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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
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Language
English
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"A young girl hunts for answers about a string of disappearances, all while being haunted herself in this heart-pounding thriller with a mythological twist, from debut author Nick Medina. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino... and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step--an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that's intent on...
Author
Series
Home to blessing novels volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Astrid and Joshua discover God's plans for them through difficult circumstances in the conclusion to this prairie romance series set in South Dakota.
7) Indian pipes
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Home to blessing novels volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?
10) Double blind
Author
Series
Hideaway series (Hannah Alexander) volume 9
Publisher
Steeple Hill
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When a virus plagues the Navajo reservation on which she grew up, a nurse calling upon her faith in God returns home to Arizona to help find the cause, while trying to uncover the truth about her mother's long-ago death.
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Series
Willamette brides volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Accompanied by her best friend, Thomas Lowell, Constance Browning returns from studying in the East to catalog the native peoples of Oregon - and to prove that her missionary parents aren't involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed tribes to war. As tensions rise amid shocking revelations, Constance may also have a revelation of the heart."--Publisher.
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Series
Mercy Gunderson mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Former Black Ops Army sniper Mercy Gunderson is back with a vengeance in the third book in Shamus Award-winning author Lori Armstrong's gripping mystery series. Six months have passed since Mercy Gunderson went to work for the Indian Country Special Crimes Unit (ICSCU) division of the FBI. Stationed in South Dakota with her partner Shay Turnbull, their first case involves a possible serial killer on the Eagle River Reservation, where the latest victim...
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young woman torn between duty and her own happiness defies her father to become the wife of a man with few prospects. Based on a true story"--
1860s. Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. When romance blooms between her and Peter Ronan, Mollie finally allows herself to hope for a brighter future -- until her father voices...
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Series
Walking in two worlds volume 1
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"An indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has...
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation. Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police. Identifying the dead isn't easy--some had been buried for years--and at first the cases look to be nothing but dead ends....
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Ojibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality begin? NPR sponsorships. Deals with miracles, crises of faith, struggles with good & evil, temptation,...
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