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• Cold

  a Novel

  Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-

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  A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.

• Where Wolves Don't Die

  Treuer, Anton,

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  Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prairie Edge

  a Novel

  Kerr, Conor,

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  Meet Isidore "Ezzy" Desjarlais and Grey Ginther: two distant Métis cousins making the most of Grey's uncle's old trailer, passing their days playing endless games of cribbage and cracking cans of cheap beer in between. One night, Grey has a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waiting for the Long Night Moon

  Stories

  Peters, Amanda,

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  In this intimate collection, Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure.

• Thunder Song

  Essays

  LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu,

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  Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was a Teenage Slasher

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Woman

  Stories

  Baker, Carleigh,

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  From one of the country's most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction that is bracingly relevant, playfully irreverent, and absolutely unforgettable. Carleigh Baker's signature style is irreverent, but her heart is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.,

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  When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire Exit

  a Novel

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life—from the day she came home from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Then She Fell

  a Novel

  Elliott, Alicia,

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  A mind-bending, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences.

• The Berry Pickers

  Peters, Amanda

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  July 1962. 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. In Boston, a young girl named Norma grows up troubled by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology : Are You Ready to Be Un-settled?

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  Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tales for Late Night Bonfires

  Stories

  Grisenthwaite, G. A., 1959-

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  Tales for Late Night Bonfires contains curious, uncanny tales that blend Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style. These are stories that are a little bit larger than life—or maybe they really happened.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica

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  In this haunting debut, Mackenzie is a young Cree millennial living in Vancouver. After the deaths of her sister and grandmother, she begins having visions of her sister, whom she believes is trying to tell her something. When crows start to follow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Council of Dolls

  a Novel

  Power, Mona Susan, 1961-

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  From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they…Read moreRead more of this annotation