In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces...

One of Entertainment Weekly's "Most Beautiful Books of the Year"

The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, "an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold" (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia.

Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass

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In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...

The ranch is suffering from a drought and Pete the Barncat has come up with a plan to start a prairie fire in hopes of ruining Loper's birthday. It is up to Hank the Cowdog to stop Pete the Barncat's dastardly plan.

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...

Slim and Miss Viola have second thoughts about their engagement and Hank and Drover might not see Miss Viola again.

"On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, in essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, beloved writer Pam Houston offers profound meditations on what ties her to the earth--most of all, the ranch, a sanctuary where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect"--Provided by the publisher.

Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the...

Hank the Cowdog's adventures include being trapped in a runaway pickup truck and later discovering a family of trespassing stray cats in a haystack.