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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
By Margaret Craven. 2004
Amid the grandeur of the remote Pacific Northwest stands Kingcome, a village so ancient that, according to Kwakiutl myth, it…
was founded by the two brothers left on earth after the great flood. The Native Americans who still live there call it Quee, a place of such incredible natural richness that hunting and fishing remain primary food sources. But the old culture of totems and potlatch is being replaces by a new culture of prefab housing and alcoholism. Kingcome's younger generation is disenchanted and alienated from its heritage. And now, coming upriver is a young vicar, Mark Brian, on a journey of discovery that can teach him—and us—about life, death, and the transforming power of love.Purple Palette for Murder: A Meg Harris Mystery
By R J Harlick. 2017
With her husband under arrest for murder and Meg desperate to prove his innocence, she flies to Yellowknife, where a…
tangled web of family secrets and greed awaits her. Meg Harris is forced to leave the sanctuary of Three Deer Point and fly to Yellowknife, where her stepdaughter lies near death and her husband is in jail for killing a man. Expecting to find Eric shouting his innocence, she instead finds him cowed and willing to do hard time. But Meg doesn’t believe he’s guilty. Convinced that there’s more to the murder victim — and the attack on her stepdaughter — than the police think, Meg finds herself on a sordid trail of family secrets and greed, hoping she can prove her husband’s innocence. Fragments of an ancient embroidery lead her to a remote Dene hunting camp, where all is not what it seems.The Woman Who Married a Bear (A Cecil Younger Investigation #1)
By John Straley. 1995
High drama meets local color as a private investigator works to uncover the motive and identity of a killer in…
this Shamus Award–winning first Cecil Young investigation set in Sitka, Alaska.Cecil Younger, local Alaskan investigator, is neither good at his job nor at staying sober. When an old Tlingit woman hires him to discover why her son, a big game guide, was murdered, he takes the case without much conviction that he’ll discover anything the police missed. He really just needs the extra cash. But after someone tries to kill him, Younger finds himself traveling across Alaska to ferret out the truth in the midst of conspiracies, politics, and Tlingit mythology. High drama meets local color as Cecil Younger works to uncover the motive and identity of the killer.The Curious Eat Themselves (A Cecil Younger Investigation #2)
By John Straley. 1996
The second book in the Cecil Younger P.I. series set in Sitka, AlaskaWhen Louise Root, a new client of Cecil…
Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of a web of secrets and deadly repercussions—usually not found in the world of environmental politics. Not only that, it seems everyone suddenly wants Younger's help: his old friend, Doggy, the DA; his autistic roommate, Todd, whose Labrador retriever has disappeared; an image-conscious environmental activist; and even the sleazy executives of Global Mining, whose interest in the case is a more than a little suspicious. In the midst of all this, Younger is wrecked by guilt, and his personal life is fraying as he tries to keep his drinking under control. He's got his hands full trying to juggle his lingering emotions over his ex-lover, the multiple investigations, and simply trying to stay alive.Eating the Plates
By Lucille Recht Penner. 1997
Kokopelli's Flute
By Will Hobbs. 1995
THE MAGIC HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Tep Jones has always felt the magic of Picture House, an Anasazi cliff dwelling…
near the seed farm where he lives with his parents. But he could never have imagined what would happen to him on the night of a lunar eclipse, when he finds a bone flute left behind by grave robbers. Tep falls under the spell of a powerful ancient magic that traps him at night in the body of an animal. Only by unraveling the mysteries of Picture House can Tep save himself and his desperately ill mother. Does the enigmatic old Indian who calls himself Cricket hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the past? And can Tep find the answers in time?Dakota Dream
By James W. Bennett. 1994
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: To fulfill his destiny, a teenage boy takes refuge on an Indian reservation…
Ever since he can remember, Floyd Rayfield has wanted to be a Native American. Abandoned by his family and raised in foster care, Floyd has never had a sense of who he was meant to be until the night he has the dream. He sees himself as a warrior of the Sioux Indians and knows that it is his destiny to make the dream come true. He dyes his hair black, instructs his teachers to call him Charly Black Crow, and learns everything he can about the people he admires so much. When the society he has rejected pushes back, Floyd has no other option but to run. He takes refuge on the sprawling Pine Ridge Reservation. Living among actual Native Americans, Floyd learns more about their way of life than he could ever have imagined. By getting in touch with someone else's identity, he hopes finally to discover his own.Paper Wedding, Best-Friend Bride: A Friends-To-Lovers Romance
By Sheri Whitefeather. 2017
To adopt a child, best friends conveniently tie the knot. But will they inconveniently fall in love? Since they were…
young, tech mogul Max Marquez and socialite Lizzie McQueen have always agreed on one thing: they're just friends! But fate has thrown them a curveball in the form of a lovable orphan who needs a good home. To adopt the little boy, they must marry. And to marry, they must face the unthinkable: sharing a bedroom! Will they discover that their friendship is a facade for a deeper attraction, long denied, causing their arrangement to spin right off its axis? Paper Wedding, Best-Friend Bride is part of the Billionaire Brothers Club series.Makoons (Birchbark House #5)
By Louise Erdrich. 2016
In the sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her award-winning Birchbark House series with the story of an…
