Central Kansas Library System

He Chose The World's Deadliest Land: To Die, Or To Live Again. . . Adam Laret, big, young and headstrong, ran from Ehrenberg to the banks of the Rio Colorado. He was blindly fleeing his scheming, gambling brother and the woman Guerd stole from him. But Adam's escape wasn't complete until Guerd, in the company of a sheriff, hunted him down. Then Adam committed the ultimate crime. With the mark of Cain upon him--he traveled into the desert to atone...

After the sudden death of his best friend, Steven Creed becomes the adoptive father of his friend's five-year-old boy, and this development is a deal-breaker for his long-term girlfriend. Steven and his new son pack up and move to Stone Creek, Arizona, looking for a fresh start. What he absolutely isn't looking for is someone like fiery prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan, a woman with plenty of demons of her own, to fall for.

Rance McKettrick sure doesn't need Indian Rock's free-spirited new bookstore owner Echo Wells confusing his choices--and raising memories he'd rather forget. But her straightforward honesty and reluctance to trust is challenging everything Rance thought he knew about himself. And when their irresistible attraction puts their hearts on the line, Rance and Echo must come to grips with who they really are to find a once-in-a-lifetime happiness.

Originally published in 1925, in THE DEER STALKER, Zane Grey readers will find all they have come to expect from their favorite Western author-swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the added valiant effort of a ranger's struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on the Buckskin range. Zane Grey makes the reader see this colorful Arizona country, makes him feel something of the awe that is the inevitable reaction...

Aimee Winters has made the bravest decision of her life. Left alone and homeless, she has accepted her fathers offer to stay with him in the Arizona territory and teach at the local school. The problem is she has no memory of her father, having been raised by her mother and taught that her father died when she was a baby. Hungry to know the truth of her past, she leaves Memphis behind and journeys alone to the mountainous region where she faces challenges...

Gambler, gunman, knight errant, Rogue Bishop again faces his old foe, Don Ricardo de Risa, the shrewd, ruthless Mexican bandit king. When Rogue Bishop and Michael McLean wandered into the deserted mining town in Arizona, they were looking for only one thing-silver. Rogue had rescued McLean in the desert; in gratitude, Mike had told Bishop about a cache of hidden coins in an old ghost town. What they found instead was an over-the-border horse-stealing...

It all starts with a meteorite falling to earth near Glen Canyon, Arizona. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College go to investigate. While taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid ozzing from the meteorite. Kane finds myriad single-celled life-forms in the fluid, evolving at an incredible rate, even while he's watching. What seemed like a sure ticket to Sweden for the...

Emma Moriarty, a divorced horse trainer living in a small Arizona town, is courted by widower and pharmacists Murphy Jones and faces a difficult choice when her ex-husband appears on the scene.