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Larry McMurtry
In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest …
The Last Love Song
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. The two were wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los …
Axeman's Jazz
A stunning tour de force, Tracy Daughertys fourth novel explores the volatility of race, class, and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston, Texas, family, and …
We Shook Up the World
George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. Ten years later, the two men simultaneously staged comebacks, demonstrating just how …
American Originals
The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow peopleliterally, or through the rituals of labor, or through the raptures of …
High Skies
High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town in …
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Dante and the Early Astronomer
Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed …
Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
Dante and the Early Astronomer
Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed …
Boy Orator
In Tracy Daugherty's third novel, childhood innocence and political ambition meet just prior to the First World War in the person of Harry Shaughnessy, an Oklahoma farmer' son. …
It Takes a Worried Man
The narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley's narrators, she is pensive …