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Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation...
The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation...
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
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xi, 315 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery...
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Colonial America volume 2
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
9) Invincible
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English
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When her photographic memory makes her the target of a criminal who will do anything to make her forget, Carlie Blair entrusts her life--and her heart--to a Lakota Sioux named Carson, a man she once despised.
10) A searing wind
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Contact the battle for America volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
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483 p.
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English
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Series
People of the Longhouse volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
300 p. : maps, timeline ; 25 cm.
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English
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"--
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1986
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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ix, 191 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
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HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather.
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Born in a time of violent upheaval, young Odion and his little sister, Tutelo, live in fear that one day Yellowtail Village will be attacked. When that day comes, and Odion and Tutelo are marched away as slaves, Odion's only hope is that his parents are coming to rescue them. They are. But War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda think they are tracking an ordinary war party herding captive women and children to an enemy village. Instead, they are following...
17) Promise Canyon
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English
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After years spent on ranches around Los Angeles, Clay Tahoma is delighted to be Virgin River's new veterinary assistant. The secluded community's wild beauty tugs at his Navajo roots, and he's been welcomed with open arms by everyone in town—everyone except Lilly Yazhi.
Lilly has encountered her share of strong, silent, traditional men within her own aboriginal community, and she's not interested in coming back for more. In her eyes, Clay's earthy,...
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Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
[1986], c1947
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Physical Desc
x, 372, [14] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The story of two sisters' perilous journey through the wilderness near Lake Champlain to join their father at Fort William Henry is set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.
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Walt Longmire mystery volume 8
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English
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When the site of his daughter's upcoming wedding burns down, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, witness the falling death of a young Crow woman and are recruited into an investigation that incites the wrath of the bride-to-be.