South Dakota Fiction

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. A few years ago, this was a dying town. Now it's come back to life! People are feeling good about living here again the way they used to. They're feeling confident about the future. Stalled lives are moving forward. People like Margaret Clemens are taking risks on...

TIME Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the Year From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious...

Nora Arnsby fights her way into a world dominated by men. When a break-in shatters the sense of home she's created, Nora can’t find her footing. With the intruders growing bolder and her safety at risk, she reaches out to the only person who will listen, even if it means asking a man for help. The stranger across the street is handsome and persistently kind, so different from other men. Mathias Horton refuses to let any woman get close to him. Mathias must resume the life he gave up to save the one who ignites his battered heart, or admit defeat and let her go back to Deadwood.

Frances Arnsby has only three weeks to learn about romance. That’s all the time she has before the stagecoach whisks her back to Deadwood. Excited about a glowing future as a romance dime novelist, her hopes are dashed when her manuscript fails to connect. She hasn’t lived enough. Her dream will be over before it even starts if she doesn’t add life, love…passion.

“[Narrator Waikamania] Seve's voice grows more dynamic as Korero grows into a heroine, while narrator Caleb Teaupa brings to life the wider world of Tongan society. Both performers beautifully convey the sounds of Pacific islands--from the trilling birds to the crashing waves."—AudioFile A...

On the phone Hugh had said, “I’ve got something you have to see to believe. Get yourself out here.” One year after retiring as a master sergeant in the 75th Rangers, this was Roman Keane’s idea of the perfect way to spend his time: jump on a motorcycle and ride from Georgia to South Dakota to see his old friend, Hugh Early. Hugh had once been Roman’s sniper instructor and was now an internationally respected historian of military arms. Historians, of all people, should know that the past you thought was dead and gone has a way of rising up to finish what it started.

Gunner Bridge has never had much of a social life. He’s never even been on a date. His whole life has been working the ranch, and he’s done such a good job of it that now he has to hire on some ranch hands. But Gunner isn’t much of a homemaker, either. These guys expect a clean place to sleep and food on the table.

When they were seniors in high school, they made a pact. If they weren’t married by the time they were thirty, they would marry each other. But now Adeline is a professional dancer with a career in the big city. And Colton is trying to build his own business in small town, South Dakota. They live in two different worlds. They can’t possibly keep their promise. It hadn’t made sense back then. It definitely doesn’t make sense twelve years later.

The Wright family's homeschooling adventure continues on to South Dakota as their RV hits the road again. The kids wonder what all those motorcycles are doing in the small town of Sturgis. Nadia learns how newspapers are created. Aidan gets to lead the way on a daring round of follow the leader. Prince Pumpkin the Third, their pet turtle, stumbles across something that he probably shouldn't have. Meanwhile, what startling new secrets of the Time Tuner are revealed?