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by Louise Erdrich
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by Margaret Verble
Published Feb 2024
Read ReviewsA gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble.
by William Kent Krueger
Published Jul 2022
Read ReviewsThe author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O'Connor series - a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever.
by Tommy Orange
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsFierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking - Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.
by CB McKenzie
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsThe newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style.
by Callan Wink
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsIn the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories.
by Toni Morrison
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsSpare and unsparing, God Help the Childthe first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current momentweaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
by Olivier Truc
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsTomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night. But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen . . .
by William Kent Krueger
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsTold from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him.
by Sherman Alexie
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsAn indispensable collection of new and classic stories, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Sherman Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, based on the author's own experiences, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
by Liza Ward
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsEvery so often a novel comes along that is capable of redeeming the losses it so devastatingly conveys. Disturbing, bittersweet, and lyrical, this is a story of people torn apart by tragedy and yet, finally, transformed by love.
by Jonathan Raymond
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsA debut novel set in the Pacific Northwest of the 1820s and 1980s - two friendships separated by generations but bound together by a dark mystery.
by Ian Frazier
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsFrazier brings us into the private world of the reservation and the great people whose culture has shaped American identity.
by Chris Bohjalian
Published Oct 1998
Read ReviewsSibyl faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience. Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.
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