Ojibwe family in nineteenth-century America.Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of Dakota Territory. There they must learn to become buffalo hunters and once again help their people make a home in a new land. But Makoons has had a vision that foretells great challenges--challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.Based on Louise Erdrich's own family history, this fifth book in the series features black-and-white interior illustrations, a note from the author about her research, as well as a map and glossary of Ojibwe terms.Dry Bones: A Walt Longmire Mystery
By Craig Johnson. 2015
The latest installment of Craig Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series--the basis for the hit drama series LONGMIRE now…
on Netflix When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire's jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum--until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead, floating face down in a turtle pond. With millions of dollars at stake, a number of groups step forward to claim her, including Danny's family, the tribe, and the federal government. As Wyoming's Acting Deputy Attorney and a cadre of FBI officers descend on the town, Walt is determined to find out who would benefit from Danny's death, enlisting old friends Lucian Connolly and Omar Rhoades, along with Dog and best friend Henry Standing Bear, to trawl the vast Lone Elk ranch looking for answers to a sixty-five million year old cold case that's heating up fast.Craig Johnson's The Highwayman will be available from Viking on May 17, 2016From the Hardcover edition.The story is about Bill Williams, half Irish, half Athabaskan Indian who leaves his native village after a disastrous bear…
hunt, works on a Yukon Riverboat, searches for gold, helps build the AlCan Highway and goes to war in 1942. Surviving the Battle of the Bulge, he returns to find the village sterile, his girlfriend married to his brother, and the lifestyle not conducive to one who has fought a war through Belgium and Germany. He moves to Anchorage where, after a series of mishaps, he becomes a derelict, suffers alcoholism, unemployment, and homelessness. The untimely death of his dominating brother causes the widow, a woman he has waited for all his life, to give him a second big chance at love, life, and happiness, and shoves him into the Last Great Race on Earth, the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.An Obvious Fact: A Longmire Mystery (A Longmire Mystery #12)
By Craig Johnson. 2016
In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix orginal series…
Longmire, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident involving a young motorcyclist near Devils Tower. In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming--the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower--to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; a military-grade vehicle donated to the tiny local police force by a wealthy entrepreneur; and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry's '59 Thunderbird (and, by extension, Walt's granddaughter) come into play, it rapidly becomes clear that there is more to get to the bottom of at this year's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally than a bike accident. After all, in the words of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the Bear won't stop quoting, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." A New York Times BestsellerThe Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit
By Diana Gabaldon, Hsuan L. Hsu, John Rollin Ridge. 2018
The first novel to feature a Mexican American hero: an adventure tale about Mexicans rising up against U.S. rule in…
California, based on the real-life bandit who inspired the creation of Zorro, the Lone Ranger, and BatmanWith a new foreword by Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander seriesAn action-packed blend of folk tale, romance, epic, and myth, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta tells the story of the Gold Rush-era Mexican immigrant Joaquín Murieta, whose efforts to find fortune and happiness are thwarted by white settlers who murder his family and drive him off his land. In retaliation, Murieta organizes a band of more than 2,000 outlaws--including the sadistic "Three-Fingered Jack"--who take revenge by murdering, stealing horses, and robbing miners, all with the ultimate goal of reconquering California.The first novel written by a Native American and the first novel published in California, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta speaks to the ways in which ethical questions of national security and racialized police violence have long been a part of U.S. history. This edition features excerpts from popular rewritings of the novel, including Johnston McCulley's first novel about Zorro, The Curse of Capistrano (also known as The Mark of Zorro).The Basket Weaver
By Jacque Summers. 2018
Salmon Boy, a Haida Story
By Robert San Souci. 2018
The Mud Pony: A Traditional Skidi Pawnee Tale
By Caron Lee Cohen. 1988
The Rabbit and the Snake
By Betty Mae Jumper. 2018
Vancouver's Spirits: Still Waters Run Deep Book 2 (Stillwaters Run Deep #2)
By Frank Talaber. 2017
Vancouver s mayor is brutally slain in Stanley Park His family is missing no clues …
So begins Carol s first big detective case Toss in a hot male reporter Vengeful bikers a sexually starved succubus a boatload of out of sync demi-gods and a disappearing shaman who holds all the clues Oh it s going to be a fun night in the parkRaven's Lament: Still Waters Run Deep Book 1 (Stillwaters Run Deep #1)
By Frank Talaber. 2015
What if you didn t believe in native spiritualism and found yourself battling Raven with only a shaman…
to help you Inspired by true events that took place on the Queen Charlotte Islands Raven s Lament centers on a journalist who investigates a killing tied into the destruction of old-growth forest and becomes tangled up in a spirit war He finds love and meaning as he encounters a centuries-old Haida prince formerly imprisoned along with Raven in a rare Golden Spruce treeThunderbird's Wake (Stillwaters Run Deep #3)
By Frank Talaber. 2016
Haida shaman Charlie Stillwaters convinces Carol Ainsworth a Vancouver detective to join him as he breaks his way…
into a high security prison The duo are determined to find out who killed the previous native elder before all lightning and thunder breaks loose