Brian Keene - CastawaysThe reality show ‘Castaways’ sees competitors marooned on a deserted island and carrying out tasks to see who will end up winning a million dollars. There’s all the bitching and backstabbing that you would expect from one of these shows but one of the contestants has their own agenda that will cast the show in an entirely new light ...
If this wasn’t enough it turns out that the island isn’t deserted after all. A tribe of monstrous half human creatures live in the jungle and not only are they hungry but they also need breeding stock to ensure that the tribe doesn’t die out. None of the competitors are safe ...
The Sioux are a Native American people who live in reservations and communities within Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin, as well as certain provinces in Canada. According to U.S. Census Report data, over 150,000 individuals identify themselves as Sioux—more than any other tribe besides Cherokee, Navajo, Latin American Indian, and Chocktaw.
The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 19 August 2011
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Only Child
After years on the run, Burke is desperate to return to his native New York, the only way he can reconnect with his outlaw "family." But to survive in their part of the City, where reputation is everything, Burke must take major risks to reestablish his presence. So when a Mafia man contacts him about the murder-as-message of his sixteen-year-old daughter—the offspring of what he calls an "outside the tribe" affair that he must keep secret at all costs—Burke's depleted bankroll persuades him to step out of the shadows and do something he hasn't done in years ... actually investigate a crime.
Legends of The Kaw - The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley
The Kaw (or Kanza) are an American Indian people of the central Midwestern United States. The tribe known as "Kaw" have also been known as the "Wind People, " "People of water, " Kansa, Kaza, Kosa, and Kasa. Their tribal language is Kansa, classified as a Siouan language. The toponym "Kansas" was derived from the name of this tribe. The Kaw are closely related to the Osage Nation, with whom members often intermarried.
