![]() ![]() DJ Very good, Some shelf wear to top and bottom, some tears, most closed. ![]() Very Good +on book, solid, clean, head slightly soiled, no yellowing. Item #biblio801 ISBN: 0030853222 Holt, Rinehart & Winston, First Edition, Stated Tenth Printing, 1971. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity. ![]() Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, First Edition, Stated Tenth Printing, Cloth/Orangeboards/black spine, blue lettering. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. ![]()
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![]() Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China-dubbed the true Shangri-La-and heads south into the jungles of Burma. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes." - Anonymous And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. ![]() ![]() I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. ![]() ![]() Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and al Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. ![]() Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stories featuring animals but NOT told in an animal POV ![]() ![]() Sports related book featuring sports you don’t often see in fiction (like bowling, ping-pong, roller derby, archery) Super dark, twisted contemporary that will terrify me (and the kids who read it)Ī middle grade character dealing with a parent living with mental illness If it’s not listed below, please feel free to query me anyway! I’m not limited to this list, and I’m always open to trying new things.Ī young sleuth solving crimes, with their best friend and their trusty dog side-kick. I’m still open to YA, but I’m being extra picky when it comes to this age range. In general, my YA list is pretty full right now, so I’m focusing on MG and adult projects. I have a few sports books on my list already, but I’m always open to MG, YA, and nonfiction related to baseball. My first love is baseball, so I pay special attention to any book that features the sport. ![]() I’m always looking for strong voices, characters I hate to love or love to hate, and books that can make me both laugh and cry. in English and from SNHU in 2017 with a M.A. I graduated from UConn in 2016 with a B.A. I’m really excited to be building my list with fantastic MG, YA, and adult projects. I opened Tia Rose Mele Literary Agency in 2023. ![]() ![]() 2 - The Untold History of the United States: Young Readers Edition, 1945-1962 and abroad the World Wars and the arrival of the Atomic Age with the threat of nuclear war. Then, with the stage set for themes of imperialist, anti-communist geopolitics abroad and of racist, exploitative policies at home, authors dive into the United States’ late 18th century colonial ambitions in the Pacific and Caribbean the rise of socialism in the U.S. ![]() elites promoted and enforced through violence. The first volume begins by describing the racist, anti-labor society that the U.S. ![]() 1 - The Untold History of the United States, Volume 1: Young Readers Edition, 1898-1945 The second volume was adapted by high school and university educator Eric S. The first volume of The Untold History of the United States: Young Readers Edition was adapted by Newbery Honor recipient Susan Campbell Bartoletti. history books geared toward students was adapted from the companion book to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and the historian Peter Kuznick. ![]() |