![]() The tribe believes she has a close relationship with Misshepeshu, the lake spirit. Despite having lost all of her family to consumption, Fleur continues to live far from the rest of the people on the reservation, providing for herself by hunting and foraging. Christianity threatens to eliminate the traditional beliefs, but misunderstandings of the most important aspects of both systems of belief and misplaced priorities cause the greatest amount of trouble in the book.įleur Pillager is the best example of a character who remains closely tied to her Anishinabe roots and spirituality. Perhaps the most salient expression of this conflict is in the depiction of religion and spirituality, as tensions between traditional Anishinabe beliefs and Christianity abound throughout Tracks. The book asks whether it is possible for these characters to survive and participate in broader (that is, white American) society while still maintaining the traditions that have been passed down through their culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() While all of the characters show some balance of these two ways of life, the native ways are clearly far more endangered as white culture invades and takes over. Throughout Tracks, the four Anishinabe families (Kashpaw, Pillager, Nanapush, and Puyat) struggle to find a balance of the old ways of their people and the aggressively encroaching influence of white civilization. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jess Brightwell is born into a family of book smugglers but he grows up craving the knowledge they contain, not the money they can bring from the right buyer. Original books are highly prized and collectors will pay a fortune to get their hands on them - which means book smugglers will risk their lives to supply that demand. Of course, when anything is strictly controlled there's always a blackmarket for it. This technology is made possible by the powerful Obscurists, a special order of librarians with the innate ability to manipulate the code that underpins the system. Originals are only allowed to exist in the Great Library, from where their contents can be downloaded via the Codex into 'blanks' for people to read. Ownership of private 'original' books is strictly forbidden. The Great Library is now established as an independent country with its own army to protect both it and the books it contains. Set in the near future, this is a world of war and treachery. What if the Great Library of Alexandria was never destroyed? What if the knowledge contained in books was what ruled the world? What if librarians were the most powerful people on earth because they controlled the books? Welcome to Ink and Bone - where all this and more combines to create a story that I couldn't read fast enough. ![]() ![]() From her pen came a raft of books, including a handful of Jane Austen sequels, period romances, supernatural short stories and most things in between. Joan Aiken was the daughter of the American poet laureate Conrad Aiken and the Canadian writer Jessie MacDonald, and two of her siblings also wrote books, so writing clearly ran in the family. ![]() ![]() But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp? With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. Wicked wolves threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie’s parents depart Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage and leave them in the care of the cruel governess Miss Slighcarp. ![]() |