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Felix Dennis is an expert at proving people wrong. Starting as a
college dropout with no family money, he created a publishing
empire, founded "Maxim" magazine, made himself one of the richest
people in the UK, and had a blast in the process.
"How to Get Rich" is different from any other book on the subject
because Dennis isn't selling snake oil, investment tips, or
motivational claptrap. He merely wants to help people embrace
entrepreneurship, and to share lessons he learned the hard way. He
reveals, for example, why a regular paycheck is like crack cocaine;
why great ideas are vastly overrated; and why "ownership isn't the
important thing, it's the only thing."
They lived in a time of great upheaval, where ordinary men and
women could become the stuff of Legend, with: A heroine determined
to make her mark on the worldA hero struggling to get byThe
sweeping Wild West in the grip of great changeAnd a love no one
could denyDeacon Brannock has struggled his whole life to amount to
something. But when he finally saves up enough to buy the saloon
that'll put him on the map, he's immediately challenged by the
Temperance Movement. He only wants to make an honest living, but
there's no stopping the Movement's most determined firebrand: Grace
Legend. And after one look at the fierce beauty, he's not even sure
he wants to. Grace has always had her pet crusades, but she sees
the Temperance Movement as the one thing that will bring her the
deep sense of purpose she's been missing. Yet when the owner of the
new saloon turns out to be a kind and considerate man with warm
eyes and a smile that leaves her breathless, she can't help but
wonder whether they could have a future together...if only they
could find a way to stop being enemies long enough to become so
much more. "Resonate[s] with honesty and love."-Fresh Fiction for
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Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their
lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new
identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town
in rural Texas populated by misfits who don't know if they've
perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one. All they do know is that
they opted into the programme and that if they try to leave, they
will end up dead.For eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an
uneasy peace - but after a suicide and a murder in quick
succession, the town's residents revolt. Cooper has his own secrets
to protect, so when his new deputy starts digging, he needs to keep
one step ahead of her - and the mysterious outsiders who threaten
to tear the whole place down. The more he learns, the more the hard
truth is revealed: The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway, it's simmering
with violence and deception, heartbreak and betrayal, and it's fit
to burst.
A man ruled by his gun meets a woman led by her heart in
bestselling author Rosanne Bittner's dazzling romance. When Moss
Tucker smelled danger he shot it. When he needed shelter he grabbed
it. And when he wanted a woman's touch he bought it. But then he
saw Amanda Boone's sparkling azure eyes-an innocent beauty like her
would never get involved with a lawbreaking man like him.
Chestnut-haired Amanda tried to keep her gaze on the vast frontier
that flashed past her train window-but it kept straying to the
buckskin-clad stranger. Every inch of him was virile and strong.
She knew it was wrong to even think of his muscular arms crushing
her soft curves in a fierce embrace. Yet she vowed that before the
trip was through he would be the one to tame her savage desire with
his wild and lawless love. "Bittner's characters spring to
life...extraordinary for the depth of emotion with which they are
portrayed."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Time after time, Rosanne Bittner
brings a full-blown portrait of the untamed West to readers. Her
tapestry is woven with authenticity, colorful characters, intense
emotions and love's power over every conceivable obstacle."-RT BOOK
REVIEWS
"It's a great country, but never trust it, son. It's beautiful but
it's treacherous." Adam Ross had seen the way his country could
destroy a man. Growing up in the Australian outback in the first
half of the twentieth century with no formal education, no parents
and no one to love him, he learned to fend for himself. But when he
forms an unlikely friendship with Jimmy, who works in the Opal
mines, his luck begins to change. The land that stole Adam's father
gives him an opportunity to start anew. Armed with determination
and ambition, Adam treks west to carve himself an empire. However,
success doesn't come easy and Adam, a man who spent much of his
life devoid of love, soon finds himself caught between two women.
Torn between his love for his cold-hearted wife and his mistress,
Adam must make decisions about his future and the type of man he
wants to be.
This anthology, gathered and introduced by distinguished western scholar Thomas J. Lyon, offers a panoramic literary range of the American west, from the romance of the mythic Wild West to the present-day creative explosion of the real, diverse west. It includes short stories, essays, plays, and novel excerpts from Willa Cather, James Fenimore Cooper, Zane Grey, Amy Tan, Sarah Winnemucca, N. Scott Momaday, and many more.
