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• Firekeeper

  a Novel

  Lafferty, Catherine, 1982-

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  Nyla has an affinity to fire. A neglected teen in a small northern town--trying to escape a mother battling her own terrors--she is kicked out and struggles through life on the streets. Desperate for love, Nyla accidentally sets fire to her ex's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Turning Leaves

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they've been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Season in Chezgh'un

  a Novel

  McLeod, Darrel J.,

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  A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien.

• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous, a book piercing in its poetry, sorrow, and rage--a masterful follow-up to his already--classic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Angel of Indian Lake

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  It's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cold

  a Novel

  Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-

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  Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• VenCo

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, are about to be evicted from their apartment. Bad to worse in a heartbeat. Then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Circle

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  Fierce, heartbreaking, and profound, Vermette's The Circle is the third and final companion novel to her bestsellers The Break and The Strangers. Told from various perspectives, with an unforgettable voice for each chapter, the novel is masterfully…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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  Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Shape a Dragon's Breath

  The First Book of Nampeshiweist

  Blackgoose, Moniquill,

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  A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling-and quickly finds herself at odds with the "approved" way of doing things-in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series.

• Midnight Storm Moonless Sky

  Indigenous Horror Stories

  Soop, Alex,

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  From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of Indigenous life with spellbinding flights and frights of speculative fiction. Through these enthralling stories…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Cree

  a Novel =ācimoi·n

  Johns, Jessica,

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  A haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collide. Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Blanket of Butterflies

  Van Camp, Richard,

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  No one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tłı̨chǫ Dene boy, is eager to help. Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Minor Chorus

  a Novel

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  Vowel, Chelsea,

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  Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo explores science fiction tropes through a Métis lens: a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries to solve a murder in her community and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Horse

  a Novel

  Wurth, Erika T.,

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  White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tainna

  the Unseen Ones : Short Stories

  Dunning, Norma,

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  Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna . Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, young to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night of the Living Rez

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Calling for a Blanket Dance

  a Novel

  Hokeah, Oscar, 1975-

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  A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own.