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A High Stakes Seduction
By Jennifer Lewis. 2014
In USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Lewis's latest, love is a gamble between polar opposites... Meet Constance Allen: no-nonsense, by…
the books...innocent. The aboveboard accountant is on a mission to make sure the New Dawn casino's finances are legit, and maybe even get a promotion...until the millionaire owner seduces the socks off her. Now the conflict of interest threatens her very livelihood, yet she just can't help it! Blindsided, John Fairweather never expects a little flirting with the auditor to get so serious so fast. But when her investigation turns up a smoking gun, will all bets be off for their fledgling affair?Crazy Horse's Girlfriend
By Erika T. Wurth. 2014
Erika T. Wurth is an Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee raised on the outskirts of Denver. She is the writer-in-residence at the Institute of…
American Indian Arts and teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University. Her work is published in numerous journals, including Boulevard, Fiction, Pembroke, Florida Review, Stand, Cimarron Review, the Cape Rock, Southern California Review, and Drunken Boat. Her debut poetry collection, Indian Trains, was published by the University of New Mexico's West End Press.e daily suffocation of teen pregnancy eats her alive.Erika T. Wurth is an Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee raised on the outskirts of Denver. She is the writer-in-residence at the Institute of American Indian Arts and teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University. Her work is published in numerous journals, including Boulevard, Fiction, Pembroke, Florida Review, Stand, Cimarron Review, the Cape Rock, Southern California Review, and Drunken Boat. Her debut poetry collection, Indian Trains, was published by the University of New Mexico's West End Press.The Promised One
By Meredith Blevins, Win Blevins. 2012
The timeless tale of hope and redemption for a people, based on the ancient Cherokee myth Setting out on a…
path to become the tribe's medicine chief, Sunoya sees a vision of her people's annihilation. The sacred Eagle Feather Cape, handed down through the generations since being presented as a guiding talisman by Chief Thunderbird, has been worn down and tarnished. The hope of the people rests on Sunoya--and on her rescued and adopted son Dahzi--who must restore the balance and fulfill her quest in order to bring visions back to the Seer of the People. Dahzi seems chosen to lead his people out of the darkness, but he will have to overcome obstacles from his family and his community before ultimately fighting the barriers that have been lying within himself all along. Based on an ancient Cherokee myth and grounded in sensuous, captivating detail, The Promised One is the timeless tale of an unlikely young man and his resilient mother who will stop at nothing to bring redemption and glory back to the people, even if it means facing the Immortals head on.Black Apple
By Joan Crate. 2016
A dramatic and lyrical coming-of-age novel about a young Blackfoot girl who grows up in the residential school system on…
the Canadian prairies.Torn from her home and delivered to St. Mark's Residential School for Girls by government decree, young Rose Marie finds herself in an alien universe where nothing of her previous life is tolerated, not even her Blackfoot name. For she has entered into the world of the Sisters of Brotherly Love, an order of nuns dedicated to saving the Indigenous children from damnation. Life under the sharp eye of Mother Grace, the Mother General, becomes an endless series of torments, from daily recitations and obligations to chronic sickness and inedible food. And then there are the beatings. All the feisty Rose Marie wants to do is escape from St. Mark's. How her imagination soars as she dreams about her lost family on the Reserve, finding in her visions a healing spirit that touches her heart. But all too soon she starts to see other shapes in her dreams as well, shapes that warn her of unspoken dangers and mysteries that threaten to engulf her. And she has seen the rows of plain wooden crosses behind the school, reminding her that many students have never left here alive. Set during the Second World War and the 1950s, Black Apple is an unforgettable, vividly rendered novel about two very different women whose worlds collide: an irrepressible young Blackfoot girl whose spirit cannot be destroyed, and an aging yet powerful nun who increasingly doubts the value of her life. It captures brilliantly the strange mix of cruelty and compassion in the residential schools, where