Fiction - Indigenous

The Greeks have Narcissus and the Haudenosaunee have the Cornhusk Doll. They both stared into pools to admire themselves and got punished. Narcissus fell in love with himself. The Cornhusk Doll had her face taken away by her Creator, so she was no longer...

One young woman's relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family. My mother took my sister and me, and she...

A haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer ofThe RemovedMilton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented young Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together...

A young man's journey to find four fallen stars.After watching the stars falling to earth, he is whisked into the land of dreams where he is told that the discovery of each star will also reveal one of life's many secrets. A voyage that...

A sharply humorous tale of romantic love and cultural warfare. Author: Melissa LucachenkoISBN-10: 0702265713ISBN-13: 9780702265716Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)Language: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2024Pages: 296Format: Paperback

From the imagination of an Ojibway Mohawk Native American comes Native American Fairy tale about a native american girl named Katrine a native american boy named Manuel and their pet frog named Ribbit. The story will take you through many magical and enchanted settings...

When Abortion was Against the Law, Attorney Clara Foltz Confronts the EstablishmentIn the fifth mystery of the best-selling and award-winning Portia of the Pacific series, Attorney and Detective Clara Shortridge Foltz and her partner, Attorney Laura de Force Gordon, become involved in two trials....

A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves in this unsettling horror from the author of Indian Burial Ground and Sisters of the Lost Nation. For fear of summoning evil spirits, Native superstition says you should never,...

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed...

The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground shocks the populace of the Wind River Reservation. But strange events following the death lead Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley to suspect foul play.Author: Margaret CoelISBN-10: 0425185788ISBN-13: 9780425185780Publisher: Berkley / NalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2002Pages:...

Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return When a sacred tribal artifact disappears from a museum, it's more than Arapaho history that is lost--it's an Arapaho student's life...Author: Margaret CoelISBN-10: 042517025XISBN-13: 9780425170250Publisher: Berkley / NalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1999Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 6.74h x 4.86w...

Author: Tracey LindbergISBN-10: 1443451355ISBN-13: 9781443451352Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2024Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor...

Set in Montreal, Ottawa and Nunavik (Northern Quebec), Looking for Her explores the intersecting lives of women in search of themselves. Cate, 43, is a university professor in an unfulfilling marriage. When Nuna, the young Inuk woman she mentors, disappears, Cate and her friend,...

Wutamo's Song is the fictional memoir of a Native American - Wutamoquok, Elder and Keenomp, or Valiant one, of the Narragansett People - who lived during the turbulent years of the 17th century. Narrated by Wutamo himself on the eve of King Phillip's War,...

Kaya and Jamaal were young and scared when they did what they did. They knew it was the noble, right thing to do, but it still wounded them to their core. Kaya never made peace with their decision, and when their son, Tommy, died...

The son of a white man and a Cherokee, Joseph Willis must live as a slave on his own property. His struggle for freedom is complicated by a love forbidden by society and his newfound spiritual faith. With a faith molded by tragedy, Joseph...

Now a revered Nagchaw elder, Jos reminisces about the lessons learned since her life took a dramatic shift in her mid-twenties. Needing to redefine herself after a family tragedy, Jos goes forward in a challenging new direction.Ultimately, she moves on to the ancestral home...

The first three books in the Amazon #1 Best Selling Paranormal Suspense series! When the crows gather over a remote Navajo Reservation in the deep Southwest, it is a sign that the thin veil that separates our world from the one beyond is about...

Book 1 in the Amazon #1 Best Selling Paranormal Suspense Series! Ben Dejooli is a Navajo cop who can't escape his past. Six years ago his little sister Ana vanished without a trace. His best friend saw what happened, but he refuses to speak...

In 1914, most of the world is focused on The Great War, but a much quieter story is taking place in a remote mountain region in northern California and western Nevada with the tale of two twelve-year-old boys and a legendary, wild horse from...

In this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white...

2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." -The Denver PostLa Farge's enduring American classic and first novel captures the essence of the Southwest in 1915....

It is 1938 in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon as Zed Moonhawk helps train a group of Civilian Conservation Corpsmen who are excavating and rebuilding Anasazi ruins. Moonhawk is exceptionally skilled at his masonry work--as well he should be. After all, he was there when...

From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors "Cool and real as hell." --Tommy...

Some of the greatest heroes don't always wear capes and spandex. For some, the greatest heroes wear feathers and shawls and stand up against big oil companies to protect our Mother Earth from pollution. For Eli Tecumseh, his dad is his greatest hero, and...

