The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives
By: Linda LeGarde Grover
4.27
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this …
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1. Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
By: None , Velma Wallis
4.08
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
"Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world."-None, Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
2. House Made of Dawn
By: N. Scott Momaday
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more
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3. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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4. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- poetry
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
5. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.52
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more
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"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
6. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- poetry
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
7. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
8. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
9. Bluest Nude: Poems
By: Ama Codjoe
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more
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- poetry
10. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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- poetry
11. Token Black Girl
By: Danielle Prescod
3.92
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingl… read more
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"It’s the media’s job to accurately reflect the world we live in, not distort it."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
"How much pain you can withstand should not be the barometer of how successful you can become."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
"Women are taught that our bodies must be fixed and that, if given the power to do so, we should use it."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
"I was convinced I had to work for and earn affection… I would have to put in the time and effort to be loved."-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl
12. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
13. The World Record Book of Racist Stories
By: Amber Ruffin
4.40
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more
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14. How We Live Is How We Die
By: Pema Chodron
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more
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15. 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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- indigenous
"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
16. My Monticello
By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a w… read more
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"To me guns meant indiscriminate power, the risk of fatally misjudging someone else's worth."-Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello
17. 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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- indigenous
"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
18. The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives
By: Linda LeGarde Grover
4.27
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this … read more
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- poetry
- native american
- indigenous
19. Ojibwe in Minnesota (People Of Minnesota)
By: Anton Treuer
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A compelling, concise narrative that traces the history of the Ojibwe people in Minnesota, explorin… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
20. What the Chickadee Knows
By: Margaret Noodin
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gij… read more
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- poetry
- indigenous
21. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more
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- poetry
- native american
- indigenous
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
22. 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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- indigenous
23. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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24. The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves
By: Thomas D. Peacock
4.19
Format: 212 pages, Unknown Binding
Several days after I took the pups to the place overlooking Spirit Island, Youngest Nephew came to … read more
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- native american
- indigenous
25. summonings
By: Raena Shirali
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali’s summonings investigates the ongoing practice… read more
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26. Bread and Circus
By: Airea Dee Matthews
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe… read more
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- poetry
27. I Think I Know You
By: Julie Gard
4.00
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
In I Think I Know You, Julie Gard explores the ways we struggle to understand each other’s hearts a… read more
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28. Probably Ruby
By: Lisa Bird-Wilson
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable d… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
29. Rupture Tense
By: Jenny Xie
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more
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- poetry
30. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded
By: Anton Treuer
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A revised and updated edition of a modern classic offers answers to nearly 200 essential and though… read more
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31. Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
By: Drew Afualo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s 'Crusader for Women' and is at the head of a new genera… read more
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