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Product Description: Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition, but bad fortune and pride have driven him and his long-suffering daughter Maureen into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. When an aging rancher commissions Gil to create a memorial statue of his son who was killed in action, Gil believes it will be his greatest achievement...read more
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Hardcover:

9780307265814 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 24, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: From the author of the acclaimed best seller The Gates of the Alamo, a new novel that confirms and enlarges Stephen Harrigan’s reputation as a major voice in American fiction.

Paperback:

9780307948793 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 29, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition, but bad fortune and pride have driven him and his long-suffering daughter Maureen into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I.

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Product Description: To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 CBS debut of the multi-award-winning miniseries "Lonesome Dove", UT Press is pleased to issue a commemorative edition of "A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove". This edition features a new deluxe dust jacket with new photographs of Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, as well as a specially designed twenty-year commemorative sticker...read more
By Stephen Harrigan (introduced by), Larry McMurtry (foreword by) and Bill Wittliff
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9780292721739 | 20 anv edition (Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 2009), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 CBS debut of the multi-award-winning miniseries "Lonesome Dove", UT Press is pleased to issue a commemorative edition of "A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove".

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Product Description: Lonesome Dove--Larry McMurtry's epic tale of two aging Texas Rangers who drive a herd of stolen cattle 2,500 miles from the Rio Grande to Montana to found the first ranch there--captured the public imagination and has never let it go...read more
By Stephen Harrigan (introduced by), Larry McMurtry (foreword by) and Bill Wittliff
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9780292713116 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Lonesome Dove--Larry McMurtry's epic tale of two aging Texas Rangers who drive a herd of stolen cattle 2,500 miles from the Rio Grande to Montana to found the first ranch there--captured the public imagination and has never let it go.

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As Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to another astronaut and a mother of two young children, prepares to achieve her dream of space flight aboard the shuttle, her personal life begins to unravel as her marriage starts to fall apart, her son falls ill, and her relationship with Walt Womack, the leader of the training team, becomes dangerously intimate. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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9780375412059 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 4, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: As Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to another astronaut and a mother of two young children, prepares to achieve her dream of space flight aboard the shuttle, her personal life begins to unravel.

Paperback:

9780345497642 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 31, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: As Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to another astronaut and a mother of two young children, prepares to achieve her dream of space flight aboard the shuttle, her personal life begins to unravel.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739325186 | Abridged edition (Random House, April 4, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: As Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to another astronaut and a mother of two young children, prepares to achieve her dream of space flight aboard the shuttle, her personal life begins to unravel.

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Product Description: La vida brinca--life jumps--and yet we strive to capture its passing moments by creating images. One of the simplest yet most evocative techniques for image-making is pinhole photography. Using a tiny aperture without a lens to shine light on a piece of film, pinhole cameras accumulate light until an image forms...read more
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9780292713208 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: La vida brinca--life jumps--and yet we strive to capture its passing moments by creating images.

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A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
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9780679447177 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas

Paperback:

9780142004296 | Penguin USA, December 1, 2003, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
9780141000022 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 2001), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
9780756758981, titled "Gates of the Alamo" | Diane Pub Co, July 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836-an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history-The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to the now-fabled Texas fort: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; the resourceful, widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love leads him instead to war, and into the crucible of the Alamo.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780375415609 | Random House, March 1, 2000, cover price $29.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780375415593 | Abridged edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A fictional chronicle centered on the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.

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Product Description: This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780395465585 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A celebration of diving takes readers to the reef off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean, offering insights into its myriad sea creatures and describing the humans on land

Paperback:

9780292731202 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 1999), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
9780871564535, titled "Water and Light a Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef" | Sierra Club Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A celebration of diving takes readers to the reef off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean, offering insights into its myriad sea creatures and describing the humans on land

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Product Description: "The essays in Comanche Midnight address my old preoccupations with worlds that have vanished, communication that is sealed off, perceptions that are out of reach. There is an air of mystery about them . . . They are a record not just of certain events and people and places, but of the mind that witnessed them, and that is still trying to grasp what it beheld...read more
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9780292730885 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "The essays in Comanche Midnight address my old preoccupations with worlds that have vanished, communication that is sealed off, perceptions that are out of reach.

Paperback:

9780292730960 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "The essays in Comanche Midnight address my old preoccupations with worlds that have vanished, communication that is sealed off, perceptions that are out of reach.

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Product Description: In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature. In vivid and convincing prose, he evokes the landscape of his home territory, Texas, and his own reactions, sometimes droll, sometimes haunted, to the extraordinary power of place that Texas projects...read more
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Paperback:

9780292730878 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature.

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9780877191070 | Texas Monthly Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $14.95

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Reluctantly accepting a job with Dude Granger's Porpoise Circus after returning to his hometown on the Gulf Coast, Jeff Dowling learns to accept the animals he must train as if they were human
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9780394506241 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Coming to Port Aransas to catch and train porpoises for his benefactor's oceanarium, Jeff Downing falls in love with Mary Katherine and tries to prevent a porpoise from being sold for a movie

Paperback:

9780877190578 | 1 edition (Texas Monthly Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Reluctantly accepting a job with Dude Granger's Porpoise Circus after returning to his hometown on the Gulf Coast, Jeff Dowling learns to accept the animals he must train as if they were human

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9780877190288 | Texas Monthly Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $65.00
9780877190264, titled "Contemporary Texas: A Photographic Portrait" | Texas Monthly Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $5.98

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Investigating the hijacking of the freighter Nantesville, Philip Calvert encounters a vicious and ruthless gang of thieves
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9780345324764 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Investigating the hijacking of the freighter Nantesville, Philip Calvert encounters a vicious and ruthless gang of thieves

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