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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)
Wyoming, 1868. Ambrosius Van Deer has come to Fort Laramie to meet
Jess Chisum, a young man who claims he's found Van Deer's nephew
Eddie. Ten years before, Edwyn Van Deer disappeared after his
family was killed in a Lakota raid. Proof of his identity: a silver
watch with a portrait of his parents. But fate has other plans than
a happy family reunion, and the events of that day will set in
motion a tragedy 15 years in the making.
From 2014 to 2018, character comedy trio Sleeping Trees challenged
themselves to bring the big screen to the stage, paying homage and
reinventing gangster, western and sci-fi movies for audiences
across the country. This book recounts how these shows were made,
stories from when they were on tour, the trio's unique approach to
devising fringe comedy, as well as the original scripts of the
three award-winning plays. Mafia? Sleeping Trees deliver their
version of every gangster film they've ever seen. Expect casinos,
operas and bloodshed as the Banucci brothers find themselves in a
situation stickier than most luxury cakes. Western? The Sleeping
Trees find themselves slowly crisping under the sun of the Wild
West, as gun-slinger Harry Sudds takes on bulls, scorpions and many
other animals largely found in America. Sci-Fi? At a time where
ancient planet Plutopia rules the galaxy, farmer Charlie Sprog is
dragged from his quiet home planet and given one simple mission:
SAVE THE UNIVERSE FROM TOTAL DESTRUCTION. So sit back, relax, grab
some popcorn, and enjoy. Obviously if you need to put the popcorn
down to hold the book then do, maybe just put the popcorn to the
side, or hold it between your thighs? The important thing is that
you read the book.
A Christmas novella for fans of the hit drama series LONGMIRE now
on Netflix and the New York Times-bestselling series. Craig
Johnson's new novel, The Western Star, will be available from
Viking in Fall 2017. Sheriff Walt Longmire is in his office reading
A Christmas Carol when he is interrupted by a ghost of Christmas
past: a young woman with a hairline scar and more than a few
questions about his predecessor, Lucian Connally. With his daughter
Cady and undersherrif Moretti otherwise engaged, Walt's on his own
this Christmas Eve, so he agrees to help her. At the Durant Home
for Assisted Living, Lucian is several tumblers into his Pappy Van
Winkle's and swears he's never clapped eyes on the woman before.
Disappointed, she whispers "Steamboat" and begins a story that
takes them all back to Christmas Eve 1988-a story that will thrill
and delight the bestselling series' devoted fans.
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.
Forget Deadwood, Dodge, and Tombstone, the biggest, baddest
boomtown of the 1880s was San Diego, California. The attraction
wasn't gold or silver but cheap land, the promise of an oceanfront
paradise where it never snows and rarely rains, and the
too-good-to-be-true deals offered by local real estate merchants.
In the wake of bona fide settlers came the hucksters, con artists,
and snake oil vendors-so many flimflam men (and women) that those
duped called the town "Scam Diego." Abetting the crime and chaos
was the nearby Mexican border, a convenient refuge for the
rustlers, ex-Rebels, and banditos who floated back and forth across
the unmarked frontier. Caught up in this perfect storm are two men:
U.S. Marshal Cradoc Bradshaw and San Diego Times reporter Nicholas
Pinder. Best friends growing up, Bradshaw and Pinder are now sworn
enemies-all because of a woman. Having once cooperated to catch bad
guys, Bradshaw and Pinder now compete-Pinder with his quill pen or
Bradshaw with his sawed-off shotgun and Colt single action Army
revolver. The competition heats up when someone starts killing the
town's movers and shakers. As the bodies pile up, the question
becomes which of the former friends will track down the killer
first?
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Above Snakes
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Sean Lewis; Artworks by Hayden Sherman
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A supernatural western about DIRT, a man out to avenge his wife's
death, with nothing but a blood thirsty vulture to guide his way.
What happens when the story of Dirt's pain gets stolen by others
and the world he thinks he understands is turned upside down?
