Fiction - Indigenous

Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize"Move over Walt Longmire. Make room for Franz Kafka, aka 'K.' Expertly plotted, beautifully written, eloquent, colloquial, wry, insightful . . . Medhat demonstrates a keen sense of place and Navajo culture and history, with superior attention to...

A Hollywood producer is determined on making a movie concerning a legend of the moon meant to stay hidden within the Native American nation. Ninety-eight year old, "Chief Zantos" vows to keep their secret sacred within his culture. Even if it means releasing a...

Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was the...

On a cold November night, Howard Moon Deer is walking home through the woods when he is accosted by a ghost from his past: Nick Stanton, his long-ago roommate at college, who makes a seemingly simple request for Howie to take a message to...

MARLEN SUYAPA BODDEN, The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of THE WEDDING GIFT, is back with ARROWS OF FIRE ARROWS OF FIRE is "exceptionally entertaining" and "unreservedly recommended." Midwest Book ReviewIt is October 1519 - and the Mexican empire is on the brink.Hern n...

In the summer of 1859, British and American troops stood at the brink of war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has become known as the "Pig War" of San Juan...

A vexatious shapeshifter walks among humans. Shadowy beasts skulk at the edges of the woods. A ghostly apparition haunts a lonely stretch of highway. Spirits and legends rise and join together to protect the north. Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat'a is the debut novel from Dene author Katlįà....

When you hear a familiar song play on the radio, immediately, it takes you back--back to your childhood, your first love, cruising with friends in the car, whatever the memory may be. Songs are like time capsules, capturing the moment, feeling, and essence of...

SPIRIT PASS tackles an all-too-real issue that gets all-too-little attention - the disappearances of young women on Native American reservations. This concept alone ensures plenty of emotion for the piece and the novel does a good job of showing the full scope of those...

Alone on a wilderness trek in the New Mexico mountains, Lakota P.I. Howard Moon Deer meets a barefoot, half-crazed astrophysicist who claims he's been abducted by a flying saucer and has just returned from the planet Klizmor in possession of an illusive equation from...

NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER. The last time Lata saw her Aunt Charlotte, she was standing in the attic window waving at her, a solid wall of fire behind her. Was it a suicide? An act of cruelty and madness? Or a form of fierce...

The world's greatest classic stories come to life in these expert retellings. Baker Street Readers give an enchanting taste of the original tales, quoting best-known lines and most memorable moments, all supported with wonderfully witty illustrations.Author: Daniel DefoeISBN-10: 1912464217ISBN-13: 9781912464210Publisher: Baker Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsThe Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves...

A clash of civilizations, two powerful leaders, and a dramatic outcome that ripples through generations.Following the French and Indian War, white settlers pour over the Appalachians and down the Ohio River. But native tribes of the Northwest Territory have long inhabited this land-and they...

Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom...

Barbara Jean Evans has followed her father as his "son" practically since she was born on their patch of rock, swamp and bush in the northern wilderness. Bobbi's first experiences of womanhood become mixed up with her own desire to become a blacksmith. Consequently,...

A riveting novel, sweeping in scope, based on the historical events and participants--male and female, Native and non-Native, military and civilian--of the Dakota War of 1862. As the nation is focused on the Civil War another kind of conflict is brewing in the Minnesota...

It's been eleven years since a pandemic devastated the population and left survivors with superhuman capabilities, and the world has finally settled into a new sense of normal.Beau has learned to embrace and grow into his Ability, but when he loses his best friend,...

O-gî-mäw-kwě Mit-i-gwä-kî (1899) is a novel by Simon Pokagon. Published posthumously, the novel is a semi-autobiographical story of adventure, romance, and tragedy set in the American Midwest. O-gî-mäw-kwě Mit-i-gwä-kî reflects the themes and concerns that shaped Pokagon's life as a writer and activist, including...

With his Southwestern series, bestselling author James D. Doss and his dryly humorous, no-nonsense Native American sleuth, Charlie Moon, have brought law and what's going to have to pass for order to Charlie's Columbine Ranch and the nearby Ute reservation. Now the seven-foot rancher...

The day I betrayed Isaac, I vowed never again to speak my native language in front of white men.When America enters the Great War in 1917, Bertram Robert Dunn and his Choctaw buddies from Armstrong Academy join the army to protect their homes, their...

Cultural and ecological upheaval, birds, science, war, sorcery and shamanism, corporate greed, family, trauma, healing and survival... Flight of the Goose is award-winning fiction set in a traditional village and the wilds of Arctic Alaska, where author Lesley Thomas grew up. "Amazing... I loved...

"I've traveled a lot of roads, but never alone. My relations are with me," says Billie McKenney, one of the matriarchs of the complex family of Choctaws searching for peace as the white world rapidly encroaches on their tribal land, politics, and values. In...