young children are forbidden to speak their own languages and given Christian names. As Rose Marie matures, she finds increasingly that she knows only the life of the nuns, with its piety, hard work and self-denial. Why is it, then, that she is haunted by secret visions--of past crimes in the school that terrify her, of her dead mother, of the Indigenous life on the plains that has long vanished? Even the kind-hearted Sister Cilla is unable to calm her fears. And then, there is a miracle, or so Mother Grace says. Now Rose is thrust back into the outside world with only her wits to save her. With a poet's eye, Joan Crate creates brilliantly the many shadings of this heartbreaking novel, rendering perfectly the inner voices of Rose Marie and Mother Grace, and exploring the larger themes of belief and belonging, of faith and forgiveness.Nine Below Zero
By Kevin Canty. 1999
From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that…
explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West.Marvin Deernose, a Native American carpenter and recovering alcoholic, has just returned to his Montana hometown with hopes of finding a new start. Early one snowy morning, Marvin notices an overturned Cadillac down an embankment. After rescuing the elderly Senator Henry Neihart, who has just suffered a stroke, Marvin is invited to the Senator's estate where he is immediately drawn to Justine Gallego, the Senator's wayward, unhappily married granddaughter. As these tarnished souls recognize their profound, shared attraction, they dive headlong into a dangerous and intense affair that forever alters the course of their lives.Shadows in the Cave
By Meredith Blevins, Win Blevins. 2012
The tribal underworld epic from the writers of The Promised One Long after the tale of Sunoya and Dahzi in…
The Promised One, the tribal war chief of the Galayi people (Shonan) forbids the use of magic after a personal loss makes him doubt its goodness. His wife had been a powerful shape-shifter, and he fears the ability he sees gathering within his son Aku. But just as Aku begins to learn the nature of his God-given powers, a showdown with the Brown Leaf People forces Aku into a traditional take on the classic underworld epic theme, gathering sly helpers and reinforcements along the way. Only by returning from his journey through the Darkening Land can Aku save his father and his sister--and his tribe. Rendered in measured, luxuriant prose, Shadows in the Cave is the timeless tale of a boy who must discover himself in order to save his people. Scholars hold a healthy respect for the research put in by Blevins and Blevins, and this novel holds the potential to be as educational as it is gripping.Cofa Sacagawea
By Flora Warren Seymour. 1991
Baby Jane
By M. A. Demers. 2011
There's more to good and evil than meets the eye... When human remains are found in her pre-war fixer-upper in…
an east Vancouver neighbourhood, Claire Dawson's grand plans to fix the house -- and her life -- take a disturbing turn. Suspicious there might exist a relationship between the discovery and her own tragic past, Claire insinuates herself into the investigation, unknowingly placing herself in harm's way and Homicide's Detective Dylan Lewis in an impossible conflict of interest. And when Dylan's grandmother, a Native American medicine woman, wades into the mystery, challenging the demon whose earthly form is behind the murder, the three find themselves embroiled in a high-stakes battle where lines are blurred and worlds collide -- but souls are ultimately freed.The Shaman Laughs: A Charlie Moon Mystery
By James D. Doss. 1995
Charlie Moon is no stranger to the mysterious ways of the spirit world. But why is prize livestock being ritualistically…
butchered in the Canyon of the Spirit? That's what Granite Creek's chief of police Scott Parish wants to find out...before human blood begins to spill.Enter Moon's aunt and aging Ute shaman Daisy Perika. For only she who communes with the ancient spirits can truly comprehend the events that have happened upon Native American lands--and the even greater evil that is yet to be unleashed... In The Shaman Laughs, James D. Doss delivers another fascinating Charlie Moon mystery.Moonfeather
By French, Judith E.. 1990
Trial By Fire. . . Moonfeather had seen her Shawnee people execute a man by fire before. When she discovers…
