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For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a
gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical
overtones" (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that
follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great
Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary
Grace. 1932, Minnesota-the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where
hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their
parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan
named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the
superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert,
their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy
steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a
place to call their own. Over the course of one unforgettable
summer, these four orphans will fly into the unknown and cross
paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and
traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all
kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an en
thralling, big-hearted epic that is "more than a simple journey; it
is a deeply satisfying odyssey, a quest in search of self and home"
(Booklist).
With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal
killers, detective Cork O'Connor must solve the murder of a young
girl in William Kent Krueger's latest unforgettable "New York Times
"bestseller.
During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a
violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his
daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered
in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm.
Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover the body of a teenage
girl. She wasn't killed by the storm, however; she'd been bound and
tortured before she died. Nearby, underneath a tangle of branches,
they also find a baby boy, hungry and dehydrated, but still very
much alive. Powerful forces intent on securing the child pursue
them to the isolated Northwest Angle, where it's impossible to tell
who among the residents is in league with the devil, but Cork
understands that to save his family he must solve the puzzle of
this mysterious child whom death follows like a shadow.
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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The River We Remember
William Kent Krueger; Read by C. J Wilson
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The newest book in William Kent Krueger's award-winning Corcoran
O'Connor series finds the charismatic private investigator caught
in the middle of a racial gang war that's turning picturesque
Tamarack County, Minnesota, into a bloody battlefield.
When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of
her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck
Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of
Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl's fatal drug dose. When
the head of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered in a way that
suggests execution, the Ojibwe gang mobilizes, and the citizens of
Tamarack County brace themselves for war, white against red.
Both sides look to Cork O'Connor, a man of mixed heritage, to
uncover the truth behind the murders. A former sheriff, Cork has
lived, fought, and nearly died to keep the small-town streets and
his family safe from harm. He knows that violence is never a
virtue, but he believes that it's sometimes a necessary response to
the evil that men do. Racing to find answers before the bloodshed
spreads, Cork himself becomes involved in the darkest of deeds. As
the unspeakable unfolds in the remote and beautiful place he calls
home, Cork is forced to confront the horrific truth: Violence is a
beast that cannot be contained.
In "Red Knife," Krueger gives his readers a vivid picture of
racial conflict in small-town America, as well as a sensitive look
at the secrets we keep from even those closest to us and the
destructive nature of all that is left unsaid between fathers and
sons, husbands and wives, friends and lovers.
From acclaimed author William Kent Krueger comes the seventh
profound, action-packed suspense novel in his award-winning Cork
O'Conner mystery series.
"The promise, as I remember it, happened this way."
Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork
O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of
relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator. But his
newfound state of calm is soon interrupted when Henry Meloux, the
Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's spiritual adviser, makes a request:
Will Cork find the son that Henry fathered long ago?
With little to go on, Cork uses his investigative skills to locate
Henry Wellington, a wealthy and reclusive industrialist living in
Thunder Bay, Ontario. When a murder attempt is made on old Meloux's
life, all clues point north across the border. But why would
Wellington want his father dead? This question takes Cork on a
journey through time as he unravels the story of Meloux's 1920s
adventure in the ore-rich wilderness of Canada, where his love for
a beautiful woman, far outside his culture, led him into a trap of
treachery, greed, and murder.
The past and present collide along the rocky shores of Thunder
Bay, where a father's unconditional love is tested by a son's
deeply felt resentment, and where jealousy and revenge remain the
code among men. As Cork hastens to uncover the truth and save his
friend, he soon discovers that his own life is in danger and is
reminded that the promises we keep - even for the best of friends -
can sometimes place us in the hands of our worst enemies.
Two-time Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has
"moved to the head of the crime fiction class" ("Chicago
Sun-Times") with his gripping series featuring Sheriff Cork
O'Connor. In "Copper River," Cork is running for his life -- and
straight into a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways.
Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who
have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside
the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he's hiding out in an
old resort owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, a bitter widow with a
fourteen-year-old son named Ren, the body of a young girl surfaces
along the banks of the Copper River -- and then another teenager
vanishes. Instead of thwarting his assassins, Cork focuses on
tracking a ring of killers who prey on innocent children -- before
anyone else falls victim. But as his deadly followers close in,
Cork realizes he's made an error any good man might make -- and it
may be his last.