The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing and the wildlife conservation movement. The characters in Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction are...

A Western Series and Native American fiction full of action, adventure, and romance in Book 2 of the exciting Crow Killer Series. On the long journey to find his stepfather, the valley the old one spoke of was found. Jed also finds love in...

Native American fiction full of adventure and romance in Book 1 of the exciting Crow Killer Series. Great feats of the warlike Arapaho arise as Jedidiah Bracket faces obstacles and becomes the great Arapaho Warrior and Lance Bearer, Crow Killer.Eighteen hundred and forty nine,...

International intrigue, an enigmatic murder, substance abuse, vengeful stalking, undercover police work, and their effect on families, are all woven through this story set in the American Southwest. Sergeant Allred must deal with all this while keeping it from Monica who is having a...

The mythology of the North America Indians is a cultural treasure trove, but many of these myths and legends have been hidden away in many old books and documents. So this vast body of wisdom has been out of reach of most people... until...

In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit.When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil...

Based on True Events.For Fans of A Keeper by Graham Norton and Brooklyn by Colm Toibin1946A stranger in the uniform of the US army comes to a farmhouse in rural Ireland. He tells them his name is Rivers and he is of the Choctaw...

The Lost Loved Ones focuses on the tribulations of a Dakota family of the tribe's scout, Takota, who befriends the trapper, Jon Griswald, whom they know as "Troubled Spirit", and who chooses to live along the Mississippi River before it is developed by Polish...

Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning's...

"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love." --Tommy...

"Just because a woman dresses provocatively doesn't mean she should be assaulted, raped, or murdered. Talk about judging a book by its frickin' cover." Native American Tribal Detective Seargent Jessica (Medicine) Stone counters FBI Agent Casey Borgreve while they sit in his FBI SUV...

Some men are born heroes. By the late eighteenth century, the lush river valley of the Ohio Country is the last stronghold of the Shawnee Indians, a deeply religious tribe whose medicine men practice the blackest and most potent magical arts. The Last Great...

Experience the thrill of an unexpected love that defies all boundaries in the third historical romance in New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson's Comanche series... Torn between the white and Comanche worlds of her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from the...

Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden agrees to represent a woman accused of murdering her Arapaho fianc , a decision that places her at odds with her own people-and Father John O'Malley-for choosing to believe an "outsider" over her own people. Caught in a web of...

Anne Hillerman, the talented daughter of bestselling author Tony Hillerman, continues his popular Leaphorn and Chee series with Spider Woman's Daughter, a Navajo Country mystery, filled with captivating lore, startling suspense, bold new characters, vivid color, and rich Southwestern atmosphere.Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves--the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose--is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later,...

"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see--to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees...

With its fast-moving narrative and resourceful, sympathetic hero, Robinson Crusoe is a book of universal appeal. When his ship capsizes in a violent storm, Robinson rescues himself as the sole survivor on an apparently uninhabited island. With the simplest of means, he builds a...

Dreams tell old man Paul T'Sosi he's dying. So why is Navajo trickster, Magpie, trying to tell him a far more terrifying secret? Hungry for revenge, Ma'iitsoh Dine', the Navajo Wolf, is out for blood. Summoning his darkest powers, the Witch of Ganado circles...

All Charlie Moon wanted to do was enjoy a night of poker with his best friend and Granite Creek police chief Scott Parris. But that was before Scott's dispatcher cut in with an emergency call. A man was on the phone with his wife...

When the local trader is found murdered the only clue points directly at Lucy Tallwoman. The FBI sweeps in to discover a decades-old trail of deceit and betrayal as the darker days of Lucy's past come back to haunt her. The family decides they...

George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982's Indians Don't Cry, he joined the ranks of Indigenous writers such as Maria Campbell,...

One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King's special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in...

Returning to the Navajo Reservation and solving her father's murder taught former FBI Agent Ella Clah a great deal about herself and her people, the Dineh. She has begun to accept that that there is more to the world than can be explained by...

"They came from the land of the Great Father, as many as grasshoppers in summer..." -Autumn Snow, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne)On December 21, 1866, Red Cloud and a band of Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne warriors defeated a U.S. Army force led by Captain William J. Fetterman....

The Southeastern frontier westward expansion from 1750 to 1848 bringing pioneers into the Native American struggle for survival. It was the most dangerous periodin history for a pioneer family to establish a home, as their entrance into the land clashedwith the native people who...

Book 14 in the Shandra Higheagle Mystery seriesHawaiian adventure, Deceit, MurderShandra Higheagle is asked to juror an art exhibition on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.After an altercation at the exhibition, the chairwoman of the event, Shandra's friend, arrives home with torn clothes, scratches, and...