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By Jeff Guinn. 2015
New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight Jeff Guinn once again brings the Old West to life in the…
grand follow-up to Glorious. After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in desperate need of a safe haven somewhere--anywhere--on the frontier.Fleeing to Dodge City, he falls in with an intrepid band of buffalo hunters determined to head south to forbidden Indian Territory in the Texas Panhandle. In the company of such colorful Western legends as Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon, Cash helps establish a hunting camp known as Adobe Walls. When a massive migration of buffalo arrives, Cash, newly hopeful that he may yet patch things up with Gabrielle Tirrito back in Arizona, thinks his luck has finally changed.But no good can come of entering the prohibited lands they've crossed into. Little do Cash and his fellows know that their camp is targeted by a new coalition of the finest warriors among the Comanche, Cheyenne, and Kiowa. Led by fierce Comanche war chief Quanah and eerie tribal mystic Isatai, an enormous force of two thousand is about to descend on the camp and will mark one of the fiercest, bloodiest battles in frontier history.Cash McLendon is in another fight for his life--and this time running is not an option.By Georgina Gentry. 2002
A warrior who values duty above all else, Talako is honor bound to recapture a runaway brave sentenced to hang…
for his crimes. But then he confronts the fury and determination of ebony-haired Lusa, his quarry's sister. Forced to make Lusa his captive on a perilous trek through the wilderness, he cannot deny the desire to forget his quest and lose himself in the pleasures of her lush beauty. Convinced Talako is hunting an innocent man, for Lusa all that matters is saving her brother, and she'll do it any way she can. Boldly, she dares to seduce her enemy with all the passionate fire raging through her blood. The last thing she expects is her own impossible need to surrender to the exquisite torment he ignites--and to a love that could bind her heart to his forever.By Jean Craighead George. 1987
By Jean Craighead George. 1994
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in…
a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Russian man.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1987
By L. E. Blair. 1990
Is there really a ghost on Eagle Mountain? Allison, Randy, Katie, and Sabrina are looking forward to the seventh- grade…
ski trip to Eagle Mountain. But when strange things start to happen, Allison's convinced that a spirit is trying to contact them!By Jean Craighead George. 1972
Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey acoss the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses…
the tundra. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Miyax, or Julie as her pen pal Amy calls her, sets out alone to visit Amy in San Francisco, a world far away from Eskimo culture and the frozen land of Alaska. During her long and arduous journey, Miyax comes to appreciate the value of her Eskimo heritage, learns about herself, and wins the friendship of a pack of wolves. After learning the language of the wolves and slowly earning their trust, Julie becomes a member of the pack. Newbery Medal WinnerBy Donald Clayton Porter. 1984
THE BELLS OF FREEDOM RING OUT ACROSS AMERICA-AND THE WHITE INDIAN SERIES EXPLODES WITH THRILLING NEW ADVENTURES AND FIERY PASSIONS…
IN SENECA! AN ACT OF DEFIANCE- Fierce warrior of the Seneca, Ghonkaba, grandson of Renno the White Indian, feels his blood run hot with a lust for battle as America revolts against the hated British. But the Seneca refuse to break their traditional alliance with England to join the colonists' fight. His noble heart burning, Ghonkaba realizes that the only chance for freedom is to become a traitor to his heritage and his loved ones to follow the patriots' star-spangled banner into a long and dangerous war. A MARK OF HONOR- Only the superb scouting skills of Ghonkaba and a lithesome Indian girl can lead General Washington's troops to safety in a series of thrilling escapes from the Redcoats' guns. Then Ghonkaba, guided by the Manitous, sacred spirits of the Indian, is plunged into a daring plan to cross the Delaware that is destined to stun the world with a triumphant victory for a nation struggling to be born.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1981
FIERY ADVENTURE AND DANGEROUS PASSION FROM THE PRODUCER OF WAGONS WEST MIGHTY IN PEACE: Sworn to preserve peace on America's…
first frontier, Renno, the magnificent Iroquois Sachem, valiantly sought to conquer the rising tide of blood and treachery. As the French set tribe against tribe, brother against brother, Renno's own beloved family is threatened. His daughter is brutally betrayed. His son cruelly banished, returning only to be Torn between his passion for two women. GLORIOUS IN BATTLE: Drawing strength from the courage of their ancestors, Renno and his warrior son rose to the challenge of a mighty destiny to lead the invincible Iroquois Nation once again to victory.By R J Harlick. 2014
On Haida Gwaii, Meg unravels a story of betrayal that reaches back more than a century. While visiting Vancouver, Meg…
