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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.
RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?
CLIFF BOOTH - Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder . . .
SHARON TATE - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.
CHARLES MANSON - The ex-con's got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he's their spiritual leader, but he'd trade it all to be a rock 'n' roll star.
HOLLYWOOD 1969 - YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE
It is 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, when Yip
Tolroy - mute, medical anomaly & social outcast - is born. His
father has disappeared in mysterious circumstances, so he is raised
by his mother: a powerful, troubled, independent woman who owns and
runs a general store. She struggles to manage his needs, leaving
Yip to find the means of asserting himself in an unforgiving,
hostile environment. With the help of a retired doctor, he begins
to transform his life by learning to read and write, his portal
into the community a piece of slate and a supply of chalk. And then
at the age of 15, Yip's life is altered irrevocably. In the space
of a few days he witnesses the discovery of gold, meets his
faithful friend and comrade Dud Carter, and commits a grievous
crime. Thrust unwittingly into a world of violence and sin, Yip and
Dud are forced to leave town and embark on an odyssey that will
introduce them to the wonder and horror of the American frontier
until the revelation of a secret means they must return to Heron's
Creek and the fate that awaits them.
It's the nineteenth century. As America prepares for civil war,
five men living within ninety miles of one another will change the
course of history. The invention and refinement of the repeating
firearm-the precursor to today's automatic weapons-means life in
America and beyond will never be the same again. In this riveting
work of narrative history, veteran reporter John Bainbridge, Jr.
vividly brings to life the five charismatic and idiosyncratic men
at the heart of the story: the huckster and hard-living Samuel
Colt; the cunning former shirt-maker Oliver Winchester; the
constant tinkerer Horace Smith; the resilient and innovative
businessman Daniel Wesson; and the skinny abolitionist Christopher
Spencer. As the men competed ferociously, each trying to corner the
market for repeating weapons, invention and necessity collided in a
perfect storm: America was crashing violently towards furious
sectarianism, irrevocable tensions, and, of course, bloodthirsty
war. Though capable of firing many times without reloading,
astonishingly, the new guns faced a government backlash for using
too much ammunition. Sold directly to soldiers, sometimes just as
they were walking into battle, they quickly became coveted
possessions, both during the Civil War and in the conquering of the
West-and thus America's romance with personal firearms was born.
Wide-ranging and vividly told, this is a gripping story of
tenacity, conviction, innovation, and pure heartless greed.
A brilliantly original voice-driven debut about defying expectations, set in the Georgia Gold Rush.
It is 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, when Yip Tolroy - mute, medical anomaly & social outcast - is born. His father has disappeared in mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother: a powerful, troubled, independent woman who owns and runs a general store. She struggles to manage his needs, leaving Yip to find the means of asserting himself in an unforgiving, hostile environment. With the help of a retired doctor, he begins to transform his life by learning to read and write, his portal into the community a piece of slate and a supply of chalk.
And then at the age of 15, Yip's life is altered irrevocably. In the space of a few days he witnesses the discovery of gold, meets his faithful friend and comrade Dud Carter, and commits a grievous crime. Thrust unwittingly into a world of violence and sin, Yip and Dud are forced to leave town and embark on an odyssey that will introduce them to the wonder and horror of the American frontier until the revelation of a secret means they must return to Heron's Creek and the fate that awaits them.
**NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA
AWARDS** Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town
in early 20th century America. Phil and George are brothers and
joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is
the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular;
George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a
voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly,
and devotes himself to the business. They sleep in the room they
shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. When George
unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the
ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's
new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector. From its
visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The
Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY
ANNIE PROULX 'With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback
Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at
rounding up public admiration' Guardian
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Ridgeline
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Michael Punke
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R230
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'An exciting, vividly-imagined reconstruction of an extraordinary
moment in the history of the American West' Ian McGuire,
bestselling author of THE NORTH WATER and INCREDIBLE BODIES 'A
highly compelling page turner; you won't be able to put it down'
Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON and AMERICAN RUST The thrilling,
long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of
The Revenant In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the
Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier - a clash of
cultures between a young, ambitious nation and the Native tribes
who have lived on the land for centuries. Colonel Henry Carrington
arrives in Wyoming's Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in
defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers.
Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical
hunting grounds, the home of the Lakota. Red Cloud, one of the
Lakota's most respected chiefs, and Crazy Horse, a young but
visionary warrior, understand full well the implications of this
invasion. For the Lakota, the stakes are their home, their culture,
their lives. Throughout this taut saga - based on real people and
events - Michael Punke brings the same immersive, vivid
storytelling and historical insight that made his breakthrough
debut so memorable. As Ridgeline builds to its epic conclusion, it
grapples with essential questions of conquest and justice that
still echo today.
Tree "Bigfoot" Smith and Cedar Jones first meet on the day they
join the US Cavalry's Fourth Cavalry Regiment based out of the
Historic Fort Concho in what is now San Angelo, Texas, in 1870.
