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Books by Velma Wallis






Two Old Women, 20th Anniversary Edition
An Alaska Legend Of Betrayal, Courage And Survival
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-224498-7, ISBN: 0-06-224498-1

"Pub Date: 2013-11-05 Pages: 160 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska. this is the suspenseful. shocking. ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute. they now must eithe ..."






Two Old Women
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant, A. C. Callahan
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2004 by Perennial
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-072352-1, ISBN: 0-06-072352-1

"Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wa ..."






Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun(1st Edition)
by Velma Wallis, Illustrator-Jim Grant
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Epicenter Press
Collector's Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-945397-34-2, ISBN: 0-945397-34-8

"With the publication of "Two Old Women, " Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,00 ..."






Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun(1st Edition)
by Velma Wallis, Jim Illustrationsby Grant
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-097728-3, ISBN: 0-06-097728-0

"With the publication of "Two Old Women, " Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,00 ..."






Two Old Women - An Alaska Legend Of Betrayal, Courage And Survival
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1994 by Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-097584-5, ISBN: 0-06-097584-9

"Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River area in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these two women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die truing. In simple but vivid detail, Velma ..."






Two Old Women(1st Edition)
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant, Lael Morgan, Jim Grant Illustrations
Hardcover, 145 Pages, Published 1993 by Epicenter Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-945397-18-2, ISBN: 0-945397-18-6

"An Athabascan Indian of Alaska's Yukon flats, author Velma Wallis retells a classic legend wherein two old women are abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine and must survive on their own or die trying. A wise and simple story now in paperback. Winner of a 1993 Western State Book Award."






Two Old Women(10th Edition)
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival - 20th Anniversary Edition
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2004 by Epicenter Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9724944-9-6, ISBN: 0-9724944-9-9

"An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and SurvivalBased on an Athabascan legend passed along from mother to daughter for many generations on the upper Yukon River in Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story--with a surprise ending--of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe that faces starvation brought on by unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and game. The story of survival is told with suspense by Vel ..."






Raising Ourselves(1st Edition)
A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River (Alaska Book Adventures (Epicenter Press))
by Velma Wallis, James L. Grant
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2002 by Epicenter Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9708493-0-4, ISBN: 0-9708493-0-3

"Velma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark her coming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, where she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is defined by the business of survival: Haul water from the Yukon. Kill a moose. Chop firewood. Feed the sled dogs staked around the cabin. Run the trap line. Catch salmon. It is a time of innocence and laughter, too, as the children escape into a w ..."






Left Behind(1st Edition)
by David W. Moore, Deborah J. Short, Michael W. Smith, Alfred W. Tatum, Velma Wallis, Jim Grant
Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2006 by National Geographic School Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-7362-3163-3, ISBN: 0-7362-3163-3

"There is not enough food for a group of Athabascan Native Americans to survive the harsh Alaskan winter, and the chief must decide to leave two old women behind. Can the women survive alone, or will they die before the winter is over?"






Two Old Women
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant
Paperback, Published 2002 by Demco Media
ISBN-13: 978-0-606-25127-3, ISBN: 0-606-25127-8






Two Old Women
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant
Library, Published 1999 by Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7857-4419-1, ISBN: 0-7857-4419-3

"In this traditional Alaskan legend, two old women abandoned by their migrating tribe refuse to die in the wilderness. They irritate each other, snap and snarl as they struggle for survival, in this testament to the resilience of older women"






Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun(Updated)
An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant, William L. Hensley
Library, 224 Pages, Published 1999 by San Val
ISBN-13: 978-0-613-18170-9, ISBN: 0-613-18170-0

"With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,000 c ..."






Two Old Women
An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1998 by The Women's Press Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-4424-2, ISBN: 0-7043-4424-6

"In this traditional Alaskan legend, two old women abandoned by their migrating tribe refuse to die in the wilderness. They irritate each other, snap and snarl as they struggle for survival, in this testament to the resilience of older women"






Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun
An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska
by Velma Wallis
Turtleback, Published 1997 by Demco Media
ISBN-13: 978-0-606-19414-3, ISBN: 0-606-19414-2






Two Old Women
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1994 by Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-097637-8, ISBN: 0-06-097637-3






Two Old Women, Ition
An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis
160 Pages, Published 2013 by Harper Collins
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-224499-4, ISBN: 0-06-224499-X

"An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival Velma Wallis. COPYRIGHT. This book was originally published in 1993 by Epicenter Press. It is here reprinted by arrangement with Epicenter Press. TWO OLD WOMEN. Copyright © 1993 by Velma Wallis. Illustrations copyright © 1993 by James Grant.All rights reservedunder International and PanAmerican Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexc ..."






Two Old Women, Ition
An Alaska Survival Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-226679-8, ISBN: 0-06-226679-9






Raising Ourselves
by Velma Wallis
Encadernação Para Biblioteca, Published 2003 by San Val
ISBN-13: 978-0-613-99953-3, ISBN: 0-613-99953-3

"Opening a window to a world rarely seen, Velma Wallis tells her family's troubled history with honesty, wisdom, wit, and overriding hope. Wallis also wrote Two Old Women, the million-seller translated into seventeen languages."






