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America's Most Charming Towns & Villages

Product Description: A travel guide to America's rich historical and architectural traditions, as kept alive by 200 charming small towns across America. This fourth edition is revised and updated for 2000 and covers all 50 states with at least one town per state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Larry Brown

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9781892975362 | 4th edition (Open Road Pub, October 1, 2000), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A travel guide to America's rich historical and architectural traditions, as kept alive by 200 charming small towns across America.

America's Most Charming Towns & Villages: Your Passport to Great Travel!

Product Description: A guide to two hundred picturesque towns and villages featuring historic lodging and dining establishments, covered bridges, country fairs, and old mills.

By Larry Brown

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9781883323097 | Open Road Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A guide to two hundred picturesque towns and villages featuring historic lodging and dining establishments, covered bridges, country fairs, and old mills.

Big Bad Love: Stories

Product Description: Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life. That same compassionate regard for ordinary people shines on every page of Big Bad Love, whose heroes in these stories have a fatal weakness for beer, fast women, and pick-up trucks, and who find a kind of salvation in the reckless pursuit of love...read more

By Larry Brown

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Hardcover:

9780945575467 | Algonquin Books, September 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of ten powerful short stories about men and the obsessions that rule them, such as sex, alcohol, fear, and ambition

Paperback:

9780679734918 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life.

Billy Ray's Farm: Essays

A collection of nine autobiographical essays by the son of a Mississippi sharecropper and author of Fay takes readers into the heart of territory earlier made famous in the writings of William Faulkner. (view table of contents)

By Larry Brown

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9781565121676 | Algonquin Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In a collection of nine essays, the author reflects on farm life in Mississippi, his family, and the inspirations for his work.

Billy Ray's Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula

A collection of nine autobiographical essays by the son of a Mississippi sharecropper and author of Fay and On Fire takes readers into the heart of territory earlier made famous in the writings of William Faulkner. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Larry Brown

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9780743225243 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A collection of nine autobiographical essays by the son of a Mississippi sharecropper and author of Fay and On Fire takes readers into the heart of territory earlier made famous in the writings of William Faulkner.

Continental Lithosphere: Deep Seismic Reflections

Product Description: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geodynamics Series, Volume 22.With the spirit of the Nibelungen lingering from the annual Richard Wagner Festival which had just ended, 200 scientists from 23 countries met at Bayreuth University, only a mile away from this historic and picturesque city, to renew their attack on old problems with Gaia...read more

By Larry Brown, Hans-Jurgen Durbaum (editor), International Symposium on Deep Reflecti (editor) and Rolf Meissner (editor)

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9780875905228 | Amer Geophysical Union, October 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geodynamics Series, Volume 22.

Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Advanced Technologies

By Larry Brown, Yaakov Chaikin and Marty Hall

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9780131482609 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall Ptr, December 30, 2007), cover price $54.99

Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Core Technologies

By Larry Brown and Marty Hall

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9780130092298 | 2 sub edition (Prentice Hall Ptr, August 1, 2003), cover price $69.99

Dirty Work

Product Description: Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangersâone white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital...read more

By Larry Brown

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9780945575207 | Algonquin Books, August 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Looks at the world through the eyes of Walter Brown, a fireman in Oxford, Mississippi, as he reminisces about his youth.

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9781565125636 | Algonquin Books, March 30, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangersâone white, the other black.

Dirty Work: A Novel

Product Description: Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs. Walter James has no face. They lost them in Vietnam, along with other, more vital parts of themselves. Now, twenty-two years later, these two Mississippians -- one black, the other white -- lie in adjoining beds in a V...read more

By Larry Brown

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9780679730491 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1990), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs.

Facing the Music: Stories

Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and pathology, including how a couple faces the disfigurement of cancer in the bedroom, the rationalizations of a wife beater, or the mind of a teenage killer. Reprint.

By Larry Brown

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9780060972554 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1989, cover price $9.00

9780912697918 | 1 edition (Algonquin Books, September 1, 1988), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Facing the Music, Larry Brownâs first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim.

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9781565121256 | Algonquin Books, January 9, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and pathology, including how a couple faces the disfigurement of cancer in the bedroom, the rationalizations of a wife beater, or the mind of a teenage killer.

Father & Son

A Mississippi rebel and ex-con is pitted against a right-minded sheriff, with repercussions for the families of both men

By Larry Brown

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9780708958674 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $29.50

9781565120143, titled "Father and Son" | Algonquin Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A Mississippi rebel and ex-con is pitted against a right-minded sheriff, with repercussions for the families of both men

Father and Son: A Novel

The acclaimed author of Joe and On Fire pens a classic story of good and evil centered in the rural American South of 1968. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

By Larry Brown

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9780805053036 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1997), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A Mississippi rebel and ex-con is pitted against a right-minded sheriff, with repercussions for the families of both men

Fay

All hell breaks loose in Northern Mississippi when the daughter of degenerate sharecroppers runs away from home and lights out across the state with two dollars and a pack of cigarettes to her name.

