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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
A deadly disease Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the
crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is
dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl s Myeloma, a form of
cancer that s supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time
left. A disreputable scientist Through their shock and despair,
rumors of a cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have
developed a means to treat Inara s condition, but he has been
disgraced and incarcerated for life on a notorious Alliance prison
planet. An infamous prison On the planet of Atata, inmates are
abandoned with no guards and left to survive as best they can. What
s more, terraforming the planet did not take properly, so the world
is a frozen wasteland. To save Inara, the Serenity crew must
infiltrate the prison .
All Through the Night stakes a claim to be the first 'Welsh
Western' and suggests that cowboys were as much invented in Wales
as in Wyoming. This tale of Welsh drovers taking a large herd of
cattle from the 'wild west' of North Wales to London in the 1790s
and stakes a claim for these interesting characters to be the first
cowboys. What happens in Westerns happened here to Welsh drovers on
their cattle drives. Running through this Welsh Western, with its
personalities, adventures and incidents, the story incorporates
cultural, emotional and human elements that make Westerns so
appealing. Written very much in the style of an old-fashioned
Western, All Through the Night explores how people act in the drama
of their own lives.
The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic
westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this
single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our
understanding of Ford's film-making oeuvre by studying his
non-Western films through the lens of Ford's life and abiding
preoccupations. Ford's other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the
Family, Catholicism, War and the Sea, which share with his westerns
the recurrent themes of memory and loss, the plight of outsiders
and the tragedy of family breakup. Richards' revisionist study both
provides new insights into familiar films such as The Fugitive
(1947); The Quiet Man (1952), Gideon's Way and The Informer (1935)
and reclaims neglected masterpieces, among them Wee Willie Winkie
(1937) and the extraordinary The Long Voyage Home. (1940).
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El Cazador
(Spanish, Hardcover)
Stuart G. Yates; Translated by Jose Gregorio Vasquez Salazar
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The Captive
(Paperback)
Fiona King Foster
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Left with little back in Missouri, Kevin Hunt takes his younger
siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's
inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also
being given to a half brother he never knew existed. Turns out,
Kevin's supposedly dead father led a secret and scandalous life.
But danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if
his half brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at
the ranch, everyone is at each other's throats and the only one
willing to stand in between is Winona Hawkins, a nearby schoolmarm.
Despite being a long-time friend to Wyatt, Winona can't help but be
drawn to the earnest, kind Kevin--and that puts her in the cross
hairs of somebody's dangerous plot. Will they all be able to put
aside their differences long enough to keep anyone from getting
truly hurt?
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Love Again
(Paperback)
Kelly Elliott
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The fourth book in bestselling author Kelly Elliott's Cowboys and
Angels series. Jonathon Turner is going to be the death of me.
Maybe not the death of me . . . but my panties for sure! They seem
to disintegrate the moment he touches me. Looks at me. Smiles at
me. Talks to me. It's more than physical. He's breaking through an
impenetrable wall. There's a problem though - he's younger than me.
Six. Years. Younger. Let's not forget he's also one of my brother's
best friends. Oh, the other problem I forgot to mention . . . I
never wanted to fall in love again. But you know what they say . .
. never say never. Cowboys & Angels series: 1. Lost Love 2.
Love Profound 3. Tempting Love 4. Love Again 5. Blind Love 6. This
Love 7. Reckless Love
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to
live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who
he is, they want nothing to do with him. and his ability to lead
them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk
with him or die... western novels also stand as some of the most
vivid writing of his career. Crackling with Leonard's trademark
dialogue, set against a beautifully evoked landscape, this is a
classic work that captures the wild and glorious spirit of the
American West.
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Cow Tales
(Paperback)
Elaine Kavanaugh Jones
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