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Check Me Out - LKLD 2024



WANDERING STARS

By Tommy Orange

Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather’s shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering from PTSD, secretly enacts blood rituals to connect to his Cheyenne heritage.


BY THE FIRE WE CARRY

By Rebecca Nagle

An award-winning reporter and member of the Cherokee Nation recounts the generations-long fight for tribal sovereignty in Eastern Oklahoma and the 1990s murder case that led the Supreme Court to reaffirm native rights to the land.


THE MIGHTY RED

By Louise Erdrich

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of big business and uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.


THE BERRY PICKERS

By Amanda Peters

Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.


FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER

By Angeline Boulley

Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. After witnessing a tragic murder, Daunis finds herself involved in an FBI investigation into drug trafficking in her community. However, the investigation will uncover secrets and threaten many people.


THE REDISCOVERY OF AMERICA

By Ned Blackhawk

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.


MAN MADE MONSTERS

By Andrea L. Rogers

This horror anthology follows one extended Cherokee family’s encounters with the supernatural and violence across the centuries, from the tribe’s homelands in Georgia in the 1830s to World War I, the Vietnam War, our present, and well into the future.


THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO EMBER

By Danica Nava

A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more in this charming rom-com about the hard decision to either stay silent or to be your authentic self, even if it could cost everything.


REZ BALL

By Byron Graves

When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother’s shoes as star player but soon learns he can’t mess up—not on the court, not in school and not in love.


EXPOSURE

By Ramona Emerson

Detectives in Gallup, New Mexico consider calling in Rita Todacheene, an Albuquerque PD forensic photographer who sees ghosts, after a serial killer targets indigent, local Native people in the second novel of the series following “Shutter.”

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