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by David Joy
Published Jul 2023
Read ReviewsAcclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (the Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them.
by JP Gritton
Published Nov 2019
Read ReviewsA cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, Wyoming is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself.
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
by Denis Johnson
Published Jan 2019
Read ReviewsTwenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on aging, mortality, and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson
by Robert Olmstead
Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsA gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction--the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as the only route to economic solvency. And the intimate story of how that hunt changed two people forever.
by Brian Panowich
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2015 BookBrowse Debut Author Award
From a remarkable new voice in Southern fiction, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.
by Brian Hart
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsSet in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, a spellbinding novel of fate and redemptiontold with a muscular lyricism and filled with a cast of characters Shakespearean in scopein which the lives of an ill-fated family are at the mercy of violent social and historical ...
by Lin Enger
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsBreathtaking portrait of the vast Plains landscape are matched by the rich expanse of characters' emotional terrain, as pivotal historical events blend seamlessly in this story of a family's sacrifice and devotion.
by Paul Lynch
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsLanguage and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. A visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.
by Daniel Woodrell
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsTwelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
by Steve Earle
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsA brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.
by Elmore Leonard
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsWith tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, The Hot Kid is Elmore Leonard - a true master -at his best.
by Dorothy Garlock
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsSettle back and enjoy the heartwarming story of the Jones family, who meet life's incredible challenges with bravery, humor, and zest in The Edge Of Town - set in the Midwest in the 1920s.
Beyond The Great Snow Mountains
by Louis L'Amour
Published Apr 2000
Read ReviewsVintage L'Amour stories of men and women pitted against impossible odds, yet struggling to do what's right.
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