Der Altertumswissenschaftler Eduard Norden . Das Schicksal eines deutschen Gelehrten jüdischer Abkunft. Mit den Briefen Eduard Nordens an seinen Lehrer Hermann Usener aus den Jahren 1891 bis 1902 .
by Hans Saner, Herbert R. Lottman, Klaus Günzel, Rudiger Dornbusch, Stanley Fischer, Richard Startz, Bernardo Fritzsche, C.H. Guenter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Dieter Lamping, Konrad: Kleinknecht, Robert Seydel, Branka" Schaller-Fornoff, James J. Fehr, Cornelia Stolze, Helene Harth, Titus Heydenreich, Gerald Hartung, Wolf Peter Klein, Andrew : Robinson, Jon: Krakauer, Wenedikt Jerofejew, Tobias: Wolff, Olms Verlag, Rudolf Herschel, Michael Stürmer, Gabriele Teichmann, Wilhelm Treue, Martin Grünefeld, Hannah: Arendt, Bruno Assmann, Carla Knoll, Günter M. Ziegler, Ekkehart Rotter, Gernot Rotter, Dagmar Herzog, Andrzej J. Kaminski, Simonetta: Agnello Hornby, Ehrhart Neubert, Carl Reinhard: Raswan, Willy Brandt, Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt, Uta Gerhardt, Werner Knaus, Wolfgang Schröder, Werner Ladiges, Dieter Vogt, Michael: Stegemann, Michael Mcrae, Richard Nickel, A. Schummer, E. Seiferle, Ferdy Fischer, Wilfried Feldenkirchen, Simon: Wiesenthal, Sacha Szabo, Bernard Jakoby, Anselm Faust, Jost Fitschen, Kai Diekmann, Werner Raith, Xenia Raith, Duygu Asena, Erich Loitlsberger, Dr. Christoph Ludwig, Guillaume Musso, Bertram Kircher, Wolfgang Domschke, Markus Tiedemann, Robert Franz Arnold, Michael Jã„Ger, Esther Perel, Lutz Van Dijk, Uwe Backes, Karl H. Janssen, Eckhard Jesse, Henning Köhler, Hans Mommsen, Fritz Tobias, Sabine Bode, Heribert Kalchreuter, Eckhard Grimmberger, Hauke Brunkhorst, Michael Baumgartner, Alan Axelrod, Clemens Zintzen, Martin Gregor-Dellin, Pierre Hachet-Souplet, Dieter Maier, Hermann Wentker, Paolo Prodi, Verena Olejniczak, Wolfgang HšLscher, Andrea Brüdern, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Heinz Angermeier, Reinhard Seyboth, Nemesius Emesenus, Carsten Dilba, K. Ceming, Eva Rieger, J. Keay, Dieter Hintz, Linde Von Keyserlingk, Hermann Fink, Jacques Bailly, Gustav Jacobsthal, Günter Whittome, Velma: Wallis, R. G. Reuth, Ottmar Schreiber, Walter Krämer, Michael Schuster, Manfred J. Holler, Karin B. Holmqvist, Brigitte Hamann, Katharina Gerwens, Herbert Schröger, Gerhard Funke, D. F. Wallace, Christophorus Barck, Ekkehard May, Martina Schönnbein, Richard: Ellmann, Theodor: Fontane, Michael Gans, Karl-Heinz Lutz, Barbara Hahn, Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, Carolin Philipps, Franz Herre, Egon Boshof, Norbert Hilbig, Martin Geck, Johann Wilhelm Wolf, Judith: Lennox, Johann Albrecht, Nikolaus L. Von, G. Hoffmann, Bert Hoppe, Bruder H. Hermann, Sara: Douglass, Wolfgang Cezanne, Jürgen Franke, Malcolm Campbell, L. Angart, Ewan Mcgregor, Charley Boorman, Dieter Pohl, Hans Mergner, Ursula Wolter, Hans Schlag, Paul Davies, Karlheinz Hasselbach, Ingrid Hasselbach, Eva Oberloskamp, Terry Pratchett, Ulrike Groos, Peter Zahn, Julia Schoch, Werner J. Gartner, Ulrich Mählert, Professor Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, Patres Apostolici, Bernd Rebe, Wohmann Gabriele, Jobst Oehmichen, Michael Brenner, Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet, Eduard Glaser, Manfred Overesch, Rudolf J. Schlaffer, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Peter Leander Hofrichter, Anna Kalman, Romain Rolland, Jochen-Christoph Kaiser, Frieder Gunther, Ronald Payne, Gundula Overmeyer, P.J. D’Adamo, G. Grote, Sadko G. Solinski, Kathrin Engel, Patrick Ostermann, Jens H. Jensen, Paul Shorey, Bill Mckibben, Sabine Pamperrien, Guido Muller, Hape Kerkeling, William G. Flanagan, Hervé This-Benckhard, Bernd Becker, Holm Bevers, Thomas Gebhard, Hilde Domin, Gabriel Altmann, Gustav Schmidt, GŸNther Kronenbitter, Hermann-Josef Frisch, Jin /. Waibel, Wilt Aden Schröder, Horst Krekeler, Christine Martin, Carl Dahlhaus, Sieghart Döhring, Johann Adam Hiller, Katrin Barth, Ueli Steck
Published 2002 by Albatros Verlag Patmos, Düsseldorf
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-783491-7, ISBN: 0-09-783491-2






Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun(1st Edition)
by Velma Wallis, Jim Grant
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Womens Press Ltd,The
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-4559-1, ISBN: 0-7043-4559-5

"In her spellbinding second book, the award-winning author interweaves two classic Athabaskan legends set in ancient central Alaska. This is the story of two rebels who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure. Readers will be captivated by this profound myth about two young people who wander far from their culture's deeply held traditions and eventually must find a way to come home agai ..."



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