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• Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Funeral Songs For Dying Girls is a young adult novel about an Indigenous girl who lives on the grounds of a cemetery with her widowed father.

• Into the Bright Open

  a Secret Garden Remix

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.

• Perma Red

  a Novel

  Earling, Debra Magpie,

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  Explores life on the Flathead Indian Reservation during the 1940s through the eyes of Louise White Elk as she struggles with problematic relationships with three men. Also available as an e-book.

• And Then She Fell

  a Novel

  Elliott, Alicia,

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  A look at motherhood and mental health follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences.

• Shutter

  Emerson, Ramona, 1973-

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  A forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force, Rita Todacheene, who sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues the other investigators overlook, is caught in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque's most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Round House

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise

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  When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Native Love Jams

  Hart, Tashia,

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• The Removed

  a Novel

  Hobson, Brandon,

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  A Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one’s death. Also available as an e-book.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica,

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  A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers. Also available as an e-book and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Only Good Indians

  a Novel

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was a Teenage Slasher

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style.

• The Angel of Indian Lake

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  It’s been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

  Hawk, Shane,

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  Celebrating Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, these twenty-seven spinetingling stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, intricate family legacies, desperate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anoka

  Hawk, Shane

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• Mean Spirit

  Hogan, Linda,

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  In 1922, Grace Blanket chooses supposedly worthless land allotted to Native Americans by the Dawes Act, but when the land is found to have oil, she and her family have to protect themselves from greedy white government officials.

• Indian Burial Ground

  Medina, Nick,

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  When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi, suspecting something sinister is stalking their tribal lands, relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him secrets,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of the Lost Nation

  Medina, Nick,

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  As girls start going missing amidst strange and sinister happenings in the reservation's casino, including her little sister, Anna Horn, an outcast struggling with her place on the rez, must confront demons old and new as she hunts for answers. Also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hatak Witches

  Mihesuah, Devon A., 1957-

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  A baffling museum murder that appears to be the work of twisted human killers results in an unexpected and violent confrontation with powerful shape-shifters for Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk.

• The Truth According to Ember

  Nava, Danica,

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  A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more in this witty and irresistible rom-com by debut author Danica Nava. Also available as an e-book and e-audiobook.