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Brown, Larry Chamberlain, Lauryn Leary, Ann Leary, Ann. McMurtry, Larry. Watson, LarryMcMurtry, 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, 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
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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 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...
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WATMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD W MCMMcMurtry, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatson, Larry
Summary: Edie--smart, self-assured, beautiful--always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a good life, but everywhere she turned, her looks defined her. Two brothers fought over her. Her second husband became unreasonably possessive and jealous....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATLeary, Ann
Summary: "Four adult step-children must come to terms with their legacy and the family myths they've built their lives upon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEAChamberlain, Lauryn
Summary: Jules O'Brien and Michelle Davis has been best friends since third grade. Now in their midtwenties, the friends live miles and worlds apart. When Jules agrees to be a maid of honor in Michelle's wedding, she realizes how different the two have become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALeary, Ann
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary comes the captivating story of a wealthy, but unconventional New England family, told from the perspective of a reclusive 29-year-old who has a secret (and famous) life on the Internet. Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and the generations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEALeary, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2008