
Celebrate Indigenous Voices
Essential Fiction
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The Strangers
- Written by: katherena vermette
- Narrated by: Michaela Washburn
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers.
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Hard listen
- By L. Ward on 2022-06-06
Written by: katherena vermette
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The Sentence
- Written by: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention", must solve the mystery of this haunting.
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Loved this story
- By celia gjosund on 2022-03-29
Written by: Louise Erdrich
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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
- Written by: Margaret Verble
- Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two’s closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two’s shows, strange things start to happen at the park. Vestiges of the ancient past begin to surface, apparitions appear, and then the hippo falls ill.
Written by: Margaret Verble
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The Removed
- A Novel
- Written by: Brandon Hobson
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Studi, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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In the 15 years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation.
Written by: Brandon Hobson
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Empire of Wild
- Written by: Cherie Dimaline
- Narrated by: Michelle St. John
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou - a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up, grown-up "Little Red Riding Hood".
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a must read
- By Ron Dean Harris on 2019-09-20
Written by: Cherie Dimaline
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Crooked Hallelujah
- Written by: Kelli Jo Ford
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and 15-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever.
Written by: Kelli Jo Ford
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The Strangers
- Written by: katherena vermette
- Narrated by: Michaela Washburn
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers.
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Hard listen
- By L. Ward on 2022-06-06
Written by: katherena vermette
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The Sentence
- Written by: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention", must solve the mystery of this haunting.
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Loved this story
- By celia gjosund on 2022-03-29
Written by: Louise Erdrich
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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
- Written by: Margaret Verble
- Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two’s closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two’s shows, strange things start to happen at the park. Vestiges of the ancient past begin to surface, apparitions appear, and then the hippo falls ill.
Written by: Margaret Verble
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The Removed
- A Novel
- Written by: Brandon Hobson
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Studi, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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In the 15 years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation.
Written by: Brandon Hobson
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Empire of Wild
- Written by: Cherie Dimaline
- Narrated by: Michelle St. John
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou - a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up, grown-up "Little Red Riding Hood".
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a must read
- By Ron Dean Harris on 2019-09-20
Written by: Cherie Dimaline
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Crooked Hallelujah
- Written by: Kelli Jo Ford
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and 15-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever.
Written by: Kelli Jo Ford
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The Beadworkers
- Stories
- Written by: Beth Piatote
- Narrated by: Beth Piatote, Christian Nagler, Fantasia Painter, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An 11-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college - one French and the other Lakota - each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce - Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.
Written by: Beth Piatote
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Noopiming
- The Cure for White Ladies
- Written by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics.
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Heart-warming, -breaking, -expanding
- By Bradley Clements on 2023-05-08
Written by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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The Seed Keeper
- A Novel
- Written by: Diane Wilson
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.
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A new favourite
- By Andrew Atkin on 2023-05-24
Written by: Diane Wilson
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Too Much Lip
- Written by: Melissa Lucashenko
- Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit. She quickly discovers that Bundjalung country has a funny way of latching on to people—not to mention her chaotic family and the threat of a proposal to develop a prison on Granny Ava’s Island, the family’s spiritual home.
Written by: Melissa Lucashenko
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Ceremony
- Written by: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who he is.
Written by: Leslie Marmon Silko
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Sufferance
- A Novel
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. the Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn’t expected to see and has come away from the abyss with no hope for himself or for the future.
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Honest Review for other King Fans
- By Anonymous User on 2021-10-24
Written by: Thomas King
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The Lesser Blessed
- Written by: Richard Van Camp
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Larry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies are hotter than the sun. At 16, he loves Iron Maiden, the North, and Juliet Hope, the high school "tramp". When Johnny Beck, a Metis from Hay River, moves to town, Larry is ready for almost anything. In this powerful and often very funny first novel, Richard Van Camp gives us one of the most original teenage characters in fiction.
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The narrator doesn’t know how to pronounce Métis
- By Rose Minde on 2023-02-25
Written by: Richard Van Camp
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The Break
- Written by: Katherena Vermette
- Narrated by: Michaela Washburn
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night.
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Every Canadian must read
- By Anonymous User on 2018-03-20
Written by: Katherena Vermette
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Indian Horse
- A Novel
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" ( New York Times).
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
- By Anonymous User on 2018-11-11
Written by: Richard Wagamese
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Dream Wheels
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Tom Stechshulte
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his subsequent bitter depression, but without success. Meanwhile, in a distant city, a troubled young kid named Aiden plans a holdup that goes wrong and lands himself in jail.
