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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.
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"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
70) Madchild running
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222 pages ; 24 cm
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A man tries to save a girl, caught up in urban violence in Seattle. The man is Levi Shea, a half-Indian social worker, depressed by the wrecks which flow through the shelter he operates. One day he sees Nicki, a preteen from an alcoholic family and saving her becomes his reason for living.
71) Talking leaves
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235 pages ; 22 cm
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"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
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"With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts"--Provided by publisher.
77) Wolf mark
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When Lucas King's covert-ops father is kidnapped and his best friend Meena is put in danger, Luke's only chance to save them -- a skin that will let him walk as a wolf -- is hidden away in an abandoned mansion guarded by monsters.
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Philbert Bono and Buddy Red Bird are about to prove that the spirit of the great warriors is still alive and kicking. Their "war pony," a burned-out, rusty 1964 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust from Montana's Lame Deer Reservation halfway down Interstate 25 as they take off to bail Buddy's sister out of jail. The basis for the great movie of the same name, this quiet debut novel, first published in 1979, has become a classic of American Indian...
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