Larry McMurtry
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In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated protégée, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen...
22) Leaving Cheyenne
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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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1000L
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Benjamin Sippy, a successful but unfulfilled pulp fiction writer in midlife crisis, flees his stable Philadelphia life and wife and nine daughters in search of the lawless West of his stories. After a comically abortive attempt at train-robbing, he happens quite by accident upon a cowboy and his sid ekick, a kid of 20 named Billy Bone, whose one accidental shooting has earned him an undeserved but welcome reputatio n as a dangerous gunslinger. In...
25) 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.
26) Crazy Horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Strips away the tall tales of legend to reveal the essence of Crazy Horse, profiling him as a brilliant and ascetic warrior-hero whose life exemplified Native American tragedy and the end of the untamed West. Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure of American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. Yet his story remains an encapsulation of the Native American tragedy and the death of the untamed West. Crazy Horse...
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Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children.McMurtry's evocative descriptions...
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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.
29) Cadillac Jack
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From dusty flea markets in Texas to parties in Washington, DC, crawling with political hacks, Cadillac Jack is a classic American novel, timelier than ever.
Larry McMurtry's "big hearted" fiction has been lauded for "taking us places we hadn't known existed" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books). Cadillac Jack does exactly that, inviting readers into the passenger seat of a pearl-colored Caddy with peach velour–covered
...30) The late child
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Desert Rose series volume 2
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A mother journeys from Las Vegas to New York after learning that her daughter has died of AIDS, encountering several eccentric characters along the way.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning Larry McMurtry writes like no one else about the American frontier—though in Somebody's Darling, the frontier lies farther west, in Hollywood, and his subject is the strange world of the movies—those who make them and those who play in them.
Somebody's Darling is the story of the fortunes of Jill Peel. Jill is brilliant, talented, and disciplined, and one of the best female directors...
Somebody's Darling is the story of the fortunes of Jill Peel. Jill is brilliant, talented, and disciplined, and one of the best female directors...
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Last picture show volume 1
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[2017]
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English
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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,...
35) Books: a memoir
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Prolific writer, avid reader, and ardent book collector, Larry McMurtry discusses his lifelong love affair with the written word. Leading the reader through the span of his experience with literature, from childhood through the present, McMurtry traces the connection between the books he chooses to read and his own writing style. Engaging, witty and smart, this is a tome to be cherished.
38) Pretty Boy Floyd
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The life of Charles Floyd, an Oklahoma farm boy turned bandit in the 1920s. The newspapers dubbed him pretty boy because for a bank robber he was unusually kind. He became a folk hero and the FBI's public enemy No. 1. McMurtry is author of Lonesome Dove.
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Aux confins d'un Texas encore sauvage, les jeunes Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call viennent de s'engager pour faire régner un semblant d'ordre dans ce pays en devenir. Sous-équipés, piètrement entraînés et mal dirigés, ils s'apprêtent à traverser une série d'expéditions et d'aventures plus dangeureuses les unes que les autres. Tour à tour poursuivis par des Indiens, l'armée mexicaine ou des ours, ils devront se battre au milieu d'une nature...
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La plupart des voleurs de trains sont pas malins, et c'est une chance pour les compagnies de chemins de fer. À eux seuls, cinq bandits pas trop idiots pourraient braquer tous les trains de ce pays. Ainsi parle Woodrow Call, ancien capitaine des Texas Rangers reconverti en chasseur de primes. Engagé pour éliminer Joey Garza, un dangereux criminel mexicain plus futé que les autres, il sillonne les étendues arides du Texas en compagnie d'une équipe...