Melanie Rae Thon

• Apr-2023
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Three lives. One song. A fire that reveals what cannot be hidden. As If Fire Could Hide Us explores the expansiveness of consciousness and compassion through and beyond the human body. A twelve-year-old girl slips out a basement window, steals a bike...

• Jan-2017
• / General Fiction
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Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers' Award One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists" Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, the eleven stories in Melanie Rae Thon's eagerly ...

• Nov-2015
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In stark, fevered, poetic lines, Valen Arnoux confesses his intimate participation in 131 executions. As a prison guard and member of the strap down team, he is compelled to rehearse, to perfect his timing and skills, to synchronize his movements wit...

• Oct-2015
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Immigrants lost in the blistering expanse of the Sonoran Desert, problem bears, bats pollinating saguaros, a Good Samaritan filling tanks at emergency water stations, and the terrified runaway boy who shoots him pierce the heart and mind of Rosana De...

• Sep-2011
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Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Missing:  seventeen-year-old Kai Dionne and his dog Talia.  The search for these two spans a single day, morning twilight to late evening, from the time Kai leaps in a half-frozen river to save the do...

• Jun-2011
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A vibrant selection of stories from the author of Sweet Hearts and First, BodyThis selection of Melanie Rae Thon's stories showcases her breathtaking ability to become each one of her characters, to move inside the bodies and minds of the dispossesse...

• Feb-2002
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A fusion of family myth with American History, Sweet Hearts is set in the wild and beautiful plains and forests of Montana and recounts the searing story of a brother and sister haunted by their family's turmoil and half-forgotten heritage. At sixtee...

• Jan-1997
• / General Fiction
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The author of Girls in the Grass presents another collection of her short stories, including the tale of a privileged Florida girl who reveals that the secret dangers of her life include alligators and a crippled grandfather....

• Jun-1993
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In the unforgiving vortex of the American heartland, when you have to choose, you always choose life For Iona Moon, the open fields of the Kila Flats and the town of White Falls are centuries apart rather than the distance of a few miles. Mocked ...

• Jul-1991
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• Sep-1990
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Lizzie Macon--whose sister, pregnant by an Indian, has been banished from the family--represses her sexuality and becomes involved in charismatic religions in this exploration of religious and racial prejudice in a Montana mill town...