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OverDrive Audiobooks November 2017
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"You don't have anything if you don't have the stories." -- Leslie Marmion Silko
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November is Native American Heritage Month
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
On a New Mexico reservation, one Navajo family--including Tayo, a World War II veteran deeply scarred by his experiences as a Japanese POW and by the rejection of his own people--struggles to survive in a world no longer theirs in the years just before and after World War II.
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The Long Knives are Crying : a Novel
by Joseph Marshall
In the sequel to Hundred in the Hand, in 1875, Sitting Bull gathers the warriors of the Lakota in a final attempt to stop white settlement on native lands, in a sweeping story of the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn as narrated by Cloud, in a historical volume that also documents the Battle of the Rosebud and the aftermath of Little Bighorn.
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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person who destroyed his family.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.
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November is Aviation History Month
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East to the Dawn : the Life of Amelia Earhart
by Susan Butler
Ten years in the writing and drawing on many newly available documents, an illustrated, comprehensive biography recounts Earhart's varied life as a social worker, fashion plate, wife, and pilot, and dispels the myths surrounding her disappearance in 1938.
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The Flyers : in Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright
by Noah Adams
Drawing on letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, and other primary source material, this incisive portrait focuses on the accomplishments of the Wilbur and Orville Wright, in a volume celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.
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