Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+4294966126 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749203 Life for indentured servants in pioneer Virginia is hard. It is doubly hard for Richard Ayre, a London orphan who had been scooped off the streets as a child and sent to the Jamestown Colony. But a chance encounter with an Indian boy his own age gives him a friend, the first real friend he has had in years--until his masters plan to raid an Indian village for corn turns Richards world upside down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700627 Invited to become her varsity golf teams only female member, Fredericka Oday pursues a dream of earning a scholarship only to be challenged by golden boy Ryan Berenger, who resents Fred for replacing his best friend on the team. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748715 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710497 As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643604 Return of the Indian: A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639611 To the Ohio Valley Indians,and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry. Then, armed only with his long rifle and knife, he heads out on a one-man rampage to stop the bloody border wars, to face down Chief Wingenund and to avenge the brutal missionary massacre at Village of Peace. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748519 At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egans book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtiss iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes. But the charming rogue with the grade-school education had fulfilled his promise--his great adventure succeeded in creating one of Americas most stunning cultural achievements--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644009 Told from their separate viewpoints, sixteen-year-old Aude inadvertently changes three gargoyles into teenaged boys leading her to explore, with a shamans help, her Mohawk ancestry and a prophecy, while Guillaume struggles to live and love in modern-day Montreal after seventy years as a gargoyle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642199 In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640044 Take a trip back in time on the Oregon Trail. This series of non-fiction essays from Francis Parkman details life on the nineteenth-century American frontier, detailing the summer a young Parkman traveled through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Along the way, the author spent time hunting and fishing, as well as participating in a buffalo hunt led by members of the Native American tribe, the Oglala Sioux. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707633 In 1840 mountain man Sam Morgan, his daughter Esperanza, and his people set out for California. At Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail, they encounter a terrified woman, Lei Palua, and take her under their wing unaware that her one-time lover and now bloodthirsty nemesis dogs her trail, vowing to kill her and all who stand in his way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640041 Colonel Buffalo Jones, the last of the plainsmen, and several associates venture into the region of Buckskin Mountain, along the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars and bring them back alive. After several run-ins with Navajo, Commanche, Yellow Knife and Great Slave Indians, Jones finally captures his first wild cougar. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748840 In The Road To Gandolfo, Robert Ludlum introduced us to the outrageous General MacKenzie Hawkins and his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, whose plot to kidnap the Pope spun wildly out of control into sheer hilarity. Now Ludlums two wayward heroes return with a diabolical scheme to right a very old wrong -- and wreak vengeance on the (expletive deleted) who drummed the hawk out of the military. Their outraged opposition will be no less than the White House. Discovering a long-buried 1878 treaty with an obscure Indian tribe, the hawk -- a.k.a. Chief Thunder Head -- hatches a brilliant plot that will ultimately bring him and his reluctant lawyer Sam before the Supreme Court. Their goal: to reclaim a choice piece of American real estate -- the state of Nebraska. Which just happened to the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Air Command! Will they succeed against the powers that be? Will the Wopotami tribe ever have their day in the Supreme Court? From the Oval Office to the Pentagon, all the presidents men are outfitted, until it rests with CIA Director Vincent Vinnie the Bam-Bam Mangecavallo to cut Sam and Hawk off at the pass. And only one thing is certain: Robert Ludlum will keep us in nonstop suspense and side-splitting laughter-through the very last page. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640007 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639426 White rustlers trouble the people of the Ohio River Valley, and Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane set about stopping them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703117 And you thought first contact was terrifying.FromNew York Timesbestselling author Ken Goddard comes a terrifying thriller that dares to pursue the truth behind a series of bizarre occurrences--and a murderer whose identity even the authorities will kill to keep concealed.A man of reason and science, Colin Cellars has earned a reputation as a top crime scene investigator... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542897 Thirteen-year-old Tatums dream of competing in the grueling 1,049-mile Iditerod Trail Sled Dog Race may be at an end when she becomes lost in a freak snowstorm during a training run on Alaskas remote Santa Ysabel Island. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710085 Duthu highlights the major events, the differing principles, and the evolving perspectives that have governed relations among the Native American Indian tribes, the federal government, and the states. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708559 His birth ended his mothers life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then hes recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708485 Investigative reporter Catherine McLeod has been covering the local Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes case to reclaim 27 million acres of land, but after barely surviving an assassination attempt, she decides to lie low for a while. Yet Catherines persistence in covering the story soon leads her to uncover a startling conspiracy--and some eye-opening truths about her own heritage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709632 As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collections title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian fathers chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then theres the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views--until he becomes the target of media distortion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709254 Army scout James Bradley, documented as the first person to discover the massacre, and his two men are ordered to follow the trail of the Sioux Indians reportedly responsible. August Huebner and William Gentle lead the rest of the calvary to bloody battles as the Indians retreat across Montana and South Dakota toward Canada. But the horror and bloodshed the three witness are enough to ake any soldier lose his mind. