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Maggie runs a group that dubs voices for movies. She spends much of her time fending off her three pushy daughters, and gets her kicks with her far older Sicilian lover.

Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career.

Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.

Set in the early 60s, this novel is a very funny and completely raunchy satire of life in Texas and in California, and a true and very American portrait of an artist as a young man.

As the world enters a new century, three teenagers forge a future for themselves on the wild Texas grasslands: Gideon Fry, torn between going his way and following his father's footsteps; John

Aurora Greenway is a widow, and likes being pursued by her suitors. She is about to become a grandmother and life seems to be speeding by.

Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional, old-frontier morals--in contrast to his stepson, Hud.

An almost-true story about a small town in Texas that ought to exist if it doesn't, with characters like Sam the Lion, the delectable Jacy, and Ruth Popper, the coach's wife.

McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century.

McMurtry presents the final installment in his memoir trilogy.

Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West.

When John Heppel, a visiting writer to Lochdubh, first proposes forming a writers' circle, the idea is met with much enthusiasm from local residents.

When local constable Hamish Macbeth calls on Effie Garrand, he is amazed to find the small woman still in residence after a particularly hideous winter.

Mrs. Gillespie, famous for being the best maid in the northwest of Sutherland, is found dead, struck down by a metal bucket. Knowing Mrs.

Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, will be married at last.