Harris encounters the crime scene of a murdered Haida carver. She and her husband Eric are forced to confront Eric’s painful past when the young victim’s identity is discovered. The repercussions send them up the coast to the islands of Haida Gwaii, land of the Haida, in search of the murdered boy’s family and his killer. As the search progresses, a totem pole carver sets out to depict the ancient tale of a long-ago chief’s treasure and how it incited deception and shame. This tragedy reaches its nasty tentacles into the present where Meg and Eric find themselves embroiled in a modern-day story of betrayal.By Aaron Bell. 2010
Thirteen-year-old Jak Loren is a typical boy with the usual problems a family with older sisters and younger brothers presents.…
Never mind the troubles at school - bullies and girls! When Jak goes to the ravine near his home in Brantford to get away from Steven Burke, a bully who’s been tormenting him, he discovers the ravine has a history that’s much older than he thought. He meets Grandfather Rock, who shares with him the story of the people who have lived near the ravine for thousands of years. Soon Jak’s eyes are opened to a new world of beings and respect. He learns about First Nations people and how their teachings inhabit the spirits of all living things that surround us even today. The tales of the First Nations help Jak to understand that the gift of life is something to be cherished. And when a construction crew arrives in his neighbourhood and threatens his beloved ravine, Jak knows he has to act to save it.By B. J. Bayle. 2010
In 1874, after their father is wounded by hard men who have stolen a number of mares and Smokey, a…
prized stallion, sixteen-year-old Rob McCann and his adopted Native brother, Luke, ride frantically to Fort Ellice, Manitoba, in the vain expectation that the horse rustlers have stopped there. Learning that a new force called the North-West Mounted Police has come west, the brothers continue south to locate them and ask for help. The NWMP commander, Colonel George French, desperately attempts to have the boys escorted home. However, the brothers manage to tag along on the eight-hundred-mile march of NWMP men and wagons headed for Fort Whoop-Up, in what will one day be Alberta, with the hope that they will catch up with the thieves. Besides the terrible life-threatening hardships brought on by bad weather and brutal terrain, Rob worries about his mother and wounded father and fears he might even lose Luke and never find Smokey or the other horses.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1988
Renno still needs a gift from the sacred Manitous--a spirit knife--to do battle with a more-than-human foe. For now supernatural…
wolves and a black and evil soul must be vanquished to the trail that leads to the arms of a flame-haired woman and victory for the White Indian's country...and his heart. A vibrant frontier nation has beaten back the mighty British Empire and let freedom ring throughout the land. But the bells of liberty may be silenced as the English! form a secret alliance with bloodthirsty renegade tribes. Only RENNO, proud inheritor of the fighting skills of the legendary White Indian, can unite the Five Nations of the Iroquois in America's noble cause. Yet even Renno cannot foresee an enemy so powerful, so insidious in his cruelty and lust, that all whom the great Senecan loves may be doomed to die. THE WEAPON--Deadly with his tomahawk, English longbow, and razor-sharp stiletto, Renno still needs a gift from the sacred Manitous--a spirit knife--to do battle with a more-than-human foe. For now supernatural wolves and a black and evil soul must be vanquished to the trail that leads to the arms of a flame-haired woman and victory for the White Indian's country...and his heart.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1990
THE DEATH--The sunlit days when America's forests and bountiful waters belonged to the Seneca have become a long, dark night…
of war. Death songs pierce the heart and war whoops chill the blood as the fiercest fighters ever born meet for one last council to decide the fate of the five Iroquois nations and the new United States. And when the die is cast, RENNO, namesake of the legendary White Indian, will begin his long, perilous journey toward Fallen Timbers...a place of glorious dreams, bloody reckoning--and consummate evil. THE BIRTH--Strong in his prime, invincible with his weapons, Renno has one vulnerable spot: his heart. At his side are the sacred manitous and a beautiful warrior woman, but in his soul is a new darkness. Now, an evil shaman hides behind the cowl of the wolverine, deadly enemies gather at his longhouse's door, and only the cry of a newborn child--and the singing of the war ax--can save the White Indian and all he loves.By George Kenny, Renate Eigenbrod, Patricia M. Ningewance. 2014
George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential…
school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982’s Indians Don’t Cry, he joined the ranks of Indigenous writers such as Maria Campbell, Basil Johnston, and Rita Joe whose work melded art and political action. Hailed as a landmark in the history of Indigenous literature in Canada, this new edition is expected to inspire a new generation of Anishinaabe writers with poems and stories that depict the challenges of Indigenous people confronting and finding ways to live within urban settler society. Indians Don’t Cry: Gaawin Mawisiiwag Anishinaabeg is the second book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes lost or underappreciated texts by Indigenous artists. This new bi-lingual edition includes a translation of Kenny’s poems and stories into Anishinaabemowin by Pat Ningewance and an afterword by literary scholar Renate Eigenbrod.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1991
