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• Small Ceremonies

  a Novel

  Edwards, Kyle,

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  This may be the Tigers’ last season, and Indigenous student Tommy sees the uncertainty of life in the team’s loss; Clinton is trying to avoid gang violence; Floyd is talented yet insecure about being multiracial; and the adults in Tommy’s life - his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waiting for the Long Night Moon

  Stories

  Peters, Amanda,

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  Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing strength and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Is a War Song

  Nava, Danica,

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  After a scandal, Native American pop singer Avery Fox escapes to her grandmother's horse ranch in Oklahoma. Living on the rez is new to Avery, plus the man who runs the ranch despises her and wants her gone. Red Fox Ranch has been home to Lucas Iron…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If the Dead Belong Here

  Faust, Carson,

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  When six-year-old Laurel vanishes, her sister Nadine's haunting visions lead her deep into family history and Indigenous folklore, where uncovering buried truths may be the only way to bring Laurel home and heal generations of unresolved grief.

• Old School Indian

  a Novel

  Curtis, Aaron John,

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  Abe Jacobs is Kanien’kehá:ka from Ahkwesáhsne—or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen, Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty-three, Abe is suffering from a rare…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Whistler

  Medina, Nick,

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  After a ghost-hunting accident leaves Henry Hotard paralyzed, he returns to his reservation and begins experiencing terrifying visions tied to a Native superstition, forcing him to confront buried trauma and the consequences of breaking sacred…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hammajang Luck

  a Novel

  Yamamoto, Makana,

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  Edie is done with crime. Eight years in prison changes a person. Particularly when you're only there because your partner, your best friend, your all-but-sister, sold you down the river. Even getting Edie out on early parole doesn't earn Angel any…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To the Moon and Back

  a Novel

  Ramage, Eliana,

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  Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive husband—with Steph and her younger sister in tow—to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devil Is a Southpaw

  a Novel

  Hobson, Brandon,

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  Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the late 1980s. Until Matthew escaped, that is. A novel within a novel, we read here Milton’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting in There There.

• The Mighty Red

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  In Argus, North Dakota, a wedding intertwines the lives of Gary, Kismet, Hugo, and Crystal. Amidst personal struggles and love triangles, they face broader themes of time, climate change, and economic turmoil. The novel explores the complexities of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire Exit

  a Novel

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation, and, on the far bank, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--from the day she came home…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Turning Leaves

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  Years after a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky's community is running out of resources in remote northern Ontario. Evan and his fifteen-year-old daughter,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

  Stories

  Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei,

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  Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was a Teenage Slasher

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style.

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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  Celebrating Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, these twenty-seven spinetingling stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, intricate family legacies, desperate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stealing

  a Novel

  Verble, Margaret,

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  In the 1950s, strong-willed and shrewd Kit Crockett, ripped from her home and Cherokee family and sent to a religious boarding school, she, along with the other Native students, is stripped of her heritage, force-fed Christian indoctrination and is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Council of Dolls

  a Novel

  Power, Mona Susan, 1961-

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  Details the story of three women from different generations, told through the stories of the dolls they carried in 1888, 1925 and 1961 bringing to light the damage done to indigenous people through history.

• The Berry Pickers

  a Novel

  Peters, Amanda,

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  July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries; weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie vanishes mysteriously, last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe. Joe will remain deeply affected by his sister's disappearance for…Read moreRead more of this annotation