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644434 Sigma Force stalwarts Painter Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce must investigate a gruesome massacre in the Rocky Mountains and root out a secret cabal that has been manipulating momentous events since the time of the original thirteen colonies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709405 In 1846, a young Harvard graduate named Francis Parkman set out to explore life in the uncivilized West. With his friend Quincy Adams Shaw, he traveled up the Oregon Trail to the camps of the Pawnee and the Sioux. Parkmans journal is an authentic record of life on the trail, an exciting eyewitness account of the Mormons and outlaws, trappers and Native Americans, pioneers and adventurers who tried to conquer the frontier. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708789 After the epic battle of Adobe Walls, Lt. Frank Baldwin and former buffalo hunter Billy Dixon lead a band of Indian and white scouts into Texas to assist the U.S. 5th Infantry combat unruly natives. But as they are drawn into a series of increasingly deadly skirmishes, the fighters come to learn that in Texas, there is no time for peace--only eternal war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539896 Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercys only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her English family. She slowly discovers that the savages have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540861 Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710830 When Jake, a teenager, takes his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706906 When Tribal policeman Jim Chee discovers a blood-stained Hopi man hovering over a dead body, it looks like an open-and-shut-case. But Joe Leaphorns investigation will blow this case wide open. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710978 After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710329 In 1874, the vast plains of Texas are home to buffalo, the Comanche, and the Kiowa tribes. When the white men come to hunt the great beasts and drive the Indians out, the tribes gather and head to their towns armed for war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708790 Raised by Kiowa tribesmen, Boytale is now 17 years old and filled with an insatiable thirst for the blood of his peoples enemies. Across the prairie at Fort Levenworth, Kansas, 20-year-old army private James Rambling gears up for action as an Indian fighter. Even though his brother was killed fighting in the Civil War, Rambling is eager to test his mettle in battle and bathe in the glory of conquest. Though they dont know it yet, Boytale and Rambling are on a collision course that can only end in death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1560284 Danny Bigtrees family has moved to a new city, and no matter how hard he tries, Danny cant seem to fit in. Hes homesick for the Mohawk reservation where he used to live, and the kids in his class call him Chief and tease him about being an Indian--the thing that makes Danny most proud. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540607 When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors, meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize theyve had precognitive dreams of each other and that they must confront an evil spirit that has been responsible for mysterious deaths in the river in their small Maine town for hundreds of years and which is now haunting Alans cousin Courtney. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710966 Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710687 14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710021 Lilly Yazhi knows all she needs to know about Clay Tahoma. Sure, hes got a certain appeal befitting his Navajo roots, but shes not falling for Clays silent, earthy attractiveness. She certainly wont make the same mistake as Clays ex-wife. Only trouble is, her heart and mind have committed to different resolves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710592 Kaya is an adventurous Nez Perce girl growing up before America became a country. When her courage is tested, Kaya draws strength from the traditions and legends her elders share. Kaya listens closely, because she dreams of one day becoming a leader for her people just like Swan Circling, the bold warrior woman who is her hero. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708558 This sequel to Donald McCaigs Civil War novel Jacobs ladder delivers a saga of Reconstruction America from Lees 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custers 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries a Santee Indian. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706966 After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange great-uncle, Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708199 After outlaw Tig Hardy kidnaps his wife Clara, ex-soldier Free Anderson feels his blood boiling. Teaming with Parks Scott, Free embarks on a stirring quest for vengeance, with plenty of iron on his hip and time running out. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710713 William Little Bear Tucker and Sarah love to explore the caverns of the Sacramento Mountains, but are they clever enough to find an exit from both the maze-like cave and the dangerous men lurking in the darkness one afternoon? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562358 Thomas Winslow fought bravely in the Civil War and was fortunate to survive the grim carnage. But the final defeat on the field of battle was far less painful than the personal defeat he encountered upon his return home. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, the only remnant of his marriage and love was a newborn daughter. Despite the difficulties, Tom remained adamant against giving Laura up. He eventually took a job with the Department of Indian Affairs. Over a period of several years, he and his young daughter move all over the Northern Plains, meeting with the leaders of the Indian tribes, then bringing recommendations with his findings. There was no other white man who knew the country or the Indians better than Thomas Winslow. When the opportunity comes to join the Seventh Cavalry under General George Custer, it affords a better home life for Laurie and a highly desired return to a military career for Winslow. But Tom soon discovers that Custers campaign against the Indians in the Northern Plains is ill-fated and that his old bitter rival, Spencer Grayson, is a superior ranking officer! As they head toward the Little Big Horn and the final confrontation, who will be left standing? