Clair Huffaker - The Cowboy and the Cossack

NANCY PEARL is a librarian and lifelong reader. She regularly comments on books on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition . Her books include 2003’s Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason , 2005’s More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment and Reason; Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest , published in 2007, and 2010’s Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers . Among her many awards and honors are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal ; the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association; the 2010 Margaret E. Monroe Award from the Reference and Users Services Association of the American Library Association; and the 2004 Women’s National Book Association Award, given to “a living American woman who… has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her profession or occupation.”

BOOK LUST REDISCOVERIES is a series devoted to reprinting some of the best (and now out of print) novels originally published between 1960–2000. Each book is personally selected by Nancy Pearl and includes an introduction by her, as well as discussion questions for book groups and a list of recommended further reading.

The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious.

Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Text copyright © 1973 by Clair Huffaker

Introduction and Readers’ Guide copyright © 2012 by Nancy Pearl

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.

A Book Lust Rediscovery

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Las Vegas, NV 89140

ISBN-13: 9781612183695

ISBN-10: 1612183697