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Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kitteryand finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the Munsons or remaining silent. But the danger from outside...
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Canadian West volume 3
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Elizabeth and Wynn face more challenges as a test of their faith and love.
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Sacketts volume 15
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Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trail wise gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father's last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail that led to whatever legacy...
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"From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s,...
65) Kilrone
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When Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone were dashing young officers in Paris, they both fell in love with the same woman. But now they are men in exile in one of the harshest territories of the American West. It is against this inhospitable backdrop, where survival itself is a day-to-day struggle, that Paddock makes a fateful decision that will plunge both men into a headlong battle for their lives and the lives theyre sworn to protect....
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Sacketts volume 13
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"When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn?t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn?t the only one after her grandfather?s treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant relatives with no legal claim to the gold, are obsessed with claiming the Hume fortune for themselves. Their all-consuming sense of entitlement recklessly...
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Hopalong rides into a firestorm of violence and betrayal. On the rain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men -- one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning with medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man has been shot through the temple. Who would commit such a murder? To find out, Hopalong hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learns that more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keeping...
68) Monument Rock
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A newly discovered collection of unpublished short fiction. The stories include The Man from Utah, a marshall's investigation of a series of murders, the work of an apparently respectable individual.
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Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture," Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against...
71) Cry of eagles
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After snuffing out the life of a slick young gunslinger, Falcon MacCallister is doomed to roam the West with a posse tracking him, sworn to revenge.
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Falcon MacCallister couldn't duck his father's legacy as a shootist in the Wild West. A man who lives between two worlds, he has a reputation of his own. On a stagecoach in southern Arizona, he is ambushed. But the people who die are the shotgun guard and a young woman returning from school. Now, he is the one man who has courage to bring justice.
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Border trilogy volume 1
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Young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, sets off with two companions across the border of Mexico.
75) Lonigan
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In his newest collection of frontier short fiction, L'Amour celebrates the tough breed of men who work the cattle drives. Men like Danny Lonigan, whose quick draw and hard fists were as respected as his reputation for doing right by the people who did right by him. Hard-riding adventure from America's favorite storyteller.
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In this last of the Hopalong Cassidy novels, the author sends his hero to rescue cowboy Pete Melford. But it's too late, Melford has been shot and Cindy, his niece, swindled out of the ranch he left her. To catch the killers Cassidy goes undercover, signing on as a simple hand on their leader's ranch.
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Return to the Canadian West volume 3
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When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the...
78) Wildfire
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Horse hunter Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than the wild stallion he called Wildfire. Lucy Bostil found the horse and the unconscious man who had roped him. She saved both their lives and took Sloan's heart in the process. Now another man wants Lucy and the horse--and will stop at nothing short of killing to get them.
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Grove Press
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1996.
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The life of Harry Vincent, a young title-writer in 1920s Hollywood, collides with the story of a young drifter known as the Englishman's boy, who in 1873 joins a group of wolf hunters in the search for a ring of horse thieves, as Harry prepares to work on a movie being made about him some fifty years later.
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