Gunnison Butte: George Alden Morgan never knew his father and is abandoned at fourteen by his mother who runs off leaving him eleven silver dollors. George skips town after stealing a horse etc. and meets up with Boone Helm, a survivor in the wilderness. The Drifter: Jared Carson is a man on the move and finds a wrangling job on a small ranch. He gets along well with the ranch owner, and when the owner dies from a gun shot, Jared is left his ranch...

Nolan Sackett's attempts to elude a posse hunting him for murder are complicated when he stops to rescue two women who appear to be in trouble.

"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton aren't the settling down types. They're lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the tigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus Keegan--the owner of a matrimonial agency--they receive an unexpected proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail order brides to a mining town in New Mexico...

Nat, a young drifter just released from the hospital, goes to find a job on a farm and instead finds one in a run-down hotel after saving a man's life. He is unknowingly lured into a world where nothing is what it seems.

Astride his talking motorcycle Hermes, Kino journeys from one new, mystical place to another, experiencing a variety of adventures along the way.

"If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, its Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, they'll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold mining town in Alaska. The brides-to-be include a dangerously attractive widow, her sweet-hearted niece, and two of their friends. The roadblocks to the altar include a lecherous saloon owner, a lovesick sailor, and a gang of hired guns. And...

Drifter Shep and his thirteen-year-old daughter Nora roam across the country. After Shep's promised jog in Baja falls through, he "desperately participates in an ill-fated smuggling scheme that threatens their future together." Intensified perceptions of each other and warm family-oriented feelings ensue.

A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It's a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.

"This fast-moving adventure story takes place in 1935 when thirteen-year-old Billy leaves home to ride the rails across Canada and, on the way, experiences lessons both life-changing and unforgettable, and events that become part of Canadian historical record. "--

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story of Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.