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Brown, Larry Harms, Kelly Haruf, Kent Haruf, Kent. McMurtry, Larry. Parker, Harry Watson, LarryHaruf, Kent.
Summary: A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haruf 2013Haruf, Kent.
Summary: In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging the confidences and memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haruf 2015Harms, Kelly
Summary: Single mother Amy Byler grabs the chance to enjoy a child-free summer in New York City, but then a crisis forces her to make some difficult choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHaruf, Kent
Summary: "A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARHaruf, Kent.
Summary: In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging the confidences and memories.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARParker, Harry
Summary: "A stunning first novel--of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism--that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Captain Tom Barnes, leading British troops in the war zone. Two boys growing up there sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. The man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARHaruf, Kent.
Summary: A novel of small-town life in the high plains region around Holt, Colorado, follows the challenges, emotional upheaval, tragedies, and intertwined destinies of the local inhabitants as they cope with the changes they encounter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HarufHaruf, Kent.
Summary: A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haruf 1999Harms, Kelly
Summary: "As one of the most popular influencers on social media, Mia Bell has lived her life online for years. With her celebrity dog and gorgeous fiancé, she is planning the ultimate virtual wedding--expensive, elaborate, and entirely paid for by sponsors. But off-camera, her world is far from picture-perfect. After being jilted by her fiancé and faking her nuptials to please her sponsors, Mia finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A roller coaster trip across the U.S. by three women, a boy and a dog. One of the women has lost a daughter and to help her overcome her grief the other two, who are her sisters, are taking her home to their farm in Oklahoma. But when they get there she decides home is really back in Las Vegas. Part-funny, part-sad, a sequel to The Desert Rose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: WES MCMWatson, Larry
Summary: "Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatson, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Large Print 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WATMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of wealthy English eccentrics, now have a growing brood of children. During the fourth year of their Western odyssey, each faces danger from Indian attacks, disease, and deprivation as they travel across the desert toward Santa Cruz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: WES mcmCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: WESTERN McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of English sportsmen, have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As winter strikes, they settle in a trading post near the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The aristocratic and outspoken eldest daughter Tasmin has married taciturn trapper Jim Snow, and is pregnant with their first child. But if this union seems strange, it is rivaled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western McMurtry 2003Watson, Larry
Summary: Portrays the moral dilemma of a family in Montana torn between justice and loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATBrown, Larry
Summary: "Set in the low hills just outside Oxford, Mississippi ... is the story of one year in the lives of four men and one little boy. ... There is Cortez Sharp, a farmer with a terrible secret and a newly dug pond he is stocking with catfish. Tommy Bright, from Arkansas, has a fish-stocking business he's all but gambled away. Cleve, a black neighbor down the road, has a daughter who's taken up with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The Berrybender's party is moving forward across the Great Plains of the West towards Santa Fe. Tasmin's husband scouts ahead and falls in love with Pomp Charbonneau, who dies at the hand of the ruthless commander of the Spanish troops. A vast cast of characters meet up with the party as they travel, proving that the rolling grassy plains are not as empy as they look.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: WESTERN McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WES McMurMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Best friends Maggie and Connie, both sixty-years-old, dub voices and sounds for B-rated movies in Los Angeles. Both eager to escape aspects of their lives, the two pack up a van and commence a road trip to Connie's Aunt's Texas chicken farm. During their travels, they encounter a slew of colorful characters, amusing tourist traps, and beautiful scenery, all of which help create a life-changing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCMWatson, Larry
Summary: To twelve-year-old David Hayden, his family is comfortable and familiar. But when their Sioux housekeeper whispers her darkest fears in the heat of a fever, these statements, and the investigation they spark, will change David and his family forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WATMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: In the Missouri town of Boone's Lick, a colorful cast of characters stands on the edge of the Western frontier ready to push west to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western McMurtry 2000McMurtry, Larry.
Summary: McMurtry with his miraculously sure touch at creating recognizable women characters, and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure-with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMWatson, Larry
Summary: In 1951 North Dakota, years after losing her son in a horse riding accident, Margaret Blackledge seeks to retrieve her grandson from the daughter-in-law who ran off with another man but finds her efforts challenged by her reluctant husband and the boy's stepfamily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013