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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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Paradise valley : a novel / by Box, C. J.,author.;
For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. And she almost caught him ... once. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. Standing by, ready to close the net are half a dozen undercover officers, including Cassie's fiance Ian. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls to Cassie. Disgraced, she loses her job and investigation into her role is put into motion. At the same time, Kyle Westergaard, a troubled kid whom Cassie has taken under her wing, has disappeared, telling everyone he is going on a long-planned adventure. Kyle's grandmother begs Cassie to find him and with nothing else to do, she agrees--all the while planning a new trap for The Lizard King. But Cassie is now a lone wolf. And in the same way that two streams converge into a river, Kyle's disappearance may have a more sinister meaning than anyone realizes. With no allies, no support, and only her own wits to rely on, Cassie must take down a killer who is as ruthless as he is cunning. But can she do it alone, without losing her own humanity or her own life?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Policewomen; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Woman walks ahead [videorecording] / by White, Susanna,film director.; Knight, Steven,1959-screenwriter.; Camp, Bill,actor.; Chastain, Jessica,1977-actor.; Greyeyes, Michael,actor.; Hinds, Ciarán,1953-actor.; Krause, Louisa,1986-actor.; Rockwell, Sam,actor.; Southerland, Boots,actor.; Spencer, Chaske,actor.; Tangen, Rulan,actor.; A24 (Firm),presenter.; Elevation Pictures,publisher.;
Music, George Fenton ; edtiors, Lucia Zucchetti, Steven Rosenblum ; director of photography, Mike Eley.Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, Louisa Krause, Chaske Spencer, Sam Rockwell, Boots Southerland, Ciaran Hinds, Bill Camp, Rulan Tangen.Catherine Weldon is a widowed artist from New York who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull. Her arrival at Standing Rock is met with open hostility by a US Army officer, who has stationed troops around the Lakota reservation to undermine Native American claims to the land. As Catherine and Sitting Bull grow closer, their friendship and his life are threatened by the government, and Catherine must stand up to fight for what is most important.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Western films.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Weldon, Catherine; Sitting Bull, 1831-1890; Lakota Indians;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The round house / by Erdrich, Louise.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Indian families; Indian reservations; Indian women; Life change events; Ojibwa Indians;
© c2012., Harper,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jesus camp [videorecording (DVD)] / by Ewing, Heidi E.; Grady, Rachel.; Mongrel Media;
Examines an evangelical Christian summer camp for children in North Dakota.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, Dolby digital stereo.AFI/Silverdocs Film Festival 2006, Sterling Feature Grand Jury Award ; Tribeca Film Festival 2006, Special Jury Award.
Subjects: Christian education of children; Church camps; Documentary films; Evangelists; Religious camps.;
© c2007., Distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Walk the wire / by Baldacci, David,author.;
Amos Decker -- the FBI consultant with a perfect memory -- returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series. When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom has also brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution -- and now murder. Decker and Jamison are ordered to investigate the death of a young woman named Irene Cramer, whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open -- which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case. As Decker and Jamison dig into Irene's life, they are shocked to discover that the woman who walked the streets by night as a prostitute was a teacher for a local religious sect by day -- a sect operating on land once owned by a mysterious government facility that looms over the entire community. London is a town replete with ruthless business owners, shady government officials, and religious outsiders, all determined to keep their secrets from coming out. When other murders occur, Decker will need all of his extraordinary memory and detective skills, and the assistance of a surprising ally, to root out a killer and the forces behind Cramer's death ... before the boom town explodes.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Decker, Amos (Fictitious character); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Government investigators; Murder; Photographic memory; Memory; Hydraulic fracturing;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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The mighty Red : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author.;
"In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy; Visions; Weddings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The mighty Red [text (large print)] : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author.;
"In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy; Visions; Weddings;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Walk the wire [sound recording] / by Baldacci, David,author.; Brewer, Kyf,narrator.; Cassidy, Orlagh,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy.Amos Decker -- the FBI consultant with a perfect memory -- returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series. When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, and the community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom has also brought a slew of problems with it, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution -- and now murder. Decker and Jamison are ordered to investigate the death of a young woman named Irene Cramer, whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open -- which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case. As Decker and Jamison dig into Irene's life, they are shocked to discover that the woman who walked the streets by night as a prostitute was a teacher for a local religious sect by day -- a sect operating on land once owned by a mysterious government facility that looms over the entire community. London is a town replete with ruthless business owners, shady government officials, and religious outsiders, all determined to keep their secrets from coming out. When other murders occur, Decker will need all of his extraordinary memory and detective skills, and the assistance of a surprising ally, to root out a killer and the forces behind Cramer's death ... before the boom town explodes.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Decker, Amos (Fictitious character); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Government investigators; Hydraulic fracturing; Memory; Murder; Photographic memory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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