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...
Cherokee
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Author:Verble, MargaretSummary: - Author:Ehle, JohnSummary:
The moving, searing story of the betrayal and brutal dispossession of the Cherokee Nation.
- Author:Hobson, BrandonSummary:
For fifteen years, the Echota family has been grieving their son. As the family's annual bonfire approaches, each of them feels a blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world.
- Author:Crow, DavidSummary:
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David...
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Author:McKinney-Whitaker, CourtneySummary:Set during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–61), The Last Sister, by Courtney McKinney-Whitaker, traces a young woman's journey through grief, vengeance, guilt and love in the unpredictable world of the early American frontier. After a band...
- Author:Perdue, Theda, Green, Michael D.Summary:
Historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian...
- Author:Shrake, EdwinSummary:
Doc Swift -- half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer -- seeks the supernatural creature who guards the treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle; Green Grass, Running Water and The Inconvenient Indian Thumps DreadfulWater's world is turned upside down when Nina Maslow, the producer of a true-crime reality...
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Author:Leppard, Lois GladysSummary:Mandy is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin.
- Author:Clapsaddle, Annette SaunookeSummary:
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...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
Thumps DreadfulWater is a Cherokee ex-cop trying to make a living as a photographer in the small town of Chinook, somewhere in the northwestern United States. But he doesn't count on snapping shots of a dead body languishing in a newly...
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Author:King, ThomasSummary:Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could...
- Author:Sorell, TraciSummary:
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. This story traces her journey from being the only girl in a high-school math class to becoming a teacher to...
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Author:Sedgwick, JohnSummary:An astonishing untold story from America's past-a sweeping, powerful, and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee. Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee...
