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In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting.

Author of more than 30 books and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Larry McMurtry has gained international fame for his eccentric characters and vivid settings.

This is the stunning conclusion to award-winning author Larry McMurtry's vast saga set in the 1830s American West.

Dead Man's Walk is a powerful prequel to best-selling author Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are still teenagers when they enlist as Texas Rangers.

When you're a pinball, life is a risky game, especially for three adolescent children placed in a foster home.

Nicknamed the "trouble twins," 13- year-old brother and sister Dallas and Florida have long since given up hope of ever finding a family.

The Barkers are going to adopt a child, and twins Morgie and Moffie couldn't be more excited.

Life is hard for 12-year-old Lucas. First Uncle Asa dies of consumption, then Lizy and Pa. Now Mama is sick. And Lucas is the only one left to take care of her and their Connecticut farm.

Dave's carefree life of pranks and stickball in his Lower East Side New York neighborhood ends the day his papa dies.

Darek and his family and friends are returning from their dragonquest with something different: Zantor, a live baby dragon.

When the village Elder tries to buy Darek's blue dragon for his daughter, Darek refuses to sell.

Darek is envious when his older brother, Clep, returns from a quest wearing dragon claws for a necklace. His brother has killed a Great Blue, the largest and most feared of all dragons.

Eleven-year-old Nhamo is running for her life.

Baby Ruva lives with her giraffe family in a beautiful jungle. One sad day she is kidnapped and taken across the ocean to a horrible zoo.

Although he's only just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Dean Duffy thinks of himself as a has-been.