Dances With Ghosts

Author : Erin McCarthy
Publisher : Erin McCarthy
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944172480

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Dances With Ghosts by Erin McCarthy Pdf

Spring has sprung in Cleveland and home stager (and lousy spiritual medium) Bailey Burke is facing all kinds of major life changes. Both her grandmother and her boyfriend Jake Marner have moved in with her, she is contemplating a career change, and Marner’s mother needs her help planning a thirtieth birthday party for him. Party plans include dance lessons for Bailey and Jake. Which would be fun, except their instructor appears to have tangoed with the wrong partner. She’s found dead on the dance floor, a butchered ballroom teacher with multiple stab wounds. It’s a classic case of overkill, but there are no suspects and no ghosts hanging around to offer any insight. It’s time to call on Bailey’s old friend, Ryan, who happens to be a dead detective with a rude sense of humor. Can Bailey and her two favorite guys solve the case of the killer Cha Cha?

Author : Emily Gillespie
Publisher : Leaping Lion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988170060

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Dancing with Ghosts by Emily Gillespie Pdf

Freshman year of university was supposed to mean freedom. It was supposed to be her escape from parents who didn't understand her -- who turned Patricia away every time she reached out for help. New city, new school, new friends, fresh start - Wasn't that how it's supposed to work? Instead, when Patricia moves from her small, isolating hometown to bustling, sprawling cityscape of Toronto, she finds herself more alone than ever. When she meets Derek -- and intriguing yet mysterious classmate -- she's instantly drawn in by his worldly knowledge and easy charm. For a while, things between them are perfect. For a while, it's thrilling being invited into a world, unlike anything Patricia's experienced before. But this isn't a love story, and not everyone is what they seem.

Author : Janie Chang
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443439398

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Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang Pdf

“Filled with enchantment and intrigue” (Toronto Star) and “a great choice for a book club” (The Huffington Post), Dragon Springs Road takes readers on an evocative journey a century in the past and half a world away. In early-twentieth-century Shanghai, an ancient imperial dynasty collapses, a new government struggles to life and two girls are bound together in a friendship that will be tested by duty, honour and love. Abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate outside Shanghai, seven-year-old Jialing learns she is zazhong—Eurasian—and thus doomed to face a lifetime of contempt from both Chinese and Europeans. The Yang family, new owners of the estate, reluctantly take her in as a servant. As Jialing grows up, her only allies are Anjuin, the eldest Yang daughter, and Fox, an animal spirit who has lived in the courtyard for more than three hundred years. But when a young English girl appears and befriends the lonely orphan—and then mysteriously vanishes—Jialing’s life takes an unexpected turn. As Jialang grows into womanhood during the tumultuous early years of the Chinese republic, she must find a way to survive political intrigue, jealousy, forbidden love and even murder. Through every turn she is guided, both by Fox and by her own strength of spirit, away from the shadows of her past toward a very different fate. “Rich with detail and a fascinating interplay between the spiritual and earthly realms, Chang’s second novel explores whether it is possible to overcome your past” (Booklist).

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806161143

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A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country by Rani-Henrik Andersson Pdf

The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officials, culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men, women, and children, historical accounts have most often described the Ghost Dance from the perspective of the white Americans who opposed it. In A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country, historian Rani-Henrik Andersson instead gives Lakotas a sounding board, imparting the multiplicity of Lakota voices on the Ghost Dance at the time. Whereas early accounts treated the Ghost Dance as a military or political movement, A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country stresses its peaceful nature and reveals the breadth of Lakota views on the subject. The more than one hundred accounts compiled here show that the movement caused friction within Lakota society even as it spurred genuine religious belief. These accounts, many of them never before translated from the original Lakota or published, demonstrate that the Ghost Dance’s message resonated with Lakotas across artificial “progressive” and “nonprogressive” lines. Although the movement was often criticized as backward and disconnected from the harsh realities of Native life, Ghost Dance adherents were in fact seeking new ways to survive, albeit not those that contemporary whites envisioned for them. The Ghost Dance, Andersson suggests, might be better understood as an innovative adaptation by the Lakotas to the difficult situation in which they found themselves—and as a way of finding a path to a better life. By presenting accounts of divergent views among the Lakota people, A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country expands the narrative of the Ghost Dance, encouraging more nuanced interpretations of this significant moment in Lakota and American history.

