Neptune’s Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

By David Rains Wallace
Illustrations by Ken Kirkland
University of California Press, 2007.
Neptune’s Ark illuminates the dramatic saga of evolution spanning 500 million years of marine life along the magnificent Pacific coast of western North America. In an engaging narrative that artfully blends elements of science, history, folklore, and personal observation, renowned naturalist David Rains Wallace reveals [...]

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Perma Red: A Novel

By Debra Magpie Earling
Blue Hen Books (Penguin), 2003.
In this beautiful first novel, set on the Flathead Reservation of Montana in the 1940s, Earling traces the youth and young adulthood of Louise White Elk and the men who try to win her heart and soul. A red-headed, mixed-blood temptress, Louise always has a man or two, [...]

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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

By Jonathan Lear
Harvard University Press, 2006.
Jonathan Lear, a psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, delves into what he calls the ‘blind spot’ of any culture: the inability to conceive of its own devastation. He molds his thoughts around a poignant historical model, the decimated nation of Crow Indians in the early decades of the twentieth century. [...]

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time

By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Viking Penguin, 2007.
Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse’s unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in [...]

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Azaleas: Poems by Kim Sowol, Translated by David R. McCann

By Kim Sowol
Translated by David R. McCann
Columbia University Press, 2007.
Originally published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection produced by Kim Sowol (1902-1934), yet he remains one of Korea’s most beloved and well-known poets. Thanks to the elegant translations by David R. McCann, this landmark of Korean literature is now able to speak to people [...]

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