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700294 While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710584 In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574459 Corn maiden, the title story, surrounds the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mothers indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend. In addition, Oates offers six other tales of the night. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251304 An introduction to the culture of North American Indians. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709190 When English Separatists flee to Holland, Dutch urban life corrupts their children and weakens their families. Convinced that God is leading them to the New World, these devout Pilgrims bravely cross the Atlantic. But after violent storms carry them far north of Hudsons River, they fight icy New England winds to build crude shelters. When half die of starvation and cold that winter, the weakened survivors have little hope of facing the specter of Indian attack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708577 Doc Swift -- half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer -- seeks the supernatural creature who guards the treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had reportedly encountered the beast deep in the lands of Comancheria. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710772 While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to Bearstone. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710563 Mandy is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710776 Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American magic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710920 Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707013 Moore introduces Samuel Hunter, a young man whos running from his past while being tormented by an ancient Crow God with a talent for mischief. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539776 The black stallion helps save an Indian tribe during a time of disaster, thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710871 Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708247 In 1954 the federal government implements the Indian Termination Act, disbanding tribes and stripping Indians of land. By 1961, pay-offs are funnelling down to the displaced in the form of $43,000 checks. For three Klamath brothers--Rollin, Creek, and Pokey--the anticipation of the money inspires vastly different plans. Meanwhile, growing tensions between whites and Indians on the reservation threatens to erupt in violence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707952 From her favorite hilltop perch, the unadorned beauty of Montana fills Dianne Chadwick with serenity and purpose. But fear gnaws at that peace, for her fianc, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. When accidents and illness threaten those at the Diamond V ranch, Dianne searches for a haven from the storm that surrounds her. But with Coles fate uncertain and another man proclaiming his love for her, Diannes faith is a tenuous anchor amid the tempest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748910 Four hundred years ago, a boy arrived in America...Samuel Collier came from nothing. A street urchin, an orphan, and even a thief, he seems headed for a life in the alleys of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the ship the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he cant believe his good fortune. Hes heard that gold washes ashore with every tide... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1089029 Though there are signs of foul play, BIA investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI special agent Anna Turnipseed arent looking for a killer, the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are 14,000 years old. Parker and Turnipseed are sent to Central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of John Day Man, as he is dubbed, for the bones have quickly provoked a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton is not Native American but distinctly Caucasian, shattering long-held tenets concerning who the first inhabitants of this continent were. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1089066 From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573365 The rugged pioneers in the Rocky Mountains fight from day to day, never knowing when warring Indians or cutthroat renegades will attack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538902 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249226 Night Wing--the revolutionary test plane with a top secret weapons system--is Colonel Joe Breed Mackenzies number one priority. And weapons expert Caroline Evans is his number one distraction. When someone on the inside sabotages Night Wing, he cannot overlook Carolines late hours and expertise. Now Joe has to choose between allegiance to his country and love for his prime suspect.... You cant read just one Linda Howard!-- New York Times Bestselling author Catherine Coulter http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194802 Its 1849, and twelve-year-old Addie lives in the shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts. Her father has left the family to seek gold on the West Coast, and tragically the flux has ended the lives of her mother and baby brother, leaving Addie all alone. Fearful of being taken in as a servant, Addie flees from her house into the snowy woods, where she endures hunger and bitter cold until Nokummus, an elderly Wampanoag woman, coaxes Addie to her dwelling... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146655 Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1195017 This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1387150 After a terrible battle, many of the Little Bulls warriors are wounded. Omri must get them medical help, but he must also protect the secret of the Indian. For who would believe that a plastic toy Red Indian and a plastic toy cowboy - Little Bulls blood brother, Boone - can come to life? When Omris friend Patrick goes back in time with Boone to the Wild West, keeping the secret safe becomes desparately difficult. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147070 Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268647 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1387155 Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they become men. Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid--the one that will usher him into manhood. He is to be a man for but a short time... More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, fifteen-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull that he finds, pierced by a bullet... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295917 When her dalliance with Sir Walter Ralegh is discovered by Queen Elizabeth in 1587, lady-in-waiting Catherine Archer is banished to the struggling colony of Roanoke, where she and the other English settlers must rely on a Croatoan Indian for their survival. Includes authors note on the mystery surrounding the Lost Colony. