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2) Betty
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2020.
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English
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"A stunning, lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl, with only the compass of her father's imagination, must navigate racism, sexism, and the dark secrets that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings....
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Jane Yellowrock novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For a vampire hunter like Jane, having Leo Pellisier as a boss took some getting used to. But now someone is out to take his place as Master Vampire of New Orleans and isn't afraid to go through Jane to do it,
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"Kit Crockett lives on a farm with her grief-stricken, widowed father, tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day, Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road. Kit and the newcomer, Bella, become friends, and the lonely Kit draws comfort from her. But when a malicious neighbor finds out, Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of a tragic,...
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Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The vampires of Asheville, North Carolina, want to establish their own clan, but since they owe loyalty to the Master Vampire of New Orleans they must work out the terms with him. To come up with an equitable solution, he sends an envoy with the best bodyguard blood money can buy: Jane Yellowrock.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...
10) Talking leaves
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen-year-old son"--
11) Being home
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.
Author
Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jane Yellowrock, a Cherokee skinwalker who can shapeshift into any creature she desires, is a hunter of the undead. In a twist, she is hired by Katherine Fonteneau, a New Orleans vampire, to find the rogue vampire who is killing his own kind.
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It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
14) Savage sun
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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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After losing everything in the aftermath of the Civil War, Rowena Dowell accepts the invitation of a family friend to live in a rough Arkansas logging camp, where she finds unexpected love in the arms of a handsome Cherokee chief.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon.
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2024.
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English
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"Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar, not for anything that counted. But when her résumé is rejected thirty-seven times, she takes matters into her own hands. She gets creative listing her work experience and answers the ethnicity question on all job applications with a lie. No one wanted Native American Ember, but Caucasian Ember landed her dream accounting job on Park Avenue (Oklahoma). Accountant Ember thrives in corporate life--and...
17) Flaming arrows
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Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white renegade who joined the Indians causes additional tensions.
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Mysteries in our national parks volume 13
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This thrilling series roars back to life with the release of Mystery #13, Night of the Black Bear. Something very strange is going on in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A teenage girl is the latest victim in a growing number of bear attacks. Officials must figure out what's causing the bizarre bear behavior or close the park. Can the Landons help?
Soon Jack and Ashley are searching for answers with their new friends Yonah Firekiller, a 16-year-old...
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