Bel Canto

Bel CantoAnn Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening until a band of

the Mohegan/Mohican nation did not vanish with the death of Chief Uncas more than three hundred years ago

Misko's relationship to the rez shifts when she encounters a spirited horse named Mishtadim

acclaimed Stó lō Nation author and educator

Settler Colonial Sovereignty imagines how we might move past improvement as a basis for Indigenous-settler relations

sustaining our relations with each other

Toni Morrison

At this unprecedented point in history

Alice Piper Speaks Up

Having seen the poor treatment her parents received when making their best efforts at speaking English

But are they

where she grew up after being born in an Appalachian prison

but created an elaborate facade to hide the truth