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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Colo. Wyo. Mont.

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  • The Heart in Winter
    Kevin Barry
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Award-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of ...
  • Where Coyotes Howl
    Sandra Dallas
    Paperback: 04/30/2024
     
    Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century ...
  • Panther Gap
    Panther Gap: A Novel
    James A. McLaughlin
    Paperback: 04/02/2024
     
    The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award–winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of ...
  • You Have a Friend in 10A
    Maggie Shipstead
    Paperback: 04/18/2023
     
    From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible ...
  • Go as a River
    Go as a River: A Novel
    Shelley Read
    Hardcover: 02/28/2023
     
    Set amid Colorado's wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is ...
  • Best Laid Plans
    Best Laid Plans: A Nora Best Mystery #1
    Gwen Florio
    Paperback: 07/27/2021
     
    In the first of a new mystery series, we meet Nora Best as she flees her old life, cheating husband and all, ...
  • Site Fidelity
    Claire Boyles
    Hardcover: 06/15/2021
     
    Set in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life ...

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