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• Swim Home to the Vanished

  Basham, Brendan Shay

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  (Diné) Grieving the death of his younger brother, Damien ends up in a fishing village in the company of a family of brujas, worried that he himself is turning into a fish.

• A Minor Chorus

  a Novel

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  (Driftpile Cree) A Cree graduate student sets aside his doctoral dissertation to write a novel about the ironies and challenges of queer life in his rural Alberta hometown; perhaps the very novel you’re reading right now?

• To Shape a Dragon's Breath

  Blackgoose, Moniquill

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  (Seaconke Wampanoag) When the Anglish conquered the First Peoples of Maspaupaug, everyone thought the days of dragons were over. Then young Anequs found a curious egg. The debut of an epic fantasy series.

• Màgòdiz

  Calderón, Gabe

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  (Anishnaable, L’nu, and mixed white) Forced into the margins by evil spirits, a band of Indigenous, two spirit, queer and disabled outcasts join forces to re-enchant and restore hope for post-apocalyptic humanity.

• The Missing Morningstar

  and Other Stories

  Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon

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  (Diné) The long-lasting impacts of settler colonialism show up in these stories, which examine family life, grief, and identity in Diné communities plagued by violence against women.

• VenCo

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  (Métis) When Lucky St. James feels an unnatural pull leading her to a silver spoon, she connects with a group of witches dedicated to fighting a centuries-old foe.

• The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

  a Novel

  Earling, Debra Magpie

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  (Bitterroot Salish) A Native woman's perspective on the oft-told story of Sacajewea sheds light on the violence of settlers and the quality of survivance.

• And Then She Fell

  a Novel

  Elliott, Alicia

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  (Mohawk) New mother Alice experiences a descent into mental illness; her only salvation is to tell a modern version of the Haudenosaunee Creation Story.

• A Calm & Normal Heart

  Stories

  Hicks, Chelsea T.

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  (Osage) Living in a country within our country that is unknown to all but its first inhabitants, the women of these joyful and reflective stories work to reconcile and heal a world out of balance.

• Calling for a Blanket Dance

  a Novel

  Hokeah, Oscar, 1975-

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  (Cherokee and Kiowa) The life and times of young Ever Geimausaddle as seen through the eyes of his Kiowa, Cherokee, and Mexican family, revealing invisible webs of culture and tradition that bind us, and set us free.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica

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  (Cree, Sucker Creek First Nation) Nightmares seep into reality for Mackenzie whose sorrow, two years after the death of her sister, is feeding a wheetigo spirit.

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  (Blackfoot) Proofrock, Idaho, is at the mercy of a sadistic escaped serial killer. Can Jade Daniels use her wits and encyclopedic knowledge of slasher films to save her town? The secret to My Heart is a Chainsaw.

• Blood Sisters

  Lillie, Vanessa

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  (Cherokee) Called back to her hometown in Oklahoma, where she survived an attack that killed her childhood best friend, archaeologist Syd must fight threats from all angles as she works to identify remains and find her missing sister.

• Sinking Bell

  Stories

  Louis, Bojan

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  (Diné) Captured in arresting, poetic relief, the lives of people variously struggling to make ends meet in the microcosm of Flagstaff, Arizona, shine forth with stark beauty, dignity, and wonder.

• Sisters of the Lost Nation

  Medina, Nick

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  (Tunica-Biloxi) The all-too-real horror of the disappearance of Indigenous women and girls takes on mythic proportions when Two-Spirit teen Anna Horn connects a new casino to an ancient evil.

• A Grandmother Begins the Story

  Porter, Michelle, 1975-

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  (Métis) Five generations of women cross paths with one another, the land, and animal relatives as they navigate what it means to be Métis and what relatives owe each other.

• A Council of Dolls

  a Novel

  Power, Mona Susan, 1961-

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  (Standing Rock Sioux) Three dolls, beloved by young girls from one ancestral line in the 1960s, 1930s, and 1880s reveal their history of colonization, forced assimilation, trauma, and resilience.

• The Half-white Album

  Sylvester, Cynthia J., 1963-

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  (Diné) The threads of one Diné family are unwoven and restrung through poetry, short stories, and music as they grapple with the realties of being urban Natives.

• Night of the Living Rez

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  (Penobscot) By turns harsh and tender, these candid and compassionate vignettes lay bare the life of David, a young man growing up on the Penobscot reservation in Maine.

• Stealing

  a Novel

  Verble, Margaret

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  (Cherokee) Shipped off to a residential school, nine-year-old Cherokee girl Kit Crockett turns to her journal to puzzle out the mystery of how she wound up there, and how she might be freed.