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  • Granger’s Demise
    Teresa Pijoan
    Granger Pino has found himself in financial dire straits. His desire for a better life leads him to become more and more dependent on his elderly mother. Unable to get a lawful job, he strikes out on his own to sell his knowledge of herbs. His mother Margaret has spent her life saving Granger from his dastardly deeds. She spent most of her money to get him out of prison. She ha...
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    22,70 €

  • Granger’s Return, a Novel, Sequel to Granger’s Threat
    PhD Teresa Pijoan
    Granger Pino has a history of manipulating others to do his dirty work. In Granger’s Threat, Granger was sent to prison for his dastardly deeds. Now his mother Margaret, who worships Granger, has managed to spring him from prison. Sophia, Granger’s sister, was warned by the prison counselor of Granger’s ways. Sophia knows her brother well and chooses to stay close to him for sa...
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    22,30 €

  • Water Stories of Native American and Asian Indians
    Arun Chintaman Prabhune / Teresa Pijoan
    The water legends in this book are from nomadic and settled groups of Native American and Asian Indians of rural India and have marked similarities. There are stories with local mythological and legendary themes covering historical as well as relatively recent periods. Each story highlights man’s life-threatening struggle with nature and, in particular, the water element. Reade...
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    18,91 €

  • Myths of Magical Native American Women Including Salt Woman Stories
    Teresa Pijoan
    Myths allow us to experience and find a meaning for life through different cultures. Myths resonate within us, bringing an experience of existing within a dissimilar reality. The Native American storytellers who shared their myths with the author were taught by their Elders who lived in a place and culture altered from that of today. These myths were told and recorded by the au...
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    14,09 €

  • Dead Kachina Man
    Teresa VanEtten Pijoan
    Who--or what--killed Ray Hava, the best Indian kachina doll carver in the country? And how was he killed? Could his death have come from intense superstitious belief? These are only some of the questions facing Police Captain Dominique Rios as his investigation begins inside an Indian Pueblo in modern New Mexico. But instead of answers, he finds only more violence and a string ...
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    14,35 €

  • Ways of Indian Magic
    Teresa VanEtten (Pijoan)
    These stories are based on Pueblo Indian legends collected by the author over a ten-year period. Most of the stories were told to her in Tewa, the Pueblo language she learned while working in her family-owned trading post, the San Juan Mercantile at the San Juan Pueblo. Being at the Pueblo gave her the opportunity to become familiar with Indian customs, rites and beliefs. Teres...
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    14,22 €

  • Granger’s Threat
    Teresa Pijoan
    In a small town in northern New Mexico a father's untimely death leads to mayhem and murder. Families find their lives threatened once the father's will is read for unlike his wife, he did not believe in primogeniture. Truth reveals that the father did not believe in his son Granger at all and herein begins the conflict. The father's death was to be Granger's sa...
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    20,55 €

  • Native American Creation Stories of Family and Friendship
    Teresa Pijoan
    The stories in this book, recorded by the author from personal interviews with Native American storytellers, hold the conflicts and compliments of family and/or situations of testing in relationships. Native cultures have lessons to be learned here, just as every culture does. These stories are not unique, yet they may help educate many of us today in finding solutions to simil...
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    16,83 €

  • Healers on the Mountain
    PhD Teresa Pijoan
    A unique characteristic of Native American medicine is the belief that each patient holds a different spirit, and that the healing can only work when it affects the individual spirit. Mythology is essential to this healing process. The belief stories within these pages reflect a culture that holds both poignant and alarming lessons. Readers of this book will discover the intrig...
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    19,26 €

  • American Indian Creation Myths
    Teresa Pijoan
    Myths tell us much about a people. And all cultures have creation myths. The myths collected by the author in this book tell us about the rich and varied lives and imagination of the first Americans. They vary from simple to complex and all attempt to answer the question of human origin. Native Americans are of profound beginnings. Each Tribe, Group or Pueblo hold their beginni...
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    16,17 €

  • Pueblo Indian Wisdom
    Teresa Pijoan
    Anyone interested in mythology and legends will enjoy these stories which have been passed down orally for generations by the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest. They reveal Pueblo customs and traditions as well as the ceremonial aspects of Pueblo religion. A character called Grandfather, the fictional narrator of these stories, embodies the collective wisdom of the Puebl...
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    14,41 €