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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Description
After serving part of an outrageously long sentence, Tookie, who 'learned to read with murderous attention' while in prison, naturally gravitates toward working at a bookstore. There she joins a dedicated community of artists and book lovers and begins to build a new life for herself. When Flora, the store's most persistent customer, suddenly dies, her ghost refuses to leave. Flora returns on All Soul's Day to haunt the bookstore and in particular,...
2) White horse
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Wurth, E.
1 available
Wurth, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Wurth, E.
1 available
Wurth, E.
1 available
Description
"Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable. Haunted by visions...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Good, M.
1 available
Good, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Good, M.
1 available
Good, M.
1 available
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Good, M.
1 available
Good, M.
1 available
Description
"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Weiden, D.
1 available
Weiden, D.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Weiden, D.
1 available
Weiden, D.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Weiden, D.
1 available
Weiden, D.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Weiden, D.
1 available
Weiden, D.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Weiden, D.
1 available
Weiden, D.
1 available
Description
"A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation...
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Moon apocalyptic novels volume 1
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Rice, W.
1 available
Rice, W.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Rice, W.
1 available
Rice, W.
1 available
Description
"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Geller, D.
1 available
B Geller, D.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
B Geller, D.
1 available
B Geller, D.
1 available
South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Geller, D.
1 available
B Geller, D.
1 available
Description
"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homelessness, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation....
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Marrow thieves novels volume 1
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Central Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
Dimaline, C.
1 available
Dimaline, C.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
Dimaline, C.
1 available
Dimaline, C.
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.897 K
1 available
305.897 K
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.897 K
1 available
305.897 K
1 available
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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Lake witch trilogy volume 1
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Jones, S.
1 available
Jones, S.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Jones, S.
1 available
Jones, S.
1 available
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South Side Library - Audiobooks - Adult
Jones, S.
1 available
Jones, S.
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Verble, M.
1 available
Verble, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Verble, M.
1 available
Verble, M.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Verble, M.
1 available
Verble, M.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Verble, M.
1 available
Verble, M.
1 available
Description
"Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two's closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two's shows, strange things start...
11) The removed
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
Description
"Teeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
814 Sh22
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814 Sh22
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
814 Sh22
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814 Sh22
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Description
"For many the phrase "Native nonfiction" inspires thoughts of the past, of timeless oral history transcriptions and dry 19th century autobiographies. In Shapes of Native Nonfiction, Washuta and Warburton explode this perspective by showcasing 22 contemporary Native writers and their provocative approaches to form. While exploring familiar legacies of personal and collective trauma and violence, these writers push, pull and break the conventional essay...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
Description
"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain...
14) Tread of angels
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
Roanhorse, R.
1 available
Description
"Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in a new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse. The year is 1883 and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the...
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Central Library - Graphic Novels - Adult
Moonshot
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Moonshot
1 available
North Side Library - Graphic Novels - Adult
Moonshot
1 available
Moonshot
1 available
South Side Library - Graphic Novels - Adult
Moonshot
1 available
Moonshot
1 available
Description
"MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection brings together dozens of creators from North America to contribute comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling. From traditional stories to exciting new visions of the future, this collection presents some of the finest comic book and graphic novel work on the continent.
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Central Library - History - 2nd Floor
970.004 T
1 available
970.004 T
1 available
East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
970.004 T
1 available
970.004 T
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
970.004 T
1 available
970.004 T
1 available
Description
The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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East Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Description
"A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care...
18) There there
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Orange, T.
1 available
Orange, T.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Orange, T.
1 available
Orange, T.
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 M739e
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811 M739e
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Description
"In Earth Keeper: Reflections on an American Land, Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. "When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors, I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to the American land. This is a declaration of belonging. And it is an offering to the earth." he writes. Earth Keeper is a story of attachment, rooted in oral tradition. Momaday recalls stories of his childhood...
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Forest Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
979.7 L
1 available
979.7 L
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
979.7 L
1 available
979.7 L
1 available
North Side Library - Memoirs - Adult
979.7 L
1 available
979.7 L
1 available
Description
"Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe, a Coast Salish indigenous woman, has always longed for a sense of home. As a child her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. As an adolescent determined to escape the poverty and abuse of her childhood in order to build a better future for herself and her people, Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, with little more to guide...