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The Great Alone
By Janet Dailey. 1986
A sweeping multigenerational saga of the founding of the state of Alaska by an iconic author with more than three…
hundred million copies of her books in print. Spanning two hundred years, this saga of romance and adventure in the untamed Alaska wilderness begins with Tasha Tarakanov, a beautiful Aleut woman, and her beloved Andrei, a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of proud Alaskans, including the beautiful Marisha, who finds her fortune as a legendary madam, and Wylie Cole, who bravely defends his homeland during World War II. Glorious and grand, The Great Alone is a story of brave young men and women, whose dreams, heritage, betrayals, loves, and fortitude are as vast and wild as the land from which they sprang.Notches (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré #4)
By Peter Bowen. 1997
&“[An] enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and…
Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans&” (Booklist). The news is bad: five young women—so far—raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wilderness to be devoured by coyotes. It&’s not long before Gabriel Du Pré, Métis Indian cattle inspector and occasional deputy, gets the call from Sheriff Benny Klein, summoning him to yet another grisly crime scene—this time in his own backyard. Not far from the victim, he finds two more murdered women, their bodies arranged over each other in a cross. A message from the killer? But what does it mean? Working alongside a Blackfoot FBI agent and his feisty female partner, Du Pré, a father and grandfather with two daughters of his own, gives his all to the manhunt. But as more victims are found, and a young woman he cares about disappears, he will come to the grim realization that he must learn to think like this monster in order to catch him. &“Like the most memorable creations in detective fiction, [Du Pré&’s] moral center is unshakeable&” (Booklist).Notches is the 4th book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.Indian Killer: A Novel (Colección Novela Ser. #Vol. 6040059)
By Sherman Alexie. 1996
A New York Times Notable Book: A series of brutal racially charged murders sets a city on edge in this…
thriller by a National Book Award–winning author. A serial murderer dubbed &“the Indian Killer&” has Seattle living in fear. As he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers, the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension. Then a possible suspect emerges: John Smith. An Indian raised by whites, John is lost between cultures. He fights for a sense of belonging that may never be his—but has his alienation made him angry enough to kill? The New York Times–bestselling author of You Don&’t Have to Say You Love Me and many other acclaimed works, Sherman Alexie traces John Smith&’s rage with scathing wit and masterly suspense, delivering both a scintillating thriller and a searing parable of race, identity, and violence. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.Cruzatte and Maria (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré #8)
By Peter Bowen. 2001
A deputy discovers Meriwether Lewis&’s journal in this modern-day mystery by an author who &“writes about the rural West better…
than anyone&” (Rocky Mountain News). When he&’s asked to serve as a consultant for a documentary about the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark&’s expedition up the Missouri River, Gabriel Du Pré&’s impulse is to flee. Eastern Montana isn&’t accustomed to getting much attention, and its residents prefer it that way. But the director of the film is dating Du Pré&’s daughter Maria, so this hard-bitten fiddler&’s hands are tied. The Métis Indian lawman agrees to act as a guide and help the filmmakers navigate the river, which is as deadly now as it was in 1805. The Missouri has claimed nine lives in the past three years—a suspiciously high death toll the FBI wants Du Pré to investigate. While trolling the riverbanks, Du Pré stumbles upon a national treasure: Meriwether Lewis&’s lost journals, which the American government will do anything to get back. Meanwhile, when members of the film crew start dying, Du Pré begins to wonder if the locals hate outsiders so much they might be willing to kill to keep them out. &“Bowen&’s exuberant storytelling mines the rich cultural history of the West . . . [and features] delightfully extravagant characters&” (Publishers Weekly).Cruzatte and Maria is the 8th book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.Meteors in August: A Novel
By Melanie Rae Thon. 1990
Charged by lyrical prose and vivid evocations of a more-than-human world, Meteors in August proves itself a magnificent debut, a…
tale of despair and salvation in all their many forms Lizzie Macon is seven when her father drives a Native American named Red Elk out of their valley and comes home with blood on his clothes. The following year, her older sister, Nina, cuts her head from every family photograph and runs away with Red Elk&’s son and their unborn child. Nina&’s actions have consequences no one could have predicted: jittery reverberations of violence throughout the isolated northern Montana mill town of Willis. Sparks of racial prejudice and fundamentalist fever flare until one scorching August when three cataclysmic events change the town—and Lizzie&’s family—forever.Scalpdancers
By Kerry Newcomb. 1990
When two exiles find each other, the West will never be the sameThe first arrow should have killed the buffalo.…
