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• The Marrow Thieves

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  This book unfolds in a dystopian future where Indigenous people are hunted for their bone marrow. It won the Kirkus prize for young adult literature and is being adapted into a television series.

• VenCo

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Empire of Wild

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  A genre-bending novel whose modern Indigenous characters confront environmental degradation, discrimination and the threat of cultural erasure, all while battling a devious monster.

• Future Home of the Living God

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  A work of dystopian science-fiction. It is a world where evolution suddenly moves in reverse. The novel follows a woman who traces her roots back to her native birth mother. She seeks answers, amid panic over her own unborn child. This novel delves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Only Good Indians

  a Novel

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Friends who grew up on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana are haunted by an elk-hunting trip they took 10 years earlier. The young men, who were caught hunting illegally on land reserved for tribal elders, are stalked by a vengeful spirit who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mongrels

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  A werewolf coming-of-age story!

• Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  A young adult fantasy about a 17-year-old Lipan Apache girl who can awaken the ghosts of dead animals and sets out to solve her cousin’s murder.

• A Snake Falls to Earth

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  A literary, post-apocalyptic thriller. 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trail of Lightning

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  The first novel in a four book fantasy series (The Sixth World), is set on a reservation after a flood destroys most of North America and reawakens traditional gods and monsters. The series centers on a Navajo woman named Maggie, who has superhuman…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  Inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.

• Robopocalypse

  a Novel

  Wilson, Daniel H. (Daniel Howard), 1978-

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  A novel set two decades into the future, where humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.

• Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time

  An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology

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  An anthology of science fiction and urban fantasy stories starring First Nations and Metis characters with a LGBT and two-spirit theme.

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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  Dark Indigenous fiction, perfect for spooky season!

• Walking the Clouds

  An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction

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  In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction Grace Dillon collects some of the finest examples of the craft with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors. The collection…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Place

  150 Years Retold

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  Explore the last 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in the graphic novel anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through magic realism, serial killings,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  Stories

  Vowel, Chelsea,

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  Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Praiseworthy

  Wright, Alexis, 1950-

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  Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation