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The Last Kind Words Saloon

Product Description: Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon he returns again to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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Hardcover:

9780871408112 | Slp ltd sg edition (Liveright Pub Corp, June 30, 2014), cover price $250.00

9781410467980 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, June 4, 2014), cover price $33.99 | About this edition: Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West.

9780871407863 | Liveright Pub Corp, May 7, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A Seattle Times Best Book of 2014 The triumphant return of Larry McMurtry with this ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.

Paperback:

9781594138874 | Large print edition (Large Print Pr, June 9, 2015), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West.

9780393351194 | Reprint edition (Liveright Pub Corp, June 1, 2015), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: New York Times BestsellerThe Last Kind Words Saloon marks the triumphant return of Larry McMurtry to the nineteenth-century West of his classic Lonesome Dove.

9781447274575 | Pan Macmillan, May 8, 2014, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West.

9780516261744, titled "Personal Computers" | Childrens Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history, components, software, and uses of personal computers

Working Out Your Finances Perfectly

Product Description: Money is in a way is like fire; itâs an extremelyexcellent servant but a terrible master.When you have it mastering you; wheninterest is constantly amassing against you, it willkeep you down in the worst sort of slavery. But letmoney work for you, and youâve the most devotedservant in the world...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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9781505639285 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 27, 2014, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: Money is in a way is like fire; itâs an extremelyexcellent servant but a terrible master.

Strategies of Article Marketing: The Plans and Policies of Article Marketing

Product Description: Not many link building strategies come close to the results you are able to get by regularly sending off high-quality articles to numerous article directories.Material that individuals wish to link to may help straight cut amounts of traffic to your site, with the right application of article marketing strategies...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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9781505695342 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 25, 2014, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: Not many link building strategies come close to the results you are able to get by regularly sending off high-quality articles to numerous article directories.

Be Independent: Why Working While You Study Is Important

Product Description: With the constant hike in cost of living, financial pressures have built up on students. Generally students find avenues to earn while in their college . Researches say that this kind of trend will continue because of the dearth of workers in workplace...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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9781505700145 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 25, 2014, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: With the constant hike in cost of living, financial pressures have built up on students.

Custer

Product Description: This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the Westâs most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from âone of Americaâs great storytellersâ (The Wall Street Journal).ON JUNE 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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Hardcover:

9781451626209 | Simon & Schuster, November 6, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history.

Paperback:

9781451626216 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 22, 2013), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the Westâs most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from âone of Americaâs great storytellersâ (The Wall Street Journal).

Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846 - 1890

Product Description: In "Oh What a Slaughter, " Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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9781476743882 | Simon & Schuster, April 6, 2013, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: In "Oh What a Slaughter, " Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today.

Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West 1846--1890

Recounts massacres that took place in America throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, describing violent clashes involving Native Americans, pioneer settlers, and others.

By Larry McMurtry and Michael Prichard (narrator)

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9781400101955 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 30, 2005), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Recounts massacres that took place in America throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, describing violent clashes involving Native Americans, pioneer settlers, and others.

9781400151950 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 30, 2005), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: 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.

La Â£ltima pelÂ¡cula

Product Description: "A veces Sonny se sentÃa como si fuera el Ãºnico ser humano del pueblo. Era una desagradable sensaciÃ³n que solÃa experimentar por la maÃ±ana temprano cuando las calles estaban completamente vacÃas, como cierta maÃ±ana de sÃ¡bado de noviembre...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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9788493856946, titled "La Ãºltima pelÃcula" | Azteca Difusora Del Libros S L, October 15, 2012, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: "A veces Sonny se sentÃa como si fuera el Ãºnico ser humano del pueblo.

The Berrybender Narratives

Product Description: A sweeping four-part epic of the American West that could only come from the boundless skill and imagination of Pulitzer Prizeâ winning author Larry McMurtry. Over a career that spans fifty years, Larry McMurtry has been celebrated as âone of Americaâs great storytellersâ (The Wall Street Journal) and a writer who âstands among our best not only because of his uncanny ability to compress a cogent narrative arc but also because his eye for the moving detail is infallibleâ (Los Angeles Times)...read more

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9781451647723 | Simon & Schuster, November 15, 2011, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A sweeping four-part epic of the American West that could only come from the boundless skill and imagination of Pulitzer Prizeâ winning author Larry McMurtry.

Hollywood:: A Third Memoir

Product Description: "One thing Iâve always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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Hardcover:

9781439159958, titled "Hollywood: A Third Memoir" | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, August 10, 2010), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: "One thing Iâve always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed.

Paperback:

9781439159965, titled "Hollywood: A Third Memoir" | Simon & Schuster, August 16, 2011, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "One thing Iâve always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed.

Lonesome Dove

Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade

By Larry McMurtry

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Hardcover:

9780671504205 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1985, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade

Paperback:

9781439195260 | Anv upd edition (Simon & Schuster, June 15, 2010), cover price $18.99

9780684857527 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.

9780671683900 | Pocket Books, December 15, 1988, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781590400463 | Unabridged edition (Phoenix Audio, March 1, 2002), cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive; Gus's woman, Lorena; and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.

9781558007192 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1992), cover price $69.95

9781558006225 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, September 1, 1992), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Continues the adventures of cowboys Gus and Call as they cope with the perils of the Old West on a cattle drive from Texas and Montana.

9781558004818 | Dove Entertainment Inc, September 1, 1992, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The first volume in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, the sinister renegade Blue Duck, and Lorena.

9780671690496 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtryâs Pulitzer Prizeâ winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.

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Reinforced:

9780606142571 | Demco Media, June 1, 1986, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade

Prebinding:

9780606351140 | 25 anv upd edition (Turtleback Books, June 15, 2010), cover price $31.80 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

9781439564271 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtryâs Pulitzer Prizeâ winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.

9780833518491 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade

Lonesome Dove: A Novel

Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.

By Larry McMurtry

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9780684871226 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.

The Evening Star: A Novel

Aurora Greenway must come to grips with old age while those around her try to cope with such problems as an unwanted pregnancy and a prison term, in a sequel to Terms of Endearment. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By Larry McMurtry

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9780684857510 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1999), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Aurora Greenway must come to grips with old age while those around her try to cope with such problems as an unwanted pregnancy and a prison term, in a sequel to Terms of Endearment.

In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

Product Description: Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers. First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas...read more

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9780684868691 | 2 edition (Simon & Schuster, July 1, 2001), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers.

9780671681029 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the cowboy, southwestern literature, the Astrodome, family life, sexual attitudes, and city life

9780826307217 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, October 1, 1983), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers.

Comanche Moon: A Novel

Set against the bitter frontier strife between Texans and the Comanche, Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call battle Buffalo Hump, the enigmatic war chief, and Gus' long-time nemesis, Blue Duck

By Larry McMurtry

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9780786213924 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1999), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Set against the bitter frontier strife between Texans and the Comanche, Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call battle Buffalo Hump, the enigmatic war chief, and Gus' long-time nemesis, Blue Duck

Cadillac Jack: A Novel

Product Description: In Cadillac Jack, Larry McMurtry -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove -- proves his unique talent for conjuring up the real, often eccentric people who inhabit the American heartland and for capturing the peculiarly American search for new frontiers and adventure...read more

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9780684853833 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, April 1, 2002), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In Cadillac Jack, Larry McMurtry -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove -- proves his unique talent for conjuring up the real, often eccentric people who inhabit the American heartland and for capturing the peculiarly American search for new frontiers and adventure.

Books: A Memoir

Product Description: Now in paperback, Larry McMurtryâs fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books: âa necessary and marvelous giftâ (San Antonio Express-News). â¢ Acclaimed author: Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show, to essays like In a Narrow Grave, to the reinvention of the âWesternâ on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning Lonesome Dove...read more

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9781416583349 | Simon & Schuster, July 8, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances.

Paperback:

9781416583356 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 14, 2009), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Now in paperback, Larry McMurtryâs fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books: âa necessary and marvelous giftâ (San Antonio Express-News).

Terms of Endearment: A Novel

Surrounded in fear and love by her daughter, her maid, and her five suitors, New England widow Aurora Greenway makes her charming, if demanding way in her adopted Houston

By Larry McMurtry

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Hardcover:

9780671221027 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1975, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.

Paperback:

9780671682088 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Surrounded in fear and love by her daughter, her maid, and her five suitors, New England widow Aurora Greenway makes her charming, if demanding way in her adopted Houston

Folly and Glory: A Novel

In the adventure-filled conclusion of the Berrybender saga, Tasmin and her family find themselves under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe, from which they are led on the terrifying 'Dead Man's Walk' to Vera Cruz, while Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans, as Tasmin and Jim must choose between their love for each other and their dreams for the future. 250,000 first printing.

By Larry McMurtry

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9780743233057 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Tasmin and her family find themselves under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe, from which they are led on the terrifying 'Dead Man's Walk' to Vera Cruz, while Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans.

By Sorrow's River: The Berrybender Narratives

Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.

By Larry McMurtry

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9781587245985 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, February 1, 2004), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir

By Larry McMurtry

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9781439159934 | Simon & Schuster, December 8, 2009, cover price $24.00

Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

Product Description: A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Larry McMurtry

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9780743216241 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2001, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood.

9780671633226 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, August 1, 1988), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of essays on Hollywood, including 'The Screenplay as Non-Book: A Consideration,' 'Character, the Tube, and the Death of Movies,' and 'The Disappearance of Love'

Rhino Ranch: A Novel

Product Description: â¢ Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. His Thalia, Texas, series is among his most famous and Duane is an icon as much as his creator. â¢ The Thalia Finale: Readers have followed the life of Duane through The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duaneâs Depressed, and When the Light Goes ...read more

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9781439156407 | 1 reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: â¢ Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines.

Some Can Whistle

Product Description: "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's never met, Danny Deck gets the jolt of his life. A TV writer who's retired to his Texas mansion, Danny spends his days talking to the answering machines of his ex-lovers from New York to Paris and dreaming of the characters in the sitcom he's created...read more

By Larry McMurtry

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Hardcover:

9780816149872 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, November 1, 1990), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Danny Deck, a middle-aged Texas writer, finds his peaceful life overturned by the arrival of T.

9780671642679 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1989, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780743230162 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 29, 2002), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "Mr.

9780816150106 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, November 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Danny Deck, a middle-aged Texas writer, finds his peaceful life overturned by the arrival of T.

9780671722135 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, August 1, 1990), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Danny Deck, a middle-aged Texas writer, finds his peaceful life overturned by the arrival of T.

Loop Group: A Novel

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. By the author of Folly and Glory. 150,000 first printing.

By Larry McMurtry

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9780743250795 | Simon & Schuster, November 14, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Anticipating the onset of her later years, Maggie leaves behind her manipulative daughters 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.

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