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1) VenCo
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"Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. Burrowing through a wall, she finds a silver spoon etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM, humming with otherworldly energy. Hundreds of miles away in Salem, Myrna Good has...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Navajo mysteries volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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"Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's -- his 'last case, ' unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just...
3) Iron Lake
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.
4) Timber wolf
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Jack Byrne wakes up alone, injured and lost in the Northern wilderness with no memory of how he got there or who he is, and despite a dwindling food supply he must rally his strength or face the wolf that draws closer every night.
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Charles A. Eastman, of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American heritage, was a passionate advocate for the rights of American Indians. He took an active role in national politics, in addition to his work as a physician, writer, and lecturer. He served on the founding committee of the YMCA, establishing 32 Native American chapters, worked as agency physician for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and represented the American Indian at the Universal Races Congress...
7) Atsa
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This story traces the life of a half Navajo infant boy abandoned by his birth mother on the steps of a Catholic Navajo Mission School. The mission's staff cared for him during early childhood. Betty, the school's cook was Navajo and named the abandoned child Atsa. Interpreted definition is eagle. Atsa was born mute causing social challenges he was forced to confront. A retired college professor widower eventually adopts him. Atsa displayed high level...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
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After coming to America, building a business and a home for his family, the butcher starts a singing club, consisting of the town locals. The story spans World War I through World War II and beyond 1954, full of memorable characters.
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Young Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Pratt will be giving a talk on the transformations brought about by the Carlisle Industrial School, of which Killstraight and Flint are shining examples. They'll be joining a Comanche delegation led by Quanah Parker, who will be negotiating grasslands leases--until blown-out gas lamps in Quanah Parker's room kill a Comanche chief and put Parker in a coma. But...
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Sword in the Darkness is a West Coast misadventure. Three teens find themselves thrust into a mythological power struggle spanning countries and cultures. Through no mere coincidence, all three are drawn to Brewer's Yawn, a recently and bizarrely formed cave in the Deschutes Forest of Central Oregon. There they meet Archibald and Shanna, owners and operators of "The Ore-gone-ian" cafe, who guide them along the way.
They discover a sword hidden in...
11) Spirit Quest
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Join five amazing children on their adventure to save the sacred lands that are being destroyed by the hands of greedy companies in search for minerals in the grounds of their sacred land. On the first adventure they are on horseback for several nights on their own. On their second journey, they find out their magical gifts of transforming their selves in their favorite animals. Then their third journey, they find out not only can they become their...
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Born into British society as a child of privilege and rank, Henry St. Albans finds himself about to embark on an education and a career in service to the crown when his father's financial ruin forces him in a completely different direction. Now an indentured bondsman, the youth finds himself a servant on a colonial farm. Henry struggles with his new life and its hard realities which he had never dreamed of before. Soon, a larger, more sinister situation...
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This is the story of a young frontiersman and Lakota maiden who marry and establish a trading post in the northwest region of the Louisiana Territory during the mid-1800s. It's about dealing with their very real feelings of love and hate, strength and fear, joy and sadness as they face numerous challenges in bridging the gap between two seemingly incompatible cultures. It's a story about fulfilling a dream and the perseverance it takes to accomplish...
14) Sievers Trilogy
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Sam and John set out on a journey of a lifetime. They travel around the world in a ship looking for Adam. Early on they decide that they were going to try new things and that neither would tell on the other what sins they commit. Neither one is prepared for the sacrifices they will have to make. Adam never felt comfortable living on the farm. He is more suited for life on a ship, becoming the fiercest pirate in the south seas. The last thing he expects...
15) Cheyenne Storm
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Danger and untamed love test a young woman's heart.Sylvie thought her father was killed at sea. However, everything changes when she discovers his hidden letters to her mother. Sylvie leaves France with her new husband to find her father in the States.In the War of 1812, America battles with England. British soldiers interrupt Sylvie and Daniel's dinner with President Madison's wife. The British burn Washington and the presidential mansion. Sylvie...
16) Spirit Ridge
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A successful middle-aged businessman, Mark Landry has not fared so well in his interpersonal relationships. The angry scars of his childhood keep tripping him up. The mountains of New Mexico seem like a great place to escape his past and those aspects of life that have not gone well for him.
His big yellow dog, Gus, and his Appaloosa gelding, Sinjun, go along for the ride and ultimately play major roles in the story that unfolds. The spectacular...
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Becky, Snow Star, and the mountain men return to continue the seemingly endless battles with the British Army and the Chouteau family. There is a killer on the loose to complicate things, and he is after settlers. Snow Star gets a tutor, the Brits lose a large gold shipment, and Becky gets a disturbing look at herself. Lots of action and humor.
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Becky returns to battle the railroads and other forces that want the Indians out of the way. Snow Star begins to learn about the law, which results in a major victory for the west. The battle continues, and near the end of this installment, Becky sees something in the sky she cannot comprehend or understand. It turns out to be something that will change her life forever in installment 8.
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20-year-old Becky Barrett has fled New York after murdering her heavy handed father, and finds herself at Choteau's Trading Post on the Kansas River. She meets mountain man Josh Walker, who takes her to the west where she meets Jake Stanton, Dan McNeil, Cole Randall, Randall's nemesis Josiah Cannon, Right Hand Johnson, "Fat" McHugh, and a few others you may recognize from my other mountain man novels. A martial arts expert and a crack shot, Becky...
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