General James Wilkinson is a notorious scoundrel--treasonous and corrupt. Yet as an American commander on the Southwest frontier, he wields…
power with a deadly grip. That is, until he falls under the lascivious thrall of the witch Melisande of New Orleans. Through her manipulations, Wilkinson plots to exterminate once and for all RENNO, the White Indian. THE LEGACY--Meanwhile, young Little Hawk has been selected for President Jefferson's prestigious new military academy at West Point. There, despite excelling in every field, he struggles in the terrible grip of prejudice. In the Southland, the young Mingo warrior White Blanket, a fervent follower of Tecumseh, joins a new Indian Gnion to fight the white man, as the tumultuous young United States tests its newfound strength by annexing the Louisiana Territory and waging a faraway war with the Barbary pirates....By Donald Clayton Porter. 1991
From the days when the Seneca first roamed a virgin continent, the manitous--powerful spirits of the Indian nations--warned of danger.…
Now the prophecy comes to pass. Voodoo drums beat in the exotic isle of St. Domingue, and the evil has spread to America. A witch's charms and potions lure RENNO's innocent son, LITTLE HAWK. And Renno's beautiful daughter, RENNA, claims her destiny of horror, pride, and courage. POWER OF LOVE--President Thomas Jefferson knows the name and skill of Renno. To this proud sachem now comes a difficult duty: to save the Louisiana Territory for America... and to allow his sweet daughter to follow her heart. As Renno heeds his vision quest to travel a path of battle, Renna must follow her trail of desire and honor--to become a woman who chooses not tears but a totem of love, not surrender but a tomahawk of blood.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1986
RENNO, namesake of the legendary White Indian, explodes in a deadly rage as the renegade soldier who murdered his father,…
now abducts his beloved and makes her a captive of twisted passion. Blood boiling, Renno plunges deep into the virgin forests of young America to a kill-or-be-killed confrontation with a treacherous enemy and with an Indian nation of outcasts and outlaws-the Seminole, a people so fierce they fight against any odds, so dangerous their yellow and red warpaint is an omen of death unless Renno can make them allies instead of executioners. BROTHERHOOD OF HEROES-Survival on the Tennessee frontier depends on peace between the Seneca, Cherokee, and the brave pioneers carving a nation from the wilderness. But the white man's rifles are loaded, the Indian war bows ready, as hatred paves the way to battle. Guided by the sacred Manitous, Renno alone can stop a massacre and form a new union of fighting men...a new hope for brotherhood in this magnificent young country.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1985
A fearless warrior worthy of his name, RENNO, descendant of the legendary White Indian of the Iroquois, welcomes the stunning…
new alliance between the noble Senecas, the vast Cherokee nation, and General Washington's triumphant patriots. A fearless warrior worthy of his name, RENNO, descendant of the legendary White Indian of the Iroquois, welcomes the stunning new alliance between the noble Senecas, the vast Cherokee nation, and General Washington's triumphant patriots. But inflamed to grisly hatred by a half-breed named Rattlesnake, the renegade Choctaws have donned fearsome black and white warpaint to strike a blow against freedom's defenders with swift arrows and blood lust. And like a viper hiding in the grass, a sensuous woman will use her beauty to blind the impetuous young Renno to the deadly betrayal in sultry, enticing eyes. A PROMISE OF GREATNESS--Chosen for a special destiny, Renno looks to his father Ghonkaba, mighty Sachem of the rebellious Seneca, for wisdom and to the celebrated heroism of his famous namesake, Renno, the White Indian, for courage in battle. But held spellbound by an obsessive passion, he fails to see the path chosen for him by the Manitou, sacred spirits of the Indian, until the sun-gold hair of a fighting man's daughter gives him a new vision of desire ...and drives him toward a decisive battle for honor and liberty in this glorious new land.By Donald Clayton Porter. 1984
A TEST OF BRAVERY-He sacrificed his heritage to support the American patriots. Now Ghonkaba, grandson of the White Indian, Renno,…
must lead his renegade Seneca band to a new homeland. Their future lies in the lush Tennessee valleys of the Cherokee. But fighting still rages on that wild frontier, as a sly British agent inflames the blood lust of the savage Choctaw and Creek. Only Ghonkaba, in a daring contest of strength and skill, can convince the proud Cherokee to welcome his people as brothers while war drums signal the deadly start of a new battle for possession of this beautiful land. A PLEDGE OF BLOOD-Strangers in a hostile land, the Seneca must prove their worthiness or perish, but treachery threatens to destroy their dreams of a union with the Cherokee. Only the dauntless courage of Ghonkaba, the defiant passion of an Indian maid, and the noble love of a young warrior can create a startling new brotherhood-one ordained by the sacred Manitous and bound by honor and by blood to support the fight for freedom's cause.