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Bloody Jack adventures volume 11
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The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.
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In 1875, Susanna Hanby is heading to college in Westerville. Ohio, when she discovers that her sister Rachel and her children have disappeared. Rachel's alcoholic husband is no help, so she vows to uncover the truth. Johann Giere is heir to a successful brewery and an aspiring journalist. When he crosses paths with temperance crusader Susanna, sparks fly. But when she learns the fate of Rachel's children, Johann makes Susanna an offer she can't refuse....
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It was a law Cotton Pickens never asked for and never wanted to enforce. But due to the vigilance of the Women's Temperance Society, and the timidity of their businessmen husbands, the town of Doubtful, Wyoming, is going dry. As of January 1st. No exceptions. No turning back. Doubtful's hell-raisers will not take this lying down, and Sheriff Pickens is fighting bootleggers and vigilantes when the next boot drops. The righteous women push through an...
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 3
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English
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Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
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Lone Star Legends (Linda Broday) volume 1
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English
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"It's time for a new generation to become Legend. Deacon Brannock is determined to make a name for himself as a rancher but, currently, the saloon he won in a poker game is taking all his time and energy. He was prepared for life in the Wild West, but he hadn't counted on Grace Legend... Grace has always fought hard for what she believes in, and after her best friend is killed at the hands of her drunk and angry husband, that includes keeping alcohol...
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Rance Dehner westerns volume 5
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The wild west becomes even wilder as violence erupts over booze in the Texas town of Red Horse. A play, The Devil's Brew, which demands the abolition of liquor, is greeted with gunfire. The author is brutally murdered, and the cast threatened with death by the appearance of devil dolls. Detective Rance Dehner quickly discovers that no one in the cast of the play believes in abolition. They are struggling actors trying to make a living. But powerful...
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Winds of freedom volume 2
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Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Alice Sanborn, seventeen years old in October 1852, expects Abolitionist political operative Solomon McBride to court her. Surely he visits for more than her insight and family connections in the Vermont farming village of North Upton! When Almyra Alexander, niece of the local minister, arrives in North Upton, she brings Boston sophistication and advanced political ideas. Temperance! Voting rights for women! Alice wants it all and Almyra's friendship,...
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"A new ice age has driven mankind to settlements at the equator. In Clemency--a metropolis sheltered inside a transparent dome surrounded by glaciers--planning luminary Dorner hears female voices in his sleep. As the voices become more insistent, he seeks help from neuroscientist Rin, who runs tests to identify the location and import of this interior woman, who calls herself 'Tongue.' Rin's increasingly invasive experiments help Dorner to visualize...