Bond, Larry.
Summary: Ordered to participate in a SEAL mission to extract two nationals who possess sensitive information on Iran's nuclear weapons program, submariner Jerry Mitchell is forced to abandon his minisub in the face of a brutal attack that forces him to plan a desperate sea escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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Summary: "Agent Franks of the US Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts--parts from other people. Franks is 6' 5", all muscle, nearly indestructible, animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself. Good thing he's on our side. More or less. Sworn to serve the US from all monsters, Franks has only one condition to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2014
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Summary: Auroray Greenway is now dealing with the trials of her grandchildren, whom she raised after the death of her daughter. Tommy is in prison for killing a girl during a drug deal, Mealanie, a disobediant troublemaker, is pregnant with her second fatherless child, and Teddy is mentally unstable. Aurora's many suitors have helped her with her grandchildren, but she is still living with Hector, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of wealthy English eccentrics, now have a growing brood of children. During the fourth year of their Western odyssey, each faces danger from Indian attacks, disease, and deprivation as they travel across the desert toward Santa Cruz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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Summary: The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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Summary: With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1987
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Summary: With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of English sportsmen, have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As winter strikes, they settle in a trading post near the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The aristocratic and outspoken eldest daughter Tasmin has married taciturn trapper Jim Snow, and is pregnant with their first child. But if this union seems strange, it is rivaled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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Summary: Widower Duane Moore returns to west Texas, where he finds the family oil business significantly altered by new personnel, evolving family dynamics, and his own perspective changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Summary: A tale set ten years after the events in "Juggler of Worlds" traces the reluctant efforts of the Puppeteers to counter onrushing alien refugees who are ransacking the planets they pass on their way toward the Fleet of Worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1974
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Summary: In the 28th Century, a war breaks out on Ringworld, a conglomeration of nations and cultures occupying 600 million miles of space. The hero is Louis Wu, a 200-year-old human scientist attempting to mediate the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1996
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Summary: Portrays the moral dilemma of a family in Montana torn between justice and loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1993
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Summary: Sonja Skordahl, a Scandinavian immigrant, finds herself torn between her husband, Henry, and Ned Weaver, an internationally famous artist who uses her as a model, in a novel set against the backdrop of rural Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2004
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Summary: Former naval pilot and submarine captain Jerry Mitchell embarks on a reconnaissance mission deep in the Barents Sea and struggles to outmaneuver a surprise submarine attack that damages both vessels and strands them on the bottom of the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and pathology, including how a couple faces the disfigurement of cancer in the bedroom, the rationalizations of a wife beater, or the mind of a teenage killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1988
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Summary: 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 By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1989
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Summary: A rodeo cowboy turned antique dealer centers his vaguely gypsy life on his collector's classic Cadillac, which carries him to backroad flea markets, small-time collectors, Washington high life, and the two women he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1982
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Summary: A roller coaster trip across the U.S. by three women, a boy and a dog. One of the women has lost a daughter and to help her overcome her grief the other two, who are her sisters, are taking her home to their farm in Oklahoma. But when they get there she decides home is really back in Las Vegas. Part-funny, part-sad, a sequel to The Desert Rose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995