Native American Aboriginal category: 795 books

Kate Ferguson's life is crumbling around her as she is shoved out of her ten-year-old son's life as he prepares for his testing to be the next shaman. Relegated to babysitting a pregnant woman she doesn't even know in an unfamiliar place, she is bombarded by her son's growing abilities and her own,...

Dine’ Da Hogaa means battles of the people.  Jedidiah Jenkins, a young cavalry officer assigned to serve under Colonel Kit Carson in the campaign to round up the Navajo and Apache Indians, brashly rides west mounted on a Steeldust Stallion daring Indians to try to steal him.   Several...

Sutton, Massachusetts. 1675 Many reverends are preaching from the pulpit that the natives must be driven out. That the fertile lands of the new world are intended by God Himself for the newcomers who swarm in ever-increasing numbers from England. Prudence isn't so sure about that. She...

In the year AD 1055, a peaceful people, with a culture veiled in mysticism and ritual, inhabit the San Juan Basin of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. A small boy named Honaw, groomed by his wise grandfather to be one of the spiritual leaders of their village, dreams of the day when he will...

Melba Blue Jay, sixteen, scrambling up a snow-filled mountain path, her knife at a child’s throat. Archie Chung at the helm of the South Pacific Belle, foremast snapped like a toothpick, barreling toward a coral reef. Spindly Lydia Freeman, skin the color of dark ale, feeding tea made of birch bark...

According to the tradition of the Black Falcon People, each person has three souls: the eye soul, which stays with the body forever, the shadow-soul, where all evil is leeched and shed at death, and the reflection-soul, which lives on among the Blessed in the Land of the Dead, pure and clean. But...

“Fiddler, father, widower, cowboy and lover, Du Pré has the soul of a poet, the eyes of a wise man, and the heart of a comic” (The New York Times Book Review). Gabriel Du Pré’s precocious granddaughter, Pallas, has returned from her Washington, DC, boarding school, and trouble seems...

– Le corps a été retrouvé sur un banc de parc à cinq heures du matin. […] Cause du décès: intoxication à l’alcool, itinérance. […] Le lien avec vous? a demandé l’homme. – Mon père, a répondu Alice. […] – Voulez-vous signer ici? Alice a alors pensé qu’elle allait signer...

Latavia Winters is on a search to find her husband. Everyone tells her he died in the house fire but she doesn't believe it and won't accept it. She's on a mission and won't stop until she finds him.

Aimee and David Thurlo's newest mystery Ghost Medicine, featuring Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah. Ella takes all her cases personally, but some cases are more personal than others. The murder of Harry Ute is one of those—not only because Ella and Harry dated, years ago, but...

Peau d’ours raconte l’histoire de Sandy, une jeune femme d’origine crie, victime de la rafle des années soixante, surnommée Sixties Scoop, une politique gouvernementale qui a arraché plus de seize mille enfants autochtones à leurs familles d’origine pour les vendre à des Blancs. Cette...

Ella Clah has found her place on the Navajo Reservation, in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Diné at their worst—and at their best—as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life. The Navajo are building a nuclear power plant on the Reservation....

It's frustrating for local law enforcement to come up against a piece of scum like Newton Glover. He's dirty as hell, everyone knows that—breaks into and vandalizes his neighbors' homes; cheats and steals from everyone; folks suspect he deals drugs and porn. He's even killed a man and gotten away...

Brandon wears an heirloom passed down to him from his father and grandfather. From the time he began wearing the emerald-studded ring, visions of a woman appeared in his dreams. For years, he’s been on the search for her so he can get on with his life…and hers. Is it possible to reconnect with...