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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
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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.
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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.
Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White
Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and
the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President
Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one
thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and
create a lasting peace. These women, recruited by force in the
penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate the
way of life of the Cheyenne, at the time when the great massacres
of the tribes begin. After the battle of Little Big Horn, some
female survivors decide to take up arms against the United States,
which has stolen from the Native Americans their lands, their way
of life, their culture and their history. This ghost tribe of
rebellious women will soon go underground to wage an implacable
battle, which will continue from generation to generation. In this
final volume of the One Thousand White Women trilogy, Jim Fergus
mixes with rare mastery the struggle of women and Native Americans
in the face of oppression, from the end of the 19th century until
today. With a vivid sense of the 19th century American West, Fergus
paints portraits of women as strong as they are unforgettable.
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