Cork O'Conner returns for "hold-your-breath suspense" ("Booklist,"
starred review) in the thirteenth novel in the "New York Times"
bestselling mystery series.
During a blizzard one bitter winter night, just days before
Christmas, the car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge
is discovered abandoned on a rural county road in Tamarack County.
After days of fruitless searching, there is little hope that she'll
be found alive, if she's found at all.
Cork O'Connor, the ex-sheriff of Tamarack County, notices small
things about the woman's disappearance that disturb him. When the
beloved pet dog of a friend is brutally killed and beheaded, he
begins to see a startling pattern in these and other recent dark
occurrences in the area. And after his own son is brutally attacked
and nearly killed, Cork understands that someone is spinning a
deadly web in Tamarack County. At its center is a murder more than
twenty years old, for which an innocent man may have been
convicted. Cork remembers the case only too well. He was the deputy
in charge of the investigation that sent the man to prison.
With the darkest days of the year at hand, the storms of winter
continue to isolate Tamarack County. Somewhere behind the blind of
all that darkness and drifting snow, a vengeful force is at work.
And Cork has only hours to stop it before his family and friends
pay the ultimate price for the sins of others.
The action never stops in the New York Times bestselling Cork
O'Connor mystery series--and this time O'Connor is targeted by a
political assassin.The dying don't easily become the dead. Cork
O'Connor is sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as
Trickster's Point, deep in the Minnesota wilderness. With him is
Jubal Little, who is favored to become the first Native American
elected governor of Minnesota and who is slowly dying with an arrow
through his heart. Although the men have been bow-hunting, a
long-standing tradition among these two friends, this is no hunting
accident. The arrow turns out to be one of Cork's, and he becomes
the primary suspect in the murder. He understands full well that
he's been set up. As he works to clear his name and track the real
killer, he remembers his long, complex relationship with the tough
kid who would grow up to become a professional football player, a
populist politician, and the lover of the first woman to whom Cork
ever gave his heart. Jubal was known by many for his passion, his
loyalty, and his ambition. Only Cork knows that he was capable of
murder. Full of nail-biting suspense, plus a fascinating look into
Cork's teenage years in Aurora--a town blessed with natural beauty,
yet plagued by small-town feuds and heated racial
tension--Trickster's Point is a thrilling exploration of the
motives, both good and ill, that lead men and women into the
difficult, sometimes deadly, political arena.
"Some nights, Corcoran O'Connor dreams his father's death.
"William Kent Krueger's gripping tale of suspense begins with a
recurring nightmare, a gun, and a wound in the earth so deep and
horrific that it has a name: Vermilion Drift.
When the Department of Energy puts an underground iron mine on its
short list of potential sites for storage of nuclear waste, a
barrage of protest erupts in Tamarack County, Minnesota, and Cork
is hired as a security consultant.
Deep in the mine during his first day on the job, Cork stumbles
across a secret room that contains the remains of six murder
victims. Five appear to be nearly half a century old--connected to
what the media once dubbed "The Vanishings," a series of unsolved
disappearances in the summer of 1964, when Cork's father was
sheriff in Tamarack County. But the sixth has been dead less than a
week. What's worse, two of the bodies--including the most recent
victim--were killed using Cork's own gun, one handed down to him
from his father.
As Cork searches for answers, he must dig into his own past and
that of his father, a well-respected man who harbored a ghastly
truth. Time is running out, however. New threats surface, and
unless Cork can unravel the tangled thread of clues quickly, more
death is sure to come.
"Vermilion Drift "is a powerful novel, filled with all the mystery
and suspense for which Krueger has won so many awards. A poignant
portrayal of the complexities of family life, it's also a sobering
reminder that even those closest to our hearts can house the
darkest--and deadliest--of secrets.