Author : Patrick Joseph Gleason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822009472424

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Dancing with Ghosts by Patrick Joseph Gleason Pdf

Author : Rita H Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645453714

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Dancing With Ghosts by Rita H Rowe Pdf

Alex will never dance again. Her parents and her dreams, all lost in one fateful night. Unable to put her faith in love and happiness, not even for Nicholas, the man she loves, she escapes to Chernut, a country town far from the reminders of her past. Here at the beautiful Lovelet Manor, inhabited by a family who are as lost as she is, Alex finds solace in the picturesque gardens of which she is caretaker, accepting that her life can never be full again. But when she meets Edward in the grand gazebo, she discovers that her heart may not be done with her yet. And for the first time in a long time, she allows herself to be loved. But is she losing her mind? Will the ghosts of her past keep her running forever? Or will Alex find herself before she runs out of time?

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520243927

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Dancing with Ghosts by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

A critical biography of novelist, poet, and former Stanford professor Arturo Islas (1938-1991).

Author : Anna Linzer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312204108

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Ghost Dancing by Anna Linzer Pdf

Ghost Dancing is a spare, beautifully written novel-in-stories about Jimmy One Rock and his wife, Mary, as they struggle to endure their hard-won lives and the ghosts of Native American tradition that surround them. As each story begins, we find the couple at different stages of their lives, and witness the subtly reflective changes on their Pacific Northwest reservation.

Author : Patricia Bernard
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925191714

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Ghosts Dancing on Water by Patricia Bernard Pdf

When the heart is destroyed, the mind is capable of unspeakable things in the name of love... Stevie loves his little sister Lily and will always protect her. As children, he was the one who looked after her. If anyone threatened her, she could always depend on him. Protecting her from Roy was the most difficult of all. He had too much power over both of them... Stevie wonders why his sister isn't turning to him for help now. Where is she? Who's stopping her from contacting him? Determined to find her, Stevie won't be distracted from his single-minded purpose. He and Lily have to be together for always. As for the other bodies? When Stevie is crossed, people don't live long...

Author : Josh Garrett-Davis
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316199858

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Ghost Dances by Josh Garrett-Davis Pdf

Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back -- in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative about a seemingly empty but actually rich and complex place, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual family, and the Great Plains. Among the subjects and people that bring his Midwestern Plains to life are the destruction and resurgence of the American bison; Native American "Ghost Dancers," who attempted to ward off destruction by supernatural means; the political allegory to be found in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; and current attempts by ecologists to "rewild" the Plains, complete with cheetahs. Garrett-Davis infuses the narrative with stories of his family as well -- including his great-great-grandparents' twenty-year sojourn in Nebraska as homesteaders and his progressive Methodist cousin Ruth, a missionary in China ousted by Mao's revolution. Ghost Dances is a fluid combination of memoir and history and reportage that reminds us our roots matter.

Author : Gregory E. Smoak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520256279

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Ghost Dances and Identity by Gregory E. Smoak Pdf

" This is a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern world."—Richard White, author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Author : Carole Maso
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640092457

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Ghost Dance by Carole Maso Pdf

"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing book . . . she has a fine ear and her literary gift is impressive." —San Francisco Chronicle Originally published in 1986, Ghost Dance is the first in a line of relentlessly experimental and highly esteemed works by Carole Maso. Vanessa Turin's family has been broken up by an event so devastating she cannot bear to face it straight on. Her mother, the brilliant and beautiful poet Christine Wing, seems simply to have disappeared, and her gentle, silent father also vanishes. In Ghost Dance, the reader experiences firsthand the dimensions of Vanessa's longing, the capabilities of her imagination, the persistence of her memory, and the ferocity of her love as she struggles to retrieve her family, to reclaim her country, and to come to terms with overwhelming sorrow.

Author : Rupert Ross
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cree Indians
ISBN : 0409906484

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Dancing with a Ghost by Rupert Ross Pdf

This study examines the traditional Cree and Ojibway world view, develops an appreciation of native philosophy and indicates ways in which native values can be incorporated into court and criminal law processes and other aspects of 'mainstream' culture in Canada.

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : World Publications (MA)
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210010963575

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The Ghost Dance by James Mooney Pdf

First published a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th-century.

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803220423

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The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 by Rani-Henrik Andersson Pdf

A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took firm hold among the Lakotas, perplexed and alarmed government agents, sparked the intervention of the U.S. Army, and culminated in the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in December 1890. Although the Lakota ghost dance has been the subject of much previous historical study, the views of Lakota participants have not been fully explored, in part because they have been available only in the Lakota language. Moreover, emphasis has been placed on the event as a shared historical incident rather than as a dynamic meeting ground of multiple groups with differing perspectives. In The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890, Rani-Henrik Andersson uses for the first time some accounts translated from Lakota. This book presents these Indian accounts together with the views and observations of Indian agents, the U.S. Army, missionaries, the mainstream press, and Congress. This comprehensive, complex, and compelling study not only collects these diverse viewpoints but also explores and analyzes the political, cultural, and economic linkages among them.