a captive Englishman about to suffer the same fate, she does not intend to see it again. Even an enemy deserves a warrior's death. Her only choice is a brazen one: to claim the reckless man to be her husband. And Desire. . . Viscount Brandon may have been spared a cruel death, but the son of a Scottish earl now endured a different torment. For despite their intimate quarters, the wildly beautiful Moonfeather has no intention of consummating their marriage. Yet the two cannot help but grow closer. And as Brandon discovers that he and Leah Moonfeather Stewart have far more in common than their intense attraction, he is determined to bring her to England as his wife. But in the face of more treachery, Moonfeather may have to save the day once more. . . 106,515 WordsTwo of Hearts
By Christina Lee. 2015
From the author of the Between Breaths novels comes a gripping romance about finding yourself while taking a second chance…
at your first love... Dakota Nakos was always the resilient, strong-willed achiever. But when her father dies and she's entrusted with the family's casino, she feels vulnerable, scared, and more than a little emotional --not exactly the best time to see an old lover she's never really gotten over.Dakota once meant the world to Shane Garrity. Then suddenly he left town to train as a U.S. Marshal, and their love for each other crashed into a memory. Now he's come home for her father's funeral, and one look at the girl he left behind stirs up both memories and regrets, and reignites a fire he feared he'd lost forever.Dakota may be the same driven girl she always was, but she's also changed in ways neither could have anticipated. She's not just a young woman searching for own identity in the Native American community in which she was raised, but one questioning her new life outside her father's shadow. Above all she wonders if Shane can push past her weakened defenses to rekindle what they once had, or whether the intense blaze between them will ultimately reduce her heart to ashes.Charbonneau
By Win Blevins. 2015
The epic story of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacajawea, and his quest to unite the two worlds in which he…
was raised: posh European society and the mystic American wilderness The son of two of Lewis and Clark's guides--Sacajawea and a French Canadian fur trapper--Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau was born during one of the greatest adventures in American history. With the support of William Clark, he grew up in the well-to-do society of St. Louis and eventually made his way to Europe, where he became the welcome guest of kings. But Charbonneau was a man of two dreams, and the Western wilderness pulled at his heart. It was there that he returned as a nineteenth-century mountain man, trader, and explorer. Charbonneau is a moving novel based on the fundamental conflict in the American West during the first half of the nineteenth century: the clash of values between the white man and the American Indian. In the great storytelling tradition, Win Blevins creates a magnificent set of characters, imaginatively reconstructs historical events, and brings Charbonneau and the era in which he lived to vivid life in a story of epic scope and lyrical eloquence.Apache Warrior
By Didier, Carol A.. 2008
A white woman and an Apache brave find forbidden love in the untamed land of the Wild West. . .…
Unbidden Yearnings Always Lead To. . . Every day that Amanda Carroll and her sister travel farther west, they worry about possible Indian attacks. Their greatest fear becomes reality when five armed Apaches surround their coach. Brazenly confronting her attackers, Amanda looks straight into the dark eyes of their fierce leader--only to be shocked by the intense attraction she feels for this bronzed Apache warrior. . . The Most Wicked Pleasure. . . Kayto and his warriors had no intention to harm anyone, let alone the stunning woman before him. He is intrigued by her courage as she stares at him so defiantly--and a slow, searing desire ignites deep within him. Now he will not rest until the woman he dreams of day and night is his own. . .Stealing Benefacio's Roses
By Martin Prechtel. 2002
Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical…
novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan myths. The story shifts expertly from timeless, with archetypal characters like Raggedy Boy and the goddess known as the Water-Skirted Beauty, to timely in the book's striking first-person narrative set in the 1980s. Prechtel shows how ancient myths can become a part of life for everyone and help nurture spiritual survival in the modern world. Though it comes third in sequence with the author's other two books, Stealing Benefacio's Roses also stands on its own as a classic work of spiritual seeking and adventure.Abandoned on the Wild Frontier
By Dave Jackson, Neta Jackson. 2010
Miranda's Last Stand
By Gloria Whelan. 1999
Miranda and her mama have always agreed about everything. So when Mama is offered a job with Buffalo Bill's Wild…
