#hardcover #mystery #detective #oklahoma #texas

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A Novel

Tribal policeman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond team up again to solve two gruesome murders in this follow-up to Nail's Crossing

In a driving sleet storm, a farmer has discovered a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond realizes it's her elderly friend, Alice. Meanwhile, at the Golden Play Casino, robbers posing as armored-car guards kill a local stickball hero and friend of Chickasaw Lighthorse Police detective Bill Maytubby.

The trail leads through the quarry-scarred Oklahoma badlands to a remote airstrip and a planeload of drugs and untraceable automatic weapons. Also somehow connected are a shady coin-op vending company; a neo-Nazi compound outside Paris, Texas; and a headless janitor in a train-mangled van. As the net tightens, the smugglers get wind of their pursuers and converge on Maytubby and Bond at Greasy Bend Bridge.

Greasy Bend

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#hardcover #fiction #vintage #classic #historical #Oklahoma #settlers #epic

New York

Cimarron

Hardcover no dust jacket. Scuff to front cover. #hardcover #fiction #outofthedust #karenhesse #greatdepression #oklahoma #innerstrength #historicalfiction #childrens #kids 

California

Out of the Dust

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#hardcover #nonfiction #tigerking #memoir #oklahoma #netflix #joeexotic 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

The Official Tell-All Memoir

More than just a true crime documentary, Netflix's Tiger King provided an exclusive glimpse into the bizarre, cult-like world of big cat enthusiasts. By focusing on Joseph Maldonado-Passage, it gave us an unexpected anti-hero whose insatiable appetite for fame and his paranoid obsession with rival Carole Baskin ultimately led to his shocking downfall. In this no-holds-barred memoir, Joe pulls back the curtain on the man behind the headlines. From a tragic childhood riddled with abuse to his dangerous feuds with big cat rivals and beyond, nothing is off the table. Print run 150,000.

Tiger King

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Oklahoma

To Heal and Be Whole - From India to Oklahoma City

With every life comes challenge. How we deal with challenge is central to a life well-lived. The human spirit is resilient. We can grow through pain and become whole again. Even vibrant. Renowned Oklahoma City Psychiatrist R. Murali Krishna, M.D., has witnessed the strength of the human spirit. Now in his 60s, he wants to share the defining moments along with the defining lessons of his life. He shares his greatest joys and his greatest sorrows. He poses tough questions and guides you through exercises to take ownership of your own happiness. Vibrant will help you claim your spirit and explore your inner strength. It is within each of us to be vibrant!

Vibrant

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#hardcover #autobiography #petrolium #capitalist #financier #Oklahoma

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

My Own Odyssey 

#hardcover #scentofthemissing #oklahoma #dog #rescue #search 

Texas

Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog

Describes how the author was inspired to volunteer by the brave contributions of Oklahoma City bombing search-and-rescue dog teams, her relationship with exuberant canine Puzzle and their efforts during numerous search-and-rescue operations.

Scent of the Missing

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#paperback #lisawingate #adoption #music #symphony #mystery #family #oklahoma #choctaw #ancestors 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Adopted at the age of thirteen and encouraged to pursue her love of music, twenty-year-old Dell Jordan risks her future and a musical scholarship to Julliard to seek the truth about her past to embark on a secret journey into Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains to seek answers about her Choctaw heritage. Original.

A Thousand Voices

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#hardcover #oklahoma #trains #harmonica #rillaaskew #travel #hitchhike #abuse

Kentucky

Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family's yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his music, and their daughter with his charm. Soon he and his fourteen-year-old bride, Sharon, are on the road, two more hobos of the Great Depression, hitchhiking and hopping freights across the Great Plains in search of an old man and the settlement of Harlan's long-standing debt.

Finding shelter in hobo jungles and Hoovervilles, the newlyweds careen across the 1930s landscape in a giant figure eight with Oklahoma in the middle. Sharon's growing doubts about her husband's quest set in motion events that turn Harlan Singer into a hero while blinding her to the dark secret of his journey. A love story infused with history and folk tradition, Harpsong shows what happened to the friends and neighbors Steinbeck's Joads left behind.

In this moving, redemptive tale inspired by Oklahoma folk heroes, Rilla Askew continues her exploration of the American story. Harpsong is a novel of love and loss, of adventure and renewal, and of a wayfaring orphan's search for home--all set to the sounds of Harlan's harmonica. It shows us the strength and resilience of a people who, in the face of unending despair, maintain their faith in the land.

