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Books by Pam Houston
  | | Deep Creek(1st Edition) Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35766-0, ISBN: 0-393-35766-X ""This is a book for all of us, right now.” ―Cheryl Strayed, author of WildOn her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her tra ..." |
 | | Cowboys Are My Weakness(Reprint) Stories by Pam Houston Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35687-8, ISBN: 0-393-35687-6 "“Brilliant.… [Houston] takes women into grand spaces, both emotional and physical, and isolates them until there’s nothing left to do but sit down and take a hard look at one’s soul.” ―Los Angeles TimesIn Pam Houston’s best-selling story collection, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuanc ..." |
 | | A Little More About Me(1st Edition) by Pam Houston Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34346-5, ISBN: 0-393-34346-4 "In Pam Houston's can't-put-down collection of essays, A Little More About Me, she describes her globe-trotting adventures spanning five continents with candor and humor, but it's the emotional journey that hits home. We travel vicariously as Houston treks through the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan or dozes while a pride of lions passes her Botswana campsite, but we're right there with her when she talks about her anger-filled childhood, h ..." |
 | | Sight Hound(Reprint) A Novel by Pam Houston Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32739-7, ISBN: 0-393-32739-6 "At the heart of Pam Houston's tender novel Sight Hound is a surprisingly thoughtful three-legged Irish wolfhound named Dante. Convinced that it is his responsibility to teach the humans around him about love, he concentrates his efforts on his owner Rae. While the thought of a canine in the lead role may give many pause, in this case it shouldn't. Houston manages to pull this aspect of the story off with skill and is able to create a mu ..." |
 | | Air Mail Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place (Paperback) by Amy Irvine, Pam Houston Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 2020 by Torrey House Press October 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-948814-38-6, ISBN: 1-948814-38-2 "Letters penned during pandemic by writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine as they shelter in place in Colorado's high country, one on either side of the Continental Divide." |
 | | Waltzing the Cat(Reprint) by Pam Houston Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34347-2, ISBN: 0-393-34347-2 "“Fat with meaning . . . tastes oh so sinfully good.” ―Washington Post Book World Ever since the publication of Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston's fans have clamored for more from the woman with a penchant for the laconic men of the West. Now, in eleven linked fictions featuring a peripatetic photographer named Lucy O'Rourke, Houston serves up once more her charismatic blend of relationships and adventure. This is the story of one wo ..." |
 | | Fracture(1st Edition) Essay Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America by Taylor Brorby, Stefanie Brook Trout, Pam Houston Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2016 by Ice Cube Press, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-888160-90-1, ISBN: 1-888160-90-X "Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together a choir of established and emerging writers, giving voice to the complexities of hydraulic fracturing across the United States. During a time in which so much information is known about fracking, art is needed to move the public consciousness and national conversation towards better land practices. In the tradition of Wallace Stegners 'This is Dinosaur,' Terry T ..." |
 | | Sight Hound A Novel by Pam Houston Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05817-8, ISBN: 0-393-05817-4 "The long-awaited novel―a very special love story―from the best-selling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness. This is the story of a woman, Rae, and her dog, Dante, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear (the dog has always known this). Dante is the catalyst for change in other characters as well, and they step forward with their narratives: Rae's house-tender; her therapist; two veterinarians; and an anxiety-ri ..." |
 | | A Rough Guide to the Heart(Updated) by Pam Houston Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Virago Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-86049-849-7, ISBN: 1-86049-849-3 "In these essays, Pam Houston treats us to a celebration of her real-life adventures which range over five years and five continents. But whatever Houston's destination - whether Bhutan or Bolivia or Traverse City - it is only the starting point from which she extracts her personal emotional journey. She is searching here for a place - not too safe but not too threatening - from which to negotiate mountain goats and river ice, camping tr ..." |
 | | A Little More About Me by Pam Houston Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2000 by Washington Square Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-0633-8, ISBN: 0-7434-0633-8 "In Pam Houston's can't-put-down collection of essays, A Little More About Me, she describes her globe-trotting adventures spanning five continents with candor and humor, but it's the emotional journey that hits home. We travel vicariously as Houston treks through the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan or dozes while a pride of lions passes her Botswana campsite, but we're right there with her when she talks about her anger-filled childh ..." |
