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OverDrive eBooks November 2019
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"Knowledge is rooted in all things. The world is a library." -- Lakota proverb
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November is Native American Heritage Month
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38 Nooses : Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
by Scott W. Berg
Placing this seminal moment in our history in the larger context of the Civil War, this gripping true account revisits the little-known Dakota War of 1882 during which 38 Dakota warriors were hanged the morning after Christmas for defending their lands from white soldiers and settlers on the Minnesota frontier.
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The Searchers : the Making of an American Legend
by Glenn Frankel
Traces the making of the influential 1950s film inspired by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, sharing lesser-known aspects of Parker's 1836 abduction by the Comanche and her heartbreaking return to white culture, in an account that also explores how the movie reflects period ambiguities.
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
A three-century history of the United States from the perspectives of its indigenous people challenges popular beliefs to argue that government practices were genocidal in nature and that Native Americans actively resisted expansion of a U.S. empire.
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Red Sparrow
by Jason Matthews
Drafted against her will to serve Vladimir Putin's regime as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before forbidden attraction threatens their careers.
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Our Kind of Traitor
by John Le Carré
Vacationing in Antigua, Perry and Gail are recruited by a big-time Russian money launderer to help him defect, an arrangement for which he promises to expose financial corruption but renders the couple pawns in a deadly scheme, in a book that is soon to be a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor.
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The Kremlin Conspiracy
by Joel C. Rosenberg
When a rising czar in the Kremlin feverishly consolidates power and plots a lightning-fast military strike to rupture the NATO alliance, former U.S. Secret Service agent Marcus Ryker is challenged to save an America on the brink of war by using the skills he mastered to protect one world leader to take down another. By the best-selling author of The Last Jihad.
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The Fox
by Frederick Forsyth
When America's intelligence agencies are breached by a teen hacker, a British MI6 leader endeavors to use the boy's talents to safeguard both nations from unseen enemies. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal.
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The Defector
by Daniel Silva
A tale set after the best-selling Moscow Rules finds Gabriel Allon attempting to resume his honeymoon when he learns of the disappearance of a suspected double agent who recently saved his life, a situation for which British intelligence blames Allon, due to his enabling the man's alleged activities.
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Red Square : a Novel
by Martin Cruz Smith
With the fall of Soviet Communism, Inspector Arkady Renko returns from exile to a radically different Moscow and finds himself embroiled in a confrontation with Russia's new criminal elite, the terrifying Russian underworld.
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