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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - One Who ListensBefore the Revolution, before the lines were drawn, there were people who had to live between them.In the late 1600s, along the waterways and forests of what would become New York, a Mohawk community lives as it has for generations-guided by memory, shaped by tradition, and held together by bonds stronger than any written law.Among them is a boy who watches more than he speaks.Tahonawí ta is not yet a warrior, not yet a leader. But he listens-to the elders, to the land, to the quiet shifts others overlook. In a world where survival depends not only on strength, but on understanding, listening becomes its own form of power.As seasons turn, the world beyond the village begins to press closer.Strangers arrive with goods, with promises, and with intentions not always spoken plainly. Old paths begin to shift. Decisions that once seemed distant now carry weight. And the line between what is known and what is coming grows thinner with each passing year.At the center of it all is a life unfolding-marked by family, loss, responsibility, and the slow shaping of identity in a world that does not remain still.One Who Listens is a work of historical fiction grounded in the rhythms of daily life and the quiet forces that shape it. It is not a story of battles alone, but of the choices made before them-and the people who must live with what follows.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One Who ListensBefore the Revolution, before the lines were drawn, there were people who had to live between them.In the late 1600s, along the waterways and forests of what would become New York, a Mohawk community lives as it has for generations. guided by memory, shaped by tradition, and held together by bonds stronger than any written law.Among them is Tahonawi ta, a boy who watches more than he speaks. He listens. to the elders, to the land, and to the quiet changes gathering beyond the village.Then, in the bitter winter of 1690, the French descend upon Schenectady.In the violence and confusion that follow, the lives of Tahonawi ta and a young Dutch girl named Margriet are drawn together. What begins as survival becomes something neither world could have anticipated, and a choice that will shape generations.As old alliances shift and European powers struggle for control of the continent, the people of the Mohawk Valley face decisions that cannot be made without consequence. Tradition, loyalty, family, and survival begin pulling in different directions.At the center is a young man learning that strength is not always measured by the weapon in one's hand, and that listening can carry its own kind of power.One Who Listens is the opening novel of a sweeping historical saga spanning nearly a century from the frozen forests of seventeenth-century New York toward the coming American Revolution. Rich in the landscapes, traditions, and conflicts of early New York, One Who Listens follows ordinary lives through extraordinary change. From Mohawk villages and Dutch settlements to the forests, rivers, and frozen paths connecting them, history unfolds not from the distant view of kings and generals, but through the families who must endure its consequences.It is a story not simply of battles and borders, but of the people who lived between them. and the choices they made before anyone knew what America would become. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One Who ListensIn the winter of 1690, long before walls and borders hardened the land, two young people stand at the edge of a changing world.Set in the borderlands of late seventeenth-century New York, One Who Listens follows Tahonawi ta, a Mohawk youth taught to read the land before speaking into it, and Margriet, the daughter of a Dutch settler who listens more closely than those around her. As trade routes shift, alliances fracture, and northern war parties move south under cover of winter, their quiet meetings by a lake called Shanantaha unfold against the gathering tension that will culminate in the Schenectady massacre.This is not a story of spectacle, but of attention.Through burned hills, longhouses, palisades, and frozen rivers, the novel explores: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy and matrilineal leadershipThe ecological and political consequences of the Beaver WarsFrench-Indigenous alliances and winter war partiesThe fragile illusion of safety inside colonial wallsWhen violence finally comes, it reveals not only what fails, but what endures.Grounded in historical record yet shaped by lived experience on the same land it portrays, One Who Listens asks a quiet question: What survives - walls, or those who learn when to move?For readers of literary historical fiction, early American frontier narratives, and stories rooted in land, memory, and cultural collision. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…