Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Indigenous

In this second thriller in the Joe Higheagle Environmental Sleuth Series, mysterious deaths are taking place in the Rocky Mountain region outside Denver, Colorado. Joe Higheagle--a full-blooded Cheyenne geologist who has recently become an overnight celebrity for bringing down a billionaire corporate polluter--is hired to investigate Dakota Ranch, where four boys have recently died from a rare form of brain cancer, and Silverado Knolls, a glitzy soon-to-be-built development. He quickly finds himself entangled in an environmental cancer cluster investigation as well as a murderous...

Spanning the latter half of the nineteenth century, this coming-of-age novel unfolds in the form of a historian's notebook. Protagonist and narrator Millie Langlie (daughter of a S'Klallam maiden and a Norwegian mariner) is an adventurous girl with a curious mind. Guided by the gift of a pair of silver fish earrings, she unearths an anomalous Indian-on-Indian massacre and confronts her mother's secret love affair. Journeying from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Port Townsend and back again, Millie discovers how knowledge of the past can teach us to love, forgive, and forge a new path.

After a lifetime of pain and struggle, Jess Hazzard finally hung up his gun, buried his demons, and found happiness in the mountains of west Wyoming with his beloved wife, Julie, their daughter, and her young son from a previous marriage.

Life was good until the day he returned home to find the love of his life brutally beaten and raped, and their son, Keith, kidnapped.

Now Jess must master his rage and strap on the Frontier Colt he long prayed he would never again have to wear, to pursue a ruthless madman and his vicious gunmen, save their son, and avenge Julie's...

On a brutally cold winter day, Jess Hazzard discovers a young man lying unconscious and nearly frozen to death in the snow. He takes him home and works to save his life, not knowing he has been searching for Jess.

Years earlier, Jess put a bullet in the man's father. He lived, but forever blamed Jess for his family's dismal poverty. Following the death of his beloved mother, the man set out seeking revenge against the gunfighter he believed responsible for everything bad that happened to him and his family.

Now that he's found him, will he follow through with his plan for...

Two young men. One is Lakota. The other is not. The place is South Dakota. The time is the troubled Sixties and the Seventies. The issues seem clear and the battle lines are drawn. At stake is the sovereignty of the Sioux nations and that of the Union. A hundred years earlier these same issues touched off a civil war that tore the nation asunder. The question is if this will happen again.

Even so, life goes on beyond the conflict. People marry and children are born. These go to school and play their sports. After graduation many of the boys enter military service. Others go to...

Craig Johnson's new novel, The Western Star, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.

In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When...

Fans of Sara Gruen's At the Water's Edge will appreciate the suspense while readers of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees will feast on lives so different and yet so similar to their own.

"One of the best novels in ten years." Hackney Literary Awards Committee

In this gripping debut novel ranked alongside Pulitzer Prize winning authors William Styron and Horton Foote, a search for a missing friend unearths the price one adopted boy paid for a government's attempt at genocide.

Gabriel Branch is a man displaced....

Can David Ludwig Emerge from His Fugue?
Was He Set Up ... or Did He Murder His Family?

The Wet Mountain Valley Sheriff's Office has its hands full when they must not only deal with solving a homicide, but, with limited resources, must call in the CBI and deal with an arrogant and closed-minded agent.
White Feather, an old Cherokee medicine man, uses his unique skills to compete with the local Sheriff's Office to solve mysteries. He sometimes compliments but more often complicates the more traditional investigating methods of local law enforcement.
Sam...

“You’re gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel.

Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the “rez,” and his former life, to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The next seven days are like a fevered dream:...

Fans of Sara Gruen's At the Water's Edge will appreciate the suspense while readers of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees will feast on lives so different and yet so similar to their own.

One of the best novels in ten years. Hackney Literary Awards Committee

In this moving debut novel ranked alongside Pulitzer Prize winning authors William Styron and Horton Foote, a search for a missing friend unearths the price one boy paid for a government's attempt at...