Walking the Old Road: A People's History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe
By: Staci Lola Drouillard
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the…
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1. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
2. Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
By: Louise Erdrich
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. I Was Told There'd Be Cake
By: Sloane Crosley
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney … read more
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- nonfiction
4. Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures… read more
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"She wasn't happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just a bit of joy thrown in for good measure. Yes, that was it. She'd made it…"-Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
5. Night Rounds (Inspector Huss #2)
By: Helene Tursten
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Irene Huss is a former Ju-Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful … read more
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6. Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
By: Donna Leon
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, h… read more
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7. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
By: Daniel James Brown
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
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8. Home (Gilead, #2)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and heali… read more
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9. 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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- native americans
10. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
11. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
12. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
By: Conor Knighton
4.26
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more
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- nonfiction
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
13. Just as I Am
By: Cicely Tyson
4.51
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. … read more
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- nonfiction
"The most potent antidote to reticence is survival."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
14. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
15. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor, #17)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.14
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another “punch-to-the-gut blend… read more
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- native american
17. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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- native american
- native americans
18. A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.27
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on… read more
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"Yet the alternative he had suggested smacked of privilege, and wasn't privilege always bolstered by a discrimination of sorts?"-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)
"...places leave their mark in the same way that a human being can touch us. We have to make our peace with place, with the locations where we have spent time. We consider how we've been affected by b…"-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)
19. 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
20. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
By: Michael Scott-Baumann
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Stolen
By: Ann-Helén Laestadius
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that fo… read more
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- indigenous
"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen
23. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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- native americans
- native american
- indigenous
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
24. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
25. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
26. Better the Blood
By: Michael Bennett
4.01
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more
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- indigenous
27. Walking the Old Road: A People's History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe
By: Staci Lola Drouillard
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the… read more
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- history
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- native americans
28. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
29. American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)
By: Derek B. Miller
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid―the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller’s bes… read more
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"Do you believe that?"-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)
"We actually do have a lot of guns. There's a lot of hunting in Norway. But there's almost no gun violence." "Why do you think that is?" "On a fundamental level," says Sigrid, "I think it's because we…"-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)
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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- nonfiction
31. Willow Water Stories
By: Jean Vaatveit Husby
4.00
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
People used to think of Minnesota as 'pure Scandinavian' despite the settlements of other immigrant… read more
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