Jonis Agee
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"Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths...
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From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom "The New York Times Book Review "called "a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape," "The River Wife" is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 through the Civil War to the bootlegging days of the 1930s. When the earthquake brings Annie Lark's Missouri house down on top of her, she finds herself pinned under the massive roof beam, facing...
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[1993]
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With the 1991 publication of her first novel, Sweet Eyes, Jonis Agee emerged as one of the strongest voices of the American heartland. Now, in Strange Angels, Agee has created a deeply moving tale of love and passion that evokes the Nebraska sandhills and explores the power of familial and cultural myths. When Heywood Bennett, the patriarch of a Nebraska ranching family, dies, his three children are certain that now they will be free. But Heywood's...
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1999
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Two drunks--Ty Bonte, a rancher's son, and Harney Rivers, the town's rich boy--beat two Indians, leaving them for dead, although the Indians don't die because Ty returns to save them. Twenty-two years later the families of the Indians demand justice. By the author of Strange Angels.
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