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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho"--
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Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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"Fascinating....Fast-paced and dynamic."
-Dallas Morning News
"Kellerman is taking a big risk here, and I think she pulls it off in fine style."
-Washington Post
With Moon Music, New York Times bestseller Faye Kellerman leaves Los Angeles and heads to stranger territories: "Sin City" Las Vegas, Nevada. Taking a brief hiatus from her mystery series featuring LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife, Rina Lazarus, Kellerman...
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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Half-breed Colt must confront his heritage when he is captured at Wounded Knee and brought to Boston, where he is introduced to his wealthy Boston family and forced to become civilized under the guidance of Miss Samantha MacGregor, a lovely governess who steals his heart.
10) Chase the wind
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Two U.S. government agents--a man and a woman--are ordered in pursuit of a gun runner who is selling arms to the Indians. The woman is Elizabeth Lawrence, a widow, the man is Navarro Breed, a half-breed. In the course of the mission they get to know each other and love blooms. By the author of Midnight Secrets.
11) Sweetbitter
Author
Publisher
Broken Moon Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A forbidden romance between a half-breed and a white woman, set in Texas at the turn of the century. The hero is Reuben Sweetbitter, the son of a white father and an Indian mother. When he begins dating Martha Clarke, the daughter of a lawyer, he is threatened with lynching and the couple flee to another town, but the forces of racial purity pursue them. This is one tale where love does not conquer all. By the author of Five Pears or Peaches.
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After seven years on the semi-pro wrestling circuit, Ricky Twohatchet, a.k.a. Richard Powell, needs one last match before he gets called up to the big leagues. Unlike some wrestlers who only play the stereotype, Ricky believes he comes by his persona honestly--he's half white and half Native American--even if he's never met his father. But the night of the match in Omaha, Nebraska, something askew in their intricate choreography sets him on a course...
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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"The Trickster of Liberty has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster siblings who began their lives on a reservation in northern Minnesota. Behaving in unpredictable ways, these siblings defy any attempt to fit them within stereotypical notions of the Indian. Memorable characters include the grandfather, Lusterbow, "the Baron of...
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Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Miguelito Robles is as solid as the mighty oak from which he takes his name in this passionate sequel to Maria Inés, previously published by Five Star. 1850s' pastoral California simmers with strife as desperate ex-gold miners descend from the Sierra Nevada. The courts favor Americans over Spanish landowners. Californio sons defend their family estates and their sisters' honor against Yanqui riffraff. Miguelito is a brash Indian youth trapped between...
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English
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"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
