Fiction - Indigenous

A Montana deputy takes on a mining company that's poisoning reservation children in a novel the Washington Post calls "wonderful [and] wise." Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation. Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian...

In modern-day Montana, brushfires, meth dealers, and murder challenge a deputy in a mystery that's "a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly). In the midst of a drought in Toussaint, Montana, Métis Indian tracker and cattle investigator Gabriel Du Pré learns that Maddy Collins has...

A sweeping multigenerational saga of the founding of the state of Alaska by an iconic author with more than three hundred million copies of her books in print. Spanning two hundred years, this saga of romance and adventure in the untamed Alaska wilderness begins...

In Ghost Dance, it is through Chance's keen eyes and weary heart that readers embark on a journey of discovery and sorrow. On the run across the plains, Chance stumbles upon Running Horse, a Sioux warrior enacting the sacred and violent ritual of the...

A stirring story of love and passion on the Trail of Tears from New York Times-bestselling author Janet Dailey, America's first lady of romance.Temple Gordon's family is one of the oldest, and proudest, to call Cherokee country home. Although their house may look like...

"Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy." ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor...

Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico's Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation. "A haunting thriller, written with exquisite suspense . . . This...

The New York Times bestselling author of the "touching" (The Boston Globe) book club classics The Kitchen House and the "emotionally rewarding" (Booklist) Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary--an indigenous woman torn between two...

The Civil War created countless spinsters and widows. Anna Olson was one of them.With no prospects for marriage and family, Anna pins her future on the frontier and heads west to stake a claim on the wide-open prairies. "Most women go from their father's...

The fourth Nathan Active mystery Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and an arson at the Chukchi Recreation Center. That fire killed...

Walt investigates a death by poison in this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dry Bones, the second in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series LONGMIRECraig Johnson's new novel, Land of Wolves, is forthcoming...

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land"Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains."...

"Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction."--KirkusWhen Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their...

The story of Martiniano, The Man Who Killed the Deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough...

The howling Coyote, messenger of the dwarf master pitukupf and dancing balls of fire, the bruja. These are the omens that appear to the aged Ute shaman Daisy Perika and her shepherd friend Nahum Yaciiti. Omens signaling the work of the Dark One among...

Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby...

A gritty, yet humor and pathos-filled portrait of a young Native American struggling with the two constants in his life--alcohol and art. "Every sentence is unexpected, yet infallible." --Ursula K. LeGuin Eddie Chuculate's prize-winning collection of linked short stories follows Jordan Coolwater from bored...

Philbert Bono and Buddy Red Bird are about to prove that the spirit of the great warriors is still alive and kicking. Their "war pony," a burned-out, rusty 1964 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust from Montana's Lame Deer Reservation halfway down...

Originally published in 1891, Wynema is the first novel known to have been written by a woman of American Indian descent.Set against the sweeping and often tragic cultural changes that affected southeastern native peoples during the late nineteenth century, it tells the story of...

James D. Doss's latest engrossing mystery marks the return of Charlie Moon, tribal investigator on Colorado's Ute reservation, whose sleuthing skills get some unlikely help from his Aunt Daisy Perika's shamanistic intuition. TROUBLE SPREADS ITS WINGSDr. Manfred Blinkoe is one orthodontist with a very...

A gorgeous and meticulously-researched historical fiction examining a young woman's struggle to escape unexpected poverty and find autonomy and purpose in early New England. Mankind are always seeking after happiness in some way or another. Leavitt's Farmer's Almanac, 1805The fall from beloved wife of...

In Dana Stabenow's latest novel, a woman hires Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak to clear her mother's name. Twenty years ago, the mother was convicted of arson and murder, of setting fire to the family home while her two sons were inside. One died, and...

"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable" --Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood. Told in a series of...

One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.Author: Frank WatersISBN-10: 0804002436ISBN-13: 9780804002431Publisher: Ohio University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1989Pages: 201Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.26h...

When a young lady vanishes, Colorado rancher and Ute tribal investigator Charlie Moon is the man to call--whether it's mystery, mysticism, or murder... After a heavy storm, Charlie receives a panicked call from Wanda Naranjo. Not only is her sink leaking, but her daughter...

"If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro," wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, "I would be thankful the rest of my life." Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication...

