Having lost her husband in a farm accident, Mattie is forced to confront his hidden past and enlists their daughter, a woman ranch hand, and a runaway Native American boy to keep the family alfalfa ranch in business. By the author of Language in the Blood. Reprint.

Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still

Literature & Fiction

NELSON, Kent

United States

Penguin??Books

A marvelous novel filled with the beauties and hardships of life in the West For two years Neil Shanks has been living in Gold Hill, Colorado, putting off the moment when he must return to the family lumber business in Michigan—a business built from the fortune his great-grandfather mysteriously made over a century earlier. Driven by a hunch that it was a fortune founded on shame, young Shanks searches Gold Hill’s town records and collective memory, seeking clues to family secrets. But then suddenly it’s hunting season, and Neil’s friend, Becky Carlsson, fails to keep a rendezvous with her braggart husband, Finn, at their mountain campsite. With her disappearance, the rumors about what might have happened—between husband and wife or between Becky and Neil—start swirling around town. And as Saturday turns into Sunday, nobody in the rescue effort has to be reminded of the odds against survival. All Around Me Peaceful celebrates but never sentimentalizes the men and women who choose to live in this land of plenty, whose stunning beauty and abundance is matched only by the mysteries lurking at its heart.

All Around Me Peaceful

Delta

The construction of a bridge across a treacherous river becomes the sole focus of life for Carl Murcer, the rugged foreman of a cattle ranch in northern Montana, as a series of drastic changes alters his life

Cold Wind River

Dodd, Mead

All around me peaceful

Delta Books

Having lost her husband in a farm accident, Mattie is forced to confront his hidden past and enlists their daughter, a woman ranch hand, and a runaway Native American boy to keep the family alfalfa ranch in business. By the author of Language in the Blood. 20,000 first printing.

Viking Adult

The Spirit Bird: Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 67)

Winner of the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize The flight path of The Spirit Bird traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alaska; a poor single mother sorts out her life in a fancy mountain town. Other protagonists yearn to cross a racial divide, keep developers from a local island, explore their sexuality, and mourn a lost loved one. The characters in this collection are compelled to seek beyond their own horizons, and as the stories unfold, the search becomes the expression of their desires. The elusive spirit bird is a metaphor for what we’ve lost, for what we hope for, and for what we don’t know about ourselves.

University of Pittsburgh Press

Winner of the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize The flight path of The Spirit Bird traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alaska; a poor single mother sorts out her life in a fancy mountain town. Other protagonists yearn to cross a racial divide, keep developers from a local island, explore their sexuality, and mourn a lost loved one. The characters in this collection are compelled to seek beyond their own horizons, and as the stories unfold, the search becomes the expression of their desires. The elusive spirit bird is a metaphor for what we’ve lost, for what we hope for, and for what we don’t know about ourselves.

The Middle of Nowhere Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Peregrine Smith Books

Scott Talmadge, a temporary professor of ornithology at the University of Arizona, is recruited by an old friend to help rescue a party of Guatemalan refugees, and while crossing the desert he must face himself, his failed marriage, and his past

Language in the Blood

Gibbs-Smith

Includes such stories as "The Tarpon Bet," "The Trogon Dish," "Discoveries," "Learning to Dream," and "Invisible Life"

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Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still

All Around Me Peaceful

Cold Wind River

All around me peaceful

Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still

The Spirit Bird: Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 67)

The Spirit Bird: Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 67)

The Middle of Nowhere Stories

Language in the Blood

The Middle of Nowhere Stories