Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors (Contemporary Voices of Indigenous Peoples)
By: Denise K. Lajimodiere
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from rec…
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1. The Postmistress
By: Orlagh Cassidy , Sarah Blake
3.35
Format: 11 pages, Audio CD
CDs, 9 CDs, 11 hours What would happen if someone did the unthinkable-and didn't deliver a lette… read more
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- historical
"We can't change what is coming. Something is always coming."-Orlagh Cassidy, The Postmistress
"Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days--as long as she could w…"-Orlagh Cassidy, The Postmistress
"She imagined she could pull Time like taffy, stretching it longer and longer between her hands until the finest point had been reached, the point just before breaking, and she could live there. A poi…"-Orlagh Cassidy, The Postmistress
"It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order no…"-Orlagh Cassidy, The Postmistress
2. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
By: David Wallace Adams
4.00
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms… read more
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- history
- historical
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- education
3. The Long Road Home
By: Danielle Steel
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
A novel of courage, hope and love... From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, seven-year-old… read more
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4. Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
By: Ramsey Clark , Harvey Arden , Leonard Peltier , None , Chief Arvol Looking Horse
3.31
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- history
- memoir
5. Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
By: None , None , Fortunate Eagle
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding schoolBest known as a leader … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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6. Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
By: None , None
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the… read more
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7. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope
By: Patty Wetterling
4.60
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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8. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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9. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
10. The Haunting of Velkwood
By: Gwendolyn Kiste
3.64
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more
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"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
11. Warrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
4.34
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"Some friendships can endure anything."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
12. 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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- historical
- native american
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"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
13. Blood Sisters
By: Vanessa Lillie
3.85
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs wh… read more
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14. Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
By: Mona Gable
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind whe… read more
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- history
- native american
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15. Grievers (Grievers, #1)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.04
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world. Grievers i… read more
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16. The Bad Ones
By: Melissa Albert
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more
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"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones
17. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
By: David Treuer
4.23
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more
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18. Green
By: Alex Gino
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of MELISSA, a new book putting a non-binary kid named Green at center s… read more
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19. Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors (Contemporary Voices of Indigenous Peoples)
By: Denise K. Lajimodiere
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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20. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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21. 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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