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Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 3
Language
English
Description
"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...
Author
Series
Home to Blessing volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Astrid and Joshua discover God's plans for them through difficult circumstances in the conclusion to this bestselling prairie romance series set in South Dakota.
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
4) Mercy Falls
Author
Language
English
Description
Tamarack County Sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates the high-profile murder of a powerful Chicago businessman. When he's then targeted by a sniper, O'Connor must move through a maze of murder, adultery, and deceit.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire has more on his mind than cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married. Walt and his old friend Henry Standing Bear are the de facto wedding planners, and fear Cady's wrath when the locale arrangements go up in smoke two weeks before the event. But their expedition to find a new site on the Cheyenne Reservation ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's cliffs....
Author
Series
Home to Blessing volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?
Author
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
10) The painted drum
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum -- a powerful yet delicate...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young girl, Willow's mother left their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. And with that, she and her daughter set off to New Mexico, to a new life, to a world of arroyos and canyons bordering an Apache reservation. Willow was devastated. Her eccentric mother believed in this new...
Author
Series
Patrick Flint volume Book 2
Publisher
SkipJack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Patrick Flint feels a calling to volunteer at the impoverished Indian Health Services clinic on the Wind River Reservation that he can't completely explain. His wife Susanne supports this--usually--but her family is coming for their first Wyoming visit, twelve-year-old Perry is stir crazy and looking for trouble, teenager Trish is dangerously in love, and she and Patrick are in the final stages of negotiations for their dream house. The Christmas...
13) Strong cold dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger, Caitlin Strong fights a new enemy, an ISIS group in pursuit of a devastating weapon on Texas soil. The oil drilling on an Indian reservation is steeped in mystery and controversy and a secret from the past may trigger an Armageddon from the canyonlands.
14) Mercy Falls
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Back on the beat as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O'Connor has already seen his beautiful Northwoods jurisdiction through an eventful summer. Now, as the chill of autumn sweeps through the countryside, he's about to face a season of murder, adultery, and deceit that will take him from seedy backwoods bars and humble reservation shanties to the highest and most corrupt echelons of Chicago society. Lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears...
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Hazel Micallef investigates a bee stinging death on an Indian reservation only to discover the culprit was not an insect, but a fiendish teenage girl with a strange weapon.
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st Warner Books ed.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie's brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock 'n' roll, and redemption Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State-and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers...
18) The tale teller
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware--witchcraft...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
211 pages; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation...