Pamela Carter Joern

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land -- and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky, Toby Jenkins, an aging widow, is on the verge of l...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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In prose as clean and beautiful as the stark prairie setting, The Plain Sense of Things tells the stories of three generations of a western Nebraska family. These tales of sorrow and hope are connected by the sinews of need and flawed love that keep ...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships. With insight, wry humor, and deep compas...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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Toby Jenkins, the oldest surviving member of her family, has opened a summer residence program in the Nebraska Sandhills for the wounded and broken, misfits and dreamers. Besides her guests -- a minister on sabbatical and a woman recovering from canc...