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BROWSE - SERIES - Western Literature Series

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[Hardcover] - $25.00
Kinsella's Man
by Richard Stookey
In this novel of the West, centered in east-central Nevada, John Siloa, a young Basque sheepherder, comes west to work on Cyril Kinsella's ranch and eventually becomes the old man's confidant and agent.... more

[Hardcover] - $21.00
A Lean Year and Other Stories
by Robert Laxalt
In this collection of sixteen short stories, Robert Laxalt illuminates the Nevada of the 1950s. Written when Laxalt was in his twenties, the stories are as fresh as if they were penned yesterday.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
Looking for Steinbeck's Ghost
by Jackson J. Benson
In 1968, Jackson J. Benson, then a naïve young literature professor, set out to write a critical appraisal of John Steinbeck, a writer who Benson thought was greatly undervalued by the scholarly establishment.... more

[Paperback] - $22.00
The Lucky
(a novel)
by H. Lee Barnes
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.... more

[Paperback] - $20.00
The Master of Monterey
A Novel
by Lawrence Coates
The American conquest of California is the subject of Lawrence Coates’ remarkable new novel, a tale rich in magical irony, fraught with caustic truths and wrenching insights into the human condition.... more

[Hardcover] - $23.00
The Measurable World
by Katharine Coles
This erotic urban mystery is set in Salt Lake City, Utah. Grace Stern, a botanist, is married to but separated from Pascal, a heart surgeon and soon-to-be murder victim.... more

[Paperback] - $12.00
My Father's Martial Art
Poems
by Stephen S. N. Liu
Stephen Shu-Ning Liu is a unique figure in contemporary letters—a native of China, from a family of scholars, who left his country as a young man and writes in English, a language he learned only after emigrating.... more

[Paperback] - $17.00
My Mother's Lovers
A Novel
by Joy Passanante
Lake Rose Davis is the only child of former hippies who settled in a small Idaho mill town in the late 1960s.... more