The 20th anniversary edition of the first novel in William Kent
Krueger's beloved and bestselling Cork O'Connor mystery
series-includes an exclusive bonus short story! "A brilliant
achievement, and one every crime reader and writer needs to
celebrate." -Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Glass Houses "A master craftsman [and] a series of books written
with a grace and precision so stunning that you'd swear the stories
were your own." -Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire series
"Among thoughtful readers, William Kent Krueger holds a very
special place in the pantheon." -C.J. Box, #1 New York Times
bestselling author of The Disappeared In eighteen novels over
twenty years, William Kent Krueger has enthralled readers with the
adventures of P.I. Cork O'Connor, former sheriff of Aurora,
Minnesota-selling more than 1.5 million copies of his books and
winning the Edgar Award, Minnesota Book Award, Northeastern
Minnesota Book Award, Dilys Award, Lovey Award, and Anthony Award
along the way. Now, in this special anniversary edition, longtime
fans and new readers alike can read the novel that first introduced
Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor to the world. Part Irish, part Anishinaabe
Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown
that has separated him from his children, getting by on heavy doses
of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago's South
Side, there's not much that can shock him. But when the town's
judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported
missing, Cork takes on this complicated and perplexing case of
conspiracy, corruption, and a small-town secret that hits painfully
close to home.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST
NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST
BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent
Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and
murder in the summer of 1961. "That was it. That was all of it. A
grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I
have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a
single word." New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing
their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the
soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books
were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of
innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But
for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which
death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature.
Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the
concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes
his family-which includes his Methodist minister father; his
passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and
wise-beyond-his-years kid brother-he finds himself thrust into an
adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly
called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his
years. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful
summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy
standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a
world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an
unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom
and the enduring grace of God.
An instant New York Times bestseller, this prequel to the acclaimed
Cork O'Connor series is "a pitch perfect, richly imagined story
that is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an evocative,
emotionally charged coming-of-age tale" (Kristin Hannah, #1 New
York Times bestselling author) about fathers and sons, small-town
conflicts, and the events that shape our lives forever. Aurora is a
small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of
Minnesota's Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world
to twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his
own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he
revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the
first in a series of events that will cause him to question
everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and
himself. Cork's father, Liam O'Connor, is Aurora's sheriff and it
is his job to confirm that the man's death was the result of
suicide, as all the evidence suggests. In the shadow of his
father's official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on
his own. Together, father and son face the ultimate test of
choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their
hearts know is right. In this "brilliant achievement, and one every
crime reader and writer needs to celebrate" (Louise Penny, #1 New
York Times bestselling author), beloved novelist William Kent
Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others
surpass our understanding.
Intrepid hero Cork O'Connor faces the most harrowing mission of his
life when a charter plane carrying his wife, Jo, goes missing in a
snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies.
Months after the tragedy, two women show up on Cork's doorstep with
evidence that the pilot of Jo's plane was not the man he claimed to
be. It may not be definitive proof, but it's a ray of light in the
darkness. Agreeing to investigate, Cork travels to Wyoming, where
he battles the interference of local law enforcement who may be on
the take, the open hostility of the Northern Arapaho, who have much
to lose if the truth is known, and the continuing attempts on his
life by assassins who shadow his every move. At the center of all
the danger and deception lies the possibility that Jo's
disappearance was not the end of her, that somewhere along the
labyrinthine path of his search, maybe even in the broad shadow of
Heaven's Keep itself, Cork will find her alive and waiting for him.
The New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace weaves a
vivid and pulse-pounding thriller that follows Cork O'Connor's
search for a missing man amid the fraught tensions at the border
between Arizona and Mexico.On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks
are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor and his new
bride Rainy Bisonette receive a desperate phone call from Rainy's
son, Peter. The connection is terrible but before the line goes
dead, they hear Peter confess to the murder of someone named
Rodriquez. The following morning, Cork and Rainy fly to southern
Arizona, where Peter has been working as a counselor in a
well-known drug rehab center. When they arrive, they learn that
Peter was fired six months earlier and hasn't been heard from
since. So they head to the little desert town of Sulfur Springs
where Peter has been receiving his mail. But no one in Sulfur
Springs seems to know him. They do, however, seem to recognize the
name Rodriguez. Apparently, the Rodriguez family is one of the
cartels controlling everything illegal that crosses the border from
Mexico. As they gather scraps of information about Peter, Cork and
Rainy are warned time and again that there is a war going on along
the border. "Trust no one in Coronado County," is the most common
piece of advice they receive, and Cork doesn't have to be told
twice. To him, Arizona is alien country. The relentless heat, the
absence of water and big trees and shade all feel nightmarish to
him, as does his growing sense that Rainy might know more about
what's going on than she's willing to admit in this fresh,
exhilarating, and white-knuckle mystery starring one of the
greatest heroes of fiction.
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