But the massive bull keeps charging, and Lost Eyes watches, helpless, as the young warrior known as Waiting Horse is gored to death. As punishment for this tragic accident, Lost Eyes is exiled from his small Blackfoot tribe on the edge of the Elkhorn Creek—cursed to spend his days wandering the plains, forever remembering the hunt that changed his life.Halfway around the globe, merchant captain Morgan Penmerry watches in horror as his ship burns in Macao harbor. Ruined, he attempts a daring return to the Americas to build his fortune anew. There he crosses paths with Lost Eyes—a fellow wanderer who, like the captain, understands the pains of banishment. Together, these unlikely partners will find a place in the frontier and form a bond that no tragedy can tear asunder.Flight: A Novel (Collections Litterature Ser. #Vol. 6132393)
By Sherman Alexie. 2007
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled…
boy&’s trip through history. Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old &“Zits&” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he&’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the alcoholic father whom he&’s never met, especially disconnected from other Indians. After he runs away from his latest foster home, he makes a new friend. Handsome, charismatic, and eloquent, Justice soon persuades Zits to unleash his pain and anger on the uncaring world. But picking up a gun leads Zits on an unexpected time-traveling journey through several violent moments in American history, experiencing life as an FBI agent during the civil rights movement, a mute Indian boy during the Battle of Little Bighorn, a nineteenth-century Indian tracker, and a modern-day airplane pilot. When Zits finally returns to his own body, &“he begins to understand what it means to be the hero, the villain and the victim. . . . Mr. Alexie succeeds yet again with his ability to pierce to the heart of matters, leaving this reader with tears in her eyes&” (The New York Times Book Review). Sherman Alexie&’s acclaimed novels have turned a spotlight on the unique experiences of modern-day Native Americans, and here, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian takes a bold new turn, combining magical realism with his singular humor and insight. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Sherman Alexie including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.A young Native American raised in the forest is suddenly thrust into the modern world, in this novel by the…
author of The Dog Who Came to Stay. Thomas Black Bull&’s parents forsook the life of a modern reservation and took to ancient paths in the woods, teaching their young son the stories and customs of his ancestors. But Tom&’s life changes forever when he loses his father in a tragic accident and his mother dies shortly afterward. When Tom is discovered alone in the forest with only a bear cub as a companion, life becomes difficult. Soon, well-meaning teachers endeavor to reform him, a rodeo attempts to turn him into an act, and nearly everyone he meets tries to take control of his life. Powerful and timeless, When the Legends Die is a captivating story of one boy learning to live in harmony with both civilization and wilderness.Trouble at Fort La Pointe (Mysteries through History #7)
By Kathleen Ernst. 2000
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery: In 1732, a twelve-year-old girl of Ojibwe and French heritage must…
clear her father of a stealing charge—or risk being separated from him foreverSuzette Choudoir always looks forward to summer, when her family leaves the Ojibwe people&’s winter camp and returns to the summer gathering place on La Pointe Island. This year her papa, a French fur trader, hopes to win a trappers&’ competition. If he does, he can remain with his family year-round, instead of paddling away to far-off Montreal in autumn. When someone steals a bale of valuable furs, however, suspicion falls on Papa.Determined to find the real thief, Suzette gathers clues and tries to track down the missing furs. But it will take all of her courage to clear her father&’s name. If she can&’t, her family will be forced to leave La Pointe Island in disgrace, and Suzette—a black-haired, blue-eyed girl of mixed cultural heritage—may never find a true home. This ebook includes a historical afterword.Paddle-to-the-Sea: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Sandpiper books)
By Holling Clancy Holling. 1980
A First Nations boy sets a foot-long canoe afloat on Ontario's Lake Nipigon. As the little dugout drifts through the…
Great Lakes to the ocean, strangers honor the message carved in the wood: "Please put me back in water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea." For grades 3-6. Caldecott Honor Book. 1941Dalva: A Novel
By Jim Harrison. 1991
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: a beautifully crafted story of one woman&’s journey to…
find her son. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam—and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul. One of Harrison&’s most ambitious novels, Dalva explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of America&’s most memorable writers. &“There is no putting aside Dalva until the time bombs go off, the identities are revealed, and the skeletons almost literally tumble from the closets . . . Dalva is suspended in its own beauty.&” —Louise Erdrich, Chicago TribuneSun Priestess
By Judith Redman Robbins. 1998
She was a passionate priestess in the Anasazi tribe with a mysterious past and the gift of prophecy. She was…
called Coyote Woman, and was prepared to make every sacrifice for her people. The Majestic Mayan-Toltec Eagle warrior was determined to seduce the young priestess into his arms and onto his land until she sensed a calling by the people of her tribe and she fled to answer their needs as Sun Priestess and healer. When their endangered future seemed to be collapsing in their hands, she helped them. But when she became the source of another battle--between the warrior and a priest of her own tribe--her powers as Sun Priestess bring to her a different fate.Painted Horses: A Novel
By Malcolm Brooks. 2016
