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Track of the Cat
Häftad, 1993
314 kr
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Clark's classic novel is a compelling tale of four men who fear a marauding mountain lion but swear to conquer it. It is also a story of violent human emotions--love and hate, hope and despair--and of the perpetual conflict between good and evil.
Desert Look
Häftad, 1995
233 kr
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Reno private investigator Jack Ross has been in the desert for six months when his respite is interrupted by television reporter Miranda Santee. She need's Jack help to solve a story. Miranda has an old photograph of two Las Vegas showgirls who allegedly robbed a mobster of one million dollars …
Ceremonies of the Damned
Poems
Häftad, 1997
185 kr
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The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain—the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and a bleak interior world of loss, illness, and despair. Louis’s poems bring us to a place where …
Small Craft Warnings
Stories
Häftad, 1998
217 kr
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The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off the endless highways. The lives of women on the edge and beyond the margins have seldom been explored with as much power or insight as in …
Many Californias
Literature from the Golden State
Häftad, 2014
443 kr
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Haslam divides the state into five regions, selecting prose and poetry from each that reflects their history, terrain, and culture. Many Califonias features sixty-seven authors ranging from Jack London to Maxine Hong Kingston, making it the most diverse general-interest anthology available.
Basket Woman
A Book of Indian Tales
Häftad, 1999
217 kr
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Through the kindly but mysterious Basket Woman, cocky young glaciers, ancient Paiutes, and clever rabbits become the companions and teachers of Alan, the young son of homsteaders in early Nevada. The Basket Woman doesn't simply tell stories: She transports her young friend into powerful mythic …
Flock
Häftad, 2001
217 kr
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Blending natural history, politics, and allegory, Mary Austin champions local shepherds in the losing battle against the quickly developing tourist business in early twentieth-century California. The Flock is based on Mary Austin's first-hand experiences. She met many shepherds while visiting the …
Black Bridge
Poems
Häftad, 2001
153 kr
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In A Black Bridge, Ralph Tejeda Wilson offers both an apparently simple, lucid, palpable surface and a powerfully complex, resonant undercurrent of connotation. The title itself operates as both a symbol of connection and a literal scene. The author has a special gift for compassion, for joy, and …
Down by the Lemonade Springs
Essays on Wallace Stegner
Häftad, 2001
290 kr
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Wallace Stegner is one of the finest American writers, teachers and environmentalists of the 20th century. While his writing, both fiction and non-fiction, was recognized by a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and many other distinctions major and minor, his legacy is much larger than any of …
Reading Sand
Selected Desert Poems, 1976-2000
Häftad, 2002
201 kr
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The ascetic and enigmatic vastness of the Great Basin has challenged the talents of many writers, but few have met the challenge as successfully as William L. Fox. In Reading Sand, Fox's elegant minimalist poems capture the essence of the Great Basin desert-its daunting emptiness, the passage of …
Master of Monterey
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
249 kr
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The American conquest of California is the subject of Lawrence Coates's remarkable new novel, a tale rich in magical irony, fraught with caustic truths and wrenching insights into the human condition. When Commodore Thomas Jones and the crew of the National Intention land in Monterey believing …
Lucky
(a Novel)
Häftad, 2003
282 kr
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Unfolding from the bygone era of 1950s Las Vegas through the turbulent decades that followed, this epic novel examines the universal search for identity and reward in a world where the good life always seems out of reach. ""Suppose that the Great Gatsby had raised a foster son, and further suppose …
Trail Book
Häftad, 2004
233 kr
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Considered a classic of American nature writing, this collection of stories is essentially a frame tale set in the New York Museum of Natural History, where two children discover displays that come to life and admit them into a series of exciting adventures that include talking animals and magical …
Watchful Gods and Other Stories
Häftad, 2004
233 kr
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In 1950, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the acclaimed novel The Ox-Bow Incident - a writer who critic John R. Milton has said ""did perhaps more than anyone else to define (in his fiction) the mode of perception, the acquisition of knowledge, and the style which we tend to call Western"" - …
Imagining Los Angeles
A City in Fiction
Häftad, 2004
233 kr
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The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that foreshadows and reflects all that is wrong with America. In Imagining Los …
Dolly and Zane Grey
Letters from a Marriage
Häftad, 2011
314 kr
