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Diane Glancy
4 x 4 The first words were footprints of the wind in our ears. Sometimes we cried with earache. We wrapped our heads in animal-skins. Our cries were feral in…
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Hannah Glancy
In The Healing Power of Movement, the mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits of becoming more physically active are explored in ways that make getting moving more accessible and fun. Featuring…
Jennifer A. Glancy
A classic work that exposed the centrality of enslaved people and slaveholders in early Christian circles. In this expanded edition, the distinguished scholar Jennifer A. Glancy reflects upon recent discoveries…
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1990 Winner of the Mildren P. Nilon Award for Minority Fiction
LBK stands for Little Black Kitty. It also is an abbreviation for Lubbock (Texas), where we lived when we were visited by the cutest little black kitty. Unfortunately, the timing…
Many towns have their murderers, but are they also members of a church, a Boy Scout leader, or president of the congregation? Could they be trusted to bring a covered…
The Ghost Dance was a late - 19th-century phenomenon among Native American groups in the West. This collection of short stories begins in the present, jumps back to the time…
In this haunting novel by celebrated Native American author Diane Glancy, an unnamed man driving a lonely Minnesota highway hears the voice of the land–but he can’t make out what…
Gabrielle Glancy
Provides students with the concrete and practical solutions … for cracking through the distinct blocks all writers face … tak[ing] the anxiety out of the college admissions essay-writing process and…
Ruth Glancy
This thematic guide offers interpretations of 415 poems, representing the work of over 110 poets spanning seven centuries of British poetry.
Mark Glancy
Investigates Hollywood’s ability to appeal to British filmgoers, as well as its ability to alienate, enrage and amuse them across films ranging from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1922)…
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Accessible literary criticism of Charles Dickens’ important fictional works.
A professor hears the voices of Biblical women. She begins writing. What was it like for Dorcas to die and be brought back to life? What was it like for…
A minister’s wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that…
Presents the story of a seventeenth-century Mohawk woman’s interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.
This book showcases the best college admissions essays of the year -- essays that got students into all the top schools in the country. Reading sample essays is a great…
Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.
A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript…
A unique gathering of traditional and experimental plays by one of our most prolific and respected Indian writers.
As the title implies, this book showcases the best college admissions essays of the year – essays that got students into all the top schools in the country. Reading sample…
Acclaimed poet, Gabrielle Glancy, has emerged at last, with a strikingly original memoir. Part medical mystery, part meditation, part short but thrilling ghost story, I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In…
Recent US and UN reports document the startling incidence of human trafficking in the world today. Yet the situation is hardly new.
The fact that some early Christians were slaves…
The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the…
Although we usually focus our attention on what seems most real, Diane Glancy shows us that the shadow of our past has substance as well. The Shadow’s Horse is a…
Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and author of more than thirty books, Diane Glancy has established herself as one of the country’s most versatile and prolific writers. Distinguished by her laconic…
A collection of poems by a Native American poet, who articlates the edge between two disparate cultures and the challenges of attempting to live in both.
Since its publication in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has remained the best-known fictional recreation of the French Revolution, and one of Charles Dickens’s most exciting novels. A Tale…
Chronicled through the diverse voices of the Cherokee, white soldiers, evangelists, leaders, and others, a historical novel captures the devastating uprooting of the Cherokee from their lands in 1838 and…
A haunting novel by celebrated Native American author Diane Glancy.
Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations–love of…
In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places…
Incorporating elements of fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry, Diane Glancy’s stories are experimental, sometimes surreal in form. Nevertheless they concern people who are very real, such as a colour-blind young…
No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel…
The Book of Bearings puts the puzzle pieces of the New World together without a picture on the puzzle box. The characters struggle to situate themselves between what they were…
Robert Glancy
Original, very funny, and very poignant. Read it! –Paul Torday, author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle…
In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing DianeGlancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writingsthat considers the relationship between place and faith; the need…
Award-winning poet Diane Glancy’s radical approach to the perennial mystery of suffering takes the trials of Job–the just man unjustly punished–into the New World.
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Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous…
From award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another…
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees' resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction.
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