 | | Waltzing the Cat(1st Edition) by Pam Houston, Jane Rosenman Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Washington Square Press ISBN-13: 978-0-671-02637-0, ISBN: 0-671-02637-2 "When Lucy O'Rourke was 2 her father threw her into the New Jersey surf. She passed the flotation test then, but nature--wild and human--has been subjecting her to variations on the theme ever since. True, the thirtyish photographer-protagonist of Waltzing the Cat is drawn to dangerous locales, from the Ecuadorian jungle where murderous grand caymans lie at the ready to the Provincetown beaches where her latest nominee for Mr. Rig ..." |
 | | Waltzing the Cat(1st Edition) by Pam Houston, Jane Rosenman Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-02749-5, ISBN: 0-393-02749-X "When Lucy O'Rourke was 2 her father threw her into the New Jersey surf. She passed the flotation test then, but nature--wild and human--has been subjecting her to variations on the theme ever since. True, the thirtyish photographer-protagonist of Waltzing the Cat is drawn to dangerous locales, from the Ecuadorian jungle where murderous grand caymans lie at the ready to the Provincetown beaches where her latest nominee for Mr. Right seem ..." |
 | | Cowboys Are My Weakness(Updated) by Pam Houston Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 1994 by Time Warner Books Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-85381-731-1, ISBN: 1-85381-731-7 "(Sexy, gutsy and intoxicating, these tales tell of the pleasures of dancing the two-step at the Stockgrowers' Ball, the pity of stalking beautiful beasts and, of course, of sex, love and loss. This stinging-fresh collection opens up new worlds - of high deserts and Alaskan tundra, of perilous white water, the frozen Rockies and of 'cowboys' and strong women. These women part daredevil, part philosopher - know they should know better, bu ..." |
 | | Cowboys Are My Weakness(1st Edition) Stories by Pam Houston, Nancy Horan Hardcover, 171 Pages, Published 1992 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-03077-8, ISBN: 0-393-03077-6 "A wonderful tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper,unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition.\nA good man is hard to find, but a good cowboy practically impossible. At least that's what the women in this accomplished, witty and engrossing debut short-story collection discover when they fall 10-gallon-hat-over-spurs for the kind of men who go in for roping cattle, not for romance." |
 | | Scissors, Paper, Rock(Reprint) A Novel (Kentucky Voices) by Fenton Johnson, Pam Houston Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2016 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6656-8, ISBN: 0-8131-6656-X "Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole." |
 | | Deep Creek(1st Edition) Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24102-0, ISBN: 0-393-24102-5 ""How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her trav ..." |
 | | Cowboys Are My Weakness(Updated) Stories (Norton Paperback) by Pam Houston Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32635-2, ISBN: 0-393-32635-7 ""Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars."âWashington Post Book WorldIn Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey. But a real cowboy is hard to find ..." |
 | | Waltzing the Cat(Updated) by Pam Houston Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Virago Press ISBN-13: 978-1-86049-638-7, ISBN: 1-86049-638-5 "When Lucy O'Rourke was 2 her father threw her into the New Jersey surf. She passed the flotation test then, but nature--wild and human--has been subjecting her to variations on the theme ever since. True, the thirtyish photographer-protagonist of Waltzing the Cat is drawn to dangerous locales, from the Ecuadorian jungle where murderous grand caymans lie at the ready to the Provincetown beaches where her latest nominee for Mr. Right see ..." |
 | | Cowboys Are My Weakness(Reprint) by Pam Houston, Jane Rosenman, Kenneth John Gregory Paperback, 171 Pages, Published 1993 by Washington Square Press ISBN-13: 978-0-671-79388-3, ISBN: 0-671-79388-8 "Houston, whose short stories have appeared in such periodicals as Mirabella and Mademoiselle , now has her first collection, the highlights of which are "How To Talk to a Hunter," a story selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories, 1990 , and "Selway." Though these two stand out, the collection as a whole showcases a fresh, original, strong feminine voice. Houston is almost Hemingway-esque in her spare prose, yet richly e ..." |
 | | Tales from Nowhere(3rd Edition) (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) by Don George, Tim Cahill, Pam Houston, Jason Elliot, Pico Iyer, Anthony Sattin, Danny Wallace, Simon Winchester, Rolf Potts, Lonely Planet Publications, Conor Grennan, Karla Zimmerman, Judy Tierney, Lisa Alpine, Laura Resau, Michelle Richmond, Rose George, Kerry Lorimer, Bill Fink, Chris Colin Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Lonely Planet ISBN-13: 978-1-78657-621-7, ISBN: 1-78657-621-X "Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Unexpected stories from unexpected places.Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of t ..." |
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