Filter By Subjects
Coeur d'Alene Indians Fiction Identity Fiction Indians of North America Fiction Names, Personal Fiction Race relations Fiction Seattle (Wash.) Fiction Short stories, American Spokane Indians Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction West (U.S.) Social life and customs FictionFilter By Authors
Alexie, ShermanFilter By Subjects
Coeur d'Alene Indians Fiction Identity Fiction Indians of North America Fiction Names, Personal Fiction Race relations Fiction Seattle (Wash.) Fiction Short stories, American Spokane Indians Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction West (U.S.) Social life and customs FictionFilter By Authors
Alexie, ShermanAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Plagued with a troubled past and a bad case of acne, Zits is a 15-year-old Indian boy on the verge of violence. He finds himself hurtled back in time into various eras, places, and situations that totally alter his perspective on his plight.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views-- until he himself becomes the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Collection of new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: The plight of John Smith, an Indian stolen as a baby from his parents and brought up by whites. Angry because he has no roots he joins the street people, becoming a suspect when Seattle is hit by a serial killer who scalps his all-white victims. By the author of Reservation Blues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1996
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: "Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Contents: Assimilation -- The toughest Indian in the world -- Class -- South by southwest -- The sin eaters -- Indian country -- Saint Junior -- Dear John Wayne -- One good man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views--until he becomes the target of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010