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by Kevin Barry
Published Jun 2025
Read ReviewsAward-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.
by Carys Davies
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsAn exquisite, slender first novel set on the American frontier about a restless widower who heads west on a foolhardy and perilous expedition in search of unknown animals, leaving his intrepid young daughter behind to fend for herself at home.
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 Paul Lynch
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsA sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl on a life-changing journey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine.
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 James Scott
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsA scorching portrait of guilt and lost innocence, atonement and retribution, resilience and sacrifice, pregnant obsession and primal adolescence, The Kept is told with deep compassion and startling originality, and introduces James Scott as a major new literary voice.
by Kent Wascom
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsA remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible.
by Philipp Meyer
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsPart epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West.
by Claire Vaye Watkins
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsLike the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice.
by Philip Caputo
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsWhen Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family's sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest, where violence is a constant presence.... Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, Crossers is Philip Caputo's most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet.
by Robert Olmstead
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsNapoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa. But things go terribly wrong; his troop is brutally attacked, and Napoleon, left by his captors to die in the desert, reflects on his past as he struggles to survive.
by Gil Adamson
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsIn 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widowand her husband's killer.
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsAn epic masterpiece set in the 19th century American and Canadian West - a time when worlds collided, were destroyed and were built anew.
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.
by Robert R. Morgan
Published Oct 2000
Read ReviewsSet in the last years of the nineteenth century. Julie and Hank's new life in the valley of Gap Creek, in the Appalachian high country, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined.
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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