Product Description: Jim Harrison's popular novels represent only part of his literary output-he has also been widely acclaimed for the "renegade genius" of his powerful, expressive verse, collected in several books such as The Theory and Practice of Rivers and Other Poems (Clark City Press, 1989)...read more

Discusses American Christmas traditions, including Christmas trees, holly, mistletoe, Santa Claus, children's toys, firecrackers, candles, Yule logs, egg nog, caroling, and holiday feasts

In this collection of novellas from Jim Harrison, the title novella is about an aging writer who spars with his estranged wife, weathers the slings and arrows of literary success, and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim. In ''Eggs,'' a woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in ''The Case of the Howling Buddhas,'' retired Detective Sunderson -- a recurring character from Harrison's New York Times bestseller The Big Seven -- is hired as a private investigator to look into a bizarre cult that achieves satori by howling along with howler monkeys at the zoo.

Product Description: New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In The Ancient Minstrel, Harrison delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition...read more

A new collection of novellas from the author of Legends of the Fall and The Woman Lit by Fireflies explores the line between civilization and the 'wild men.' Reprint. (view table of contents)

[Read by Jim Meskimen] Jim Harrison is one of our most renowned and popular authors, and his last novel, The Great Leader, was one of the most successful in a decorated career: it appeared on the New York Times extended bestseller list and was a national bestseller with rapturous reviews. His darkly comic follow-up, The Big Seven, sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan. Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader did. A family of outlaws, armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson's cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sunderson's advice on a crime novel he's writing, which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the far greater, more expansive evil of his neighbor. In a story shot through with wit, bedlam, and Sunderson's attempts to enumerate and master the seven deadly sins, The Big Seven is a superb reminder of why Jim Harrison is one of America's most irrepressible writers.

The author of Legends of the Fall teams up with the illustrator of Crow and Weasel to offer a parable about tragedy and redemption experienced in nature. 25,000 first printing.

Presents brief poems originally exchanged by the longtime friends in their letters to each other, exploring such topics as the natural world, aging, and the nature of poetry.

[MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.] [Read by Bronson Pinchot, Ray Porter and Lloyd James] Brown Dog underscores Harrison's place as one of America's most irrepressible writers and one of the finest practitioners of the novella form. New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog -- a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian -- has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time, Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume -- the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible Everyman. In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior's cold waters; overindulges in food, drink, and women while just scraping by in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; wanders Los Angeles in search of an ersatz Native activist who stole his bearskin; adopts two Native children; and flees the authorities then returns across the Canadian border aboard an Indian rock band's tour bus. The collection culminates with ''He Dog,'' never before published, which finds BD marginally employed and still looking for love (or sometimes just a few beers and a roll in the hay) as he goes on a road trip from Michigan to Montana and back, arriving home to the prospect of family stability, and, perhaps, a chance at redemption.

Product Description: This 1999 wall calendar represents the era when Coca-Cola's distinctive trademark covered barns, bridges and country stores, all signs of rural America and recollections of a simpler time.

Product Description: Jim Harrison (b. 1937) is well known for his blunt, brave style in prose, poetry, screenplays, and nonfiction. In Conversations with Jim Harrison, the Michigan-born writer's directness and passion shine throughout. Conversations with Jim Harrison is the first-ever collection of interviews by this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years...read more

Product Description: This book of beautiful illustrations, with fascinating history woven throughout, delightfully captures that beloved American institution of yesteryear, the country store.

The saga of a pioneer family is chronicled by Dalva, a woman searching for the lost son she had by Duane, a half-Sioux, and whose Indian heritage becomes an important part of Dalva's narrative (view table of contents)