By Larry Brown

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9780743205382 | Touchstone Books, April 17, 2001, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: All hell breaks loose in Northern Mississippi when the daughter of degenerate sharecroppers runs away from home and lights out across the state with two dollars and a pack of cigarettes to her name.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788743696 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, June 1, 2000), cover price $101.00

Fay: A Novel

All hell breaks loose in Northern Mississippi when the daughter of degenerate sharecroppers runs away from home and lights out across the state with two dollars and a pack of cigarettes to her name.

By Larry Brown

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9781565121683 | Algonquin Books, March 31, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: All hell breaks loose in Northern Mississippi when the daughter of degenerate sharecroppers runs away from home and lights out across the state with two dollars and a pack of cigarettes to her name

From a Pheasant Hunter's Notebook

By Larry Brown

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9780813804927 | Iowa State Pr, September 30, 1992, cover price $15.95

Frugal Yachting: Family Adventuring in Small Sailboats

Product Description: Brown discusses the approaches to eating, sleeping, sanitation, storage, and safety on the smallest (15- to-24-foot) cruising sailboats, and reviews the various hull forms and sail plans available. This book is a revised edition of Brown's Sailing on a Microbudget, which reviewers called the winner for daysailing and weekend cruising'' (ENSIGN) and a real joy to read, reaffirming the adage that simple is better' with compact grace and style'' (Small Boat Journal)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Larry Brown

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9780070082472 | Intl Marine Pub Co, March 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Brown discusses the approaches to eating, sleeping, sanitation, storage, and safety on the smallest (15- to-24-foot) cruising sailboats, and reviews the various hull forms and sail plans available.

Help, My Money Keeps Running Away!

By Larry Brown

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9780595438075 | Iuniverse Inc, February 28, 2008, cover price $9.95

I'll Always Get Up

The 1972 NFL Player of the Year discusses his ghetto youth in Pittsburgh, college days, and success with the Washington Redskins

By Larry Brown

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9780671216146 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1973, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The 1972 NFL Player of the Year discusses his ghetto youth in Pittsburgh, college days, and success with the Washington Redskins

Introduction to Psychology

By Larry Brown

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9780316112222 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1979, cover price $20.95

Joe

The lives of two men--Joe Ransom, a drinking, reckless fifty-year-old gambler, and Gary Jones, a luckless fifteen-year-old boy raised by an evil father and an insane mother--become intertwined in a novel of good, evil, temptation, and sacrifice. Reprint.

By Larry Brown

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9781565124134 | Reprint edition (Algonquin Books, September 30, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The lives of two men--Joe Ransom, a drinking, reckless fifty-year-old gambler, and Gary Jones, a luckless fifteen-year-old boy raised by an evil father and an insane mother--become intertwined in a novel of good, evil, temptation, and sacrifice.

9780446394383 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, October 1, 1992), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The lives of two men--Joe Ransom, a drinking, gambling, reckless fifty-year-old, and Gary Jones, a luckless fifteen-year-old raised by an evil father and an insane mother--become intertwined in a novel of good, evil, temptation, and sacrifice

Joe: A Novel

The lives of two men--Joe Ransom, a drinking, gambling, reckless fifty-year-old, and Gary Jones, a luckless fifteen-year-old raised by an evil father and an insane mother, become intertwined in a novel of good, evil, temptation, and sacrifice

By Larry Brown

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9780945575610 | Algonquin Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The lives of two men--Joe Ransom, a drinking, gambling, reckless fifty-year-old, and Gary Jones, a luckless fifteen-year-old raised by an evil father and an insane mother, become intertwined in a novel of good, evil, temptation, and sacrifice

A Miracle of Catfish

The final novel by the late author of Dirty Work and Facing the Music describes a single year in the lives of four men--including Cortez Sharp, a farmer with a terrible secret; gambler Tommy Bright; Cleve, a black neighbor whose daughter is involved with an unworthy man; and Jimmy, a child born to a man beyond redemption.

By Larry Brown

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9781565125360 | Algonquin Books, March 20, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes a year in the lives of four men: Cortez Sharp, a farmer with a terrible secret; gambler Tommy Bright; Cleve, a black neighbor whose daughter is involved with an unworthy man; and Jimmy, a child born to a man beyond redemption.

The Official Small Business Owners Manual: A Comprehensive Blue Print for Building a Profitable Small Business

By Larry Brown

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9781430326601 | Lulu.Com, September 30, 2007, cover price $19.95

On Fire

Recounting his experiences of danger and adventure, a former firefighter describes how he and his companions adjust to the frequent horrors they witness and struggle for balance in an effort to live normal lives. By the author of Joe. Reprint.

By Larry Brown

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9781565120099 | Algonquin Books, January 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences with the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department, describing the tedium of waiting, the shock of the alarm, the horror of fires, disaster, and death, and the delirium of saving lives

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9780446671149 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, May 1, 1995), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Recounting his experiences of danger and adventure, a former firefighter describes how he and his companions adjust to the frequent horrors they witness and struggle for balance in an effort to live normal lives.

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