Harpsong

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Next time you're driving through southeastern Oklahoma, be mindful of what road you're taking, the places you pass and the folks you see or talk with. Especially when passing through Little Dixie. Little Dixie...what...never heard of it? Doesn't matter. Just keep on driving. Soon as you start noticing the Taco Bells and suburbs changing into trailer parks and decaying antebellum mansions, the cemeteries and pawnshops outnumbering the schoolhouses and public parks, you'll know just where the hell you are. Little Dixie, where everyone has a story to tell, a Moonpie to share, and something ugly hanging from the family tree. Dead hookers that won't stay dead...the frozen memories of a haunted moviehouse that refuses to let the past die...desperate men doing desperate things to pull themselves out of desperation...the ghoulish revenge of children forced into the insanity of violence...a satanic farm where murder is the bumper crop... This is The Little Dixie Horror Show.

The Little Dixie Horror Show

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#hardcover #blackhistory #tulsamassacre #greenwood #oklahoma

I’ve just finished reading and it’s still in good shape.

Maryland

The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors--white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more--a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid-twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America--and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward.

Black Birds in the Sky

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#paperback #fiction #newberymedalwinner #dustbowl #scholastic #trauma #regrowth #adversity #oklahoma #farming #family 

An Apple Signature Edition

Delaware

Home Life on the Prairie

#paperback #drama #fiction #oklahoma #barbarakingsolver #pigsinheaven #bestseller 

Florida

Pigs in Heaven

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Vintage romance set in Oklahoma #hardcover #historicalfiction #historicalromance #oklahoma #vintage 

After her first and only suitor leaves her at their engagement party, Tulsa May Bruder, the town wallflower, gives the town gossips something to talk about when she begins a very public courtship with childhood friend Luther Briggs. Original.

Runabout

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First edition copy, 1977. Missing the frontspiece, and mild jacket wear consistent with age. Overall great condition.

 #hardcover #birdwatching #birding #fieldguide #naturalism #colorplates #Oklahoma #birds #nature #natureguide 

Colorado

First Edition

"Rarely has the novice been introduced to basic avian biology so expertly & in such a lucid & delightful manner as in this little book."--THE WILSON BULLETIN

Fifty Common Birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great Plains

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Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation. With the family's annual bonfire approaching--an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory--Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despite--or perhaps because of--his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo. Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma--a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.

The Removed

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#truecrime #nonfiction #paperback #history #nativeamerican #oklahoma #killersoftheflowermoon

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z. • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Look for David Grann’s latest book, The Wager, coming soon!

Killers of the Flower Moon

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#Cheyenne #1500milequest #littlewolfdullknife #Yellowstone #struggle #indianterritory #Oklahoma #1878 #rarefind Note the cover is in rough shape but the book is in tact, although well read and treasured. 


Michigan

Cheyenne Autumn

#paperback #nativeamerican #americanindian #fiction #novel #oklahoma #1890s #truewindbooks

Wynema: A Child of the Forest is a protofeminist novel that also denounces the inequalities suffered by American Indians. It is believed to be the first novel written by a woman of Native American descent and the first novel written in Oklahoma.Wynema tells the story of a Muscogee Creek girl named Wynema Harjo and her teacher, Genevieve Weir. The novel introduces the reader to traditional American Indian customs, such as festivals, dances, rituals and food. It also covers major themes that are representative of the time, like the women's suffrage movement, Indian allotment and the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee.This version of Wynema is based on the first edition text of 1891, as originally published.Edited with an introduction, biography and further reading list by Truewind Books.

Wynema: a Child of the Forest

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Ohio

#paperback #fiction #oklahoma #racialissues

"A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families - one white, one Black - whose lives are woven together and then shattered" (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter's high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories - and those of others close to them - unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city's prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.

Fire in Beulah

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#NativeAmerican #Oklahoma  #trailoftears
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A Memoir

In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. She attended an Indian arts boarding school, where she nourished an appreciation for painting, music, and poetry; gave birth while still a teenager; and struggled on her own as a single mother, eventually finding her poetic voice. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice. Harjo's tale of a hardscrabble youth, young adulthood, and transformation into an award-winning poet and musician is haunting, unique, and visionary.

Kris Lackey

Greasy Bend

Edna Ferber

Cimarron

Karen Hesse

Out of the Dust

Joe Exotic

Tiger King

R. Murali Krishna; Kelly Dyer Fry (Editor); Alan Herzberger (Editorial Coordinator); Scott Horton (Designed by)

Vibrant

Gordon Tasker Schaul

My Own Odyssey

Susannah Charleson

Scent of the Missing

Lisa Wingate

A Thousand Voices

Rilla Askew

Harpsong

Mer Whinery

The Little Dixie Horror Show

Brandy Colbert

Black Birds in the Sky

John D. Moody

Leslie Ray Moore 1957

Karen Hesse

Out of the Dust

Susan Hichstetler

Home Life on the Prairie

Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven

Pamela Morsi

Runabout

George Miksch Sutton

Fifty Common Birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great Plains

Brandon Hobson

The Removed

David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon

Mari Sandoz

Cheyenne Autumn

Sophia Callahan

Wynema: a Child of the Forest

Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven

Rilla Askew

Fire in Beulah

Joy Harjo

Crazy Brave