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Dream Wheels
- By Farpoint Girls on 2020-04-05
Written by: Richard Wagamese
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Monkey Beach
- A Novel
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Noelle Kayser
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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As she races along Canada's Douglas Channel in her speedboat - heading toward the place where her younger brother Jimmy, presumed drowned, was last seen - 20-year-old Lisamarie Hill recalls her younger days. A volatile and precocious Native girl growing up in Kitamaat, the Haisla Indian reservation located 500 miles north of Vancouver, Lisa came of age standing with her feet firmly planted in two different worlds.
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Lived inside the story
- By Krow Fischer on 2018-08-14
Written by: Eden Robinson
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Traplines
- Stories
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Molly Elston
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Traplines is extraordinary fiction that presents the menacing underside of family life. In crackling prose, Eden Robinson describes homes ruled by bullies, psychopaths, and delinquents; families whose conflict resolution techniques range from grand theft to homicide; and kids who just can't get a break.
Written by: Eden Robinson
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There There
- A Novel
- Written by: Tommy Orange
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
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Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
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A Stunner!
- By Karen on 2018-09-18
Written by: Tommy Orange
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The Back of the Turtle
- A Novel
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Doug Philip
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel's sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel's family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for Domidion, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others.
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Find a different audio version of this book
- By Kathy Tillotson on 2019-10-26
Written by: Thomas King
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Birdie
- Written by: Tracey Lindberg
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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She is on something of a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns - Jesse from The Beachcombers - because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Birdie heads for Molly's Reach to find answers, but they are not the ones she expected. With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Birdie begins to draw from her dreams the lessons she was never fully taught in life.
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I'm not too sure why they chose this narrator
- By Michael on 2018-01-08
Written by: Tracey Lindberg
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Pushing the Bear
- A Novel of the Trail of Tears
- Written by: Diane Glancy
- Narrated by: Diane Glancy
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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In 1838, 13,000 Cherokee were forced to leave their home in the Southeast and walk 900 miles to present-day Oklahoma. Hunger, cold, and disease threatened their very survival. Their grueling trek - the Trail of Tears - takes on new immediacy and meaning with this stunning work of fiction. Maritole loses not only her home and her settled life in North Carolina, but also many of the people closest to her. A chorus of voices joins hers to vividly recreate the tragic story of the Cherokee removal.
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Good book.
- By Anonymous User on 2023-09-24
Written by: Diane Glancy
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Prudence
- Written by: David Treuer
- Narrated by: Chris Patton
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he's about to leave behind: his hovering mother, the distant father to whom he's been a disappointment, the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own, and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has become something much more intimate.
Written by: David Treuer
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The Grass Dancer
- Written by: Susan Power
- Narrated by: Susan Power
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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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 Dress's teenage descendant Charlene Thunder has fallen hopelessly in love with Harley Wind Soldier, the dashing traditional dancer of Ghost Horse's lineage.
Written by: Susan Power
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Walking the Trail
- Written by: Robert J. Conley
- Narrated by: William L. Sturdevant
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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They named him Striker, because the day he was born he was said to have tried to hit the midwife. It's a name the young Cherokee would live up to throughout his early years, carrying with him the anger of watching his parents and best friend die on the Trail of Tears. Landing at Fort Gibson an orphan, Striker spends the next few years with other Cherokee children earning an education, and developing a burning desire to kill white men.
Written by: Robert J. Conley
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Mapping the Interior
- Written by: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Eric G Dove
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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Walking through his own house at night, a 15-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
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Hard to get Through
- By Stormy Angela hart on 2022-03-05
Written by: Stephen Graham Jones
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Where the Dead Sit Talking
- Written by: Brandon Hobson
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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With his mother in jail, Sequoyah, a 15-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface - that is, until he meets the 17-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American backgrounds and paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah's feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both.
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Totally enjoyed.
- By Syl on 2023-06-14
Written by: Brandon Hobson
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LaRose
- A Novel
- Written by: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
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loved it
- By Keliann Roe on 2023-08-02
Written by: Louise Erdrich
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The Plague of Doves
- Written by: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
Written by: Louise Erdrich
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Starlight
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Wesley French
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the best-selling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive power of love, mercy, and compassion - and the land's ability to heal us.
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Didn't want it to end - and it didn't
- By Anonymous User on 2019-04-01
Written by: Richard Wagamese
Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
- Written by: Drew Hayden Taylor
- Narrated by: Drew Hayden Taylor
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle, Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.
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Fantastic book, I highly recommend it
- By Thérèse on 2023-01-26
Written by: Drew Hayden Taylor
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Future Home of the Living God
- A Novel
- Written by: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backward, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
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Interesting premise; too ethereal for my taste.
- By Charismatic on 2023-09-18
Written by: Louise Erdrich
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.
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Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
- By TheMer on 2020-01-31
Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
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Son of a Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby) - and now she's dead.
