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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...

In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves, blood brothers through a Cheyenne ritual, travel deep into Apache territory where they fight off gun runners, white slavers, and warring Apache tribes.

"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...

Blood brothers Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves are ambushed by Zack Jardine's gang and Matt is badly wounded. Leaving him in a Navajo villaged to get patched up, Sam heads out to wreak vengeance on the gang. When he catches up to them, Sam finds that the cutthroats are selling guns to the Indians--a move that threatens to explode into an all-out tribal war. Only Sam and Matt can stop the bloodshed and settle Zack Jardine's hash once and for all.

Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved. When Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious bounty...

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.

The serenity of Flower Creek was blasted apart by gunfire. Inside a minute two men lay dead and another mortally wounded. Reverend Joe Slate offered his services only to have himself and partner Jim Brandon, a professional gambler, drawn into a web of double-dealing. Before their stay in Tucson was over, the gun-toting preacher and the gambler would find themselves caught in the deadly crossfire between the Settlers' League and the all-powerful Southern...

Based on the true story of convicted murderer Gary Tison and his cellmate Randy Greenawalt who staged a daring escape from prison and embarked on an unforgettable crime spree.