Tingle, Tim
Summary: When his mother leaves, sixteen-year-old Bobby, a Choctaw, begins living in a hole in his backyard to avoid his abusive father, and is surprised to find friends and neighbors willing to help him. Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TINKhan, Hena
Summary: "Early Friday morning, Zain leaps out of bed ready to save the world from alien invaders! But his dad has other plans for Zain on this special day of the week. Dad takes Zain to the mosque and guides him through his first jumu'ah prayers. But Zain's quest for a superhero adventure leads to supersize distractions. Can Zain rein in his powerful impulses and appreciate this special experience with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHATison, Ari
Summary: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TISFuller, Alexandra
Summary: "From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FULBird, James
Summary: After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a "boot camp" at the Ojibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIRMeyer, Philipp
Summary: Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meyer 2013Akhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AKHSabatinelli, Elisa
Summary: When a greedy entrepreneur searching for a legendary pearl forces Hector's family to close their tourist expedition business in an Italian coastal town, Hector decides to thwart the man's plans and save the sea, his family, and his dream of becoming a deep-sea diver, just like his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SABCrummey, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRUTingle, Tim
Summary: As the basketball playoffs draw near, Chocktaw teen Bobby Byington shares the legend of No Name with his teammates, who are dealing with family problems all too familiar to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TINBruchac, Joseph
Summary: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: A "novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. The Nez Perce help the explorers build canoes and navigate the rapids of the Columbia, then spend two months hosting them the following spring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBTingle, Tim
Summary: Life is better for Choctaw teenager Bobby Byington as he returns to the basketball team, helps teammate Lloyd and neighbor Faye through some difficulties, and sees his family drawing close again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TINGarey, Juliann.
Summary: In a look at mental illness that weaves togther three timelines, Greyson Todd leaves his successful Hollywood career and wife and young daughter to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he has been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARFeist, Raymond E.
Summary: "The magician Pug and the Conclave of Shadows undertake a magical quest to reveal the dark force that's orchestrating Midkemia's destruction."--[p. 4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEIArrows, Mark
Summary: Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span across massive ice-wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within them. The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface, but that doesn't mean it's safe... Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ARRChaudhuri, Amit
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALondon, Jonathan
Summary: A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it becomes a habit and makes one feel good.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2003
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E LonLesley, Craig.
Summary: Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead, his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck, leaving him with his son, Jack, whom he hardly knows, Danny uses the magnificent stories of Red Shirt to guide him toward true fatherhood. Together, Danny and Jack begin to make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESFujiwara, Kiyo.
Summary: "With the sudden appearance of his long lost father, Rakuto must deal with a whole new world of emotions--feelings of betrayal and abandonment followed by anger. For a guy used to keeping himself on a thight leash, these emotions may be more than he can cope with. Will Sachie be able to help him keep it together?"--p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WILAkella, Shastri
Summary: "For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling theater troupe Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC AKEAhmad, Aamina
Summary: "Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AHMBluey
Summary: Everyone loves Bandit, but especially Bluey and Bingo! He's always making up funny games, playing Daddy Robot, and taking them on exciting adventures. This is the perfect book to celebrate your dad on Father's Day, or any day, and share what makes him awesome!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: "A young boy aspires to make a bowl of ramen as delicious as his dad's, and runs into some surprises--both delightful and disastrous--on his first attempt"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023