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Home to Blessing volume 3
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English
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Astrid and Joshua discover God's plans for them through difficult circumstances in the conclusion to this prairie romance series set in South Dakota.
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English
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A young girl hunts for answers about a string of disappearances, all while being haunted herself in this heart-pounding thriller with a mythological twist, from debut author Nick Medina. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino...and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step-an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that's intent on devouring...
Author
Series
Home to Blessing volume 2
Language
English
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When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?
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One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is a tribal judge,...
7) Resolution
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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In an abandoned cabin on the edge of an Indian reservation, Mike stages a risky intervention to force his friend Chris off meth and into rehab. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life takes an unexpected turn when ominous threats start appearing around the house and they realize that Chris's addictions are the least of their worries.
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Accompanied by her best friend, Thomas Lowell, Constance Browning returns from studying in the East to catalog the native peoples of Oregon - and to prove that her missionary parents aren't involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed tribes to war. As tensions rise amid shocking revelations, Constance may also have a revelation of the heart."--Publisher.
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English
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When Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she discovers a cache of valuable Native American artifacts, including a rare drum. The story of the drum and the lives it touches backward and forward in time unfolds.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--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.
11) Imprint
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind
12) The lovebird
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Margie has always had a soft spot for helpless creatures. Her warm heart breaks, her left ovary twinges, and she is smitten with sympathy. This is how she falls in love with Simon Mellinkoff, her charismatic, obviously troubled Latin professor. As the two embark on an unconventional romance, Simon introduces Margie to his small coterie of animal rights activists, and with this ragtag group she finds her apparent mission in life. But Margie's increasingly...
13) Wage$ of greed
Author
Publisher
New Horizons Press/Publishers, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A thriller about a fight waged by Indians living on a New Mexico Navajo Indian reservation against a huge oil company and their gas wells on the land. The company has turned off wells on the reservation which has cut off all payments to the Indians, negatively impacting their survival and quality of life. Attorney Danny Whitehorse is approached about the gas wells by the Indians asking for help and is then pursued over the Four Corners area by the...
14) Super Chief
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
his documentary is about a campaign and election for a new tribal chairman of the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation.By 1996, millions of dollars that had come through the new casino on the White Earth Reservation seemed to stop at the tribal chairman's desk. The self-proclaimed "Super Chief", Darryl "Chip" Wadnea had been tribal chairman for the past 20 years.
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English
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For PI Sharon McCone, when one door opens, another shuts. In the midst of celebrating a joyous wedding, she gets word that her father has died. The news leads her to the rituals of death: the scattering of ashes, the sharing of grief, the sorting of a loved one's belongings. But the last of these acts leads to a shocking discovery that will flip her life upside down. Soon, McCone is drawn into a conspiracy that includes the attempted murder of an...
Author
Series
Rez dog detective agency volume 1
Publisher
Literati Press Comics & Novels
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This summer, Tasembo just wants to chill. But that's not an option when it's a scorching day on the Reservation and the Ice Cream Man is a no-show. In an attempt to impress his crush by solving the mystery, Tasembo joins forces with his neighbor, Nuseka, and his dog, Billy Jack, to take on their first case as the Rez Dog Detectives. With twists around every corner, this case won't crack itself, but when you combine Nuseka's brains, Billy Jack's loyalty,...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Set in New Mexico, this novel explores the complexities of mothers and daughters, the uncertainty of second chances, and the courage to stand on your own two feet"--
As a young girl, Willow watched her mother leave their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. They found a new life in New...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"An indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has...
19) The lost bird
Author
Series
Wind River mystery volume 5
Language
English
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A priest is murdered on an Indian reservation, after witnessing a rash of infant deaths during a doctor's tenure. Or was it an adoption racket? Father O'Malley and Indian lawyer Vicky Holden investigate.
20) Devil's doorway
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Lance Poole, a Shoshone Indian, returns to his home in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, having won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War. Despite his honorable war record, Lance is shunned by the white townspeople, who bear a grudge against him and his father because of their hold on the richest land in the region.
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