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The moon had reached its maximum three times since the Chacoans conquered the First Moon People. The Chaco matrons had built their Great House high atop First Moon Mountain, and their warriors stalked arrogantly through the villages, taking what they pleased. But the gods can only stand so much human...

Le petit caillou de la mémoire, c’est l’homme face à la nature démesurée. C’est William de la mer et des forêts profondes, qui pêche des saumons, abat des arbres, aime des femmes, cuit au soleil lent de sa vie. Une ode aux gens simples, aux défricheurs. Écriture somptueuse et grâce...

Flutie lives on the edge of an enormous quiet that she wants to transcend. Her family's life on a dirt road in Western Oklahoma, her father's job repairing old cars and tractors belonging to impover­ished hay farmers, her brother’s betrayal, and her mother's indifference are all parts of a story...

There is a realm where the living are forbidden. It's an infernal place of shadows and souls that only the damned may enter. And now a spirit beckons from this land of terrible fire, challenged a courageous young Cherokee sorcerer to walk a world of dark dreams and to confront a dread and powerful force of nature...in order to save the one he loves from a fate truly worse than death.

Bradley Pino was born in 1926 atop the ancient Acoma Pueblo mesa 357 feet above the desert floor. Brad was taught reverence for nature by his grandfather, hunting and fishing by his father, faith by his mission priest, and bravery by historys face-painted warriors. Brads father is a proud full-blooded...

The Long Walk of the Navajos continues in Sweet Salt, a novel of beauty and endurance by Robert Mayer. Monument Valley is home to Nina Yazzie, a Navajo girl becoming a Navajo woman. In throbbing rhythms live with her through a hectic ride to a hospital at Tuba City. Bear the pain of the child...

In this prequel within a sequel, Diminuenda discovers that she stands to win a vast inheritance from her estranged father, the inimitable Minor, if she travels into the past and “collects” a number of objets d’art.The cheeky diva travels to classical Greece, becoming the subject of the very painting...

Prejudices can run deep, and grudges can last for decades. Unfortunately for Rozene, such is the case between the Wendigoag, the Four Bears tribe, and the werewolves. Fearing what she has become and fighting against her own nature, Rozene desperately tries to follow her heart. Rejected by the...

In 1915 seasoned Pinkerton investigator August Lepke is sent to Alaska Territory to "box up" captured serial killer Edward Krause with circumstantial evidence. He assumes it will be routine and clear cut, just like his life. Once in Juneau he encounters confusion in suffragette Florence...

Tommy Weaver wants to stay sober and that means steering clear of challenging situations, avoiding difficult people, and staying away from personal relationships. Unfortunately, he has a cousin unsuccessfully rehabbing in his spare room while Crooked Rock demands more than he can give, and in the...

Everyone knows everyone's business in the small fishing community of Kitsum. So when young Brenda Joe fears she might be pregnant, she also worries that rumours will spread quickly. Things look up when Brenda's favourite aunt, Monica returns to Kitsum for Christmas, although she is preoccupied with...

A varied and spirited collection of work by the Mi’kmaq writers of Atlantic Canada, this volume brings together young and old and includes short stories, autobiography, poetry and personal essays. Valuable as a landmark of an ancient culture, The Mi’kmaq Anthology also delivers to a wide audience...

In Mystic Dreamers, best-selling author Rosanne Bittner began a compelling saga with the meeting of Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, and Rising Eagle, a warrior whose powers were unmatched, for he had been blessed by the Feathered One. Now, in a new story sure to enthrall both new readers and devoted...

Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer...