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Richard Snodgrass is the critically acclaimed author of the “Books of Furnass” Series, an eleven-volume set of novels that explores the hopes, disappointments, relationships, and betrayals that make up life in a fictional Western Pennsylvania mill town and its surrounding farmlands from the time of the French and Indian War to modern day. The eleventh book in the series, Torn, will be released on September 17, 2025.

Snodgrass is also the author of There’s Something in the Back Yard, published in 1989 by Viking, and praised by Jack Stephens of the Washington Post Book World who wrote, “Observe this mysterious book and be changed.” Other works by Snodgrass include: An Uncommon Field: The Flight 93 Temporary Memorial, published in September of
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Richard Snodgrass Thanks for the question! You don't have to read other novels in the Books of Furnass Series to enjoy and understand TORN, but if you want to start rea…moreThanks for the question! You don't have to read other novels in the Books of Furnass Series to enjoy and understand TORN, but if you want to start reading from the series, I'd suggest starting with ALL THAT WILL REMAIN.

That novel focuses on the Lyle family, including TORN's main character, John Lincoln Lyle. ALL THAT WILL REMAIN will give you some insights that will make your TORN experience even better. Hope you like it!(less)
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All That Will Remain

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Across The River (Furnass #4)

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Kitchen Things: An Album of...

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The Pattern Maker (Furnass #6)

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Furrow and Slice

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A Book of Days (Books of Fu...

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There's Something in the Ba...

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The Building (Furnass #1)

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Confessions of a Shy Self-Publisher No. 3 — The Birth of Furnass

In the mid-1970s, I had a grant from LightWorks at the University of Syracuse to photograph the mill towns north of Pittsburgh where I was born and raised, and then make platinum prints of the images.

As I wandered the streets of those tough little towns with my 4x5 view camera, twenty years after I had left the area, I realized I was looking for images that to me captured the very essence of a mi Read more of this blog post »
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“This week’s issue of Publisher’s Weekly includes a full-page Q&A about TORN! The intro reads:

“After calling Torn ‘ambitious’ and ‘vividly detailed’ and saying it ‘demonstrates that Snodgrass knows his patch of America like Faulkner knew Yoknapatawpha,’ it’s no wonder BookLife Reviews designated it an Editor’s Pick. We spoke with the author about his long-running series and its historical inspiration.”

See the full Q&A on page 77 of the Sept. 15, 2025 issue!”
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“Today’s the day! My latest novel, TORN, has officially launched and is now available in paperback and Kindle editions! You can find it on Amazon.

Thank you to all of you who have supported my work throughout the years. I hope you like this latest offering from Furnass.”
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“An immersive murder mystery wrapped in an emotionally astute look at the burden of a town's moral history." -- Kirkus Reviews”
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“The pace is unhurried but inexorable, a relentless march to a shocking conclusion.”
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“Today’s the day! My latest novel, TORN, has officially launched and is now available in paperback and Kindle editions! You can find it on Amazon.

Thank you to all of you who have supported my work throughout the years. I hope you like this latest offering from Furnass.”
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“This week’s issue of Publisher’s Weekly includes a full-page Q&A about TORN! The intro reads:

“After calling Torn ‘ambitious’ and ‘vividly detailed’ and saying it ‘demonstrates that Snodgrass knows his patch of America like Faulkner knew Yoknapatawpha,’ it’s no wonder BookLife Reviews designated it an Editor’s Pick. We spoke with the author about his long-running series and its historical inspiration.”

See the full Q&A on page 77 of the Sept. 15, 2025 issue!”
Richard Snodgrass

“Exciting News! BookLife Reviews, a division of Publishers Weekly, has given TORN its “Editor’s Pick” designation, a high honor given to independently published books that are deemed to be of outstanding quality by their editorial team!
Their review said, in part, “This ambitious, vividly detailed, sometimes dense novel demonstrates that Snodgrass knows his patch of America like Faulkner knew Yoknapatawpha or Donald Harrington knew Stay More.”
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“Dear friends and readers, I am happy to announce that my newest novel, TORN, will be released on September 17, 2025!

For those who know me well, you may be thinking to yourself, “Didn’t you say you were done with this whole Books of Furnass enterprise?”

And you would be correct. I was finished once and for all, until a friend said, “Isn’t there more to the story?” Intrigued, I got back to work, and the untold story of John Lincoln Lyle’s disappearance and return to Furnass 20 years later was the result.

Watch for future posts with details about the plots, excerpts of critics' reviews, and our plans to promote the book coming soon.

As always, thank you for your interest and support.”
Richard Snodgrass, Torn

“A thoughtful and powerfully written war novel. -- Kirkus Reviews”
Richard Snodgrass, Across the River

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