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194559 This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1351253 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147554 Three warnings for listeners who hate surprises: 1. Beware of slivers, 2. and gamblers, 3. and aces. Zebulon Crabtree found all that out the hard way back in 1849 when his mother and father shipped him off to St. Louis to apprentice with a tanner. Too bad he had serious allergies to fur and advice from his parents. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1386510 If theres one thing that Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker knows, its that the dead dont always stay dead. With him he carries the ghosts of a partner killed in action, three failed marriages, and a long affair with the bottle. And now hes about to face the most dangerous case of his career, one that begins with a body that doesnt stay buried. The corpse of a woman, brutally murdered and bizarrely mutilated, is discovered on Havasupai Nation land. Parker is paired with FBI special agent Anna Turnipseed in a hastily assembled task force of two. The two share a mixed Native American ancestry and little else. As they are pulled deeper into a complex case, Parker suspects they are being led, like Custer to Little Bighorn, into a killers trap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088870 As their Alaskan villages only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538981 For twenty-two years, since a fateful baseball game against their rival town, it has rained in Moundville, so when the rain finally stops, twelve-year-old Roy, his friends, and foster brother Sturgis dare to face the curse and form a team. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029570 As Omri, his father, and other members of his family learn more about the cupboard in his room, together and separately they are caught up in several dangerous adventures that reveal more about its powers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1386545 Early one morning in 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by shrill war whoops and the terror of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day which had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War. She endures a harrowing march north to what she imagines may be a life of slavery ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1280245 Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1386677 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249633 Dee Browns eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029674 Badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally arrived in Oklahoma on convalescent leave. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1030016 A stirring tale of treachery and courage in the magnificent canyon country of the Southwest. Tribal war rages between the remnants of two mighty Indian nations battling for survival. It is the love between a proud warrior on one side and the daughter of the chief on the other that may well determine the outcome of the fierce struggle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1328517 When psychic twin Mallory Brynn starts seeing images of a white wildcat in her dreams, she tries to figure out the connection of her images to an injured cheerleader and her Native American friend Eden. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640787 A shape-shifter is the only thing standing between a woman and the god of death, who stalks her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1089065 Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1351362 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028890 The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall IIIs acclaimed Lakota Western series begins in 1875, as Sitting Bull gathers thousands of Lakota to face the growing problem of white incursion. What follows is a sweeping tale of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including the days and weeks leading up to the conflict and the remarkable defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029922 Back in the 1860s, Ghost Horse, a handsome young sacred clown, loved and lost to death the beautiful warrior woman Red Dress. As their spirits seek desperately to be reunited, they influence the sometimes violent fate of those who have followed them. Now in the 1980s, Red Dresss teenage descendant Charlene Thunder has fallen hopelessly in love with Harley Wind Soldier, the dashing traditional dancer of Ghost Horses lineage... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028590 When psychic twin Mallory Brynn starts seeing images of a white wildcat in her dreams, she tries to figure out the connection of her images to an injured cheerleader and her Native American friend Eden. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029750 Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New York wilderness in the winter of 1794. Soon word reaches them that Nathaniels father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Nathaniel sets out, determined to see his father freed. Instead, Nathaniel is imprisoned and finds himself in danger of being hanged as a spy. Elizabeth soon discovers that freeing Nathaniel will take every ounce of her courage and inventiveness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1154038 The ancients: Scott and Rebecca Williams battle an evil force while visiting a remote mountain village in New Mexico. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=808535 Seeking to complete the compelling story of the American West, best-selling Lakota author Joseph Marshall brings a new slant to the traditional Western: historical fiction written from the Native American viewpoint. This riveting novel takes place during the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, otherwise known as the Fetterman Massacre of 1866. The story is told through the eyes of Cloud, a dedicated warrior who fights alongside a young Crazy Horse, as well as the white soldiers who mistake Clouds redheaded wife for a captive. Beautifully written and reminiscent of the oral tradition, Hundred in the hand brings new depth to the story of the battle and the Lakota people. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646163 Recounts massacres that took place in America throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, describing violent clashes involving Native Americans, pioneer settlers, and others. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641098 A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=750684 While in Phoenix to work for his uncles construction firm in hopes of earning money to save his familys Texas ranch, Josh finds a map that might lead to a legendary lost mine, and asks his twin cousins to help him find it, despite bad omens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539330 Skye Fargo is escorting a stage to a remote Dakota Territory outpost when Indians strike, wiping out everyone but Fargo and a calvary majors daughter. It seems a U.S. Army lieutenant has gone insane from frontier life and joined the local Blackfeet on a rampage of slaughter against the whites. Now the Trailsman has to take down the madman before the blood runs hip deep.