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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is. Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose. Hers is a loving portrait that only Larry McMurtry could render.
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The Deadly Five
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Raymond Maher; Edited by Eden Maher
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The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances With Wolves, and its
sequel, The Holy Road, together in one volume for the first time.
1863. The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John Dunbar
watches over the American frontier. A thousand miles back east, his
comrades are locked in battle with the Confederates, but out here
he is alone. His desolate posting will bring him into contact with
the lords of the southern plains - the Comanche. He has no
knowledge of their customs but Dunbar is intrigued by these people
and begins a transformation from which he emerges a different man.
A man called Dances With Wolves. The story continues, 11 years
later in The Holy Road. Times are hard for the Comanche. The white
man is closing in from all directions, claiming land, driving the
tribes on to reservations. Should the Comanche fight or make peace?
Misunderstanding and duplicity lead to raids and atrocities on both
sides that can have only one conclusion. The man that was John
Dunbar must go to war again.
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