Slim Sanglant, released from prison, is now seeking revenge against those in Upamona who helped put him there, and Red Skene, former U. S. Marshal and now County Sheriff is the man on his trail. There is a killing, houses and a barn are set on fire, and people come up missing before Red can get to the bottom of it. And get to the bottom of it he does with the help of his half-breed deputy, Bushy Carlsen, who is hit by a bolt of lightning that knocks him unconscious just as he sees who he t...

U. S. Marshal Red Skene is on the trail of two prison escapees who have joined up with Slim Sanglant, the meanest, toughest, and biggest sheepherder in Upamona. Working under cover as Utahs worst outlaw, Skene plans to join the gang, but his plans are changed when he has a run-in with Sanglant. Red helps his cousins, Fred and Jed Cadwell, with their gold mine in the High Uintahs where Sanglants gang has been digging on the Cadwell claim. Skene meets and falls in love with Colleen Ryan. Rue...

A collection of short stories from "a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's" (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review ).Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age twenty-six. In 1983 the posthumous publication of this book—a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and grace, t...

Doreen Sizemore gets guilt-tripped by her preacher into leaving the comfort of her Kentucky hometown to help cook for a Christian youth camp on a remote island in Ontario, Canada. Doreen’s strongly held belief that “it just don’t pay to travel” seems justified when she ends up in the middle of yet another murder mystery.

When Martin McKenna was growing up in Garryowen, Ireland, in the 1970s, he felt the whole world knew him as just that stupid boy.” Badly misunderstood by his family and teachers, Martin escaped from endless bullying by running away from home and eventually adopting-or being adopted by-six street dogs. Camping out in barns, escaping from farmers, and learning to fend for himself by caring for his new friends, Martin discovered a different kind of language, strict laws of behavior, and stra...

Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also available as Bison Books.

"[A] compelling debut…Townsend's writing [is] full of fresh turns of phrase and keen insights." —Ayana Mathis, New York Times Book ReviewFourteen-year-old Audrey Martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky—but when her fingers touch the piano keys, the whole church trembles. Her best friend, Caroline, daydreams about Hollywood stardom, but both girls feel destined to languis...

More Western wit, wisdom, and words to live by!Whether the glass is half empty or half full depends on whether you're drinking or pouring.A stranger's business ain't yours.We might not be so bad off if we had a little less of everything.Henry Ward Beecher said "the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next." This follow-up the multimillion-selling collection of cowboy wit and wisdom shares the sor...

Earl, a 20-something Southern kid, is adrift in life. After his father's death, his mother - who can no longer deal with him - sends him to live with his grandmother in Memphis. His grandmother, getting senile and paranoid, turns him out on the streets of Memphis and from there his path leads him to New York City. In New York, Earl works as a hustler, then as a kept boy, but ultimately fails at both. Addicted and lost, he ends up on a train back to Omaha, where his mother keeps her door cl...

Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended Josie Eddleman's life. Nevermind that he was the last one to see her alive.But in a town filled with the likes of an amoral tabloid reporter known only as The Captain, a district attorney who'll do anything for a confession, and Bob's parents, who care as little for Bob as they do for each other, guilt and innocence are little more than a matter of p...

The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel.This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in he...

A bizarre murder in an idyllic Southern town propels a boy and his father into a world of evil in this World Fantasy Award–winning horror novel.New York Times –Bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–Winning AuthorSmall town boys see weird sights, and Zephyr has provided Cory Jay Mackenson with his fair share of oddities. He knows the bootleggers who lurk in the dark places outside of town. On moonless nights, he's heard...