Author: Mary Martha Sherwood
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Category : Charity
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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ISBN: 9780461588484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: A.M. Halpern
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1909254851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the giant, Old Lady Sanyuuxáv and her twin sons, and the Man Who Bothered Ants. This book makes a long-awaited contribution to the oral literature and mythology of the American Southwest, and its format and organization are of special interest. Narratives are presented in the original language and in the storytellers’ own words. A prosodically-motivated broken-line format captures the rhetorical structure and local organization of the oral delivery and calls attention to stylistic devices such as repetition and syntactic parallelism. Facing-page English translation provides a key to the original Quechan for the benefit of language learners. The stories are organized into "story complexes”, that is, clusters of narratives with overlapping topics, characters, and events, told from diverse perspectives. In presenting not just stories but story complexes, this volume captures the art of storytelling and illuminates the complexity and interconnectedness of an important body of oral literature. Stories from Quechan Oral Literature provides invaluable reading for anyone interested in Native American cultural heritage and oral traditions more generally.

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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Tololwa M. Mollel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395720790
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.

Author: Samuel Young
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Category : Orphans
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Fran Friel
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ISBN: 9780981639086
Category : Horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Horror fiction. The Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella "Mama's Boy" is the cornerstone of this 14-story collection from author Fran Friel and Apex Publications. A man whose mother's demented love for him has turned him from an innocent boy to a serial killer, and into a near-comatose mental patient. "Frank" opens his world to a psychologist determined to reach him as a way of dealing with her own mother's battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But is she helping, or is there more damage to be done?

Author: John Brown
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Tololwa Marti Mollel
Publisher: New York : Clarion Books
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.