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  • A Council of Dolls
    Mona Susan Power
    Paperback: 11/05/2024
     
    The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American ...
  • Those Pink Mountain Nights
    Jen Ferguson
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and ...
  • The Mighty Red
    Louise Erdrich
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a ...
  • Stealing
    Stealing: A Novel
    Margaret Verble
    Paperback: 02/20/2024
     
    A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian ...
  • Bad Cree
    Bad Cree: A Novel
    Jessica Johns
    Paperback: 12/05/2023
     
    In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-...
  • Firekeeper's Daughter
    Angeline Boulley
    Paperback: 04/25/2023
     
    Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel

    In Firekeeper's Daughter, debut author ...
  • Saints of the Household
    Ari Tison
    Hardcover: 03/28/2023
     
    Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully ...

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