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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
She sat down on the porch. "Did you get amnesia in Iraq?" He was
busy putting Lizzy in the passenger's seat and shutting the door.
When she said Iraq, he jerked his head and frowned. "I never went
to Iraq." "Then the uniform was a hoax to pick up women?" Griffin
stopped. "Six years ago my identical twin brother went to Iraq. He
was killed two days after he got there. Are you mistaking me for
Graham?" "Holy shit. Two of you?" Julie whispered. Julie Donavan is
looking for a place to start over with her young daughter, but the
very thing she's running from shows up in the form of her new
next-door neighbor Griffin Luckadeau, hunky rancher and single dad
who's absolutely infuriating... Griffin owns the ranch next door
and is the twin brother of Graham, the soldier she'd had a one
night stand with six years before and who was the biological father
of her daughter. She never saw Graham again, and he was killed in
Iraq shortly after he arrived. Ever since Graham passed, Griffin
has stayed focused on running the ranch. The last thing he needs is
a distraction from the woman who moved into the feuding ranch next
door. But when his daughter insists she wants to be friends-or
better yet, sisters-with the girl who looks like her twin, the
sparks begin to fly. The Lucky Cowboys: Lucky in Love (Book 1) One
Lucky Cowboy (Book 2) Getting Lucky (Book 3) Talk Cowboy to Me
(Book 4)
He'd step in front of a bull to save a life, but even he's no match for a girl this Texas tough. Rodeo bullfighter Wyatt Darrington's got it all figured out. The perfect car, the perfect job, the perfect looks―the perfect lie. He may be on the fast track to the Hall of Fame, but he knows he'll always be an outsider to people like Melanie Brookman. Texas-born and bred, with the arena in her blood, Melanie's come to see Wyatt as her personal enemy, and that suits him just fine―this way, she'll never realize the truth. He's been achingly in love with her for years. Melanie's always been a fighter. Fiercely independent and tough as nails, she's stood up to everything that got in her way―including Wyatt. But now her infamous temper's got her on the ropes, and there's nowhere left to run but toward the man she swore she'd never trust…and this time, there's no denying just how hot he makes her burn.
The first in a new series featuring an avenging agent appointed by
President Grant to settle scores and see that all is right in the
West. Zak Cody, son of a wily prospector and an Apache maiden, is
thought to have retired as a colonel serving under General Grant,
but in his transition to Presidency Grant has appointed this war
hero to the role of enforcer and avenging angel of America's
untamed regions. Now "the Shadow Rider" and his ebony steed Nox
patrol the west assuring that wrongs are righted and those of ill
will meet their maker. Heading for a rendezvous at an Army outpost
in Arizona he comes across wagon train savaged by Indians and a
young woman in need of saving, but not all is as it seems. Dark
forces on all sides work to insight genocide and claim the land,
and all its riches, as there own.
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Preacher's Rage
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William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone
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Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's
Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic.
At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy
falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive
"American"-educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and
uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of
life and its tragic consequences.
Larry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate confrontation with her wayward husband. In his first historical novel in ten years, Larry McMurtry introduces Mary Margaret, a nineteenth-century version of the formidable, unforgettable Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment. Mary Margaret is married to Dickie, who hauls supplies to the forts along the Oregon Trail and, as Mary Margaret rightly suspects, enjoys the pleasures of other women across most of the frontier. Fed up and harboring a secret love of her own, she collects the kids; her brother-in-law, Seth; her sister, Rosie; and her cranky father and makes her way westward to settle things once and for all. The story of their trek across the country is packed with the elements McMurtry fans love: encounters with historical figures such as Wild Bill Hickock and U.S. Army colonel Fetterman (whose incompetence resulted in one of the bloodiest massacres in the history of the American West), larger-than-life fictional characters who join the family on their journey, and confrontations with nature at its wildest. With characters based on actual traders of the Old Santa Fe Trail, Boone's Lick is vintage McMurtry.
Sundance, Butch & Me tells the story of Etta Place-an outlaw
woman whose original identity may never be known. She accompanied
the leaders of the Wild Bunch as they ran rampant over the American
West, traveled to New York City, and finally fled to South America.
Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring
the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of Etta
Place.
