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Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
James Patterson presents a bold new heroine -- a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West. Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great...
2) Sunset pass
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English
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Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he's become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rustlers and crooks. Now, he's returning to his hometown. But things have changed. The town and its people aren't what they used to be. He expects to find some of his enemies there to welcome him, but instead...
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Series
Vengeance road volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets...
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English
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"In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position...
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Penguin Random House
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must prevent all-out war between rival factions in the latest adventure in the New York TimesWhen gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of Appaloosa, it sets off a fight between two shrewd local business operations as their hired gun hands square off over the claim. First a young miner disappears, then another. And then one of the businessmen himself is killed, right on his front doorstep.Meanwhile,...
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English
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Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered the floor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayo stepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no way of knowing the course of his life would change forever ...
8) Texas Ranger
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English
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"Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement skills have carried him far--from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. A tough case in Waco has jeopardized Yates's chances at promotion, and he decides to take time off to recharge with his family in their small-town hometown, Redbud. He arrives and finds a horrifying crime scene--and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Fans of Carolyn Brown and B.J. Daniels will adore this slice of Americana delivered with warmth, endearing characters, and authentic Texan flair. The legendary New York Times and USA Today bestselling author brings a sense of nostalgia to the town in this delightful journey of second chances.
Jessica Ann McKenzie-"Jam" to everyone in Honey Creek-has fulfilled her dream of owning the best restaurant for miles around. Serving candlelit dinners to...
10) Damnation valley
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Series
Frontiersman volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
Description
Johnstone Country. Frontier Spirit Lives Here.
America's most popular western novelists ride hard in their newest adventure as fearless pioneer Breckenridge Wallace carves out a future in the unforgiving American frontier
JUSTICE IS HARD TO REACH
WHEN IT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF HELL.
A Rocky Mountain winter has left Breck reeling from the carnage unleashed by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan-and readying a quest for vengeance as ruthless as...
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Series
First mountain man volume 5
Publisher
Distributed by TEI Landmark Audio
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Blood in the Snow
Mountain men are skilled at survival. Preacher, the greatest of all those warriors of the forest, will kill anything--beast or man--that threaters his survival. Ten years ago, he taught this violent lesson to gun-crazed Ezra Pease when he ran the outlaw out of town. But Pease and his trail-scum gang are back--shooting up trouble and crossing the Big Empty to nail Preacher's hide to a tree.
So Preacher's riding out to teach Pease...
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Rattlesnake Wells Wyoming volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
Description
Johnstone Justice. What America Needs Now.
Welcome to the most dangerous town in the West. For Marshal Bob Hatfield, that means rough justice and a hundred ways to die...
In the shadow of the Prophecy Mountains, the ramshackle boomtown of Rattlesnake Wells draws schemers, predators, and desperate pilgrims. As for the law, that's the town marshal, a former Texas outlaw trying to make a new life for himself. But Sundown Bob Hatfield knows a man who's...
13) Dark territory
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 2
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English
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A rash of deadly train robberies has the chief investor of Dover Station feeling itchier than a quick draw without a target. And he wants Sheriff Aaron Mackey to scratch that itch with every bullet his battered badge authorizes him to shoot. When Mackey and his backup gun down four kill-crazy bandits, they uncover a plot cooked up by respected citizens of Dover Station.
14) Dead Time
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Series
Hank Fallon volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by TEI Landmark Audio
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Johnstone Country. Try Not to Get Killed.
In this explosive Hank Fallon thriller, the justice-seeking ex-con goes undercover and behind bars to expose a plot as big, as bold, and as deadly as the American Civil War ...
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE-OR DIE.
Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don't kill you, the prisoners will. And if it weren't for the fact that the man...
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Taylor Callahan Circuit Rider volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
In his younger days, Taylor Callahan didn't know right from wrong - and didn't much care either. As a Confederate bushwhacker, renegade outlaw, and all-around hellraiser, he gave the devil himself a run for his money. Most folks figured Taylor would end up swinging from a noose or shot dead in a poker game. But somewhere along the road to perdition, he decided to change his wicked ways, and fight the good fight against the evil that men do. So he...
16) Day of Reckoning
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by TEI Landmark Audio
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The legendary MacCallister clan brought 500 years of Highlander tradition, honor, and fighting courage to the American frontier. In an astounding new novel from the national bestselling Johnstones, Duff MacCallister rides into the Colorado mountains with a young girl at his side-and a gang of stone-cold killers eagerly waiting for them...
DAY OF RECKONING
When Duff MacCallister sees smoke rising...
17) Hell and back
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English
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
19) Death & Texas
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Series
Death and Texas volume 1
Language
English
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"The great state of Texas is a land of opportunity. For outlaws. And horse thieves. And cattle rustlers. Not to mention bank robbers, train robbers, and anything-that-ain't-nailed-down robbers. The state's governor, Richard B. Hubbard, is at the end of his rope. He wants to clean up Texas once and for all - and he's desperate enough to try something crazy: hire a man who can do what the Texas Rangers can't. A man not tied down by a wife or children....
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Publisher
Distributed by TEI Landmark Audio
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Here are four short stories from Zane Grey, the acclaimed author of Western adventures and frontier characters.
Living in the ruthless solitude of the desert, range, or mountains, the men in these four stories are all on personal journeys.
In The Camp Robber, a man has driven his wife away and yearns for reconciliation.
Amber's Mirage reveals an old man's realization of the corrupting power of gold when up against young love.
In a harsh climate...
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