Nancy H. Jenkins, Author, Louis L'Amour, Author Broadway Books $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-553-06209-0
Three years after the publication of her admirable Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Jenkins returns to southern Europe, this time mapping a narrower locale. The dishes she finds in the ""heel of Italy's boot"" display many variants from town to town and
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Louis L'Amour, Author . Bantam $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-80273-3
The fourth and final posthumous Bantam collection of L'Amour's short stories comprises 11 adventures written in the 1940s and 1950s that call to mind pulp magazines, as tough men and curvy women trade snappy banter against a backdrop of...
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Louis L'Amour, Author Bantam $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05162-9
Readers of L'Amour's Westerns and his recent medieval saga The Walking Drum will not be disappointed by this contemporary epic. Proving that he is above all a great raconteur, the prolific L'Amour sets his latest in Siberia where a downed American...
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Louis L'Amour, Author Bantam $5.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-553-56782-3
Hopalong Cassidy's third adventure pits Hopalong against a gang of frontier cattle rustlers. (May)
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Louis L'Amour, Author Bantam $25 (232p) ISBN 978-0-553-05703-4
This is for the most fervent L'Amour fans only, those who consider it of moment, for example, to peruse his extensive reading lists for 1930, '31, '32, '33, '34, '35, '37 (the '36 list was lost). So banal is this memoir that one wonders if the late...
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Louis L'Amour, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-80160-6
Bantam has published 117 of L'Amour's books, with this collection being the second posthumous story collection (the first was Beyond the Great Snow Mountains) in a projected series of four. Duke LaMoore, as he was sometimes called, is probably best...
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Louis L'Amour, Author Bantam Books $15.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-553-10648-0
The west of the late Louis L'Amour (How the West Was Won) rides again in this anthology of eight short stories and a novella, all previously unpublished. It is a familiar territory where ""every horse could be ridden, every man whipped, every girl...
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Louis L'Amour, Author . Bantam $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-553-80328-0
Last year, Bantam published what was then thought to be the fourth and final posthumous collection of short stories by L'Amour (1908–1988), With These Hands. Yet as the author's son explains in an afterword, the family soon discovered
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To most readers, Louis L'Amour is the quintessential writer of westerns; few know that among his 118 published volumes are stories set far from sagebrush country. In this volume of 10 previously uncollected short stories written early in his...
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Louis L'Amour, Author, Beau L'Amour, Afterword by $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-10963-4
Written in the 1940s and '50s, the 10 stories in this collection, none previously published in book form, come complete with curvy Hopper-like heroines ""shaped to please"" whose ""eyes you could lose yourself in."" The heroes--boxers, detectives...
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Louis L’Amour, Charles Santino, Beau L’Amour, Katherine Nolan, and Thomas Yeates. Bantam, $25 (160p) ISBN 978-0-345-52812-4
Revered western writer L’Amour finally gets the graphic novel treatment. At the opening of this engaging tale, a lone rider shoots down two men at a ranch house, then flees into the desert. Flashbacks reveal the killer’s motivations, as a posse...
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Louis L'Amour, Author, Dramatization, Read by , read by full cast. Random House Audio $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-1730-3
In the thrilling radio serials of yesteryear, the momentum of the tale kept listeners from imagining actors in a studio reading scripts. Not so with this selection. The acting is noticeably awkward, possibly because, unlike "live" radio,...
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Louis L'Amour, Author, Beau L'Amour, Foreword by . Bantam $24 (662p) ISBN 978-0-553-80494-2
The fourth volume of the late L'Amour's short stories takes the author out of his familiar American frontier setting and into desolate and dangerous locales around the world, from "a narrow fjord at the end of the earth" on the...
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Louis and Beau L’Amour. Bantam, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-4252-8444-5
As Louis L’Amour’s son, Beau, explains in an afterword, he has taken the “roughly patched” segments of what would have been his father’s first novel and turned them into a highly entertaining nautical adventure. The narrative focuses on the 33 men...
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