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The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

by Janet Campbell Hale

Published: 1987-07-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Cecelia Capture Welles, an Indian law student and mother of two, is jailed on her thirtieth birthday for drunk driving. Held on an old welfare fraud charge, she reflects back on her life on the reservation in Idaho, her days as an unwed mother in San Francisco, her marriage to a white libe...

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My Body Is a Book of Rules

by Elissa Washuta

Published: 2014-08-12

Paperback: 224 pages

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As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of...

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From the Hilltop (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)

by Toni Jensen

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 190 pages

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For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen’s stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American Indian characters: migratory, often overlooked, yet carrying tradition with them into a f...

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Crazy Horse's Girlfriend

by Erika T. Wurth

Published: 2014-09-16

Paperback: 288 pages

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Margaritte is a sharp-tongued, drug-dealing, sixteen-year-old Native American floundering in a Colorado town crippled by poverty, unemployment, and drug abuse. She hates the burnout, futureless kids surrounding her and dreams that she and her unreliable new boyfriend can move far beyond th...

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The Ice Queen: A Novel

by Alice Hoffman

Published: 2006-01-03

Paperback: 211 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people a...

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The Dinner List: A Novel

by Rebecca Serle

Published: 2018-09-11

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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“I have five words for Rebecca Serle’s The Dinner List: wistful, delicious, romantic, magical, love.” —Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and Young Jane Young“We’ve been waiting for an hour.” That’s what Audrey says. She sta...

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Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust

by Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 160 pages

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The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what’s said ...

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The Perfect Age: A Novel

by Heather Skyler

Published: 2004-04-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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When her daughter embarks upon a first job as a hotel pool lifeguard, Kathy, feeling adrift in her too-stable marriage, begins an affair with her daughter's boss, in a story that traces the sexual awakenings of both mother and daughter throughout the course of three summers. A first novel.

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Vegas Girls: The Good Doctors

by Sam L. Weiss

Published: 2018-08-08

Kindle Edition: 157 pages

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What happens when four attractive thirty-something-year-old female emergency physicians move from New York to Las Vegas? A cross between "Sex in the City" and "50 Shades of Grey."Based loosely on true stories, "Vegas Girls" are a series of one hundred novellas describing the misadventures...

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South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land

by Julia Reed

Published: 2018-07-31

Hardcover: 256 pages

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In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted and funny new b...