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Excellent Story
- By sannna on 2017-12-18
Written by: Eden Robinson
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Trickster Drift
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex - a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And his mother, Maggie, a living, breathing badass as well as a witch, can't protect him like she used to because he's moved away from Kitimat to Vancouver for school. Even though he's got a year of sobriety under his belt (no thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom), Jared also struggles with the temptation of drinking.
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Great improvement by the narrator
- By Anonymous User on 2020-02-17
Written by: Eden Robinson
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Return of the Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom's old house in Kitimat, some of the people he loves - the ones who don't see the magic he attracts - just think he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. The truth for Jared is so much worse.
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Ended not with a bang, but with Aunt Irma
- By MeVz on 2021-05-20
Written by: Eden Robinson
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
- Written by: Drew Hayden Taylor
- Narrated by: Drew Hayden Taylor
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle, Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.
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Fantastic book, I highly recommend it
- By Thérèse on 2023-01-26
Written by: Drew Hayden Taylor
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Future Home of the Living God
- A Novel
- Written by: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backward, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
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Interesting premise; too ethereal for my taste.
- By Charismatic on 2023-09-18
Written by: Louise Erdrich
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.
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Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
- By TheMer on 2020-01-31
Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
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Son of a Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby) - and now she's dead.
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Excellent Story
- By sannna on 2017-12-18
Written by: Eden Robinson
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Trickster Drift
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex - a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And his mother, Maggie, a living, breathing badass as well as a witch, can't protect him like she used to because he's moved away from Kitimat to Vancouver for school. Even though he's got a year of sobriety under his belt (no thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom), Jared also struggles with the temptation of drinking.
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Great improvement by the narrator
- By Anonymous User on 2020-02-17
Written by: Eden Robinson
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Return of the Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom's old house in Kitimat, some of the people he loves - the ones who don't see the magic he attracts - just think he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. The truth for Jared is so much worse.
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Ended not with a bang, but with Aunt Irma
- By MeVz on 2021-05-20
Written by: Eden Robinson
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Robopocalypse
- A Novel
- Written by: Daniel H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.
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Very good and such a glimpse into our possible future
- By Graeme on 2023-09-18
Written by: Daniel H. Wilson
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VenCo
- Written by: Cherie Dimaline
- Narrated by: Michelle St. John
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, are about to be evicted from their apartment. Bad to worse in a heartbeat. Then one night, doing laundry in the building's dank basement, Lucky finds a tarnished silver spoon depicting a story-book hag over letters that spell out S-A-L-E-M. Which alerts Salem-born Meena Good, finder of a matching spoon and one of the most powerful witches in North America, to Lucky's existence.
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I want to listen all over again.
- By Krow Fischer on 2023-06-22
Written by: Cherie Dimaline
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Black Sun
- Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger.
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Can’t wait for the next instalment
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-25
Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
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Trail of Lightning
- Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse have destroyed most of the planet…yet out of these waters, Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation, has been miraculously reborn. Listen along as Tanis Parenteau's impeccable narration, capturing the rhythms of Navajo speech, fully envelopes you into the Sixth World. Trail of Lightning follows our heroine as she walks the land alongside gods, heroes of legend, and monsters alike.
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predictable
- By Groomergirl on 2020-04-01
Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
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Fevered Star
- Between Earth and Sky, Book 2
- Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God’s eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded?
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A Solid Sequel
- By Anonymous User on 2023-08-29
Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
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Tread of Angels
- Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1883, and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the high mountains of Colorado with the help of the pariahs of society known as the Fallen. The Fallen are the descendants of demonkind living among the Virtues, the winners in an ancient war, with the descendants of both sides choosing to live alongside Abaddon’s mountain in this tale of the mythological West from the best-selling mastermind Rebecca Roanhorse.
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Disappointing.
- By Lindsay B. on 2022-11-17
Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
Biographies & Memoirs
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Poet Warrior
- A Memoir
- Written by: Joy Harjo
- Narrated by: Joy Harjo
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice.
Written by: Joy Harjo
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A History of My Brief Body
- Written by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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With the lyricism and emotional power of his award-winning poetry, Belcourt cracks apart his history and shares it with us one fragment at a time. He shines a light on Canada’s legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it. He revisits sexual encounters, ruminates on first loves and first loves lost, and navigates the racial politics of gay hookup apps. Among the hard truths he distills, the outline of a brighter future takes shape. A History of My Brief Body is a stunning achievement from one of this generation’s finest young minds.
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One of those Life-changing books
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-05-18
Written by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Black Water
- Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory
- Written by: David A. Robertson
- Narrated by: David A. Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Black Water is a memoir about intergenerational trauma and healing, about connection and about how Don’s life informed David’s own. Facing up to a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey together back to the trapline at Black Water and through the past to create a new future.
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Epic, David!
- By Anonymous User on 2021-08-09
Written by: David A. Robertson