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Alexie, Sherman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
229 p. 2007
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Alexie, Sherman
Blasphemy
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage.
465 p. 2012
Adult Fiction Book
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Boggs, Johnny D.
Killstraight
A Comanche who's been in the white world for the last several years struggles to come to terms with his heritage while investigating the wrongful hanging of his best friend.
226 p. 2008
Adult Western Book
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Bruchac, Joseph
March Toward the Thunder
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War.
298 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Bruchac, Joseph
Wolf Mark
When Lucas King's covert-ops father is kidnapped and his best friend Meena is put in danger, Luke's only chance to save them--a skin that will let him walk as a wolf--is hidden away in an abandoned mansion guarded by monsters.
377 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Edwardson, Debby Dahl
My Name is Not Easy
Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home.
248 p. 2011
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Erdrich, Louise
The Plague of Doves
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
313 p. 2008
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Harjo, Joy
Crazy Brave
A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.
169 p. 2012
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
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Jones, Carrie
After Obsession
When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors, meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize they've had precognitive dreams of each other and that they must confront an evil spirit that has been responsible for mysterious deaths in the river in their small Maine town for hundreds of years and which is now haunting Alan's cousin Courtney.
308 p. 2011
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Knutsson, Catherine
Shadows Cast By Stars
To escape a government that needs antigens in aboriginal blood to stop a plague, sixteen-year-old Cassandra and her family flee to the Island, where she not only gets help in communicating with the spirit world, she learns she has been chosen to be their voice and instrument.
456 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Schilling, Vincent
Native Athletes in Action!
From skiing and skating to bowling and baseball, every sport has outstanding Native performers.
125 p. 2007
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
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Treuer, David
Rez Life
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life -- primarily Ojibwe reservation life in Minnesota and Wisconsin -- past and present -- illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
330 p. 2012
Adult Nonfiction Book
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