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Summary: These three novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta/Seymour Lawrence 1989
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Summary: A collection of novellas explores the line between civilization and the "wild men."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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Summary: The summer he didn't die: Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources; it helps that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town. Republican wives: A riotous satire on the sexual neuroses of the political right and the irrational nature of love--which, when thwarted, can easily turn into an urge to murder. Tracking: The author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2005
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Summary: Novellas comprising a sweeping tribute to the nation's heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Contents: Brown dog -- Sunset limited -- Woman lit by fireflies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005
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Summary: Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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Summary: The farmer's daughter: Sarah is a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. Brown Dog redux: Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. Games of night: A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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Summary: The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is more a malevolent force than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2004
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Summary: The son of a wealthy family of timber barons struggles to reconcile himself with the damage his family has done to Michigan's Upper Peninsula--a scarring that cuts deeply into the fabric of his own family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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Summary: John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil than Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta/S. Lawrence 1989
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Harrison, Jim
Summary: Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in that he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader. A family of outlaws armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcemtn too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson's cleaning lady, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Even with retirement in view, Detective Sunderson decides to investigate a cult that has settled near his home nonetheless. Although their so-called 'Great Leader' initially appears to be harmless, Sunderson and his teenage sidekick unearth some startling information. As he digs deeper, Sunderson's search for the Great Leader's true intentions takes him from Michigan to Arizona to Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011
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Summary: Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now she returns to the bosom of her family and searches for the son she gave up years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence 1988