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1	Angle of Repose more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery -- personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	All the Little Live Things more books like this by Wallace Stegner Two newcomers invade the life of Joe Allston, a 64-year-old rancher in California. One is a manipulative hippie who wants to camp on his land--a request Joe grants because his son died three years earlier, an event about which Joe still feels some guilt. The other is a new neighbor, the lovely Marian, who has a tragic secret. Stegner's novel ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Spectator Bird more books like this by Wallace Stegner Joe Allston, the narrator of Stegner's earlier (1967) novel, ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS, finds the journal he kept on a trip to Denmark 20 years earlier, which describes his attraction to a wealthy Danish woman. He reads the journal to his wife, and her response makes it clear how rich and vital their marriage has been. Winner of the National Book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Big Rock Candy Mountain more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner The novel that confirmed Wallace Stegner's position as an important American writer is based on his own family history. Bo and Elsa Mason and their two sons set out to conquer the West, pursuing the American dream of wealth and success--the Big Rock Candy Mountain. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.23! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Beyond the hundredth meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West. more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ".-- Books of the Southwest. see all copies from $3.54! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Great American Short Stories more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner (Editor), Mary Stegner Wallace Stegner and his wife Mary Stegner are the editors for this volume of definitive American short stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.65! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner Stegner's well-crafted, often nostalgic stories are definitely traditional in style--most were written before 1950, when he gave up short fiction for novels and nonfiction. This volume includes such masterly works as "The Sweetness of the Twisted Apples" and "The City of the Living," as well as the short novel GENESIS. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner In this recreation of southern Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1920, Wallace Stegner combines his own memories with history and fictional techniques to create a community, a landscape, and an unforgettable childhood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner When "The Gathering of Zion" was first published in 1964, Ray A. Billington wrote, "Wallace Stegner has written the best single volume to appear on the Mormon migration westward...His sensitivity to human beings and his ability to understand the spirit motivating the oft-persecuted Latter Day Saints allow him insights missed by earlier writers... ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Shooting Star more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner In Stegner's 1961 novel, a wealthy and beautiful but flighty woman leaves her older doctor-husband for a journey down a path of anguish and degradation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Recapitulation more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner 'In an age of explicit sex scenes and of male-female hates and struggles, it is wonderful to open this book...Despite the flapper fashions and references to prohibition and old Fords, one comes out aware of universal, human feelings that have nothing to do with time - present, future, or past' - "Christian Science Monitor". 'Recapitulation is rich ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Sound of Mountain Water more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner emerged as an important conservationist and novelist. This collection is divided into two sections: the first features eloquent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	American Places more books like this by Eliot Porter see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner In 16 graceful essays, Stegner writes about his perennial theme, the American West--its culture, landscape, and literature, and the ways that they interconnect. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Remembering Laughter more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner Margaret and Alec Stuart have a happy marriage despite Alec's reliance on the bottle. When Margaret's sister comes to stay with them and falls in love with their thriving Iowa farm, things change, and Margaret finds herself tested by a cruel series of events. Stegner wrote REMEMBERING LAUGHTER in response to a 1936 Little, Brown contest offering ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Discovery; the search for Arabian oil more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner Illuminating a little-known but extremely significant period in world history--the discovery of oil in the Middle East and the beginnings of what is now the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)--this captivating history explores the birth of the Middle Eastern oil industry. From the king and his royal court to the desert guides, scientists, ... see all copies from $13.92! new only from $16.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Mormon country more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Illinois and Missouri, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land they settled, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Arid Lands more books like this by John Wesley Powell, Wallace Earle Stegner (Editor), John Vernon (Foreword by) John Wesley Powell's arid lands report was the first to argue that the American West could not support a conventional system of agriculture and that its lands could not sustain unlimited development. He recognized that water was a more precious resource than land, that rainfall could never support agriculture in the region, and that controlled ... see all copies from $2.29! new only from $5.95! \| SVS
19	The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard Devoto more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner Wallace Stegner writes a biography of his fellow Western writer, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bernard de Voto. Among his other achievements, De Voto was a celebrated Mark Twain scholar and for many years wrote the influential "Easy Chair" column in Harper's magazine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: 2living and Writing in the West more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner In 16 graceful essays, Stegner writes about his perennial theme, the American West--its culture, landscape, and literature, and the ways that they interconnect. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	American Places more books like this by Wallace Stegner A collection of musings by Pulitzer Prizeawinning author Wallace Stegner and his son, Page, "American Places" reconciles the many images that embody Americans, America, and the land that made it all possible. BACKCOVER: aThis book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Late Harvest: Rural American Writing more books like this by David R. Pichaske (Editor), Wallace Earle Stegner (Adapted by), Wendell Berry (Adapted by) This collection of writing about rural America includes work by Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Bobbie Ann Mason. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions
23 view cover	Joe Hill more books like this by Wallace Stegner Stegner writes a fictionalized version of the life of Joe Hill, the union organizer, attempting to find the real man behind the legend. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	On Teaching and Writing Fiction more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner, Lynn Stegner (Editor) Stegner brings together eight previously uncollected essays--including four never-before-published pieces--on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every aspect of fiction writing from the writer's vision to his or her audience to the recognizable truth it seeks finally to reveal. see all copies from $5.56! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The American West as Living Space more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner A passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves see all copies from $8.14! new only from $11.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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