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(0)Louise Erdrich
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
8) LaRose
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Language
English
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Description
Horrified when he accidentally kills his best friend's five-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by vengeful adversary.
9) Four souls
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Chronciles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
15) Chickadee
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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-- , Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutts sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
