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016752
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New York, Bantam Books, 1992.
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468pGreen Spine
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Phaedrus - a character familiar to readers of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - is sailing down the Hudson River when he meets Lila Blewitt, an unapologetically sexual, psychologically unstable woman whom a mutual friend warns him against. But Phaedrus is drawn to her physically, and interested in her intellectually, finding her a culture of oneA" in whom he discerns an unexpected QualityA". Sailing with him to Manhattan, where her mental state deteriorates further, Lila prompts Phaedrus to explore conflicts of values, such as those between Native Americans and Europeans, or between the insane and the normal. Finally, after years of struggling, he formulates his Metaphysics of QualityA", which offers a system of understanding - and evaluating - actions according to a hierarchy of four evolutionary realms (natural, biological, social and intellectual).
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0553299611 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I00887 | 813.54/PIR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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027364
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Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1964.
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305pRed spine
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As The Surrounded opens, Archilde León has just returned from the big city to his father's ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. The story that unfolds captures the intense and varied conflict that already characterized reservation life in 1936, when this remarkable novel was first published. Educated at a federal Indian boarding school, Archilde is torn not only between white and Indian cultures but also between love for his Spanish father and his Indian mother, who in her old age is rejecting white culture and religion to return to the ways of her people. Archilde's young contemporaries, meanwhile, are succumbing to the destructive influence of reservation life, growing increasingly uprooted, dissolute, and hopeless. Although Archilde plans to leave the reservation after a brief visit, his entanglements delay his departure until he faces destruction by the white man's law. In an early review of The Surrounded, Oliver La Farge praised it as "simple, clear, direct, devoid of affectations, and fast-moving." He included it in his "small list of creditable modern novels using the first Americans as theme." Several decades later, long out of print but not forgotten, The Surrounded is still considered one of the best works of fiction by or about Native Americans.
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8002497737 Pb.
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| I02668 | 813.52/MCN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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025338
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London, Puffin Books, 2003.
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154pRed Spine
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Third sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all girls of good families follow this ancient practice, which is also an extremely painful one. Ailin loves to run away from her governess and play games with her male cousins. Knowing she will never run again once her feet are bound, she refuses to follow this torturous tradition. As a result, the family of her intended husband breaks their marriage agreement. As she enters adolescence, Ailin finds that her family, shamed by her decision, will not longer support her.
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9780141317151 Pb.
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| 023100 | FIC/NAM | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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024627
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London, Penguin Group, 2010.
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281pGreen Spine
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Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. After a row with his mother, Max runs away to a strange island where giant and destructive beasts reign.
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9780141037134 Pb.
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| 022475 | FIC/EGG | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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