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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCoyote Blue
Christopher Moore · 328 pages
The Grass Dancer
Susan Power · 333 pages
Presented in the form of interconnected short stories, each told from a different point of view, this novel provides the reader with a snapshot of the life of one tribe from the 1860s through the 1980s.
The Whale Rider
Witi Ihimaera · 152 pages
As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.
Macunaíma
Mario de Andrade · 181 pages
The Bingo Palace
Louise Erdrich · 274 pages
Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson · 336 pages
**CANADA READS 2020 FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER** More than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics and cannibalistic river otters. Meet Jared Martin: sixteen-year-old pot cookie dealer, smoker, drinker and son with the s
Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie · 306 pages
In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. He went on to record only twenty-nine songs before being murdered on August 16, 1938. In 1992, however, Johnson suddenly appears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the misfit storyteller of the Spokane Tribe. So begins Reservation Blues, the mythic and musical
Green Grass, Running Water
Thomas King · 395 pages
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells tele
Mink River
Brian Doyle · 319 pages
" ... Brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people"--Publisher description.
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
Jen Ferguson · 369 pages
In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award Honor Book! Lou has enough confusion in front of her th
Peaches for Father Francis
Joanne Harris
Song of the Lion
Anne Hillerman · 304 pages
When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon. But what seems like an act of ecoterrorism turns out to be something far more nefarious. Piecing together the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a s
Waterlily: New Edition
Ella Cara Deloria · 244 pages
The daily rituals of the Yankton Sioux in the Dakotas during the 19th century reveal their traditional values.
So Far from God
Ana Castillo · 251 pages
Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, though, it stands wondrously revealed as a place of marvels, teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Hispano with the Anglo, the women with the men. With the talkative, intimate voi
When The Legends Die
Hal Borland · 216 pages
When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, the young Indian boy vowed never to return to the white man's world, to the alien laws that h
Red Prophet
Orson Scott Card · 315 pages
Alvin Maker is drawn into the political manueverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America.
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones · 305 pages
City of the Beasts
Isabel Allende · 406 pages
With his mother in hospital, fifteen-year-old Alex Cold is sent to his fierce, wonderful grandmother, Kate - a pipe-smoking, vodka-drinking old reporter with blue eyes "as sharp as daggers' points". Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team -
The Cure for Death by Lightning
Gail Anderson-Dargatz · 294 pages
Gail Anderson-Dargatz's story takes place against the backdrop of daily life on a farm in remote Turtle Valley, British Columbia, during World War II Beth Weeks is fifteen years old and lives with her family. Strange things are happening: a classmate of Beth's is mauled to death; children go missing on a nearby reservation; and Beth herself is being hunted by an unseen predator. The valley is hom
Mullumbimby
Melissa Lucashenko · 358 pages
"From the back cover" When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected farm in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blooming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter Ellen, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title war among the local Bundjalu