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21) Blood sisters
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Language
English
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"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island as an...
22) Flight: a novel
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
23) Salvation
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
24) Indian pipes
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
25) Hearts unbroken
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders. Movie rights sold and characters of Leaphorn and Chee licenses to Wildwood Enterprises (Robert Redford's production company).
31) Invincible
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
When her photographic memory makes her the target of a criminal who will do anything to make her forget, Carlie Blair entrusts her life--and her heart--to a Lakota Sioux named Carson, a man she once despised.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Based on the author's great-grandfather; includes author's note.
Author
Series
Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1985
Language
English
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 62
Publisher
Wanderer Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
At a fitness ranch in Arizona, Nancy discovers the reason for mysterious accidents thought to result from a curse put on the place by Hopi Indians.
39) Antelope woman
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano's mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him--and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness.
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