Mike

The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.

When middle schooler Jimmy Dunn walked into Marion Jackson's house, selling candy bars for a school fundraiser, he had no idea he was stumbling into an adventure that would change his life, and lead him to make the best friends of his life. When Ian Riordan overheard Jimmy bragging about seeing two naked women when he was selling candy bars, he immediately thought he needed to tell his mom. She'd want to get to know these women. In modern middle America, people don't know their neighbors. Jimmy and Ian didn't know their neighbors were naturists. Will they join them? What would the pastor ...

She betrayed him, and now he wants revenge against the sister who became his forbidden obsession the second he laid eyes on her. After she sends him to prison for years, he’s free and ready to haunt her.

The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.

We are all indigenous to the planet Earth - and that is why each of us can benefit from indigenous wisdom. Throughout their history, the Lakota people developed many enduring insights and practices for achieving harmony with all the forces in our life - including the land, the spirits, our community, and ourselves.