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The case of Windy Lake / by Hutchinson, Michael,1971-;
The Mighty Muskrats, a group of four cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation, won't let anything stop them from solving the case of a missing archeologist.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Cousins; Indians of North America; Missing persons;
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Jabuti the tortoise: a trickster tale from the Amazon / by McDermott, Gerald;
All the birds enjoy the songlike flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture, who jealous he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.
Subjects: Indians of South America; Tales; Turtles; Vultures;
© c2001., Harcourt,
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The case of the missing auntie / by Hutchinson, Michael,1971-;
The Mighty Muskrats have a new case to solve: to find the whereabouts of their grandpa's long-lost sister. Once in the bright lights of the big city, the cousins get distracted, face off with bullies, meet some heroes and unlikely teachers, and experience many of the difficulties First Nations kids can face in the city. The Muskrats' search for their missing auntie takes them all the way to the government, and reveals hard truths about their country's treatment of First Nation families.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Cousins; Indians of North America; Missing persons;
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I never said that I was brave : a novel / by Jamal, Tasneem,author.;
"Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly different from their parents'. Motivated by guilt and confusion, the unnamed narrator recounts the shifting dynamics of her lifelong friendship with Miriam, a charismatic astrophysicist who focuses on dark matter. As childhood immigrants to Canada from Uganda, the girls are able to assimilate (though not always easily). In adulthood, they chafe against the deeply held traditions and expectations of their South Asian community and their own internalized beliefs about women. As the narrator follows her memories on their unpredictable and unreliable paths, the reader is taken along on a devastating journey, one which blurs distinctions between right and wrong, victim and manipulator, life and death."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Astrophysicists; East Indians; Female friendship; Friendship; Interpersonal relations; Women;
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Meet me in Mumbai : a novel / by Khan, Sabina,1968-;
Meet Me in Mumbai is the extraordinary story of two teenage girls forced to understand the power and the consequences of their choices, and how family can be both formed and found over time.LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; East Indians; Teenage pregnancy; Man-woman relationships; Teenage girls; Choice (Psychology); East Indians; Mothers and daughters;
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This book won't burn / by Ahmed, Samira(Fiction writer),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.012+.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Books and reading; Censorship; East Indian Americans; Families; Muslims; Books and reading; Censorship; East Indian Americans; Family life; Families; Muslims;
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At the end of the century : the stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; with an introduction by Anita Desai. by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer,1927-2013,author.; Desai, Anita,1937-writer of introduction.; translation of:Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer,1927-2013.Short stories.Selections.;
Subjects: Short stories.; Cultural awareness; Cultural pluralism; East Indians; Interpersonal relations;
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She holds up the stars / by Laronde, Sandra,1964-;
The last thing that twelve-year-old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. She feels strangely compelled to go to the place where her dreams have been tugging at her to come home. Maybe she can finally find out what happened to her mother, who mysteriously disappeared when she was four years old. Misko discovers her unique ability to connect to a spirited horse named Mishtadim who is being violently broken in by the rancher next door and his son, Thomas. Although Misko and Thomas challenge one another, their friendship is forged through the taming of the wild horse. In the process, she realizes the true meaning of belonging and that you can never truly leave home.LSC
Subjects: Girls; Friendship; Wild horses; Ojibwa Indians; Ojibwe;
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Love marriage : a novel / by Ali, Monica,1967-author.;
"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into their car, packed with Indian food prepared by Yasmin's mother, to go to dinner to meet Joe's mother in her elegant townhouse in one of London's poshest neighborhoods. Contrary to all of Yasmin's fears, her unsophisticated and somewhat flamboyant mother is embraced and celebrated by Helen and her friends. Many complications ensue when Yasmin discovers that Joe has had an affair with a co-worker, and Yasmin's ne'er do well brother is banished from the house by her father, and Yasmin's mother moves to Helen's house in protest. Love Marriage is a story of emotionally fraught self-discovery and how the secrets people keep hidden affect their most intimate relationships. Joe hides the exact nature of his promiscuous past; Yasmin's brother and mother keep a monumental secret from their father; Yasmin has a wildly erotic affair of her own; and the story of her parents' love marriage proves to be a cover-up for a dark, tragic history. In the wake of extreme upheaval, Yasmin finds herself, and her life, transformed"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; East Indians; Interracial couples; Secrecy;
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When the shooting starts / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is a glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock--with a well-armed militia--the Jensens' dream becomes a living nightmare. Colonel Lamar Talbot claims there's a war looming with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre--by launching a bloody counterattack... Smoke and Sally aren't sure they trust him. They suspect the colonel and his men are nothing more than brutal vigilantes with a hidden agenda of their own. But the Cheyenne war parties are a very real threat. The tribe's charismatic leader, Black Drum, is launching raids on local ranches, farms, and the railroads, too. Every day, the violence gets worse and the war moves closer--until it reaches the Sugarloaf Ranch. That's when Sally gets attacked. That's when Smoke grabs his guns. That's when the shooting starts--and the final battle begins...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Jensen, Smoke; Frontier and pioneer life; Cheyenne Indians;
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