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• To Shape a Dragon's Breath

  Blackgoose, Moniquill

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  A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling--and quickly finds herself at odds with the 'approved' way of doing things.

• Woman of Light

  a Novel

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali

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  1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader, and Diego is a snake charmer. One day, a pale-faced woman in white fur asks Luz for a reading, calling her by a name that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Then She Fell

  a Novel

  Elliott, Alicia,

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  On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture--is nothing but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Sisters

  Lillie, Vanessa

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  A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Horse

  Wurth, Erika T.

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  When her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable... Haunted by visions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of the Lost Nation

  Medina, Nick

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Burial Ground

  Medina, Nick

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  All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on. After over a decade away, Uncle Louie has returned to the reservation, bringing with him a past…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swim Home to the Vanished

  Basham, Brendan Shay

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  Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There.

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Berry Pickers

  a Novel

  Peters, Amanda

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  A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes mysteriously. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on her favorite…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Cree

  Āscimoi'n : a Novel

  Johns, Jessica

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  A young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.

• VenCo

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  A coven of diverse modern-day witches must band together to discover their seventh and final member before they're hunted down. Lucky St. James' life has been anything but lucky. Born to the wildly iconoclastic and troubled Arnya, a member of…Read moreRead more of this annotation