Forty West

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Mara Kardas-Nelson
We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrowers in West Africa In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American trained Bangladeshi economist, m...
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Karen Cushman
When Sally O'Malley Discovered the Sea
From the Newbery-Award winning author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice comes the story of an orphan on the American frontier who decides to go west--with nothing but gumption as her guide. Sally O'Malley is an orphan working at a mineral spring hotel in the woods of cent...
$8.99
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Linda McMillin Pyle
Peaks, Palms & Picnics: Day Journeys in the Mountains & Deserts of Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley of Southern California (Peaks, Palms, and
Day journeys in the mountains and deserts of Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley of southern California. Written in a narrative style, this book highlights natural history and western lore, and includes scenic picnic locations and simple recipes for the trail. ...all of Pyle's trips include tidbit...
$18.00
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Turner
Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design (Chinese Edition)
The gardens made on the fringes of Central Asia in the past 5000 years form a great arc. From the Fertile Crescent, it runs west to Europe and east to China and Japan. Asia's fringe was a zone of interchange: a vast landscape in which herders encountered farmers and the design of symbolic gardens be...
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Kristin Hannah
The Things We Do for Love: A Novel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into her main characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.” —The Washington Post Book World From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women comes a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic o...
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Alan Rich
American Pioneers: Ives to Cage and Beyond (20th Century Composers)
This is the first book to concentrate on the rebellious trend within American music at the turn of the twentieth century. American Pioneers examines Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, Carl Ruggles, Edgard Varèse, Harry Patch, Colin McPhee and Lou Harrison, focusing on the peculiarly American ...
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Davis
The Trial of Tom Horn
For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis’s book, the only full-length account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger struggle for control of Wyoming’s ...
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Martin J. Smith
Mr. Las Vegas Has a Bad Knee: and Other Tales of the People, Places, and Peculiarities of the Modern American Southwest
Discover the Weird, Weird West For more than thirty years, journalist and author Martin J. Smith traveled the American West, chasing offbeat stories that were often bizarre, always compelling, and at times profound. His journey through that oft-idealized and misunderstood landscape has made him a w...
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H. Keith Melton
The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Espionage, Scandal, and the Crime of the Century
From two of the world’s leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive—and most unsettling—account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Exiled from the Soviet Union and living under constant threat, Leon Trotsky believed that by 1937 he had found sanctuary in Mexico City...
$32.99
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L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)
Experience the complete and unabridged edition of L. Frank Baum’s classic tale! Travel down the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy, Toto, and their friends as they quest for the elusive Wizard of Oz and encounter surprises along the way!   Since it was first published in 1900,  The Wonderful Wiza...
$5.27
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Louis L'Amour
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Vol. 6: The Crime Stories
One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Louis L’Amour’s vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories, L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the murky world where th...
$24.00
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Paul E. Lovejoy
Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa
The twenty essays in this volume explore the institution of debt bondage in Africa, in which individuals were held as collateral—usually by members of the same family—in lieu of debts that had been incurred. The reliance on personal relationship to guarantee credit arrangements worked well in prin...
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David Streitfeld
Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of  Lonesome Dove ,  The Last Picture Show , and  Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West. Before Larry McMurtry became one of th...
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Louis L'Amour
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6: The Crime Stories
One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Louis L’Amour’s vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories, L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the murky world where th...
$19.38
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Elmer Kelton
Jericho's Road (Texas Rangers, 6)
When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the Texas-Mexico border country he rides directly into a deadly feud. At odds are two land and cattle barons - Jericho Jackson, whose great spread lies just north of the Rio Grande, and Guadalupe Chavez, whose domain lies south of the...
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Charles A. Siringo
A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Penguin Classics)
After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm trail," driving 2,500 heads of catt...
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Dave P. Fisher
The Fates of Justice (The Poudre Canyon Saga)
An unexpected reunion between Jean and Andre with their brother Basille, opens the door to plans for reuniting seven of the Pelletier brothers after a forty-year separation. In Fort Collins, the political unrest continues with the creation of a City Council. The Council, seven new residents headed b...
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Melvyn Hayes
It Ain't Half Late Mum: My Story
Melvyn Hayes has spent over 75 years in show business, carving out a unique path from child performer to beloved character actor. Born in South London in 1935 and evacuated during WWII, Melvyn had his first taste of the stage playing the Gingerbread Man at primary school. A brief attempt to become...
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R. Putnam Baker
Merry'Round
Merry’Round is R. Putnam Baker’s first of a satirical series about West Texas in the 1920s. Zany characters and misfits join the Knight family to start a cattle ranch. The Knights move from Abilene to the High Plains and settle south of Littlefield. Their tale is a cowboy’s stew of adventure s...
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Clark Secrest
Hell's Belles, Revised Edition: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver, With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman
This updated and revised edition of Hell's Belles takes the reader on a soundly researched, well-documented, and amusing journey back to the early days of Denver. Clark Secrest details the evolution of Denver's prostitution, the gambling, the drug addicts, and the corrupt politicians and police wh...
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