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In the third installment of the international award-winning series by John Layne comes a story that reunites the justice-seeking duo of Luxton Danner and Wes Payne for their toughest test yet.
A ruthless land baron with visions of turning a quiet settlement into a raucous boomtown besieges the peaceful town of Canyon Creek. Gilford Knox set his sights on devouring every inch of land in and near Canyon Creek, employing threats and violent tactics to...
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First published in 1977, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive--an instant bestseller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection--is now a modern-day Western classic. This raucous, rollicking novel of a cattle drive in the age of the automobile revived a genre and added its own special twists in capturing the imagination of readers nationwide. To honor the thirtieth anniversary of its publication, the University Press of Kansas is proud to announce a new 30th...
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"The thirteenth novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series Longmire Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of...
4) Texas Ranger
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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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Rocky Mountain memories volume 1
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In the high mountains of Colorado, Clayton Taggart dreams of the day when he can leave the rough life of a mine surveyor to become a teacher. In the midst of his plans, he meets Jackie Fontaine, a newcomer from the East whose strongwilled spirit causes friction from the start. At first Clay gains more pleasure out of teasing Jackie than wooing her. Just as the spark of love ignites, tragedy strikes, leaving Jackie with a secret so terrible she would...
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"Tom Fuller, a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame, is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a blacksmith's assistant by Boston Charlie. Finally here is a job that Tom can perform successfully, and his...
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"Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II--an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frenchwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the...
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Walt Longmire mysteries volume 7
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Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaining order in Wyoming's Absaroka County for more than thirty years, but in this riveting seventh outing, he is pushed to his limits. Raynaud Shade, an adopted Crow Indian rumored to be one of the country's most dangerous sociopaths, has just confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago and burying him deep within the Bighorn Mountains. Walt is asked to transport Shade through a blizzard...
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
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Draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah, whose efforts to survive in the Arizona Territory are challenged by drought before a stagecoach accident puts her in the path of three strangers.
10) Depth of winter
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"Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. Winter is creeping closer, but for Sheriff Longmire this one is looking to be harsh in a way to which he is wholly unaccustomed. He has found himself in the remotest parts of the north Mexican desert, a lawless place where no horse or car can travel, where no one speaks his language or trusts an outsider, far from his friends and his home back in Wyoming. An international hit man and the head of one of...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 10
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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.
12) Land of wolves
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Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. With unsettling connections to a Basque family with a reputation for removing the legs of Absaroka County sheriffs, matters become even more complicated with the appearance of an oversize wolf in the Big Horn Mountains to which Walt finds himself feeling more...
13) Texas outlaw
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Rory Yates volume 2
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A Texas Ranger is justice. Until he sidesteps the law. Texas Ranger Rory Yates is not keen for hero status, unavoidable once his girlfriend, country singer Willow Dawes, writes a hit song about his bravery. Rory escapes his newfound fame when he's sent to the remote West Texas town of Rio Lobo, a municipality with two stoplights, and now, according to the Chief of Police, one too many Texas Rangers. Rio Lobo Detective Ariana Delgado is one who requested...
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American Haunings volume Volume 1
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2019
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Texas, 1885.
In the aftermath of a deadly fire, Dr. Gavin Morris, on hand to render aid to the few survivors, runs into someone he does not expect. Medium Annabelle Smith has arrived to help the dead cross over. Despite the grim work, the two find themselves immediately drawn to one another.
But this one chance encounter does not end their unexpected connection. Time and again, fate draws them to scenes of destruction, until they can no longer pretend...
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[Mooncalf Press]
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[2019]
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In a time when a man's word is his currency, Deputy Marshal Buckner makes a promise. n a time when a man's word is his currency, Deputy Marshal Buckner makes a promise. Teresa Hogan, pregnant and abandoned in a lonely mountain cabin, becomes the target of a gang of outlaws who want what they believe she has. And Teresa has made a promise of her own. If they are going to keep the promises they have made, then together they must flee the Old Bunch outlaws...
16) Home to Kentucky
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The McCoys before the feud volume 2
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Western Presse Publishing LLC
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[2018].
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"A treacherous journey. Wagons packed with gold. Will the McCoys outrun a group of lawmen or swing from the gallows? Kansas, 1865. Wiley McCoy can't wait to return home. He counts down the days until his family can stop laying low and return to Kentucky with the rightfully plundered valuables they took back for the South. But crossing the open prairie with four wagons full of gold may bring Wiley a lethal set of new problems. With desperate outlaws...
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[Mooncalf Press]
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2018
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"Justice in a lawless land. When honor demands a life, can honor be satisfied with the life of an innocent man? Does a criminal deserve mercy when an innocent man is standing in his stead? In the vast emptiness of the Llano Estacado, Rab Sinclair finds there are no easy answers when he becomes a pawn in a barbaric plot to mete out punishment. When a renegade band of Comanche demand a life for a life, and any life will do, Rab Sinclair and an outifit...
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Western Adventures volume Volume 1
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2021
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Jacob Payne, bounty hunter, is committed to keeping the Arizona Territory of 1870 safe from outlaws, thieves, and their like. Roaming all over the desert, he encounters the dangers of a flash flood, a corrupt sheriff, a gang of bank robbers, and more.
Collected here for the first time the first four books of the Jacob Payne saga: Trouble by Any Name, Danger in the Canyon, Justice for Jasper and Blood on the Mountain.
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Robert Peecher
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2018.
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On the eve of battle, Rab Sinclair cut a trail. And Frank Cosgrove never forgave him for it. Now the man known as Bad Eye Frank is toting a vendetta, and he won't let it go until someone puts Rab Sinclair in a grave. Francisco Tebone wants to be a known man. He wants respect. He wants other men to fear him. And he knows the easiest way to get what he wants is by gunning down a known man. Don Conchos just wants to get paid. He earns his living as a...
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Moses Calhoun Mountain Westerns volume 1
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Robert Peecher
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2019.
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Terror on the Santa Fe Trail. A gang of border ruffians are loose on the Kansas prairie in 1860, committing callous murder as they drift from one place to the next. Amos Cummings is the patriarch of family of emigrants, seeking to start a new life in California. Cummings has hired Rab Sinclair to guide his party as far as Santa Fe. But Rab's easy way in the wilderness does not mix well with the family's Eastern values, and he soon finds himself at...