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Medieval fairy tale volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
A beautiful maiden who poaches to feed the poor. A handsome forester on a mission to catch her. Danger and love are about to unite in Thornback Forest. --
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Language
English
Description
“An almost perfect novel” of yearning, adventure, and redemption in the dying days of the Old West from the bestselling author of Peace Like a River (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
Minnesota, 1915. With success long behind him, writer, husband, and father Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose . . . until he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale. Plagued by guilt over abandoning his wife...
Minnesota, 1915. With success long behind him, writer, husband, and father Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose . . . until he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale. Plagued by guilt over abandoning his wife...
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Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Traces decades in the lives of a post-Civil War Oklahoma family that includes such members as a psychopathic killer, a group of cruel brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and a pathologically deviant patriarch.
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Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Emmet Lang is a very unique type of outlaw. A veteran of the Civil War, he returned home to find his family murdered and the family farm destroyed. Bitter and disillusioned, he wandered the south and west and struck upon an ideal way to make a living: stealing from criminals. Lang and his small band of three outlaws plan the perfect robbery. An Indian Affairs agent is traveling by stagecoach to Denver. In his possession is forty thousand dollars he...
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Series
Trail of the gunfighter volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
1996, 2012
Language
English
Description
As gunfighter Nathan Stone tries to live out his days in peace, the discovery of a son he never knew he had may force him to strap on his six-shooters and take once more to the vengeance trail.
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Series
Trailsman volume 372
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When Allan Pinkerton asks Skye Fargo to infiltrate a small gang of brutal killers, he has no idea what he's in for. Because the gang is only a tiny piece of a much bigger ''syndicate'' that has its filthy hands in a lot of pies - and it's up to the Trailsman to climb up the lowlife ladder and take down the head honcho ... if someone doesn't take him down first" -- Cover verso.
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Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
There's no taming Billy Blanchard. He's cut from the same rough cloth as his father, Jacob, the man who built the town of Black Horse Creek from nothing. Jacob takes pride in Billy's lawless, wild ways. But when the boy returns home with a stolen horse, having just killed a U.S. Marshal, Jacob knows trouble will be coming. Called in on special assignment, enigmatic former deputy marshal Grayson is asked to find Billy. The marshals would prefer to...
11) One man's fire
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Eli had always led the life of an outlaw. Cutting corners and breaking the law, he knows how to get away with pretty much anything-until he's caught red handed attempting to rob a wagon set out as a trap. Imprisoned and alone, Eli is unsure whether the members of his gang have made it out alive, or if the men behind the disguised wagon are after his life. But he is sure about Lyssa-the beauty who selflessly takes care of him in prison. As Eli struggles...
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Publisher
Signet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While riding to the Dakota Territory where they hope to join up with a horse drive to Sturgis, brothers Logan and Billy Cross find their journey taking a dangerous turn when they draw the ire of Quincy Morgan and his gang of outlaws who are determined to teach them a valuable lesson.
13) Buzzard bait
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Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man's bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like 'Widowmaker.' Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There's just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country... When Newt gets word that a renegade...
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Series
Mountain man volume 38
Language
English
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Description
They're hanging Billy Ray Cabot in Cloverdale, Nevada on Friday. Or so they think. Thursday brings Smoke Jensen to town. In another life, Billy Ray was almost kin to Smoke, and guilty or not, Smoke will blast Cloverdale sky high if that's what it takes to set his old friend free. By midnight, Smoke and Billy Ray are riding hell-for-leather out of Cloverdale, and into a war between cunning railroad robbers and the organization sworn to stop them. Billy...
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Series
Last mountain man volume 45
Language
English
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Description
"When Smoke Jensen sees a gang of outlaws holding up a stagecoach, he storms in with guns blazing, killing one of the gunmen. The dead man is the brother of the notorious outlaw Gabe Briggs and Briggs will want revenge. Tired of the savagery of the lawless countryside, Smoke's wife Sally heads back east for a spell, only to find the big city choking in filth, violence and corruption. Before Sally can head back home, though, she's snatched right off...
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Series
Queen's thief volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
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Series
Longarm volume 388
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"Better dead than wed. That's how confirmed bachelor and Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has always lived his life. But when he watches his boss's beautiful sister Alice--who has long carried a torch for Custis--tie the know, he can't help but wonder if he's made the right choice. Plus this new husband of hers--Jesse Walker--looks familiar to Longarm, and not in a friendly way. When bride and groom mysteriously disappear right after the wedding, the...
20) Flintlock
Author
Series
Flintlock volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a fortune - a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smouldering ruin of his former jail cell and a treasure in the Arizona mountains there will be blood at a U.S. Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns with the schemers, shootists, madmen, and lost women who find their way to Flintlock's side. From a vicious, superstitious...
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