"Maybe I just make it seem possible." "You make what seem
possible?" "Love." I came to Wildcat Bluff County for one reason
only: to convince hunky Mr. July from the Wildcat Bluff Fire Rescue
annual calendar to be the face-and body-of my new online dating
service. Easy, right? I had no idea he'd be so difficult. Or that
he'd end up being my new landlord... He might think he has the
upper hand, but I don't give up so easy. Kemp Lander, a.k.a. Mr.
July, says he wants nothing to do with my app or with me. And he
seems particularly annoyed to discover I wasn't exactly honest in
my rental agreement. I'm nowhere near the full-fledged cowgirl I
claimed to be. But I can learn, and sometimes a girl has to fudge
the rules a little to get what she needs. And I definitely need
this cowboy... This cowboy romance is perfect for readers looking
for:A cowboy firefighter who isn't afraid of a little heatA feisty
woman who knows what she wantsA sassy small town that feels like
homeOpposites-attract romance that can't be denied
Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their
latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig
Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series-the basis for
the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix Craig Johnson's new novel,
The Western Star, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. When
Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the
beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, an area
the troopers refer to as no-man's-land because of the lack of radio
communication, she starts receiving "officer needs assistance"
calls. The problem? They're coming from Bobby Womack, a legendary
Arapaho patrolman who met a fiery death in the canyon almost a
half-century ago. With an investigation that spans this world and
the next, Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear take on a
case that pits them against a legend: The Highwayman.
"The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we
spoke of Skullyville." Thus begins Rose Goode's story of her
growing up in Indian Territory in pre-statehood Oklahoma.
Skullyville, a once-thriving Choctaw community, was destroyed by
land-grabbers, culminating in the arson on New Year's Eve, 1896, of
New Hope Academy for Girls. Twenty Choctaw girls died, but Rose
escaped. She is blessed by the presence of her grandmother Pokoni
and her grandfather Amafo, both respected elders who understand the
old ways. Soon after the fire, the white sheriff beats Amafo in
front of the town's people, humiliating him. Instead of asking the
Choctaw community to avenge the beating, her grandfather decides to
follow the path of forgiveness. And so unwinds this tale of
mystery, Indian-style magical realism, and deep wisdom. It's a
world where backwoods spiritualism and Bible-thumping Christianity
mix with bad guys; a one-legged woman shop-keeper, her oaf of a
husband, herbal potions, and shape-shifting panthers rendering
justice. Tim Tingle--a scholar of his nation's language, culture,
and spirituality--tells Rose's story of good and evil with
understanding and even laugh-out-loud Choctaw humor.
Tim Tingle, responding to a scarcity of Choctaw literature,
began interviewing tribal elders in the early '90s. His collection
"Walking the Choctaw Road" was the Oklahoma Book of the Year.
Tingle's children's book, "Crossing Bok Chitto," garnered over
twenty state and national awards, including Best Children's Book
from the American Indian Library Association, and was an Editor's
Choice in the "New York Times Book Review."
In the Arizona territory, every mountain hides a fortune--and every
man fends for himself.
Tim Beckdolt is as American as the frontier itself, as rangy and
self-reliant as a young Jimmy Stewart. But after spending eight
treacherous months digging $175,000 in gold out of Desperation
Peak--all he has left is desperation. Two sadistic strangers have
taken his gold, and now they want to take his life. He's on the
run--the target of a Devil's Manhunt.
In a time and a place where the only law is the law of survival,
Beckdolt will have to live by his wits...or die by the bullet.
In 1932, Hubbard led a mining crew on a six-month West Indies
Mineralogical Expedition in Puerto Rico--the first complete survey
of the island since it had become an American territory. It was an
experience that informs this title with remarkable realism.
Also includes two additional Western tales: Johnny, the Town Tamer,
the story of a local swindler who meets his match, and Stranger in
Town, in which a drifter confronts a corrupt sheriff...and his own
dark past.
""A thrilling novel of greed, violence, survival and perseverance,
Devil's Manhunt perfectly embodies the unbridled excitement of pulp
fiction."" --Midwest Book Review
Since Dracula's rise to power a shadow has swept across the nation, but nowhere is it darker than in the Deep South. Throughout the plantations, swamps, and cities, rumours abound of grotesque rituals, hooded figures, and bizarre creatures. Most terrifying of all, however, are the whispers of ancient magic - unspeakable arcane rituals and occult powers that can lead those who wield them towards mystical supremacy. or reduce them to gibbering wrecks.
This new supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West introduces two new factions: the corrupt cultists of the Church of Dagon and the Salem Sisterhood, occult practitioners whose history dates back to the early Colonies. New stealth rules allow for all manner of sneaky and underhanded tactics, while expanded rules for arcane powers offer glory but could cost you your sanity. Alongside these are a host of new scenarios, Hired Guns, monsters, skills, and gear to challenge or assist those who dare venture into the Deep South of Dracula's America.
Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a
Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are
fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a
sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is
game here, they may survive the winter. But their attempts to find
food and endure the savage winter are threatened by the arrival in
their camp of two trappers, whose presence sets in motion a series
of bloody events that will mark the trio as Outlaws, hunted by the
Montana Vigilance Committee, their likenesses appearing on Wanted
posters in settlements and mining camps along the trail. Enter any
town, and they will have to shoot their way out. The rock and the
river become their safe place, and when spring comes, their
paradise. But the world seeks its way to them, and even in paradise
human nature makes its own trouble. In this follow-up to his
acclaimed novel, Wolves of Eden, Kevin McCarthy tells a story of
three very human characters battling to survive in a vast,
beautiful, and unforgiving landscape.
His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and
gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt
Earp. But before Doc Holliday was a Western legend he was a
Southern son, born in the last days before the American Civil War
and raised to be a Southern gentleman. His story sweeps from the
cotton plantations of Georgia to the cattle country and silver
boomtowns of the American West. In Dance with the Devil, the second
volume in the trilogy of novels, in the American Wild West, Jesse
James and his gang are robbing trains, the Sioux Indians are on the
warpath, and John Henry Holliday arrives in Texas as a young man
with a troubled past hoping to regain his place as a Southern
gentleman. The story races from the gambling halls of Dallas to the
saloons of Dodge City and the dangers of the Santa Fe Trail, he
finds a new love affair and a new hero to follow - and an old enemy
eager for a reckoning. Dance with the Devil is the story of a how a
gentleman becomes an outlaw, how an outlaw becomes a lawman, and
how a Southern son named John Henry becomes a legend called Doc
Holliday.
In the mining town of Goetia, the world is divided between The
Fallen, descendants of demonkind, and The Virtues, the winners in
an ancient war. Celeste and Mariel are two Fallen sisters, bound by
blood but raised in separate worlds. Celeste grew up with their
father, passing in privileged society, while Mariel stayed with
their mother in Goetia's slums. Celeste is wracked by guilt for
leaving her sister behind, and when their father dies, she becomes
Mariel's fiercest protector. But their lives are upended when
Mariel is arrested for the murder of a Virtue. Determined to save
her sister and prove her innocence, Celeste turns to her ex-lover,
a former general in the armies of Hell, for help. Soon Celeste is
making her own deals with devils and angels alike to prove her
sister's innocence. However the journey to discover the truth
threatens to become more than Celeste ever bargained for.
His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and
gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt
Earp. But before Doc Holliday was a Western legend he was a
Southern son, born in the last days before the American Civil War
and raised to be a Southern gentleman. Born in the last days of the
Civil War with family ties to the author of Gone With the Wind, his
story sweeps from the cotton plantations of Georgia to the cattle
country and silver boomtowns of the American West. The story begins
with Southern Son, set during the turbulent times of the American
Civil War, as young John Henry Holliday welcomes home his heroic
father and learns a terrible secret about his beloved mother. After
the Confederacy falls, John Henry becomes a troubled teenager and
joins in with a gang of vigilantes trying to chase the
Reconstruction Yankees out of their small Georgia town.
They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless
distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra
Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of
Indian country who d headed east to see the ocean but left his
heart and his home in the West. They were women like Lilith
Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for
a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These
pioneering men and women sowed the seeds of a nation with their
courage and with their blood. Here is the story of how their paths
would meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies and nature
s cruelty, to win for all time the rich and untamed West."
Seeking vengeance on the rebel renegades who murdered his family,
Civil War veteran Nathan Stone sets out on an odyssey that will
take him throughout the United States and across the paths of the
West's most famous--and infamous--characters, including Jesse
James, "Wild" Bill Hickok, and John Wesley Hardin.
This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to
a bygone era of the American West. Larry McMurtry has done more
than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of
the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon, he returns to
the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and
cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove.
Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West,
McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier
through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt
Earp and Doc Holliday. Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for
their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often
with a mean look than a pistol - the taciturn Wyatt now idles away
his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc
is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo
herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great
Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as
the storied West that forged their myths disappears. McMurtry
traces the rich and varied friendship of the heroic pair from the
town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then
to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating
with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, rendered here in
McMurtry's stark and peerless prose. As harsh and beautiful, and as
brutal and captivating as the open range it depicts, The Last Kind
Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of the most original
American writers.
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