James Fenimore Cooper places the two beautiful Munro sisters in the midst of the the savagery of life on the frontier, dominated by feuding Indian tribes and the relentless European encroachment on the Native American lifestyle. Cooper's spine-tingling perennial best-seller is an essential part...

"In a robust sequel to White Sky, Black Ice, this Alaska state trooper is still burdened by his urban upbringing and his aversion to ice and snow . . . Active maintains his awe of the vast Alaskan tundra, a forbidding region that Jones...

The year was 1853. For handful of cowboys turned California Gold Rushers, it was time to go home. Then Lonnie Kilgore and his fellow Texans met Western legend and former mountain man Jim Bridger, who told them of a lush range waiting to be...

A brand new emotional and steamy novella featuring the beloved hero and heroine of the Lock & Key series, Lock and Grace. Everything that could go wrong just did. T'was the night before Christmas in Meager, South Dakota, and Grace's plans for the perfect...

A Kiowa woman faces new threats to her tribe and identity while struggling to keep her Silicon Valley business afloat. She must search deep within herself to find answers--and a murderer--in Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist D. M. Rowell's thrilling sequel, perfect for fans...

Coming to life inside an abyss of darkness with no memory of who he was or where he came from. His mind struggled to find a reason as to why he could not see, breathe or move. Finding himself to be completely paralyzed within...

On the Arctic shores of Great Bear Lake, stones are about to be upturned. Archaeology student and avid runner Erin Amyntas is spending the summer at a dig in Canada's North, where the local Dene Council has asked the team to excavate a possible...

Pressured by her family to marry a wealthy man, and unsure of her own feelings, lovely, bookish Elisa Parker flees to a remote northern Canadian settlement. Elisa hopes that a few months of teaching indigenous children will permit her time and space to decide...

2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize WinnerCarnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years "A...

On the Arctic shores of Great Bear Lake, stones are about to be upturned. Archaeology student and avid runner Erin Amyntas is spending the summer at a dig in Canada's North, where the local Dene Council has asked the team to excavate a possible...

This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant children's books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of a girl left alone for eighteen years in the aftermath of...

An epic dragon-rider quest where Empress of Salt and Fortune meets Temeraire M駝a must capture a king dragon, or die trying. War between the island states of Kattaka and Mazemoor has left no one unscathed. M駝a's nomadic people, the Ba'Suon, were driven from their...

A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize-winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner H馗tor Tobar...

In the unforgiving deserts of 13th century America, the Morning Crows half-heartedly maintain an uneasy peace with their rivals, the troublesome High Rocks clan and the powerful Ash Owl clan. With the return of long overdue rain to the region, all three Anasazi clans...

From award-winning Métis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funny and moving story told not just by five generations of Métis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two utterly captivating dogs. Carter is a young mother on a quest...

When a mass female brawl brike out in the saloon of a small wild west town, Wynonna could never dream how this would change her life. Before the brawl, she was a cowgirl with a simple life. But soon her live became wild and...

Do you believe in dream messages? Nina lives in Florida and has never seen a mountain or known a Native American yet dreams of both.Wolf LaFontaine dreamt of her, but never imagined she was real. Is their chance meeting coincidence or destiny?Their epic union...

A Christian, historical novel about a Cherokee Indian girl ( Bluewater) and (Jeremiah) an Irish trapper, that fall in love. Circa, Revolutionary War time and Cherokee treaties with the Americans. Jeremiah goes back to Ireland to take his wealth from the fur trade to...

After a spiritual visitation from the White Wolf, Nina and Wolf are compelled to spend the summer exploring the locations of their past lives together as Lakota Sioux. Many of the memories are pleasant and filled with family and love. However, the recollections of...

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist--perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton--and a place where everyone knows everyone...

An old enemy has returned to Cahokia with vengeance in his heart. Will the empire's living god choose to save his city? A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent. At the heart of the empire stood a vast...

From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman comes another unforgettable mystery in which Leaphorn & Chee must race against the clock to solve two brutal murders. " Hillerman's] clowns are . . . every bit as raucous, profane, and funny as Shakespeare's.--New York...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" "Never failed to surprise, delight, and shock." --Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and Little Heaven Featuring stories by: Norris Black -...

In Noir Rehab, the prequel to Fancy Dancer and the first book in The Jake Jakes Mystery Series, the protagonist solves a self-appointed case that has helped keep him motivated while he rehabs his life. In Fancy Dancer, the second book in the series,...