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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
2) Native: #1
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a dramatic fictional trilogy set in the old west. Takoda, a young Lakota warrior, is compelled to fight for his life after his father is killed in a hunting accident, facing murderous beaver trappers and brutal treatment at the hands of a ruthless band of buffalo hunters. However, his future is to become defined by the dark influence of Theodore Winthrop, a Minnesotan senator who wants to rid the plains of the native tribes. Takoda's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...
4) Lone wolf
Author
Publisher
self published
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Manifest Destiny story continues to unfold as Howakan's life, that of his brother, Takoda, and the future of the Lakota tribe all become ensnared in the consequences of Senator Winthrop's personal avarice and expansive manipulation of a political ideology. Winthrop's objective: to sweep aside the native peoples, claim the Indian Territories and forge a new nation that stretches from coast to coast across the North American continent. Nothing will...
5) White teeth
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
Author
Publisher
Signet
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
580 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Baltimore Homicide Detective Stevie Mazzetti has suffered losses no woman should have to endure. And, despite it all, she's still a fighter. When she learns that her ex partner might have miscarried justice, she's determined to put the past to rights, even when she becomes a target. It's former Marine Clay Maynards job to see the risk in every situation, but he doesn't have to look hard to find the danger surrounding Stevie. Since the minute he first...
Author
Publisher
Flux, an imprint of North Star Editions, Inc
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1936 San Francisco, eighteen-year-old Willa MacCarthy is bound for the convent. But when she discovers her love of medicine, she will defy her family and work with a female doctor to care for those building the Golden Gate Bridge"-- Provided by publisher.