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Novellas
by Jim Harrison
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by Peter Heller
Published Mar 2015
Read ReviewsPeter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.
by Howard F. Mosher
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsFrom bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.
by Glen Duncan
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsHere is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legendmesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first centurya man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.
by Philip Connors
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsA decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude.
by Laura Bell
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsBy turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
by Ron Rash
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsIn Burning Bright, Pen/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of unforgettable characters. With this masterful collection of stories that span the Civil War to the present day, Rash, a supremely talented writer who recalls ...
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.
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
by Lydia Peelle
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsIn Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, Lydia Peelle brings together eight brilliant storiestwo of which won Pushcart Prizes and one of which won an O. Henry Prizethat peer straight into the human heart.
by Mark Spragg
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsSet in the high-country of Wyoming, this is a riveting tale of hard-won friendship, old wounds, fresh pain and love lost and found.
The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse
by Louise Erdrich
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsA passionate and poetic writer, Louise Erdrich lends both elegance and wit to her most ambitious novel to date. The Last Report reaffirms Erdrich's status as one of America's best novelists.
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