Fallen Land
10 best books like Fallen Land (Patrick Flanery): Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana, Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears, The Hired Man, Local Souls, Graphic the Valley, Ride a Cockhorse, Praying Mantis, The Morels, Little Elvises, A Decent Interval
Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana
| Author | Patti Wheeler |
| ISBN | 1608325857 |
National Outdoor Book Award Winner
When Gannon and Wyatt arrive in Botswana for an African safari, they find themselves tangled up in much more than a family vacation. After receiving word that a poacher has shot and wounded a lioness, they set off into the wild in the hopes of saving the mother...
A freak accident forces a New Yorker to return to Louisiana and confront her Cajun past
There is nothing more dangerous than a spooked rhinoceros. It is just before lunchtime when Huey, the prized black rhino of Broussard, Louisiana, erupts from his enclosure, trampling a zoo employee on his...
| Author | Aminatta Forna |
| ISBN | 1408817667 |
The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.
Aminatta Forna has established herself as one of our most perceptive and uncompromising...
Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of Widow. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today’s face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications,...
| Author | Peter Brown Hoffmeister |
| ISBN | 1440568936 |
Tenaya has never left Yosemite Valley. He was born in a car by the Merced River, and grew up in a hidden camp with his parents, surviving on fish, acorns, and unfinished food thrown away by the park's millions of tourists. But despite its splendor, Tenaya's Yosemite is a visceral place of opposites, at...
I'm convinced that there is a discrete outpost within the southern climes of my stomach— approximately the size of an average avocado pit—where my loathing resides. In this theory, my loathing, in its neutral state, is a congealed knob of greenish wax-like substance which radiates a faint, mostly...
| Author | André Brink |
| ISBN | 0099488949 |
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London...
The Morels─Arthur, Penny, and Will─are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family unit apart at the seams? Arthur's old schoolmate Chris, who narrates the book, is fascinated with this very question as he...
JUNIOR BENDER UNTANGLES ONE OF THE WEIRDEST MYSTERIES IN TINSELTOWN
LA burglar Junior Bender has (unfortunately) developed a reputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. The unfortunate part about this is that regardless of whether he solves the crime or not, someone dangerous...
| Author | Simon Brett |
| ISBN | 1780290446 |
After a long period of ‘resting’, life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet’s Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught. Ophelia is played by Katrina Selsey, who won the role through a television talent show. ...
A dying drug kingpin enslaved to the memory of his dead wife; a young woman torn between her promising future and the hardscrabble world she grew up in; a mother willing to do anything to fuel her addiction to pills; and her youngest son, searching for an answer behind his brother’s disappearance—these...
Death of the Black-Haired Girl
| Author | Robert Stone |
| ISBN | 0618386238 |
In an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must extract himself from his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers...
| Author | Derek Sherman |
| ISBN | 0452299063 |
Who would you run one hundred miles for?
Caleb Oberest is an ultramarathon runner, who severed all ties to his family to race brutal 100-mile marathons across mountains. Shane Oberest is a sales rep for a cutting-edge biotechnology firm, creating new cures for the diseases of our time. Shane...
| Author | Ivan Doig |
| ISBN | 1594487340 |
A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West
In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former...
| Author | Carlos Fuentes |
| ISBN | 6071103061 |
Adán Gorozpe ha pasado de pobretón estudiante a poderoso mandamás gracias a un afortunado braguetazo. Adán Góngora es ministro a cargo de la seguridad nacional y ha puesto en marcha una estrategia espeluznante: se alía con los criminales y encierra o manda matar a los menos aptos; encarcela...
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel
In Winter Range, the intimate details of ranching and small-town life are woven into the suspenseful story of three people struggling to survive, to belong,...
A young man struggles to reconcile God, faith, and sex as he stumbles toward finding his life in this frank and beautifully written memoir.
Since childhood, David Schickler has been torn between his intense desire to become a Catholic priest and his equally fervent desire for the company of...
Men in Miami Hotels: A Novel
| Author | Charlie Smith |
| ISBN | 0062247271 |
From Charlie Smith, critically acclaimed poet and author of Three Delays, comes the thrilling, moving, and violent story of Cotland Sims, a Miami gangster hellbent on helping his mother-when he steals a trove of emeralds to cover costs, he risks losing everyone he loves.
Charlie Smith has...
| Author | Susan Straight |
| ISBN | 1936365758 |
In August in Rio Seco, California, the ground is too hard to bury a body. But Glorette Picard is dead, and across the canal, out in the orange groves, they’ll gather shovels and pickaxes and soak the dirt until they can lay her coffin down. First, someone needs to find her son Victor, who memorizes SAT...
| Author | Véronique Olmi |
| ISBN | 0956284027 |
A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys.
Beside the Sea is a haunting and thought-provoking...
Fuck America. Bronskys Geständnis
| Author | Edgar Hilsenrath |
| ISBN | 3423132981 |
In der Emigrantencafeteria Ecke Broadway/86. Straße in New York sitzt Nacht für Nacht der deutschstämmige Jude Jakob Bronsky und schreibt an seinem autobiografischen Roman Der Wichser.
Sein Leben fristet er als Aushilfskellner und Tellerwäscher, sein Alltag besteht aus dem ewigen Kampf...
| Author | Jenn Ashworth |
| ISBN | 1444707728 |
It's Friday in the Leeke household, but this is no ordinary Friday: the Leekes are Lancastrian Mormons and tonight they will be welcoming back their son Gary from his two-year mission in Utah. His mother, Pauline, wants his homecoming to be perfect. Unfortunately, no one else seems to be following the...
| Author | Christian Kiefer |
| ISBN | 1608198103 |
Keith Corcoran has spent his entire life preparing to be an astronaut. At the moment of his greatness, finally aboard the International Space Station, hundreds of miles above the earth’s swirling blue surface, he receives word that his sixteen-year-old daughter has died in a car accident, and that...
| Author | Chad P. Brown |
| ISBN | 0615775667 |
Every Halloween, Charles Keenan's farmhouse, dubbed as the Pumpkin House, is the main attraction for at least fifty miles in every direction. Mr. Keenan decorates his front yard with hundreds upon hundreds of jack-o'-lanterns in order to protect the good souls of Smith's Grove from a monster known...
Gabriella and Dr. Duggan's Secret Dimensional Transport Machine
Alternate cover for ISBN13: 9780985028459
A young adult science fiction tale of genetic modification and dimensional travel.
Gabriella, a teenage girl who recently lost her genetics researcher father in suspicious circumstances, discovers that she is a surprisingly good athlete...