West Show painting scenery, she and Miranda certainly agree that it is time to get out of Fort Lincoln, where they've been doing soldiers' laundry for as long as Miranda can remember. But while Miranda blossoms on the road--meeting Annie Oakley, making friends with an Indian girl, and even participating in the show herself--Mama stews in her hatred of the Indians; she blames them all for her husband's death. And when Chief Sitting Bull joins the troupe, Miranda begins to see that there are two sides to every battle, a vision Mama won't share. Gloria Whelan combines expert storytelling and meticulous historical detail to create a provocative tale that shimmers with remarkable insight into the heart of American history. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book CouncilAnung's Journey: An ancient Ojibway legend as told by Steve Fobister
By Carl Nordgren, Brita Wolf. 2014
This ancient Ojibway legend predates contact with European settlers, but the drummer boy and the people he meets at the…
end of his journey couldn't be more familiar to modern culture.When the orphaned Anung sets out on his vision quest, he sees clearly that his purpose in life is to find the greatest chief of all and tell him of the many acts of kindness the mothers and fathers of the village have given to Anung. When the people of his village learn of the vision, they are proud of him. For every man of the village loves Anung as his son. Every woman is his mother. They believe Gitche Manitou, the great creator, has chosen their son for a special journey. In his quest to find the greatest chief, Anung travels through the 13 tribes of the First Nations, across forests, plains, water, and desert. Along the way, he is accompanied by Turtle, the interpreter of all languages. He finds friends in the most unlikely of places--a squirrel's nest, a mother bear's den, and a city filled with people from every tribe. At each stop, Anung and his drum sing of his mothers and fathers and his quest to meet the greatest chief. What Anung finds at the end of his journey will both surprise and thrill readers of all ages. This ancient legend, told in the beautifully poetic style of Carl Nordgren, begs to be read aloud and savored.The Dark Pond
By Joseph Bruchac, Sally Wern Comport. 2004
The author of Skeleton Man returns with another chilling tale. What kind of sinister creature lurks in the dark pond…
in the forest? Armie can feel it calling to him . . . and he suspects the answer may lie in the legends of his Shawnee ancestors. Joseph Bruchac, the award-winning author of Skeleton Man, puts a contemporary spin on Native American lore to create a terrifying tale of monsters and darkness.American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends (Dover Thrift Editions)
By Zitkala-Sa. 2014
"Whether your interest in Sioux folklore is great or small, you will find this a fascinating book to devour. Pick…
up a copy today and be thrilled." -- The Reading RoomThis accessible and affordable volume combines two essential collections by Sioux author Zitkala-Sa. American Indian Stories assembles short stories, autobiographical reflections, and political essays that offer poignant reflections on the author's sense of being stranded between the white and Native American worlds. Old Indian Legends features tales from the oral tradition -- legends passed down through the generations that form a genre known as the "retold tale." Born on South Dakota's Yankton Reservation in 1876, Zitkala-Sa felt "as free as the wind that blew my hair, and no less spirited than a bounding deer." At the age of eight, she traded her freedom for the iron discipline of a Quaker boarding school. Disillusioned by American society as well as her own tribe, Zitkala-Sa attended college, became a teacher, and wrote about her experiences in a variety of books and magazines. A prominent advocate for Native American rights throughout her life, she was a key figure in the legislation that granted Native Americans citizenship in 1924.Waterless Mountain
By Laura Adams Armer, Sidney Armer. 1931
Younger Brother lives in a dry land, and he dreams of finding the wide water of the Pacific Ocean. This…
gentle coming-of-age story, rooted in the traditional culture of the Navajo, recounts Younger Brother's journey toward finding his vocation as a medicine man. Under the guidance of his uncle, the boy learns about the ancient songs, customs, and ceremonies of his people as well as the modern-day magic of movies and airplanes.Written in the 1930s by an authority on Native American life and lore, this Newbery Medal winner offers a vivid portrait of Navajo beliefs and traditions. Its simple but poetic storytelling style is enhanced by numerous black-and-white illustrations.