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LaRose / by Erdrich, Louise,author.;
Subjects: Hunting accidents; Children; Atonement; Ojibwa Indians; Indian families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Future home of the living god : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author.;
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Regression (Civilization); Dystopias; Pregnant women; Adoptees; Ojibwa Indians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The sentence : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author.;
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 while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Paranormal fiction.; Psychological fiction.; All Souls' Day; Bookstores; Ex-convicts; Haunted places;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The sentence [sound recording] : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author,narrator.; Blackstone Audio, Inc.,publisher.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.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 while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Ghost stories.; Paranormal fiction.; Psychological fiction.; All Souls' Day; Bookstores; Ex-convicts; Haunted places;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The night watchman : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author.;
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Indigenous peoples; Ojibwe; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The night watchman [sound recording] : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author,narrator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Ojibwe;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Mighty Red [text (large print)] : A Novel. by Erdrich, Louise.;
In 'The Mighty Red', Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary peoples lives. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. From the author of 'The Sentence' and 'The Night Watchman'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Coming of Age; FICTION / Cultural Heritage; FICTION / Indigenous; FICTION / Indigenous/General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or AI/AN); FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense;
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The Porcupine Year [electronic resource] : by Erdrich, Louise.aut; Erdrich, Louise.ill; cloudLibrary;
The third novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits. When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey in search of a new home. Pushed to the brink of survival, Omakayas continues to learn from the land and the spirits around her, and she discovers that no matter where she is, or how she is living, she has the one thing she needs to carry her through. The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews wrote that The Porcupine Year is “charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life.”
Subjects: Electronic books.; Multigenerational; 19th Century; Native American;
© 2009., HarperCollins,
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The Game of Silence [electronic resource] : by Erdrich, Louise.aut; cloudLibrary;
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home. The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”
Subjects: Electronic books.; Multigenerational; 19th Century; Native American;
© 2009., HarperCollins,
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When Two Feathers fell from the sky / by Verble, Margaret,author.;
"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Cherokee women; Indigenous peoples; Nineteen twenties;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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