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2020., Findaway World, LLC Call No: IND Fic FOr Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and 15-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine's father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church -- a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine -- a mixed-blood Cherokee woman -- and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world -- of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and tornadoes -- intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home.
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-- Dreadful Water.2017., Adult, HarperPerennial Call No: IND MYS Fic Kin Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 body left behind a newly completed luxury condo resort built by the local Indian band. it's a mystery that Thumps can't help but get involved in, especially when he realizes that the number-one suspect is Stick Merchant, anti-condo protester and wayward son of Claire Merchant, head of the tribal council and DreadfulWater's sometimes lover. Smart and savvy, with bone-dry humour, DreadfulWater just can't manage to shed his California cop skin. It's not long before he finds himself far down the rabbit hole-deeply entangled in a mystery, with his work cut out for him. .
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2006., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: IND MYS Fic Kin Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dreadfulwater mystery. Volume: 2Summary Note: Thumps DreadfulWater has never liked surprises—even the good ones are annoying. So it’s no shock that a string of seemingly random occurrences is causing Thumps some real discomfort. First Noah Ridge, the Red Power Native activist, arrives in Thumps’ sleepy town of Chinook. Then the body of a retired FBI agent turns up at the local Holiday Inn. In the background hovers the ghostly presence of Lucy Kettle, second-in-charge of the Red Power movement, a tough woman in a tough place until her disappearance years ago. Now the sheriff wants Thumps to trade in his photography gig for a temporary cop beat. And it won’t be over, Thumps soon realizes, until everyone’s dead—or famous. Hailed by critics in his first appearance, Cherokee ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater is back in rumpled but razor-sharp form, doing his laconic, comic best to avoid trouble—and catch the bad guys. Bestselling writer Thomas King has penned a second entertaining DreadfulWater mystery, injected with the author’s characteristic dry wit and biting social commentary. .
