If Olivia Marsden has the perfect life ... a good marriage, great kids, and a strong faith, then why is this dark cloud of depression hanging over her? Why can't her doctor simply prescribe a pill or therapy that will make her fear go away? If only life were so simple ...

"It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...

Originally known as the "Omaha Dance," and arriving among the Dakota of Spirit Lake by 1870, the Grass Dance is much more than a dance. It is a male fraternal organization with warrior society roots. Louis Garcia, a scholar of Dakota cultural history, documents the organization, ceremonies, and dance halls of the Grass Dance, including the development of a women's dance society and the transition into modern powwows.

Seeking a fresh start during the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Hannah's Amish family moves from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a North Dakota homestead, but face harsh realities and nearly starve until Hannah takes matters into her own hands.

Gift: Wind Cave.

Descending 1,885 miles straight down the center of the United States from Westhope, North Dakota, to Brownsville, Texas is U.S. 83, one of the oldest and longest of the federal highways that hasn't been replaced by an Interstate. Stew Magnuson takes readers on a trip down the road and through the history of the Northern Great Plains. The famous and the forgotten are found in stories he discovers in the Dakotas. Explorers Pierre de la Verendrye, Lewis...

"Set against the backdrop of North Dakota's oil boom, two very different mothers form an uneasy alliance to find their missing sons in this heartrending and suspenseful novel from the Edgar Award-nominated author of Garden of Stones. The booming North Dakota oil business is spawning "man camps," shantytowns full of men hired to work on the rigs, in towns without enough housing to accommodate them. In such twilight spaces, it's easy for a person to...