Kent Nelson

• May-1986
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
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A marvelous novel filled with the beauties and hardships of life in the West

For two years Neil Shanks has been living in Gold Hill, Colorado, putting off the moment when he must return to the family lumber business in Michigan -- a business ...

• Feb-1991
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1991
• / Literary
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• Sep-1992
• / Literary
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After a series of personal and professional disappointments, Scott Talmadge is at a turning point in his life and decides to accept a temporary teaching post at the University of Arizona. He contacts a college friend who has received letters from Sco...

• May-1998
• / General Fiction
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Kent Nelson's varied and entertaining stories draw the reader to explore the difficult landscape of human emotions. The stories have been described as intense and intellectually honest. "The dramas spring from authentically cautious people caught bet...

• Jan-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2003
• / General Fiction
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Having lost her husband in a farm accident, Mattie is forced to confront his hidden past and enlists their daughter, a woman ranch hand, and a runaway Native American boy to keep the family alfalfa ranch in business. By the author of Language in ...

• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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Explore the human longing for connection in these fourteen deceptively simple stories that stay hooked in the imagination long after the final page.In these fourteen breathtaking stories, award-winning author Kent Nelson explores how very different p...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeThe flight path of The Spirit Bird traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alask...