Showing results for "Montana" in Literary Fiction

Foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is livid. She's been downsized from her Kabul posting. Her editor reassigns her to a stateside suburban beat formerly the province of interns. When she arrives in Montana for some R&R at a friend's cabin, her friend is nowhere in sight. Anger turns to terror when Lola discovers her friend shot dead. She can't get out of Montana fast enough, until she finds that she can't get out at all.

The author of the widely praised Lunch with a Bigot gives us a remarkable novel - reminiscent of Teju Cole, W. G. Sebald and John Berger - about a young new immigrant to the United States in search of love: across dividing lines between cultures, between sexes, and between the particular desires of one man and the women he comes to love.

Part of Ivan Doig’s acclaimed Montana trilogy, English Creek revolves around Jick McCaskill, a 14-year-old growing up in 1930s Montana. This incandescent coming-of-age tale dramatizes the climatic events of one summer that inevitably mark Jick’s awakening from childhood to adulthood.

Welcome to Travers Corners, a dusty Montana town, where nothing much has happened since Herbert Hoover stopped for gas. Travers Corners, like most small towns, has no newspaper, no radio station; but here, large trout - no better than large trout, fictitious trout - await the angler. And apart from spreading gossip outside the McCraken’s General Store, the residents of Travers Corners love nothing more than fly fishing. Scott Waldie’s delightful cast of characters breathes life into this tiny, out-of-the-way town.

From the national bestselling author of Breaking Wild, here is a riveting and powerful thriller about a woman whose greatest threat could be the man she loves.… Marian Engström has found her true calling: working with rescue dogs to help protect endangered wildlife. Her first assignment takes...

La historia épica de dos amigos que recorrieron uno de los caminos más difíciles y exigentes del mundo: el GRAN CAMINO DEL HIMALAYA Sin experiencia en alta montaña ni la ayuda de guías o porteadores, Sergi Unanue y su compañero se lanzaron a una locura que muy pocos se atreven siquiera a...

Ed and Kim experience unexpected consequences when they try to reunite their adopted daughter with her Native American heritage. The couple decides to take turns splitting their time between their Seattle condo and the second home they've built on the Montana prairie so Kaitlyn can get to know her birthplace.

Après de multiples péripéties, Pierre, un Français, retrouve Paul, son frère, qui s'est évaporé dans le Montana, quelque vingt ans plus tôt. Les retrouvailles sont disloquées par une guerre interne au sein de la réserve Blackfeet où Paul vit avec sa compagne native américaine. Un des principaux belligérants de la réserve est assassiné et les deux frères sont soupçonnés de ce meurtre. Lorsque son frère lui enjoint de retourner immédiatement chez lui, en France, Pierre fait volte-face et décide de se laisser tenter aussi par la fuite.

Everything's bigger in Big Sky country, including the hearts of the Montana Men Wide open sky, rolling green hills . . . Gillian Tucker could get used to life in the country—one far from the violence she left behind in San Francisco. Warily accepting an invitation to the Montana ranch that...

Al sur de Kioto, junto a la vía del tren de la línea de Keihan, a sólo una parada de la ciudad, hay un monasterio. Una escalada laberíntica conduce al nieto del príncipe de Genji a este lugar apartado. No muy lejos de allí, dicen, tiene que hallarse el jardín más hermoso del mundo. Camina por todo el recinto del monasterio como movido por una fuerza interior. Una construcción sutil ha dado forma a la naturaleza, cada cosa tiene su lugar y cada forma su significado.

Esta novela lanza una mirada profunda y valiente sobre la infancia desprotegida en Colombia, la soledad, el maltrato, la violencia y el sufrimiento de tantos niños y niñas en nuestro país. Esa indiferencia cotidiana, tan común, se contrapuntea con una narración...

For readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end...

With echoes of Demon Copperhead and Plainsong, a poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an aging rancher, and a woman at a crossroads, who find unexpected solace and kinship in the family they make. With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his...

In this “thrilling” love story (Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers and Five Tuesdays in Winter), a teenage girl with a checkered past finds instant chemistry with a mysterious stranger.​ When sixteen-year-old Cindra Zoeller is sent to a reform camp in Montana after being involved in an...

Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with The Home Place, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana in the...