A Voice from the Eastern Door
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"Uprising" is a 2010 novel by Canadian author Douglas Bland. It has now been released in a paperback edition, which has lowered the book price by one-half. Published by the Dundurn Press (Toronto), "Uprising" covers a modern day Native insurrection which takes place inside Canada. The fictional work is partly based in Akwesasne. The headquarters for the "Native People's Army" is based somewhere in Hogansburg. Somehow the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council was removed because the Mohawk Council of...
By Jim Poling, Sr. Dundurn Press Toronto, Canada www.Dundurn.com Reviewed by Doug George-Kanentiio Smoke Signals is a compelling book, one in which the history and contemporary use of tobacco as a primary trade commodity is explained in detail and with a strong narrative. The book is a summation of tobacco as used by aboriginal people prior to contact by the Europeans and its subsequent use throughout the world. The author explains how this product and its many varieties were slowly developed...
In 2009, a book titled “A Lily Among Thorns. The Mohawk Repatriation of Kateri Tekakwit:tha” was published by the Wampum Chronicles and Darren Bonaparte is the author. It’s 274 pages long and includes historical photographs. R. Kakwirakeron Montour created the drawings in the book that depict Kateri and her family. The author’s critical view of historical documents helps readers to understand that religion and fur trade were not the only reasons that so many moved from their Mohawk Valley...
Readers have yet another addition from the authors of the House of Night series that will leave you on edge. Although this, like the others, and just when you think that the series as finally come to a close, there’s an ending that’s sure to shock you. This book is one for fans of the series to enjoy. As a continuation of the House of Night books, which follows the story of Zoey Redbird and her friends as they wait to change from fledgling to full vampires and their adventures along the way. Zoey and her friends all have special powers tha...
From the hilarious author that brought you the Accidental Werewolf, this book will make you laugh as well as be furious at the main character Nina’s stubborn attitude. This is technically a romance novel of course, so it would be recommended for adults only. Nina Blackman has had her job for what, a day? And of course her first patient, a rather handsome patient, loopy from anesthesia, bites her. After that encounter Nina started feeling rather...nocturnal. When Nina looks at herself in the mirror the next day she finds a shock that she was s...
Sophie Kinsella is one author that will always deliver with her witty English dialect and her use of words. She may be from across the Atlantic but her stories of love and life stand true all throughout the world. Chloe has been an independent talented woman; she is content with her two kids and a man that she loves. She could not be happier that soon she will be going on a long and much needed and anticipated vacation. With her family problems and work stress she needs nothing more than to just forget and be away for a while. Hugh, a...
Out of all the books Sarah Dessan has wrote, there hasn’t been one that has pulled me as much as this. Dessen’s knowledge of life and love and how she puts it into words, as well as the characters she creates, are all things she carries from book to book. Auden has never failed, at anything. Guided by the forced love, and natural wisdom and intelligence of her mother, Auden was molded into the “perfect teenager”. When Auden goes to her father’s house for the summer to visit him, his new wife and their baby, she begins to change. She meets Eli,...
The enticing series following the life of vampire fledgling Zoey Redbird has recently released a new sixth volume, Tempted. This book, like the others, has a storyline unlike any other that leaves you laughing and crying and just plain addicted. New plots are revealed and relationships change. Zoey Redbird is exhausted. She has saved the school yet again from the inhumanly gorgeous Kalona and his new liege Neferet. She is glad when she can finally check on the people she cares about and take a much needed rest. She rests only to be accompanied...
This book is by my all time favorite author. Nicholas Sparks is one of the few authors who completely take over your emotions with his writing. Sparks’ latest book, Last Song, has become one of my favorite books. It completely catches you off guard with the ending along with the twists and turns of the story. I couldn’t put it down. Ronnie hates her father. She has barely spoken to him since he left her family and went on with his life. Jonah, Ronnie’s little brother, loves his father to death, not knowing why he left just knowing that he le...
Yet again I am left completely satisfied as well as amazed by Jodi Picoult and her ability to tell stories. Picoult and her attention to detail, her vast knowledge of everything that makes it to her keyboard, leave all who read her novels marveling at her talent. This book among all the others is yet another exhibit of proof of her excellent work. Ellie Hathaway has become one of the top defense attorneys at her firm. She succeeds in getting the bad guys acquitted for murder, pedophilia, and fraud. Ellie never would have thought she would be...
The book I’m writing about this week has an entirely different genre with a magical twist to it that keeps you reading until the book is done. Armstrong weaves an expertly woven web of suspense and drama. I really enjoyed reading this book despite its common supernatural genre. Chloe Saunders’s life was relatively normal. She wasn’t in the “in crowd” or extremely talented, but she felt content with her life. When she reaches puberty, she has the shock of her life when she sees the ghost of a janitor, her only way of knowing that he was a jan...
This book is about believing, but not in the usual way. In this book, believing is seeing. It shows how a belief can be something comforting and protecting, how it can make you feel closer to someone who has gone, or help you deal with someone taken from you. This book is a three part trilogy that spans over a love story with a stunning ending. Tristan has had his eye on Ivy Lyons since she came to his school that cool January day. As much as he wanted her to she didn’t know he was alive. Ivy had in fact noticed Tristan but couldn’t make her...
