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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
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Thompson Lane - Adult Non-Fiction
818.603 F289a
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"In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection -- with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American...
2) Ceremony
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"This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Verble
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Fiction Verble
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Verble
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Fiction Verble
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Verble
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Fiction Verble
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"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center"--
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Inglewood - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 H2822c
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811.54 H2822c
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 H2822c
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811.54 H2822c
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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.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ford
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Fiction Ford
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ford
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Fiction Ford
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"It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine's father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church-a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But she does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever....
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Avon volume W213
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Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
973.0497 D362c
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973.0497 D362c
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.0497 D362c
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973.0497 D362c
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Special Collections - NAC
Special Coll. 970.1 D36c
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Special Coll. 970.1 D36c
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The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans.
In Custer Died for your Sins, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's Manifesto for some time to come,...
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Nominee, Mystery Writer's of America— THE G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
Best Crime Fiction of 2019, CrimeReads
In The Margins Recommended Fiction
Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the 19-year-old Ojibwe woman is Cash. She lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota's Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. She has one friend, the sheriff Wheaton. He pulled her from her mother's...
Best Crime Fiction of 2019, CrimeReads
In The Margins Recommended Fiction
Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the 19-year-old Ojibwe woman is Cash. She lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota's Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. She has one friend, the sheriff Wheaton. He pulled her from her mother's...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wilson
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Fiction Wilson
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wilson
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Fiction Wilson
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life.
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
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B M219h
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B M219h
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B M219h
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Main Library - Adult Biography
B M219h
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B M219h
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"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...
11) Hearts unbroken
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Main Library - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Smith
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YA Fiction Smith
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Southeast - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Smith
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YA Fiction Smith
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When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
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Bellevue - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Ganswor
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YA Fiction Ganswor
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YA Fiction Ganswor
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YA Fiction Ganswor
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Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wagames
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Fiction Wagames
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Fiction Wagames
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Fiction Wagames
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Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother--and then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and...
14) IRL
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Looby - Adult Non-Fiction
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811.6 P598i
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.6 P598i
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811.6 P598i
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Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.
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Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
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Marrow thieves novels volume 1
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Green Hills - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Dimalin
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YA Fiction Dimalin
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Hermitage - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Dimalin
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YA Fiction Dimalin
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Main Library - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Dimalin
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YA Fiction Dimalin
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"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
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Cash Blackbear novels volume 1
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"Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live-northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at thirteen was working farms. She's tough as nails-five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving trucks. Playing...
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"Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jones
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Fiction Jones
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jones
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Fiction Jones
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jones
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Fiction Jones
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"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends."--