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Larry McMurtry's Cheyenne is not a place on the map it's a part of life the best part ... Leaving Cheyenne tells of a love triangle unlike any other: Gideon Fry, heir to Texas ranch; Johnny McCloud his cowboy friend; and Molly, whom they both love and who bears each of them a son. Gid, Molly, and Johnny take turns narrating a deeply human story that spans forty years the story of how finally they all left Cheyenne.
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Last picture show volume 3
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When Duane's life seems to fall apart, he shocks his hometown by living a Thoreau-like existence in the countryside, until he meets and falls in love with a lesbian psychoanalyst who wants to help him.
5) Rhino Ranch
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Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward...
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Last picture show volume 4
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Widower Duane Moore returns to west Texas, where he finds the family oil business significantly altered by new personnel, evolving family dynamics, and his own perspective changes.
7) Loop group
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Anticipating the onset of her later years, Maggie leaves behind her manipulative daughters and psychoanalyst lover to accompany her best friend, Connie, for one final fling, but a series of misadventures prompts their desperate, gun-toting journey to a Texas ranch.
9) Texasville
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Last picture show volume 2
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Sequel to: The Last Picture Show. Thalia, once a backwater Texas town, then a boom town, collapses with the oil prices. Then a former high school beauty returns from a career as a Hollywood star, and shakes the town to its roots.
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Danny Deck is on the verge of success as an author when he flees Houston and hurtles unexpectedly into the hearts of three women: a girlfriend who makes him happy but who won't stay, a neighbor as generous as she is lusty, and his pal Emma Horton. It's a wild ride toward literary fame and an uncharted country...beyond everyone he deeply loves.
12) Moving on
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Houston volume 1
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"Moving On anticipates McMurtry's Terms of Endearment and explores the emotional journey of a young woman against a sprawling metropolis in 1970s Texas. Larry McMurtry's Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of "monumental honesty" worthy of great attention (New York Times). Preceding Terms of Endearment by five years, it is essential reading for anyone who appreciates the inherent...
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Last picture show volume 1
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"Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels - Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966) - all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains,...
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
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Pits legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call against his deadliest adversary ever.
15) Some can whistle
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Danny Deck volume 02
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Danny Deck is a middle-aged Texan who has made his fortune in the TV business and returned home to a quiet and eccentric way of life. Then comes a call from TR, the daughter he has never seen. She brings into his life her two children and two lovers. This is the story of the conflicts that ensue.
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