Kent Nelson
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Thousands travel every year to admire the beauty of the San Juan Mountains. Unfortunately, with joy comes danger. People confront circumstances they hadn't imagined or planned for. These stories of climbing accidents, lost hunters, Jeep rollovers, and bear encounters show what happens when things go wrong."--from back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Explore the human longing for connection in these fourteen deceptively simple stories that stay hooked in the imagination long after the final page.
In these fourteen breathtaking stories, award-winning author Kent Nelson explores how very different people from disparate cultures (a rancher involved in a fight for water rights, a musician hired to play for a catatonic woman, a Native young man and woman coming of age on an Arizona reservation, a...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
"Set on an alfalfa ranch east of the Black Hills of South Dakota, this novel about three uncommon women explores the nuances of place, character, grief, and renewal. Mattie Remmel has lost her husband in a farm accident, and in her grief discovers a secret about him he had not meant to reveal. Deciding to keep the ranch running, she enlists the help of her daughter, Shelley, an insecure college student, and hires a drifter ranch hand, Dawn, who is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"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...
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