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Bloomsbury presents Red River Rose by Carole Lindstrom, read by Erin Higginbottom This adventurous historical novel by bestselling author Carole Lindstrom offers readers a dramatic portrayal of a young Métis girl who takes a stand to protect her way of life. Rose, her family, and the Métis...

Returning to the fictional Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota she deftly mapped in her award-winning books, Linda LeGarde Grover reveals traumas old and new as Margie Robineau, in the midst of a fight to keep her family's land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan across the Canadian border, and the burial of not one crime but two. While Margie is piecing the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now, the vital and the departed are all indelibly linked.

In the aftermath of a category 6 hurricane in Puerto Rico, aspiring journalist Vero Diaz leads an effort to rebuild his community, reviving ancient Taíno traditions to survive the storm's aftermath and their island's new colonizers. Still gripped by tradition, many do not accept Vero, a trans man, as their leader, driving him to start a new life abroad.

"TOWARD the close of a warm spring day on April, 1867, luminous spots appeared both on the north and on the south of the setting sun. I noticed them as I returned to our lodge, after watering Is-spai-u and picketing him upon a patch of new sprouting buffalo grass close in front of camp.

In early February of 1885, the robbery of the Pensacola and Atlantic train could not have come at a worse time for Florida panhandle railroad magnate William Chipley. He had put time, money, and both his personal and business reputation on the line to host the first Gulf Chautauqua in DeFuniak Springs. Now, with the murder of two guards, and the theft of both a payroll and a shipment of new US Army rifles, the success of the Chautauqua was at risk.

Кормак Маккарти — современный американский классик главного калибра, лауреат Макартуровской стипендии "За гениальность", мастер сложных переживаний и нестандартного синтаксиса, хорошо известный нашему читателю романами "Старикам тут не место" (фильм братьев Коэн по этой книге получил четыре "Оскара"), "Дорога" (получил Пулицеровскую премию и также был экранизирован) и "Пограничной трилогией" (первый роман которой, "Кони, кони...", получил Национальную книжную премию США и был перенесен на экран Билли Бобом Торнтоном, главные роли исполнили Мэтт Деймон и Пенелопа Крус).

The author is the only woman to ever publish a book of poetry in Zoque (Indigenous language) and Spanish. This book is the first English translation of the author’s Zoque poems. The book’s engagement with language, Indigenous ways of living, gender, feminism, and environmental activism offer opportunities for wide coverage and listener engagement

Seule femme dans un monde d’hommes qui lui est hostile, Marie est conductrice de train minier dans le Nord québécois. Un soir de tempête, son convoi s’immobilise. Déraillement ? Elle se précipite au-dehors pour mesurer les dégâts et se retrouve face contre neige, blessée. Elle est recueillie par un mystérieux ermite, envoûtant et lettré. Sur fond de préoccupations environnementales, de tensions entre Blancs et autochtones, se tisse une histoire d’amour

When a tragic bushfire puts two kids in hospital, Indigenous teenager Andrew knows the police will come after him first. But Andrew almost wants to be caught, because at least it might make his dad come and rescue him from suburban Brisbane and his neglectful mother. Growing up in small-town Tasmania, Andrew struggled at home, at school, at everything. The only thing that distracted or excited him was starting little fires. Flames boosted his morale and purified his thoughts, and they were the only thing in his life he could control.

As war overtakes the frontier, Emma's family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her father, Chief Little Crow. When the war is over and revenge-fueled war trials begin, each young woman is faced with an impossible choice. In a swiftly changing world, both Emma and Oenikika must look deep within and fight for the truth of their convictions-even as horror and injustice unfolds all around them.

In this followup to his hugely popular Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop plunges us again into enthralling tales that mix reality with dark terror. Within its stories, Whisper at Night and They Will Come reveals ancient theories of the paranormal, post apocalyptic scenarios, impossible wells of grief, and monstrous phobias. Soop scares the wits out of listeners, all the while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism affecting Indigenous Peoples across North America.

Philbert Bono and Buddy Red Bird are about to prove that the spirit of the great warriors is still alive and kicking. Their "war pony," a burned-out, rusty 1964 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust from Montana's Lame Deer Reservation halfway down Interstate 25 as they take off to bail Buddy's sister out of jail. The basis for the great movie of the same name, this quiet debut novel, first published in 1979, has become a classic of Native American literature.

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota, and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages three and four, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched—and all the stories they tell in this novel.

Abandoned at a desolate Arctic outpost and haunted by memories of forbidden desire, Constable Will Grant preserves his sanity by investigating the mysterious deaths of two troubled Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers.

"Az utolsó mohikán", a Nagy Indiánkönyv időrendben második kötete nemzedékek képzeletét ejtette rabul 1826-os megjelenése óta. Az Észak-Amerika vad tájain játszódó cselekmény középpontjában egy valóságos történelmi esemény áll, 1757-ben a franciák indián szövetségesei a William Henry-erődöt feladó brit katonák és családtagjaik százait mészárolták le.

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent...

Eine spirituelle Geschichte für grosse und kleine Menschen aus der Überlieferung der nordamerikanischen Indianer mit Luise Sievers und der Band Cochise. Als ich die Geschichte zum erstenmal hörte, war ich den Tränen nahe. Ich hatte längst nicht alles verstanden, aber ich hatte begriffen. Ich sah mich als kleinen Mäuserich, der ein Rauschen hörte, in der Schule, im Elternhaus, auf der Arbeit, in der Kneipe nicht an diesem penetranten Rauschen vorbeikam, das hinter jeder Ecke, hinter jedem Gespräch lauerte und deutlich machte: das kann nicht alles sein - da ist mehr.

Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the first time he saw a man die. In the late forties, Bill Sutherland was shot but the investigation was stymied because no member of the elk camp—where he was found—was carrying the caliber rifle that killed the state accountant.

This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give listeners a poignant though fractured view of her characters' lives, their loves, and their struggles. Told from the perspective of an urban Native, the work details a journey led by the nomadic band, the Covers. It is an experience meant to heal generational trauma and bring back into the light people who may otherwise be forgotten.

Jennifer Talldeer is Osage and Cherokee, granddaughter of a powerful Medicine Man. She walks a difficult path: contrary to tribal custom, she is learning a warrior's magics. A freelance private investigator, Jennifer tracks down stolen Native American artifacts. The construction of a new shopping mall uncovers fragments of human bone, revealing possible desecration of an ancient burial ground. Meanwhile, the sabotage of construction equipment at the site implicates many activists—particularly Jennifer's old flame, who is more attractive and dangerous than ever.