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Drowning in the Desert
A Nevada Noir Novel
ISBN: 9781647791186
Pub Date: 22 August 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Norman “Fats” Rangle, an ex-deputy sheriff, operates a horse stabling and excursion business with his brother and sister-in-law on their family ranch in the small rural community of Blue Lake, a few hours outside of Las Vegas. But fate has other plans for him when, high on a southern Nevada mountain range, Fats discovers the wreckage of a plane that crashed two years earlier. Although he reports his find to the sheriff, he does not disclose that someone had already been to the crash site—evidence that Fats deliberately destroyed.
The Ghost Dancers
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647790240
Pub Date: 14 September 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Lyman “Bean” Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, is reassesing his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and—through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society—political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt. Rushmore.
This Here Is Devil's Work
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647790042
Pub Date: 23 February 2021
Format: Hardcover
308 Pages
In this unflinching, dramatic adventure, modern-day wildland firefighters and cattle rustlers struggle for survival in a changing western landscape. Braiding the stories of two firefighters (Morgan...
The Brightest Place in the World
A Novel
ISBN: 9781948908412
Pub Date: 3 June 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Based on a true event, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives and interactions of six Las Vegans in the wake of an industrial disaster. Grief and regret, disloyalty and atonement, infatuation and love—all are on display as the characters struggle to recover and adjust when their lives are forever changed.
The Desert Between Us
A Novel
ISBN: 9781948908566
Pub Date: 15 April 2020
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
When Sophia Hughes meets Geoffrey Scott in St. Thomas, a scrap of inhospitable desert in the Utah Territory, she is torn between her attraction for the stranger, her fidelity as a polygamist wife, and her unresolved feelings for the man who abandoned her.
Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End
ISBN: 9780874174786
Pub Date: 20 December 2016
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
When Gary Snyder’s long poem Mountains and Rivers Without End was published in 1996, it was hailed as a masterpiece of American poetry. Anthony Hunt offers a detailed historical and explicative...
The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain
Stories
ISBN: 9781943859290
Pub Date: 22 May 2017
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
A vivid story collection centered around down-and-out, hardscrabble individuals
Literary Nevada
Writings from the Silver State
ISBN: 9780874177596
Pub Date: 1 August 2008
Format: Paperback
896 Pages
The first comprehensive literature anthology of Nevada with over 200 selections from traditional Native American tales to contemporary writings on contemporary environmental concerns.
Little Lost River
A Novel
ISBN: 9781948908535
Pub Date: 28 March 2008
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
A coming-of-age novel set in Boise, Idaho tells the story of the friendship between two teenaged girls.<br>
Carol and John Steinbeck
Portrait of a Marriage
ISBN: 9780874179309
Pub Date: 20 October 2013
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
In Steinbeck’s formative years, she was his mainstay, his partner, his inspiration

Drowning in the Desert
A Nevada Noir Novel
ISBN: 9781647791186
Pub Date: 22 August 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Norman “Fats” Rangle, an ex-deputy sheriff, operates a horse stabling and excursion business with his brother and sister-in-law on their family ranch in the small rural community of Blue Lake, a few hours outside of Las Vegas. But fate has other plans for him when, high on a southern Nevada mountain range, Fats discovers the wreckage of a plane that crashed two years earlier. Although he reports his find to the sheriff, he does not disclose that someone had already been to the crash site—evidence that Fats deliberately destroyed.
The Ghost Dancers
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647790240
Pub Date: 14 September 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Lyman “Bean” Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, is reassesing his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and—through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society—political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt. Rushmore.
This Here Is Devil's Work
A Novel
ISBN: 9781647790042
Pub Date: 23 February 2021
Format: Hardcover
308 Pages
In this unflinching, dramatic adventure, modern-day wildland firefighters and cattle rustlers struggle for survival in a changing western landscape. Braiding the stories of two firefighters (Morgan...
The Brightest Place in the World
A Novel
ISBN: 9781948908412
Pub Date: 3 June 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Based on a true event, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives and interactions of six Las Vegans in the wake of an industrial disaster. Grief and regret, disloyalty and atonement, infatuation and love—all are on display as the characters struggle to recover and adjust when their lives are forever changed.
The Desert Between Us
A Novel
ISBN: 9781948908566
Pub Date: 15 April 2020
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
When Sophia Hughes meets Geoffrey Scott in St. Thomas, a scrap of inhospitable desert in the Utah Territory, she is torn between her attraction for the stranger, her fidelity as a polygamist wife, and her unresolved feelings for the man who abandoned her.
Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End
ISBN: 9780874174786
Pub Date: 20 December 2016
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
When Gary Snyder’s long poem Mountains and Rivers Without End was published in 1996, it was hailed as a masterpiece of American poetry. Anthony Hunt offers a detailed historical and explicative...
The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain
Stories
ISBN: 9781943859290
Pub Date: 22 May 2017
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
A vivid story collection centered around down-and-out, hardscrabble individuals
Literary Nevada
Writings from the Silver State
ISBN: 9780874177596
Pub Date: 1 August 2008
Format: Paperback
896 Pages
The first comprehensive literature anthology of Nevada with over 200 selections from traditional Native American tales to contemporary writings on contemporary environmental concerns.
Little Lost River
A Novel
ISBN: 9781948908535
Pub Date: 28 March 2008
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
A coming-of-age novel set in Boise, Idaho tells the story of the friendship between two teenaged girls.<br>
Carol and John Steinbeck
Portrait of a Marriage
ISBN: 9780874179309
Pub Date: 20 October 2013
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
In Steinbeck’s formative years, she was his mainstay, his partner, his inspiration