The Eagles of Heart Mountain

The Eagles of Heart Mountain

Author: Bradford Pearson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1982107057

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“One of Ten Best History Books of 2021.” —Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told “tale that ultimately stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit” (Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author) about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team. In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators—yet there was little hope. That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp’s high school football team, the Eagles, started its first season and finished it undefeated, crushing the competition from nearby, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. As the team’s second season kicked off, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided, and some were jailed for their decisions. The Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a “timely and utterly absorbing account of a country losing its moral way, and a group of its young citizens who never did” (Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind).


Warrior Princesses Strike Back

Warrior Princesses Strike Back

Author: Sarah Eagle Heart

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1558612947

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"In Warrior Princesses Strike Back, Lakhota twin sisters Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White recount growing up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and overcoming odds throughout their personal and professional lives. Woven throughout are self-help strategies centering women of color, that combine marginalized histories, psychological research on trauma, perspectives on "decolonial therapy," and explorations on the possibility of healing intergenerational and personal trauma"--


What the Heart Knows

What the Heart Knows

Author: Kathleen Eagle

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1611942772

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"Kathleen Eagle is a national treasure."--Susan Elizabeth Phillips "Kathleen Eagle is an author without peers." --Tami Hoag A secret son. A lost love. A dangerous job. A frightening risk. A second chance at the happiness their hearts were once afraid to share. Thirteen years ago, alone and secretly pregnant, Helen Ketterling left her job as a school teacher on the Bad River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Her summer love affair with Reese Blue Sky had ended abruptly when he left the reservation to pursue his chance at a NBA career. Now her new position, a dangerous assignment for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Reese's father's sudden death bring them both back to Bad River for a reunion at once fiery and bittersweet. Not only does Helen fear a custody battle if Reese learns that they share a son, but she can't reveal that she's working undercover at the reservation's casino. And Reese has his own secret--one that ended his basketball career and could endanger his son. While much has changed in the years since he left home, he finds that his roots and his heritage still matter as he reaches for reconciliation with his past. Family ties are the basis of Lakota tradition, and all are threatened by political intrigue and corruption. Was Reese's father murdered because he planned to blow the whistle on the casino's outside management company? As their investigation into his death leads them down a treacherous path, Reese and Helen struggle to bridge the memories and heartaches of a time when she was an idealistic young teacher and he was a lonely man on the verge of reaching for the stars. They'll have to search deep inside themselves to challenge the doubts that have kept them apart. "A poignant and unforgettable tale."--Library Journal "What the heart knows can't be denied."--Kirkus Reviews The kind of magic I associate with...authors like Anne Tyler, Amy Tan, and Alice Hoffman." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Bestselling author Kathleen Eagle set aside a gratifying seventeen-year teaching career on a North Dakota Indian reservation to become a full-time novelist. The Lakota Sioux heritage of her husband and their three children has inspired many of her stories. Among her other honors, she has received the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award.


The Treacherous Heart

The Treacherous Heart

Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780727892409

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Anne Symons has a good job in a solicitors office and a kind, reliable boyfriend, but when mysterious, sophisticated Michael Conrad arrives in their sleepy Dorset town, Anne is drawn to the dangerous allure of this fascinating stranger.


Iggle the Eagle

Iggle the Eagle

Author: Jonathan Hershman

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Iggle the Eagle is a fun bedtime story for children and adults that rhymes throughout. The book is an underdog tale about a little eagle named Iggle from Philadelphia. While Iggle is small, his heart is mighty. Each year the city of Philadelphia holds a race where the biggest and fastest eagles compete. Iggle is determined to win that race one day despite his size and the criticism he receives for not being born with natural talents. Iggle ignores their criticism, works hard and ends up overcoming the odds to win. The book visits some of Philadelphia's most iconic sites and is filled with subtle references to the city's culture. The book has a fun rhyming scheme that sticks with children, and teaches them that they are capable of achieving seemingly impossible goals when they work hard and believe in themselves.


The Eagle on My Arm

The Eagle on My Arm

Author: Dava Guerin

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 081318004X

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In October 1967, eighteen-year-old Patrick Bradley enlisted in the US Army and was later deployed to Vietnam to map mobile POW camps to determine a pattern for rescuing prisoners. Combat left him physically and psychologically wounded, as it does many veterans, and Bradley struggled to adjust when he returned home. He seemed destined for military prison after an altercation in which he broke a superior officer's jaw, but his life changed forever when a psychiatrist recommended a unique path for healing. Thanks to a program sponsored by the Canadian government, Bradley traveled to Canada to study bald eagles and document their behavior. He found himself recovering while living alone in the wild with minimal supplies or human contact. At the same time, his work was paving the way for groundbreaking research, including the discovery of a link between the use of the pesticide DDT and a decrease in southern bald eagle populations. Later, he forged a successful career training and managing wild animals and committed himself to helping other wounded warriors by cofounding the Avian Veteran Alliance, a nonprofit that pairs veterans suffering from PTSD and physical injuries with injured birds of prey. The Eagle on My Arm tells Bradley's inspirational story for the first time. This moving account reveals how a soldier became a dedicated healer, using his years of study and solitude to face his demons and turn his pain into a lifelong passion for helping others.


Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell

Author: Don Felder

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-21

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0470289066

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The Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever. Now band member and guitarist Don Felder finally breaks the Eagles’ years of public silence to take fans behind the scenes. He shares every part of the band’s wild ride, from the pressure-packed recording studios and trashed hotel rooms to the tension-filled courtrooms, and from the joy of writing powerful new songs to the magic of performing in huge arenas packed with roaring fans.


Facing the Mountain

Facing the Mountain

Author: Daniel James Brown

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0525557407

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.


The Eagle's Quest

The Eagle's Quest

Author: Fred Alan Wolf

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0671792911

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A physicist finds scientific truth at the heart of the Shamanic world.