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Paul is about to graduate near the top of his class as a motorcycle mechanic. He was once a gang member but, having served his time, is about to be released from prison. All he needs is a job and a safe place to live. Paul is also an Aboriginal of the Kamilaroi mob, trying to live between two cultures, yet he faces misunderstanding, racism and intolerance nearly every day. In this book, Peter J. Uren explores the impact Paul's experiences have on the lives of the old mechanic and those who work in his workshop.

A great tale of western romance, action and courage as the Lanes go west, facing many hardships as they search for the mighty warrior Lone Eagle. Identical twins, 3-year-old William and Phillip Lane, grandsons of General Horatio Lane are torn apart when their wagon train is attacked by the mighty Sioux warriors. William and his sister Virginia are found by a passing army patrol but Phillip is missing. Eighteen years later at the Fort Laramie Treaty Council a close family friend sees a warrior identical in looks to William. Follow the Lane's west as a courageous family seeks the missing twin...

This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.

In the year 1850, an adolescent Filipina girl is captured by marauding pirates and tossed into a whirlpool of turmoil. Emerging from her misfortune, she finds herself bravely traversing from Hawaii to The Cascade Mountains and onward into the American Old West. By chance, she stumbles upon a treasure of gold extracted by Chinese miners,and hidden before the Chelan Chinese Massacre.. Fate and her quest to return to the Philippines push her onward. Saddle your horse and hang on as you follow her down the path of her adventure! The trail is laced with actual historical events and Native ...

Hashké Yił Naabaah is summoned on a pursuit to restore peace and harmony to Dinétah. Nínááníbaa' wonders if her own heart is prepared to never feel love again. She stops to think about life without love, the kind of love that her husband showers upon her. Leaving their sacred land is a painful decision forced upon them, but Hashké Yił Naabaah and Nínááníbaa always relied on their love, prayers, and kinship in overcoming hardship, loneliness, and suffering. Will they escape the shackles of war and reunite with their children within the four sacred mountains of Dinétah?

A novel within a novel, we read here Milton’s account of the story of their childhood even as, years later, he remains jealous of Matthew’s extraordinary abilities and unlikely success. Milton reveals secrets about their friendship, their families, and their nightmarish, sometimes surreal, experience of imprisonment. In revisiting the past, he explores the echoing traumas of racial and institutional violence and the systemic injustices in our systems of incarceration and so-called reform.

In the hours before dawn at a local summer camp, Bureau of Indian Affairs archaeologist Syd Walker receives an alarming call: newly discovered skeletal remains have been stolen. Not only have bones gone missing, but a Native teen girl has disappeared near the camp, and law enforcement dismisses her family's fears.

In the latest novel in the highly acclaimed contemporary western thriller series, a mysterious Native American pleads with Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins. At the same time, an arsonist goes on a rampage. As Nick mounts a desperate search for the children, he is forced to fight fire with fire when the pyromaniac targets the people and land he loves.

WARNING: This book contains adult content, violence, language, and sexy Natives behaving badly,(m/f/m sex scenes). Fifteen years earlier… Elizabeth LaRue is just starting her career as an FBI agent out of DC. She’s tough, driven, and ready to do whatever it takes to get the job done. After all, she was born to be a Fed. Olivia Spencer is good at one thing in life—keeping her partner, Elizabeth LaRue, from burning down DC. As a Fed, she’s taken an oath to protect and serve for her country. She’s not going to let anyone down. Failure isn’t an option. Livy always gets what she ...

Nick Drake confronts a double-feature of murder and mysticism when Sheriff Pudge Warbler enlists him to catch a killer among the movie stars and film crew turning Harney County into a celluloid version of the Old West. At the same time, he runs afoul of a sinister gold mining company after finding an old prospector shot in the back.

When a young woman linked to a list of missing Fire-Sky tribal members commits suicide, Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is assigned to the case. As the investigation unfolds, she uncovers a threat that strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a Fire-Sky Native: victims chosen and murdered because of their genetic makeup. But these deaths are not just about a life taken. In a vengeful twist, the killer ensures the spirits of those targeted will wander forever, lost to their family, their people, and their ancestors.

Ed Landry is on the run, chased by his haunted past and plagued by the ghostly voice of old Johnny St. Pierre. He finds himself in Oklahoma—and the wolves are howling again.

Book four in the Erotica series, (Warning: Explicit sex! Threesomes, violence and adult content) Mistakes are made every day. Some cost nothing and others cost the ultimate price. Love, happiness and life. Desdemona Adare's life is falling apart all around her. From a relationship that's imploding, to the mysterious disappearance of her sister. The people she'd come to resent are now the only ones that can help her find the truth. Elizabeth Blackhawk is the bane of her relationship with Callen Whitefox, but now she needs to trust her worst enemy to find the truth in her quest for answers. ...

Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts.

Explore the enchanting world of Polynesian folklore in this beautiful collection of traditional stories. A woman falls in love with the king of the sharks. Two powerful sorcerers compete in a battle of magical wits. The king of Maui's fastest messenger races to bring a young woman back from the dead. In these traditional tales, the borders blur between life and death, reality and magic, and land and sea.

An unsolved murder. A mysterious fire. And a bizarre dancing figure promising death. Geneva Granger’s husband died under suspicious circumstances three years ago. She’s done her best to move on without him, but when an acquaintance sends a cryptic message indicating that he has new information regarding her husband’s death, Geneva can’t ignore it. Venturing into Navajo Nation, she reconnects with old friends and seeks the truth—but the people she questions end up dead. FBI agent Justin Fox didn’t expect an arson-murder investigation on a Navajo reservation to embroil him in a ...

From Kirk Mitchell comes a riveting suspense thriller in the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh, featuring Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops searching for justice between their heritage and the law.

Bleek Blackmon III, stood at the window of the home he grew up in, staring out over the expansive property, property he owned. His grandfather built the structure with his own hands more than eighty years earlier when he was a forty year old husband and father with an infant son. In those days it was a rare thing to see a Black man with his own ranch, a ranch with acres of land, horses, cattle and a field of vegetables as far as the eye could see. The first Bleek had worked twenty years and saved every penny to purchase the land and the livestock, forgoing love and a social life to have his...

Taken captive by a Shawnee war party wasn't how Charity Edmonson hoped to escape an unwanted marriage. Nor did Shawnee warrior Wicomechee expect to find the treasure promised by his grandfather's vision in the unpredictable redheaded girl.

This is a beautifully graphic edition of a gripping wartime epic. It takes place on Adak and Attu islands in 1943 during World War 2 and concerns the difficulty of the Aleutian battle theatre, the native Aleuts and their vampire myths, and the incredible journey of a US Army lieutenant sent there to fight.