oklahoma

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The orphans' nine commandments

a memoir
2007
Recounts Roger Bechan's long journey through the Oklahoma orphanage system in the 1930s and 1940s, describing the unique characters he met, his troubled childhood, his feelings of abandonment, and other related topics.

Stop the train!

a novel
2005
Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner Railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.

The Honk and Holler opening soon

1999
When a young woman and a Vietnamese refugee wander into a small diner a few days before Christmas, the lives of the diner's other customers are changed forever.

The Cherokee

2004
Examines the history of the Cherokee people, and looks at aspects of their traditional ways of life, including homes, communities, clothing, food, tools, weapons, defense, religion and beliefs, ceremonies and celebrations, music and dance, language and storytelling, and art. Includes an art activity and a time line.

Shoot the moon

2005
Beverly Hills veterinarian Dr. Mark Albright, having just discovered he is adopted, travels to the small town of DeClare, Oklahoma, in search of his parents, and becomes involved in investigating the murder of his mother in 1972, and his own subsequent disappearance at the age of ten months.

Spotting the leopard

1996
In the late 1930s, H. J. Harper is intent on finding a way to help his older sister study to become a veterinarian and on tracking down a leopard that has escaped from the zoo in Oklahoma City where his father is working on a W.P.A. project.

The Cherokee

2004
Discusses the Cherokee people, their customs, family, organizations, food gathering, religion, war, housing, and other aspects of daily life.

Seminole

2003
A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Seminole Indians.

Elegy

2013
Faced with an impossible choice between the forces of Light and the boy she loves, ghostly Amelia decides to take her afterlife into her own hands and fight back.

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