During the last century, strange tales have drifted from the Sierra Madre Mountains; rumors of battles, murders, robberies, and kidnappings between Mexicans and a mysterious, wild people. Recovering from double amputations, US Marine Nick Diaz returns from Afghanistan seeking healing at his family's border...

Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing light on the men...

Bigfoot Vs Wendigo"Balance is everything, and when it shatters, the darkness rises."The snow-covered forests of the north have always been shrouded in mystery, their silence broken only by whispers of ancient legends. Among them, none is more feared than the Wendigo-a monstrous spirit born...

Past and present collide in Northern Washington State, as an evil from the past makes its presence known once again. Bishop, along with Casey and Troy, have begun a new life together hunting monsters. But when something horrific awakens, they find their world thrown...

"Anne Hillerman is a star."--J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling authorFrom New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.Joe...

Skin of the MoonBeneath the blood-red moon, the curse awakens.In the remote desert town of Black Hollow, Arizona, something ancient stirs. People are vanishing, and the ones who return... aren't the same. Their skin peels away to reveal fur, teeth sharpen into fangs, and...

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone...

Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost, and encounters one of his most baffling cases. The Sheriff of Absaroka confronts a cabal of devious outlaws who are hell bent on getting what they want, even though they have to bend and...

The prize-winning international bestseller--800,000 copies sold in Brazil Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.' "Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know...

On the windswept plains of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation, Arapahos have gathered for the Ethete powwow. It is a sacred time to reaffirm the balance and harmony in life. But these feelings of unity quickly give way to fear when tribal chairman Harvey Castle...

They call me Chief-The Final Chapter, Is the last book in a series of three, about the life of Johnny Two Bears a young Indian boy, growing up both on and off the reservation. The death of his father forces him into a white...

They Still Call me Chief, Is a continuation of the life of Johnny Two Bears, a young Indian boy that is caught in the clash of two cultures, that of the red man, and white, It is his story of trying to fit into...

She's not sacrificing anything without a fight. As a survivor enters an uncertain landscape, can she protect the ones she cherishes?Arizona Territory, 1871. Talks Like Thunder can't imagine life outside of her Apache family. So after both her parents succumb to deadly disease, her...

An orphaned white girl! A plot of deception! Can Rose, play the role of a two-spirit successfully, or prove herself a fool?Five Wounds listened to the gossip about Rose Baker, and watched as men snubbed her. Despite the fact that he will need to...

Mallory Montana, where missing persons go to die Cold Case disappearances in western Montana gave renewed relevance to a local Native American legend of Saka'am Skaltamiax, a malevolent entity from the caverns of Great Northern Mountain. But Sheriff Jim Buchanan believed in his daughter,...

The Killing Zone, a gritty tale of revenge, mayhem, murder, and miracles.After an outlaw motorcycle gang's rampage of rape, torture, and executions, they cross paths with Native American Sheriff Jim Buchanan. When they brutalize and kidnap a member of Jim's own family, he pursues...

They say dead men tell no tales but do their spirits?Sheriff Jim Buchanan discovers a mutilated corpse on reservation land and investigates a series of similar slayings. Everyone believes the killing is over when the main suspect commits suicide but Jim knows better. He...

Montana Harvest is an Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE) 2017 Book Award Winner in the Mystery/Suspense categoryMurder for profit meets Native American justiceThe FBI contacts Cedar County Montana, Sheriff Jim Buchanan concerning several missing person investigations. As the case consumes him and threatens...

In 1796, the men at Fort Kenay or Russian Redoubt Saint Nicholas are terrified. A ghost, a woman in a tattered white dress, screams nightly along the banks of the Kenai River below the bluffs where the fort stands. Young Nicholas arrives with Captain...

The Native American Indians populated the entire landmass of what would later become the United States of America. When the Spanish arrived, they settled in present-day St. Augustine, Florida, and celebrated the first Thanksgiving on September 8, 1565. The next Spanish settlers out west...

They Call Me Chief; is a novel for the whole family to read, it is the story of Johnny a young Indian boy, who finds himself caught between two cultures, that of the red man and white, it is his story of dealing with...

Born into British society as a child of privilege and rank, Henry St. Albans finds himself about to embark on an education and a career in service to the crown when his father's financial ruin forces him in a completely different direction. Now an...

Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era. When Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in...

There's an element of truth in how this started - before make-believe kicked in... * This couple wanted to live the dream, leaving predictable Leicester for Wyoming and the wild west.* Live life with them on a dude ranch, where real adventure may be...