Richard Wagamese

• Aug-2006
• / General Fiction
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When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on t...

• Sep-2006
• / Historical
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Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his subsequent bitt...

• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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Four chronically homeless people -- Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger -- seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixe...

• Oct-2011
• / Suspense
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Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cr...

• Apr-2013
• / Thriller
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When Lucas Smoke learns the Ojibway art of carving from his grandfather, he proves to be a natural. He can literally make people come to life in wood. Then Lucas's growing reputation attracts a mysterious stranger, who offers him a large advance to c...

• May-2015
• / Literary
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A First Nations man helps his estranged father find a place to die in this novel by the award-winning author of One Drum and Indian Horse. “Richard Wagamese is a born storyteller.” -- Louise Erdrich When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his ...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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“This flawless novel is an epic tragedy graced with tendrils of hope . . . a powerful fictional illumination of a Native North American life.” -- Minneapolis Star TribuneNamed a “Best Novel of the Decade” by Literary HubThe Ba...

• Aug-2018
• / General Fiction
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The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel...

• Mar-2021
• / Literary
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Celebrated author Richard Wagamese artfully crafts these thrilling yet vulnerable stories of two young men trying to find their place in the world. The volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The...

• Apr-2025
• / General Fiction
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The first in a new series bringing the unmistakable voice of revered Ojibway author Richard Wagamese to children, this engaging fable of wisdom, kindness, and respect is beautifully illustrated by award-winning Anishinaabe artist Bridget George.In th...