The book this week is a young adult book with a very mature theme. It is about a girls struggle to overcome her fear of a man she is supposed to love unconditionally. But circumstances find her unable to forgive and forget such an act. Meredith and her mother have lived together without her father for three years. For three years she has both ignored and hated him for what he did. Also, because her mother refuses to admit the truth that she is a fool to deny, Meredith resents her mother’s feigned ignorance. Her father killed the little i...
The book I read this week is a story about the bond between two sisters and the common relationship that is a result of one being the protector, and one the rebel. I found this book to be a really interesting page turner. Ava Nickerson, the smart successful business woman, has been taking care of her younger sister since before she could remember. Lauren Nickerson is the much prettier and less responsible of the two sisters. When Ava tries to meddle in Lauren’s finances because of her radical use of her money and resulting debt, Lauren is q...
This book is a perfect read for people who both love fantasy stories and tales of the rich and fabulous. I loved this book and its sequel. Schuyler Van Allan, because of her family name, is forced to be part of a world that she can’t stand; the world of the upper class society, of overdone parties and lavishly decorated homes and schools. Schuyler is content to endure it with her best friend Oliver but finds she is inevitably forced to enter a world she hates by her Grandma Cordelia and the recent disappearances of some people at her school. S...
This week’s book is the newest release of well known author Nicholas Sparks. His stories are well known, he’s written the books to movies such as “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember”. I have become a huge fan of this author and his ability to turn the simplest of situations into something amazing. About five years ago Logan Thibault was stationed in Iraq. He’s seen the harsh side of the marines. Having seen many a soldier whose lives have been claimed by the enemy, he has miraculously come out of it unharmed. According to his friend Victor,...
This book that I’ve selected talks about many different things; about wizards, enchanters, sorcerers, and warriors. I picked this book because I wanted to write about something different, something that I wasn’t familiar with. I got what I asked for. Jackson Swift was a normal boy in a normal town. His only worry was making the varsity soccer team. All was well until his eccentric Aunt Linda comes for one of her infrequent visits and offers to take Jack and his two friends, Fitch and Will, on a trip. They are told that the trip is to find old...
Another stunning vampire novel, as it seems that this is the year for vampires. If you enjoy a funny vampire love/adventure story, this is for you. Kristen and P.C Cast are quickly becoming two of my favorite authors. Zoey Redbird is back again for the fourth installment of the House of Night Novels. Zoey, the generously gifted fledgling vampire, has gotten herself into yet another bout of trouble. Her mentor and high priestess, or the principal of the House of Night, Neferet, has decided to wage a war against humans for supposedly killing 2...
The book this week, Unwind, is a fictional story about three kids living in a very different world than ours, going on a journey for their lives. I found this book to be interesting and unexpectedly enthralling. Connor was, is, and will be a fighter. It’s all he’s known. It is, ultimately, why he’s going to be unwound. When someone is unwound, the doctors harvest all of their organs and give them to people who may need transplants, basically, making something good come out of someone bad. Risa on the other hand, is not bad. She is howev...
The long awaited conclusion to the best-selling novel by Stephanie Meyer has finally arrived, enticing us yet again with its appealing array of characters, bountiful suspense, and a healthy dose of that envious romance between our modern day star crossed lovers. I give this book my very own two thumbs up. Isabella Swan, or rather, soon-to-be Mrs. Edward Cullen has once again found herself in a compromising position. Bella has been raised to cringe at the very thought of marriage, yet she finds herself doing the very same thing that her mother w...
The book review this week is of an author that I’ve read numerous times and have really enjoyed her style and detail. Love the One You’re With is about a woman who has to choose between the man who broke her heart and the man who patched her back up again. Ellen runs into her former boyfriend Leo in the streets of New York and is stopped cold. She is bombarded with old memories, some wonderful and others terrifyingly painful. Though Ellen has Andy, her husband of a year, she finds herself thinking about Leo more and more since they passed eac...
The article this week is a book that I picked because the author is one that I’ve grown to like. My expectations on this book were met ten fold, as I knew they most likely would be. In this novel, the world has been taken over by parasites. Their hosts, the humans, take on their bodies and sometimes their personalities. The humans that have been able avert the Seekers, or the people who sought out the rest of the humans, have been found to be harder for the hosts to control. They realized that the humans block out their memories from the h...
This week the book I chose to read didn’t really appeal to me that much. I found it was lacking a more interesting set of characters. I found them to be a bit too…plain. Sophie Kinsella had an interesting story line but I found it to be just averagely written. It might not have captured me but it may capture someone else. The story begins with a woman named Fleur. Fleur is a gatecrasher, or a person who goes to funerals to meet rich men. At one funeral, she meets Richard, a multimillionaire whose wife has just passed away. Fleur dazzl...
The Iroquois culture and traditional Longhouse spirituality has a universal appeal, a ring of truth to it that resonates not only with other indigenous people, but also with non-Native people searching for their own spiritual roots. Raised in the home of a grandmother who spoke only Mohawk, Sakokweniónkwas (Tom Porter) was asked from a young age, to translate for his elders. After such intensive exposure to his grandparents’ generation, he is able to recall in vivid detail, the stories and ceremonies of a culture hovering on the brink of ex...
I’m really beginning to like this author; the way she tells stories is like she has lived them herself. When reading this book I was captivated until the very last page. Delia’s life had been going pretty well, she had a daughter, a fiancée, and a good home. Everything was fine until her father, Andrew, is arrested…for her kidnapping. Delia’s world takes a downward slide, all the things she thought she knew are put into question. She remembers nothing of the ordeal that she went through or anything about her life before it happened....
