“A beautiful, moving novel, cut from the American heartwood.” —Ursula K. Le Guin“Clear-eyed, breathtaking . . . . Filled with heart and insight.” — Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai’s GardenThrough the wide eyes and lofty dreams of two people trying to make their mark on the world, bestselling author Molly Gloss weaves a remarkable story of humans and horses, hope and heartbreak, told by one of the most winning narrators ever t...

From bestselling and award-winning author Molly Gloss comes her first complete collection of short stories—including two brand-new, original tales.Award-winning author Molly Gloss’s career retrospective collection of short stories comprises of two new stories. Unforeseen celebrates fourteen of her imaginative tales including her best-known story, “Lambing Season”.This collection includes:“Interlocking Pieces”“Joining”“Seaborne”...

A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award • Winner of the Oregon Book Award"An instant classic. . . a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." —William Kittredge, author of Owning It AllA widowed homesteader is determined to make a life in the unforgiving mountains of late 19th century Oregon in this “powerful novel of struggle and loss.” (Dall...

In 1938, 19-year-old cowboy Bud Frazer sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies. Fantasizing about rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth, he leaves his home in Echol Creek, Oregon, and heads for Hollywood. On the long bus ride south, Bud meets a young woman who also harbors dreams of making it in the movies, though not as a starlet but as a writer, a real writer. Lily Shaw is bold and outspoken and confident in ways completely out of proportion with he...

Every myth is based on a true story.Every piece of the present is potentially a myth in the making.Those who become myth redefine reality.The only obstacle preventing the cruel rule of the Protogenoi over Havcire and Vestigium is the declaration of the Protogenoi Trials. All Protogenoi are required to compete, and only one can make it out alive.Having accepted her nature as a Protogenoi, Dawn has unleashed t...

It’s 1960. In a small logging town called Calamus that’s about as far in the middle of nowhere as you can get, Wade Curren, star of the high school baseball and football teams, is content living out his role of local hero, holding court in the corner booth of the town diner where his girlfriend Lorna waits tables.Lorna, working to support her family, is plotting her escape from their small town. Fiercely independent and an avid reader of the kinds of books that aren’t taught in sch...

Award-winning author Molly Gloss' The Hearts of Horses is an elegant, heartwarming story about the profound connections between people and animals.In the winter of 1917, nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen saddles her horses and heads for a remote county in eastern Oregon, looking for work “gentling” wild horses. She chances on a rancher, George Bliss, who is willing to hire her on. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war, and he glimpses, beneath h...

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award • Winner of the Oregon Book Award • A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist""An instant classic. . . a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling."" —William Kittredge, author of Owning It AllA widowed homesteader is determined to make a life in the unforgiving mountains of late 19th century Oregon in this “powerful novel of struggle and loss.” (Da...

In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss's doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her on. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war, and he glimpses, beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but strong-willed girl with a serious knowledge of horses.So begins the irresistible tale of nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. It was thought that the only way to brea...

Based on the life of bronc rider Doughbelly Price, The Diamond Hitch tells the story of Dewey Jones, western cowman and rodeo hooligan, as he travels the circuit throughout the Southwest in search of that one big purse that will punch his ticket out of rodeo bumming and into a more normal life. O'Rourke effectively evokes the sights, sounds and smells of the cowboy way presenting an unvarnished glimpse into this vanished way of life.

Here's a secret. Every myth is based on a true story.Fifteen-year-old Dawn is currently living her twenty-seventh life. She is in a system that gives her the opportunity to redeem herself and earn a utopian afterlife after she majorly messed up her very first life. Mind you, she has no memory of that first life and what she did to get her here. The afterlife is run by Celestials, the ones who have inspired every myth that exists.Phoenix, mythological inspiration for beings ...

"Opening it up to any random story will make you feel humbled, grateful, and best of all, not alone."—Anette Radonski, Military Spouse JD NetworkConversations are the heart of a gathering among friends.In Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life, military spouses, parents, children, and service members gather together to laugh, cry, lend perspective, and share personal stories from their military life experience. From...