The River We Remember By William Kent Krueger
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Desolation Mountain By William Kent Krueger
Desolation Mountain By William Kent Krueger When a senator's plane falls out of the sky near Desolation Mountain, Cork O'Connor and his family become entrenched in a mystery involving missing native people who helped in the initial crash search and recovery, as well as the missing black box that several organizations seem interested in finding. So interested, they are willing to assault and kill anyone they think might have it or is standing in the way of finding it. Cork enlists the help of a past acquaintance, Bo Thorson, a former Secret Service man for the former first lady, who is now for hire by her and also working for a mysterious military-looking man named Gerard. Bo is playing both sides and all angles. Cork's son Stephen has been having visions of this crash and the scenario that serves as the backbone of this mystery. As the three of them (along with their friends and family) investigate the clues, Stephen's vision unfolds and we learn what caused the crash...
Ordinary Grace By William Kent Krueger
Ordinary Grace By William Kent Krueger In the summer of 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum and his stuttering brother Jake stumble upon a man over a dead body in a place they shouldn't be playing. They tell the authorities and their pastor father. Thus begins a summer of deaths surrounding this family. Frank and Jake live with their father, a pastor, their mother who once wanted to be famous, and their sister who is their mother's pride and favorite child. Frank and Jake live in a small town where everyone knows everyone else. It is in Minnesota, on land that once belonged to the Sioux, and where some tribe members still reside. The line between who can and cannot be trusted is thin and changing, almost amorphous, in this small town called New Bremen. The deaths that come that summer are the result of murder, accident, and suicide. The next to occur hits close to home, when Frank and Jake's sister Ariel is found in the river. The tow turns its gaze to her rich boyfriend K...
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger This Tender Land is a beautiful story of running, searching, and longing set in 1930s Missouri. Twelve-year-old Odie O'Bannion lives at an Indian training school with his brother Albert, his good friend Mose, and a host of Indian children sent there or forced to be there for various reasons. Odie and Albert are orphans, very different from one another, but always looking out for one another, until a series of terrible events occurs forcing them to run away from the school with Mose in tow. Along with them is a young girl named Emmy whose mother has been killed in a tornado, and who was destined to live with the school's headmistress, an evil, greedy, selfish woman who rules the place with an iron fist along with her coward husband. On their way south along the river, the four kids meet various people, some nice, some not-so-nice, who either bring them together or pull them apart. On their journey they each learn what they want most ou...