Girls" (about two kidnapped elephants), "Groom Service," and "Jeopardy."

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The Crown of Columbus

The Crown of Columbus more books like this

by Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris

The love story of two college professors, Vivian Twostar and Roger Williams. They have little in common beyond a physical attraction and the fact that both are involved in research about Christopher Columbus. Vivian, a Native American and a single parent, is writing an academic piece on Columbus from the Native American viewpoint. Roger, an ...

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Sees Behind Trees

Sees Behind Trees more books like this

by Michael Dorris

A young Native American boy named Walnut has impaired vision but also the ability to see what others cannot. Dorris's powerful coming-of-age novel is set in the 16th century.

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Working men more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Fourteen stories, mostly about men, many of them Native Americans. Stories include "Quiana," "Me and the Girls" (about two kidnapped elephants), "Groom Service," and "Jeopardy."

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Kinaalda: A Navajo Girl Grows Up more books like this

by Monty Roessel (Photographer), Michael Dorris (Foreword by)

A photo-essay about 13-year-old Celinda McKelvey as she takes part in her Kinaalda--a Navajo coming-of-age ceremony. Illustrated with color photographs.

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The Window more books like this

by Michael Dorris

The story of Rayona Taylor, a character who appears as a 15-year-old in the author's novels for adults A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER and CLOUD CHAMBER. Here Rayona is an 11-year-old girl struggling to find her place in the world. When her mom's "hard nights" away from home become more frequent, Rayona's mostly absent father decides she needs a ...

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Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking more books like this

by Laura Waterman Wittstock, Dale Kakkak (Photographer), Michael Dorris (Foreword by)

A photo-essay about the traditional Anishinabe method of making maple sugar. Illustrated with color photographs.

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The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading more books like this

by Michael Dorris (Editor), Emilie Buchwald (Editor)

Fifty-seven writers recall their first experiences with books.

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Rooms in the House of Stone: The "Thistle" Series of Essays more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Essays by Michael Dorris about his travels in drought-plagued Zimbabwe, where he visited refugee camps and farmers.

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Clambake: A Wampanoag Tradition more books like this

by Russell Peters, John Madama (Photographer), Michael Dorris (Foreword by)

Steven Peters, a twelve-year-old Wampanoag Indian in Massachusetts, learns from his grandfather how to prepare a clambake in the tradition of his people.

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Native Americans : 500 years after more books like this

by Joseph C. Farber, Michael Dorris

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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel a Novel more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship.

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Guide to Research on North American Indians more books like this

by Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Michael A. Dorris, Mary G. Byler

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Sees Behind Trees Revised Digest Sized more books like this

by Michael Dorris

"Set in 16th century America, this richly imagined and gorgeously written rite-of-passage story has the gravity of legend . . . Dorris once again demonstrates that he is a brilliant and deeply humane writer whose words can show you something you have never seen."--"Booklist, " starred review.

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Tainos more books like this

by Michael Dorris

Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world. In Spanish.

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Grieving: A Love Story more books like this

by Michael Dorris (Designed by), Ruth Coughlin

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Route Two more books like this

by Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris

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