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"A 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. 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...
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It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...
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At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...
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Fireside Industries Books, and imprint of the University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...
10) Ravenmocker
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
258 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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251 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up executed on the grave of the deceased woman, Barry is forced to confront her family as the...
12) Betty
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
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First edition.
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465 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"A stunning, lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl, with only the compass of her father's imagination, must navigate racism, sexism, and the dark secrets that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings....
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Five Trails West volume 1
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Five Star, A part of gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
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301 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
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English
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Ruth Harris and her younger brother, Jerry, who are of mixed Cherokee and white heritage, head down the Ohio with their parents to settle new country, perhaps in Arkansas. Pirates kill their parents, and the kids become captives on a Mississippi River island. Ruth is forced into marriage with a ne'er-do-well and bears his child; Jerry seems destined to become a pirate. Then the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 intervenes.
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1997
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257 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Officer Molly Bearpaw, crime investigator for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, probes the death of a woman shaman found hanging in a library. Suspects range from the local medicine man, afraid the shaman would take away business, to the wife of a man having an affair with the shaman. By the author of Seven Black Stones.
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Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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This captivating historical novel takes listeners inside the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s and sweeps us away in a surprising and unforgettable love story. Temple Gordon is the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader and a young woman of uncommon beauty. Raised on her family's grand Southern plantation, Temple is fiercely devoted to Cherokee traditions and her lover, The Blade Stuart, a visionary committed to...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
478 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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In Zeke and Ned, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have created an American masterpiece: funny, exuberant, compelling, violent, and tragic. Set in the Cherokee Nation not Jong after the Civil War, Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors, living men whose story is not merely legend, but history -- their fates a consequence of the brutal policies which produced the Trail of Tears. As a child, Zeke Proctor...
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Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume [unnumbered pages] : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Bo wants to find the perfect container to show off his traditional marbles for the Cherokee National Holiday in this exploration of volume and capacity"--
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Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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"The Vampire Council of New Orleans has hired Jane to hunt and kill one of their own who has broken sacred ancient rules. But she quickly realizes that in a community that is thousands of years old, loyalties run deep. With the help of her witch best friend and local vigilantes, Jane finds herself caught between bitter rivalries--and closer than ever to the secret origin of the entire vampire race. But in a city of old grudges and dark magic, Jane...
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