The Track of the Cat

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Clark's classic novel is a compelling tale of four men who fear a marauding mountain lion but swear to conquer it. It is also a story of violent human... Lees meer

Sunland

Don Waters

• Hardcover | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Sid Dulaney, in his mid-thirties, between jobs and short on funds, has moved back to Tucson to take care of his beloved grandmother. To hold down the ... Lees meer

Cactus Thorn

Mary Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character.... Lees meer

The Trail Book

Mary Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• The Trail Book is a classic of American nature writing. First published in 1918, it is a collection of children's tales, framed by its setting in New ... Lees meer

A Black Bridge

Ralph Tejeda Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• In A Black Bridge , Ralph Tejeda Wilson offers both an apparently simple, lucid, palpable surface and a powerfully complex, resonant undercurrent of c... Lees meer

The Desert Look

Bernard Schopen

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Reno private investigator Jack Ross has been in the desert for six months when his respite is interrupted by television reporter Miranda Santee. She n... Lees meer

Bad Boys and Black Sheep

Robert Franklin Gish

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• In this multicultural collection of ten short stories, Gish moves through settings as diverse as the contemporary California coast and the ghost-haunt... Lees meer

Stegner

Wallace Stegner, Richard W Etulain

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• These informal interviews of Wallace Stegner, conducted by Richard Etulain reveal his thoughts and observations on our society and culture. Topics cov... Lees meer

The Goodbye House

Lawrence Coates

• Hardcover | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• In the aftermath of the early 2000s dot-com bust, the people of San Jose, California face a changing landscape of lost dreams and careers gone awry. I... Lees meer

Skin of the Earth

Art Gibney

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Nevada's back country is a region of drought-parched sagebrush and snow-clogged winters, rugged ranchers and fiercely independent loners seeking solit... Lees meer

That Water, Those Rocks

Katherine Haake

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• For several generations, Katharine Haake's family has been intimately linked with the landscape and history of far-northern California. In That Water,... Lees meer

The River Underground

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Few readers outside Nevada are aware of the richness and diversity of the state's literary community, or of the number of nationally respected writers... Lees meer

Flight and Other Stories

José Skinner

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• In this rich group of stories about Latinos in the American Southwest, Skinner explores many themes. "Archangela's Place" features a wonderful Mexican... Lees meer

Dead Neon

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Las Vegas is considered a modern icon of excess. It offers every imaginable extreme of greed, pleasure, and despair, all supported by technology that ... Lees meer

Side Show

Catherine French

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• In her first full-length poetry collection, Catherine French reveals a curiosity about the complexities of the quotidian and a keen sensitivity to the... Lees meer

Harm

Miles Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• "Memory's deposit is my only asset now," says the narrator of Miles Wilson's wrenching poetry collection. These are fiercely honest poems about how a ... Lees meer

My Mother's Lovers

Joy Passanante

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Lake Rose Davis is the only child of former hippies who settled in a small Idaho mill town in the late 1960s. Her parents' eccentric lifestyle makes L... Lees meer

Moon Lily

Susan Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Ruth Farley is a stubbornly independent, free-spirited woman who homesteaded a piece of land at Glory Springs, deep in a beautiful, remote canyon in t... Lees meer

Straight White Male

Gerald W Haslam

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Leroy Upton, the "straight white male" who is the novel's central character, has come a long way from the sun-baked working-class neighborhood in Bake... Lees meer

The Ox-Bow Man

Jackson J Benson

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel The Ox-Bow Incident, was one of the important writers of the twentieth century. This work is an ... Lees meer

The Basket Woman

Mary Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• Austin's charming and evocative stories dramatize the legacy of conquest upon a land and its native peoples. Although these stories, out of print for ... Lees meer

The Watchful Gods

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• This edition of Walter Van Tilburg Clark's collection of short stories--which includes "Hook," Clark's most renowned story--makes these pieces availab... Lees meer

The Flock

Mary Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• This classic novel, first published in 1906 and based on Mary Austin's own experiences, captures the way of life of shepherds in the Sierra. Austin bl... Lees meer

Small Craft Warnings

Kate Braverman

• Paperback | Engels | Western Literature and Fiction
• The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco wa... Lees meer