Featuring the incredible work of the team behind THUMBS and THE
FEW. Collects ABOVE SNAKES #1-5
Montana, 1968: The small town of Paradise Valley is ripped open
when popular rancher and notorious bachelor Tom Butcher is found
murdered one morning, beaten to death by a baseball bat. Suspicion
among the tight-knit community immediately falls on the outsider,
Carl Logan, who recently moved in with his family and his troubled
son Roger. What Carl doesn't realize is that there are plenty of
people in Paradise Valley who have reason to kill Tom Butcher.
Complications arise when the investigating officers discover that
Tom Butcher had a secret-a secret he kept even from Junior Kirby, a
lifelong rancher and Butcher's best friend. As accusations fly and
secrets are revealed one after another, the people of Paradise
Valley learn how deeply Tom Butcher was embedded in their lives,
and that they may not have known him at all. With familiar mastery,
Russell Rowland, the author of In Open Spaces and Fifty-Six
Counties, returns to rural Montana to explore a small town torn
apart by secrets and suspicions, and how the tenuous bonds of
friendship struggle to hold against the differences that would
sever us.
"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so
bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker
so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling
women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most
powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's swine."
And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo
Jumbo and one of America's most innovative and celebrated writers.
Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as
Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary American
life. In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back
Radio Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman),
Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride), Thomas Jefferson
and many others in a hilarious parody of the old Western.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB
PICK MAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS 'Calling it
The Handmaid's Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
goes some way to describe this novel's memorable world, but it is
also wholly its own' KIRKUS '2021 is already a year that could use
a little joy. Here to provide some is Outlawed . . . It's an
absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book:
witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife
trying to build a bomb out of horse dung' Vox 'Outlawed sets a high
bar for the 12 months of publishing still to come . . . It upends
the tropes of the traditionally macho and heteronormative genre
while also being a rip-snortin' good read, too' THE WEEK (Most
Anticipated Books of the Year) 'North is a riveting storyteller . .
. Reader, you are in for a real treat' JENNY ZHANG 'Fans of
Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they
deserve' ALEXIS COE 'A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly
transformed ... In North's galloping prose, it's a fantastically
cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West
inside out' WASHINGTON POST 'A western unlike any other, Outlawed
features queer cowgirls, gender nonconforming robbers and a band of
feminists that fight against the grain for autonomy, agency and the
power to define their own worth' MS. 'A grand, unforgettable tale'
ESME WEIJUN WANG In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.
On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her
broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice
midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to
have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And
after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren
women are hanged as witches, Ada's survival depends on leaving
behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole
in the Wall Gang. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber,
known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women
outcast from society. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang
hatches a treacherous plan. And Ada must decide whether she's
willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of
future for them all.
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Blind Love
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Kelly Elliott
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The fifth book in bestselling author Kelly Elliott's Cowboys and
Angels series. Harley and I had our whole lives planned out, until
her plans changed, and those plans didn't include me. After years
spent trying to get the love of my life out of my head and repair
my too-damaged heart, I thought I was finally moving on . . . but
life sure has a funny way of letting you know when those best-laid
plans are about to be turned upside down. My entire world was
rocked when Harley unexpectedly moved back to Oak Springs. Every
miserable moment I'd spent trying to get over her and every hour
I'd wasted trying to erase her from my life came back to haunt me
the minute she walked into my office, fear in her eyes, and asked
me for help. Would I . . . or better yet, could I walk away from
her this time after all that she had put me through? What I really
needed to know is would I be able to forge ahead with the future I
had so meticulously planned -one that didn't include Harley - or
will her return finally open my eyes to a future full of endless
possibilities? Cowboys & Angels series: 1. Lost Love 2. Love
Profound 3. Tempting Love 4. Love Again 5. Blind Love 6. This Love
7. Reckless Love
A recent string of violent events leads Sheriff Joe Bob Coates down
the long and winding road of memory to a dark night in September
1981 that saw a boy killed, a girl missing, and a dangerous cult on
the loose in Ambrose County, Texas. Scott Snyder (NOCTERRA,
WYTCHES, Batman) calls the series: "a dark and twisted Texas
mystery with tons of heart." Collects THAT TEXAS BLOOD #7-12
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