Isabella Star LaBlanc
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English
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Best of 2023 - Fiction
Carol Shields Prize Longlist 2024
Indigenous People's Month Adult
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Carol Shields Prize Longlist 2024
Indigenous People's Month Adult
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"From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.... Sissy, born 1961: Sissy's relationship with her beautiful and volatile mother is difficult, even dangerous, but her life is also filled with beautiful things, including a new Christmas present,...
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English
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2023 Lincoln Award Nominees
AMPL Native American Heritage Month
Best Books of 2021 - Teen
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AMPL Native American Heritage Month
Best Books of 2021 - Teen
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"Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths." --
3) Dark roads
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English
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"For decades, people have been warned about the Cold Creek Highway. Hitchhikers have vanished along it over the years, and women have been known to have their cars break down ... and never be seen again. When Hailey McBride decides to run away from an unbearable living situation, she thinks that her outdoor skills will help her disappear into the Cold Creek wilderness, and she counts on people thinking that she was the victim of the killer. One year...