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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...
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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?
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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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.
6) Double blind
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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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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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Scalped volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"It's a big night on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation--the grand opening of the multimillion-dollar Crazy Horse Casino. For Tribal Leader and organized crime boss Lincoln Red Crow, it's the fruition of thirty years of dreaming, scheming and killing. For FBI Special Agent Dashiell Bad Horse, it's just another night risking his neck undercover in Red Crow's organization. For Dash's mother, Gina Bad Horse, it's a painful reminder of how things have...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Presents an insider chronicle of the history of Indian reservations and contemporary Native American life, highlighting misunderstood issues and examining the historical tensions between Native Americans and the U.S. government.
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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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PM Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of border towns. Border towns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that these settlements get their name from their location at the borders of current-day reservation boundaries, which separates the territory of sovereign Native nations from...
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Walking in two worlds volume 1
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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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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,...
16) Yellow Earth
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists--along with an earnest wildlife biologist--commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of neighboring Three Nations reservation, wants to increase economic opportunity...
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Series
Publisher
Berekley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Manny Tanno is taking some much needed R and R at the site of the Battle of Little Big Horn. But when a death on the reservation cuts his vacation short, he learns that the secrets of the past have a way of stirring up trouble in the present. As a scout for the legendary General Custer, Crow tribe member Levi Star Dancer kept a journal chronicling his exploits from the Battle of the Greasy Grass onward. Now, the missing journal has been...
Author
Series
Scalped volume 3
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
"Dashiell Bad Horse is a man divided. His job as a cop on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation is just a front for his role as a soldier for the Rez's brutal chief, Red Crow. But beneath both surfaces, Dash is an undercover FBI agent, forced back onto the reservation he escaped years ago to bring Red Crow down, no matter the cost"--Page 4 of cover.
20) Blood quantum
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except its Indigenous inhabitants are strangely immune to the zombie plague. Desperate refugees flood the reserve and it falls to one tribal sheriff to protect his people from the bloodthirsty white corpses surrounding them.
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