Katie Anvil Rich
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"Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson"--
Quah, Oklahoma. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult...
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Warriors super edition volume 17
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English
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Investigating Whistlepaw's disturbing vision, Ivypool, haunted by her daughter's death, and the group find a disgusting Twoleg den that's caging a series of strange animals, and to right a terrible wrong that goes back generations, must help these creatures find their true home.
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2022
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English
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Set on Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation in the 1940s, this is "a love story of uncommon depth and power [and a] superb first novel" (Booklist, starred review).
On the reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after her mother's death, Louise and her sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana, where Native...
On the reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after her mother's death, Louise and her sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana, where Native...
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Main's Best Books of 2024 - Young Adult
MLA - Main Librarians' Picks 2024 Q2
WAS-Native American Heritage Month
MLA - Main Librarians' Picks 2024 Q2
WAS-Native American Heritage Month
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"When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered. Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them--Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli--have a...
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2024.
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First edition.
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English
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"While back on tribal land, Mud Sawpole uncovers an illegal fracking operation underway that threatens the Kiowas' ancestral homeland. But there's an even greater threat: a local businessman involved in artifact thefts is murdered, and a respected tribe elder faces accusation of the crime. After being roped in by her cousin, Denny, they begin to investigate the death while also pursuing evidence to permanently stop frackers from destroying Kiowa land,...
9) Coyote queen
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[2023]
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First edition.
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Fud feels trapped. She lives a precarious life in a cramped trailer with her mom and her mom's alcoholic ex-boxer boyfriend, Larry. Fud can see it's only a matter of time until Larry explodes again, even if her mom keeps on making excuses for his behavior. If only Fud could find a way to be as free as the coyotes roaming the Wyoming countryside: strong, smart, independent, and always willing to protect their own. When Larry comes...
10) Sacred ground
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1994.
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author Mercedes Lackey comes contemporary fantasy Sacred Ground-now back in print!
Jennifer Talldeer is Osage and Cherokee, granddaughter of a powerful Medicine Man. She walks a difficult path: contrary to tribal custom, she is learning a warrior's magics. A freelance private investigator, Jennifer tracks down stolen Native American artifacts.
The construction of a new shopping mall uncovers fragments of human...
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2021.
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English
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As war overtakes the frontier, Emma's family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her father, Chief Little Crow. When the war is over and revenge-fueled war trials begin, each young woman is faced with an impossible choice. In a swiftly changing world, both Emma and Oenikika must look deep within and fight for the truth of their...