The national bestseller that &“reads like a cross between Charles Frazier&’s Cold Mountain and Ernest Hemingway&’s A Farewell to Arms&” (The Dallas Morning…
News). In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates the untamed landscape of the West in the 1950s. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her. Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar—the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there&’s John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army&’s last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past. Painted Horses sends a dauntless young woman on a heroic quest, sings a love song to the horseman&’s vanishing way of life, and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and the future, often make strange bedfellows. &“Engrossing . . . The best novels are not just written but built—scene by scene, character by character—until a world emerges for readers to fall into. Painted Horses creates several worlds.&” —USA Today (4 out of 4 stars) &“Extraordinary . . . both intimate and sweeping in a way that may remind readers of Michael Ondaatje&’s The English Patient . . . Painted Horses is, after all, one of those big, old-fashioned novels where the mundane and the unlikely coexist.&” —The Boston GlobeThe Portal Keeper: The Misewa Saga, Book Four (The Misewa Saga #4)
By David A. Robertson. 2023
Eli and Morgan experience life-changing revelations in this new adventure in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.While exploring World&’s…
End, an area in Aski they've just discovered, Morgan and Emily delight in their developing relationship, while Eli struggles to understand his new-found power: the ability to locate a portal. A shocking turn of events leads them to a new village, Ministik, where the animal beings who live there are going missing. Horrified to discover who is responsible, the children vow to help and turn to friends, old and new. But it's getting harder and harder to keep the two worlds separate, especially when details of a traditional legend change everything. Forever.Cyber Way
By Alan Dean Foster. 1990
The New York Times–bestselling author creates &“a fascinating amalgam of sf/detective fiction and Native American lore&” (Library Journal). A wealthy…
industrialist and folk art collector is murdered in his home and left beneath where a painting had been hanging. But theft is not the motive. The artwork—a Navajo sandpainting—has been completed pulverized. And no blood was found at the scene. Assigned to the case is bulldog detective Vernon Moody—sent to Arizona to investigate. It&’s an unfamiliar environment for the born-and-bred southerner: dry air, altitude, and a booming economy spurred by high-tech manufacturing on the reservations. Still ancient superstitions linger, suggesting a motive for the crime. There is magic in traditional sandpaintings—a power that, when paired with technology, could unleash forces beyond human control . . .Praise for Alan Dean Foster &“A master storyteller.&” —SF Site &“One of the most consistently and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy.&” —The Times (London)Jesustown
By Paul Daley. 2022
Morally bankrupt popular historian Patrick Renmark leaves London in disgrace after the accidental death of his infant son. With one…
card left to play, he takes a commission to write the biography of his pioneering anthropologist grandfather. With no enthusiasm and even less integrity, Patrick travels to the former mission town in Australia's far north where his grandfather famously brokered 'peace' between the Indigenous people of the area and the white constabulary. Of course nothing is as it seems, or as Patrick wants it to be. Unable to lay his own son to rest, Patrick unwillingly becomes part of local lawyer Jericho Bakerman's quest to return the settlement's ancestral remains to Country.Maud's line
By Margaret Verble. 2015
Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail, her father, younger brother, and extended family are scraping out existences on allotments for the Cherokee in…
eastern Oklahoma. One day, peddler Booker Wakefield visits her home and encourages her dreams of finer things. Tensions with others threaten. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 2015Jimmy Bluefeather: a novel
By Kim Heacox. 2015
Old Keb is ninety-five--maybe, he cannot remember--part Tlingit and part Norwegian, and the last canoe carver in his village. When…
his grandson James is injured in a logging accident, Keb helps him build a canoe, and they travel into the interior of Alaska, evading authorities and loved ones. 2015Song of the lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel #3)
By Anne Hillerman. 2017
While Navajo officer Bernie Manuelito is attending an alumni game at Shiprock High School, a car explodes in the parking…
lot. The owner may have been targeted because of his role as mediator for a Grand Canyon resort negotiation. Bernie investigates with Chee and Leaphorn. Some strong language. 2017In an ancient time of icy splendor at the top of the world, can two people whose spirits belong to…
each other overcome the senseless violence between their tribes?A wise storyteller and powerful hunter, Chakliux has one weakness: the beautiful Aqamdax, who has been promised to a cruel tribesman she does not love. But there can be no future for Chakliux and Aqamdax until a curse upon their peoples has been lifted. As they travel a dangerous path, they encounter greater challenges than the harsh terrain and the long season of ice. K&’os, the woman who saved Chakliux&’s life when he was an infant, is now enslaved by the leader of the enemy tribe against whom she has sworn vengeance. To carry out her justice she will destroy anyone who gets in her way, even the storyteller she raised as her own son. Cry of the Wind is the second book of the Storyteller Trilogy, which also includes Song of the River and Call Down the Stars.