Cherokee Rose tells the story of Rodeo cowgirl Tommy Joe Burns, an
Oklahoma girl who earned the praise of Theodore Roosevelt for her
daring and bravery as a rough-stock rider in the early years of the
20th century. Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical
research bring the era of the old west to life while highlighting
the life of Tommy Joe Burns.
"Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended
reading after dark." - Stephen King After having travelled west for
weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for
their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. They face two
diverging paths which lead to the same destination. One is
well-documented - the other untested, but rumoured to be shorter.
Donner's decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with
him. The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a
bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand. Driven to the
brink of madness, the ill-fated group struggles to survive and
minor disagreements turn into violent confrontations. Then the
children begin to disappear. As the survivors turn against each
other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches
beyond the fury of the natural elements, to something more primal
and far more deadly. Based on the true story of The Donner Party,
The Hunger is an eerie, shiver-inducing exploration of human
nature, pushed to its breaking point.
This sweeping tale captures the essence of Texas on a staggering scale as it chronicles the life and times of cattleman Jordan "Bick" Benedict, his naive young society wife, Leslie, and three generations of land-rich sons. A sensational story of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, Giant was the basis of the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson.
The year is 1864. Sister Thomas Josephine, an innocent Visitantine
nun from St Louis, Missouri, is making her way west to the promise
of a new life in Sacramento, California. When an attack on her
wagon train leaves her stranded in Wyoming, Thomas Josephine finds
her faith tested and her heart torn between Lt. Theodore F. Carthy,
a man too beautiful to be true, and the mysterious grifter Abraham
C. Muir. Falsely accused of murder she goes on the run, all the
while being hunted by a man who has become dangerously obsessed
with her. Her journey will take her from the most forbidding
mountain peaks to the hottest, most hostile desert on earth, from
Nevada to Mexico to Texas, and her faith will be tested in ways she
could never imagine. Nunslinger is the true tale of Sister Thomas
Josephine, a woman whose desire to do good in the world leads her
on an incredible adventure that pits her faith, her feelings and
her very life against inhospitable elements, the armies of the
North and South, and the most dangerous creature of all: man.
Jessie is the story of Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of explorer and
politician John C. Fremont-who was instrumental in opening the
west. Jessie helped demonstrate that by joining her husband in
California to build a home at the time of the Bear Flag rebellion.
Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring
the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of
Jessie Benton Fremont.
Setting out to tell the story of a mysterious cowboy -- a
stranger in town with a terrible secret -- Christine Montalbetti is
continually sidetracked by the details that occur to her along the
way, her CinemaScope camera focusing not on the gunslinger's grim
and determined eyes, but on the insects crawling in the dust by his
boots. A collection of the moments usually discarded in order to
tell even the simplest and most familiar story, "Western" presents
us with the world behind the clich?s, where the much-anticipated
violence of the plot is continually, maddeningly delayed, and no
moment is too insignificant not to be valued. Montalbetti's daring
theft of movie technique and subversion of a genre where women are
usually relegated to secondary roles -- victims, prostitutes,
widows, schoolmarms -- makes Western a remarkable wake for the most
basic of American mythologies.
Aging cowboy and bronco-buster Wes Hendricks just wants to be left
alone on his poor ranch, even when town developers offer him big
money to sell it. Wes's grandson reluctantly tries to convince him
to give up his home, but that was before he, too, succumbs to the
ranch's--and a young cowgirl's--wild beauty.
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Cutthroats
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William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone
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R189
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Stranglehold
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William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone
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With her sassy humor and sexy cowboys, USA Today bestseller Carolyn
Brown launches her new Longhorn Canyon series. Every summer Cade
Maguire looks forward to opening his Longhorn Canyon Ranch to
underprivileged city kids. But this year, he's having no luck
finding a counselor for the children--until Retta Palmer walks
through his door. Flat broke after selling everything she owns to
pay for her father's medical bills, Retta is thrilled to hear of an
opening for a counselor position. She's not as thrilled about the
ranching part, or the sexy cowboy with beautiful blue eyes who's
her new boss. After being left at the altar two years before by his
fiancee, Cade isn't sure he can take another heartbreak. And Retta
isn't even sure she wants to stay. But the sparks between them are
absolutely undeniable. And with a couple of lovable kids and two
elderly folks playing matchmaker, Cade and Retta may find that the
best way to heal is with each other.
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