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Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitl©Łn, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitl©Łn, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
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The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard."
4) Bearstone
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
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Probably Garcia Marquez's finest and most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a truth and understanding that strike the soul, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece of the art of fiction.
8) Bel Canto
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan. From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"Black Elk Speaks" is the powerful and inspirational story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and his people during the momentous twilight years of the 19th century, as told to distinguished poet, writer, and critic Neihardt in 1930.
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A history of US volume 1
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Presents an overview of the origin and development of the United States from the Ice Age to 1600, with an emphasis on pre-Columbian Native Americans, and the arrivals of explorers and conquistadors.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Four-year-old John Butler is captured by the Delaware Indians and is adopted by one of the tribes leaders. Suddenly, after 11 years among the Delaware people, he is forced to return to his original home and parents by the Bouquet military expedition of 1765. But his deep love for and loyalty to his Indian parents and his cousin, Half Arrow, is his reason for rejecting the white man's civilization.
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Think outside the big-box hotels and discover North America's most inspiring outdoor getaways. In the first travel guide of its kind, authors Mike and Anne Howard of the acclaimed blog HoneyTrek.com dive into the origins of glamping and the 21st-century craving for unconventional experiences that effortlessly connect us with nature, family, and ourselves. Each chapter of Comfortably Wild offers a unique way to vacation, like the boutique farmstays
...16) Sun Born
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2016.
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A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent from its capital near modern St. Louis. From Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, settlers and priests carried word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands. Power rested in one being, Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body...
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The timely story of how the forces of change converge on a small tribe of Niaruna Indians living in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. In addition to being a prophetic commentary on emerging threats to the environment, and the troublesome encroachment of the modern world on traditional cultures, the novel is a suspenseful adventure story about two men striving to find meaning in a world not their own.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again. It's been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can't understand how hopeless she feels....
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[2018]
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Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat.
Today, a growing coalition of "Beaver Believers", including scientists,...
20) Pyramid
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents a photographic introduction to pyramids, explaining what they are, discussing how and when they were built, examining the purpose of pyramids, and looking at different pyramids around the world.