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  • Book Highlight: Legendary Frybread Drive-In

    The road to Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June’s serves up more than it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again. That big…

  • Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland Review

    Tiger Lily has long been a subject of interest for lovers of Neverland and Peter Pan. She’s brave, and fiesty, a nicer counterpart to the boy who will never grow up as she aims to be a wise chief like her father. Plus she’s more mischevious than the mini-adult Wendy. No wonder fans long for…

  • Winter Books

    Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Someone said that this was like a modern Bridget Jones Diary but I’d say this was a bit deeper than that. Yes, the titular Queenie does have a bonkers love life and sometimes she doesn’t know how to put the oven on and her personal and business life cna get messy…

  • Book Highlight: Notable Native People

    This informative nonfiction book by Cherokee writer and creator, Adrienne Keene educates readers about 50 Native people, past and present who are helping to change the future by renewing and reclaiming their heritage and traditions. As stated in her introduction, she felt the need to write this book in order to reclaim the narrative that…