Books tagged with 'indian': 11

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Secrets of Paradise

by...Dr. Robert E. McGinnis     average rating...5.0 / 5
tags...adventure chief indian indians man mcginnis medicine robert spiritual tribe volcano
shelved by...Dr_Paradise
viewable entries...1

'A great beginning reader for anyone'

entry by...Dr_Paradise     updated...Dec 01, '08     spoilers...n/a

A young man, Harry Raven, is called back to a tribe he had never heard of. He was adopted before age one by an older couple in Seattle after being abandoned by his parents because they were unable to care for him.

As a successful programmer, he begins to have strange dreams and eventually leaves his job to seek his calling.

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A Beckoning from Paradise

by...Dr. Robert E. McGinnis     average rating...5.0 / 5
tags...adventure family for gold indian looking mcginnis mine ranching searching western
shelved by...Dr_Paradise
viewable entries...1

'First book in a series of five.'

entry by...Dr_Paradise     updated...Dec 01, '08     spoilers...n/a

The background for a five book series.
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

by...John G. Neihardt, Standing Bear     average rating...4.3 / 5
tags...indian lakota memoir nonfiction religion
shelved by...baberahamlincln elspeth97 Stilba
viewable entries...1

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entry by...baberahamlincln     updated...Aug 23, '06     spoilers...n/a

should be required reading for all humans.

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The Final Awakening

by...Ashish Mohan     average rating...none
tags...fiction fictions indian writer
shelved by...Christina01
viewable entries...none
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Unaccustomed Earth

by...Jhumpa Lahiri     average rating...5.0 / 5
tags...east immigration indian marriage
shelved by...Jess merc3069
viewable entries...1

'wow'

entry by...merc3069     updated...Jun 09, '08     spoilers...none

I fell in love with Lahiri after reading "The Interpreter of Maladies" and credit her with drawing me in to a love of well written short stories. This book did not disappoint. In fact, a few weeks after finishing it, the characters are still very much with me--a true sign of a great book.

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The Glass Palace: A Novel

by...Amitav Ghosh     average rating...none
tags...burma epic fiction indian literary
shelved by...vivekian
viewable entries...none
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Gifted: A Novel

by...Nikita Lalwani     average rating...none
tags...control culture education england fiction immigrants indian oxford read2008 school success wales
shelved by...uclagirl
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name

by...Margaret Craven     average rating...2.0 / 5
tags...britishcolumbia indian
shelved by...mclauer temporary
viewable entries...1

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entry by...mclauer     updated...Feb 13, '08     spoilers...none

A young minister who has two years to live learns about the meaning of life when he is sent to an Indian parish in British Columbia. Book Club pick.

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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel

by...Michael Dorris     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...indian
shelved by...mclauer
viewable entries...1

'Book Club'

entry by...mclauer     updated...Feb 07, '08     spoilers...none

The novel is divided into three parts, each with a different narrator. Part 1, set in the 1980's and ranging from Seattle to a reservation in Montana, is narrated by fifteen-year-old Rayona Taylor. The daughter of a black man and an Indian woman, Rayona has an extra load of problems on top of the usual burdens of adolescence. Reared largely by her mother, she has had to learn to take care of herself. She tells her story in a winning way, with a teenager's familiar mixture of irony and self-doubt.

Part 2 is narrated by Rayona's mother, Christine. Some of the events recounted by the daughter in part 1 are replayed from the mother's point of view; most of this section, though, flashes back to reservation life in the 1960's, when, disappointed by the failure of an apocalyptic prophecy, Christine rejected the superstition-ridden Catholicism that had fueled her girlhood piety and began to live with self-destructive heedlessness.

The novel's concluding section, by far the shortest of the three, steps back yet another generation, to the 1940's; here, too, scenes from preceding sections take on new meaning as they are retold from another perspective.

This novel is not without flaws. The language of the first-person narrators (especially after Rayona's section) frequently lacks credibility; one thinks: This character would not express herself that way. The supporting characters are too predictable. There are moments of reverse racism, including a silly contrast between English and the Indian language that is kept alive even in Rayona's generation.

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Arranged Marriage: Stories

by...Chitra Divakaruni     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...culture indian weddings
shelved by...merc3069
viewable entries...1

'another fine work'

entry by...merc3069     updated...Oct 09, '07     spoilers...none

I have yet to read something by Chitra Divakaruni that didn't leave me longing for more--longer stories, more novels. Still, I am glad she takes the time to turn out such finely crafted works.

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