Their journey takes them into the heart of the dangerous Llano
Estacado region known as the Comancheria. The area is ruthlessly
defended by a band of Quahadi Comanche and their stoic leader,
Lonely Horse. The Troop encounters a large group of Comanches and
the gun-running Comancheros at Mushaway Mountain, close to Gail,
Texas. A quick battle ensues that leaves eight men dead. Post
Cavalry life finds Tree Smith and Cedar Jones as cowhand and cook
on the large Rolling J cattle ranch in South Texas bordering the
Rio Grande River. The ranch employs two Vaqueros from the village
of Montenegro in Mexico, just across the river, whom Tree
befriends. The quiet life on the Rolling J ranch is brought to an
abrupt halt when a local sheriff warns that a band led by the
cold-blooded, sadistic killer known as Gato Montes has been preying
on the ranches along the Rio Grande. After the sheriff is nearly
killed by these men, Tree is tasked with tracking them down, only
this time, he is traveling alone and the dangers are greatly
multiplied. His epic journey takes him back into the Llano Estacado
where he is captured by Lonely Horse and taken to Mushaway Mountain
where the Comanche carry out their own form of frontier justice.
Tree's return journey puts him on the same path as Marco, a Mexican
goat herder, who rides with him to the Mexican Village of
Montenegro, where Tree meets Julia, who changes his life forever
after he becomes involved in and bears witness to the wonderful
celebration of Dia de los Muertos.
A sweeping four-part epic of the American West that could only come
from the boundless skill and imagination of Pulitzer Prize- winning
author Larry McMurtry.
Over a career that spans fifty years, Larry McMurtry has been
celebrated as "one of America's great storytellers" ("The Wall
Street Journal") and a writer who "stands among our best not only
because of his uncanny ability to compress a cogent narrative arc
but also because his eye for the moving detail is infallible" ("Los
Angeles Times"). In "The Berrybender Narratives, "now published in
a single volume for the first time, the author of "Lonesome Dove
"delivers the unforgettable story of an idiosyncratic pioneer
family and a truly unique view of the American West, reminding us
again that his writing "has the power to clutch the heart and also
to exhilarate" ("The New Yorker").
In 1830, the Berrybender family--British, aristocratic, and
fiercely out of place--abandons their home in England to embark on
a journey through the American West just as the frontier is
beginning to open up. Accompanied by a large and varied collection
of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender intend to travel up the
Missouri and settle in Texas, hoping to broaden the perspectives of
their children, including Tasmin, a young woman of grit, beauty,
and cunning. But when Tasmin's fast-developing relationship with
Jim Snow, a frontiersman and ferocious Indian fighter, begins to
dictate the family's course, they move further into the expansive
and hostile wilderness and into the path of Indians, pioneers,
mountain men, and explorers. As Lord Berrybender's health falters,
and the rest of the family goes to pieces around him, Tasmin finds
herself taking command of their collective fate and is finally
forced to decide where her future lies.
Full of real and fascinating characters, famous shoot-outs,
adventure, humor, love, and loss, "The Berrybender Narratives "is
an epic of the American West during its period of transformation, a
landscape that nobody understands better than Larry McMurtry.
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Outlawed
(Paperback)
Anna North
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R376
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A quiet haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause
hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in
Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy.
Two brothers--Union men--have claimed his spread and they're not
about to give it back, leaving Cable and his family no place to
settle in peace. It seems this war is not yet over for Paul Cable.
But no one's going to take away his land and his future--not with
their laws, their lies, or their guns.
Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches
together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends.
But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers
are calling the Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining
company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of
the Mountain" from their land. The characters are unforgettable,
the plot packed with action and gunfights from beginning to
end.
What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout who
longs to be a scholar, and a poet who claims to have been abducted
by aliens come together in 1970's Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab,
a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries
in the shadow of the La Sal Mountains.
Young Hyrum Thane, unrefined geological surveyor, steals a
massive dictionary out of the Grand County library in a midnight
raid, startling the people of Moab into believing a nefarious band
of Book of Mormon assassins, the Gadianton Robbers, has arisen
again.
Making matters worse, Hyrum's illicit affair with Dora Tanner, a
local poet thought to be mad, ends in the delivery of a premature
baby boy who vanishes the night of its birth. Righteous Moabites
accuse Dora of its murder, but who really killed their child? Did a
coyote dingo the baby? Was it an alien abduction as Dora claims?
Was it Hyrum? Or could it have been the only witness to the crime,
one of a pair of Oxford-educated conjoined twins who cowboy in the
La Sals on sabbatical?
Take a rollicking ride with Hyrum LeRoy Thane, the Lord's Chosen
Servant and Defender of Moab. His short rich life spans the
borderlands of magical realism where geology, ecology, philosophy
and consciousness collide, in Steven L. Peck's rip-roaring tale The
Scholar of Moab.
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