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Popular western writer Zane Grey was a literary celebrity during his lifetime and the center of a huge enterprise based on his writing, which included books, magazine serials, film and stage versions of his stories, even comic strips. His wife, Dolly, closely guided Grey’s career almost from its …
Garden of the World
Häftad, 2012
245 kr
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California’s Santa Clara Valley was once home to a vigorous wine industry. The Garden of the World is the tale of a pioneer winemaking family headed by Paul Tourneau, a fiercely ambitious vintner determined to make the finest wines in California. His plans are disrupted by a phylloxera epidemic at …
Other California-Great Central Valley in Life and Letters
Häftad, 1993
223 kr
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Oildale native, Gerald Haslam, doesn’t like it when folks dismiss the Central Valley as boring and flat. In this collection of essays, he argues that it is California’s heartland and economic hub. In addition, the valley has produced a crop of gifted writers. These nineteen essays range from …
Condor Dreams and Other Fictions
Häftad, 1994
217 kr
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Haslam explores the rural areas and small towns of his native region—California's Great Central Valley—in this collection of twenty-five short stories. The stories are filled with a principally masculine cast that is as culturally diverse as the West gets: a Chinese laborer, a Portugese farmer, a …
Big Silence
Häftad, 1994
233 kr
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This novel follows native Nevadan Jack Ross, a private investigator who has about had it with murder and betrayal and is teetering on the edge of emotional collapse. But when called upon by a friend to help a young prostitute locate her grandfather, missing these forty years, he hits the cold …
From the Still Empty Grave
Collected Poems
Häftad, 1995
169 kr
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In this masterful collection of poems, Las Vegas poet Stevens explores the complex connections between life and death, place and experience, the world of books, and the quotidian world of work, pain, and loss. Stevens’ poems reflect an experience as vast as the world itself. His attention moves …
Keno Runner
Häftad, 1995
185 kr
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Stories turn corners. They bump into you: You take them!"" So New York writer Benjamin Kohlman has been told by one of many former bosses. Alone again and desperate, Kohlman has finally found his: Janice Stewart, recently acquitted of the grisly arson/murder of her father-in-law. Kohlman follows …
Just Past Labor Day
Selected and New Poems, 1969-96
Häftad, 1996
201 kr
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Kirk Robertson, according to critic William Kittredge, is ""one of those writers we listen to with gratitude."" He is also one of Nevada’s best-known poets, and rightly so, because his lean verses powerfully express the realities of life in the modern West—its irony, disconnection, sadness, and …
Flying Over Sonny Liston
Poems
Häftad, 1996
185 kr
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Winner of the 1996 Western States Book Award for poetry, Flying Over Sonny Liston explores with courage, compassion, and bone-deep wisdom the complicated and sometimes heartbreaking task of being human in the modern West. Whether he writes about the tortuous interior landscape of the family or the …
Iris Deception
Häftad, 1996
233 kr
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In this third Jack Ross mystery, the Reno private eye is hired by iris-eyed Patsy McLeod to resume a case abandoned as hopeless eighteen years earlier—the search for her missing teenage daughter Heather. This time, Ross’s investigation leads him from a failed ranch in the desert north of Reno to …
Secret Life of John C.Van Dyke
Selected Letters
Av University of Nevada Press, David W. Teague m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
423 kr
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The author of The Desert, the book that made the American landscape accessible to the mainstream mind, was much less like his fellow environmental prophets John Muir and Henry David Thoreau than he would have had us believe. Van Dyke claimed to have wandered ""alone on horseback for thousands of …
Dust Devils
Häftad, 1997
201 kr
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An action-packed story set during the violent and conflict-ridden days of the early 20th century, Dust Devils takes place in the rugged mountains and deserts of Eastern California and Northern Nevada. Ira Hamilton, the teenage son of rugged Indian-hating rancher John D. Hamilton, wins the …
Wild Indians and Other Creatures
Häftad, 1997
233 kr
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This stunning book will startle readers who harbor romantic notions about contemporary Native American life. In these ten irreverent and interrelated short stories, Louis interweaves his versions of traditional Trickster tales with human stories to create something new and arresting. Set on and …
House on Breakaheart Road
Poems
Häftad, 1998
153 kr
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This breathtaking collection of poems by award-winning Nevada poet Gailmarie Pahmeier explores the many facets of a woman's experience. Told largely through the voice of a fictional character, ""Emma,"" the poems display a range of moods, from tender to wry, ironic, tough, lyrical, reckless. …
Bathing in the River of Ashes
Poems
Häftad, 1999
153 kr
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Shaun Griffin is a poet of impassioned engagement—in the common joys and suffering of the human experience, in the natural world, in the complexity of language and the poet's craft. Whether considering Somalia, Latin America, the Las Vegas Strip or Nevada's drab mining towns and prisons, he speaks …
