This Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples’s work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Spirits can be bitches like that."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"We're boys. That's what we're supposed to do."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"It's better to wake up than fall back asleep in a town with no dreams."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"Did you know you can just order a trophy from a company and engrave it however you want? I ordered myself a trophy in the exact size, shape, and fake plastic luster as the one state basketball championship trophy that sits in my high school's awards cabinet. Except instead of being about basketball, my trophy says Marion Lafournier, World's Biggest Cynic . And really, who could blame me?"-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
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1. The House of Impossible Beauties
By: None
3.93
Format: 40 pages, ebook
"Exceptional...The writing is erotically luscious, lyrically intense, forthrightly in your face, an… read more
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2. Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.98
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Nothing in Renee Blackbear’s world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
"But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get…"-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)
"Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of …"-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)
3. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more
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- mystery
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- audiobook
4. The Route of Ice and Salt
By: José Luis Zárate
3.62
Format: 143 pages, ebook
A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It’s … read more
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- fantasy
- lgbt
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"But I must see that man for the last time, tell him that Hunger is not a sin, nor is Necessity or Appetite. What matters, I repeat, is what we are willing to do to satisfy them."-José Luis Zárate, The Route of Ice and Salt
5. The Removed
By: Brandon Hobson
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic d… read more
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- magical realism
- native american
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I saw the rain lifting from earth to sky."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
"We are always restless, carrying the dreams of children and the elderly, the tired and sick, the poor, the wounded. The Removed."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
6. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
7. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more
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- native american
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- audiobook
8. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
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- queer
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
9. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.14
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
10. Empire of Wild
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.74
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more
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- audiobook
11. White Horse
By: Erika T. Wurth
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more
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12. This Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples’s work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis… read more
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- audiobook
- magical realism
- lgbt
- native american
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- fantasy
- queer
"Spirits can be bitches like that."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"We're boys. That's what we're supposed to do."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"It's better to wake up than fall back asleep in a town with no dreams."-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
"Did you know you can just order a trophy from a company and engrave it however you want? I ordered myself a trophy in the exact size, shape, and fake plastic luster as the one state basketball champi…"-Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps
13. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- magical realism
- indigenous
- fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
- audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
14. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more
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- audiobook
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- fantasy
- queer
15. The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2)
By: Lev A.C. Rosen
4.17
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The Bell in the Fog, a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks―once you have finally foun… read more
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- queer
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- mystery
- audiobook
16. Where the Dead Sit Talking
By: Brandon Hobson
3.35
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Best book of 2018: Kirkus, Southern Living, and NPR Code Switch Read… read more
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- contemporary
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17. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
18. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.18
Format: 120 pages, ebook
Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more
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- lgbt
- indigenous
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
19. A Calm & Normal Heart: Stories
By: Chelsea T. Hicks
3.77
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
From Oklahoma to California, the heroes of A Calm & Normal Heart are modern-day homesteaders, adven… read more
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- indigenous
20. The Night of Baba Yaga
By: Akira Otani
3.40
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more
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21. Where Wolves Don't Die
By: Anton Treuer
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojib… read more
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