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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
Lessons learned from past betrayals can protect Colby Vincent's
heart or cost him a chance at happiness he never thought to have.
Colby thought he'd never let anyone close again after being
betrayed by everyone he loved, but one closeted, stubborn oilfield
worker with a penchant for dressing like a cowboy seems determined
to out himself and win Colby's heart. It's as if Hunter Talamentez
walked right out of Colby's fantasies and into the convenience
store where Colby works. But Hunter is closeted, and he's never
considered changing that. He's got his homophobic cousin with him,
a family that he knows won't support him if they know the truth
about who he is and a job where being out could get him hurt. He
resigned himself to spending his life alone until he gets to know
Colby. Then he embarks on a journey with Colby that will change
their lives if only they both find the strength to take a few
chances. Nothing comes easily, and learning to give from the heart
when that heart has been shattered twice before might be more than
Colby is capable of. He isn't sure about having more than a fling
with Hunter, yet he can't seem to stay away from the man, either.
What was meant to be one night together turns into more, and Colby
loses his ability to keep Hunter at the safe distance he'd wanted.
Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most
prolific and popular American authors. While every one of his 89
novels is still in print, a lesser known fact is that L'Amour is
also one of the all-time bestselling authors of short fiction. This
volume features 35 action-packed frontier stories.
A BARGAIN WITH DEATH
Passing uneasily through the dried-up town of Espero, Texas, John
Slocum learns soon enough that his apprehension is justified. After
a not-so-friendly welcome at the Six Feet Under Saloon, he's given
the choice between a bullet or a bit of employment: Escort the town
mortician's strikingly pretty bride-to-be from a train station at
Dexter Junction--in exchange for a hefty sum.
But with someone after the gunslinger and the mysterious beauty,
Slocum reckons that the undertaker neglected to tell him the whole
story. There's treachery in store for Slocum upon returning to
Espero, a place where men have been known to land in an early
grave... "much" too early...
Slocum Buried Alive
The longest-running Western series in America today, the Slocum
adventures by Jake Logan have entertained readers since 1975.
USA Today Bestseller! One of Refinery29's Best Reads of September
In this novel authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah
Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the
frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating
story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving
pioneer woman as never before-Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura
Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. In the frigid days of
February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar
comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her
family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what
they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and
their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a
beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril. The
pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no
friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work
must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of
doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers
or sisters. But Caroline's new world is also full of tender joys.
In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log
house built by Charles' hands into a home, Caroline must draw on
untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses. For
more than eighty years, generations of readers have been enchanted
by the adventures of the American frontier's most famous child,
Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now, that familiar
story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity,
hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past.
Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite
authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and
textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen.
Each author writes from the perspective of his or her own unique
character, blended together into a single novel. In our latest
adventure, Wolf Creek is threatened by marauding Kiowa warriors who
seek to avenge the deaths of their comrades at the hands of buffalo
hunters. While the town fortifies itself, and a cavalry detachment
looks for the raiders, the stage from Wichita is attacked -leaving
a handful of Wolf Creek citizens alone and on foot in hostile
territory... About the author: Beneath the mask, Ford Fargo is not
one but a posse of America's leading western authors who have
pooled their talents to create a series of rip-snortin', old
fashioned sagebrush sagas. Saddle up. Read 'em Cowboy These are the
legends of Wolf Creek. Appearing as Ford Fargo in this installment:
Bill Crider, Jackson Lowry, Kerry Newcomb, Troy D. Smith, Frank
Roderus, Robert J. Randisi
The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is
an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved
worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also
adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national
literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious
ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with
their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions,
responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to
create a national literary tradition. The American Western in
Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of
the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to
evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and
international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the
genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in
Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its
controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its
postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the
Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in
literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western
in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre
theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region.
It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques
of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous
people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the
genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines,
hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian
life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions
about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly
readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.
Tracking down the killer of his old partner, The Gunsmith rides to
a crossroads town in New Mexico. He has to duck hot lead all the
way to the saloon before he can enjoy a drink and the favors of the
fanciest female this side of the Rio Grande. To get to the bottom
of his friend's death, he lets the town fathers talk him into
turning lawman once again- which only brings a host of enemies out
of the woodwork. Luckily, his lady sticks by him, but The Gunsmith
will need more than good loving to survive in this violence-hungry
hamlet where paid gunfighters outnumber the "good citizens" two to
one.
If their relationship is discovered, Derek's singing career would
end, but Max can't live a lie. Who will risk it all for a chance at
forever? Derek St. Martin is Nashville's hottest country singer.
For eight years, fame and fortune have come his way, but he's not
happy. In fact, he's on the edge of a nervous breakdown or checking
into a drug rehab centre. Hiding his sexual preference is driving
him to resort to numbing the pain. When his stepbrother suggests he
should go on vacation, Derek jumps at the chance to relax and get
his head on straight. Max Furlo isn't amused. His bosses were
leaving him in charge of some singer while he had other more
important things to take care of. Seeing Derek St. Martin for the
first time hits Max hard and, suddenly, he's considering a summer
fling. Both men know that a relationship can never be for them.
Derek's career wouldn't handle the news and Max can't live a lie.
Yet when a summer fling becomes love, who will be willing to risk
it all for a chance at forever?
Multiple-award-winning author Rick Riordan brings back smart-mouthed Texas P.I. Tres Navarre for his most dangerous case yet. If you think the academic world is deadly dull, you're half right....
When a controversial English professor is found shot to death, Tres Navarre — P.I. and Ph.D. — is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure him they already have a suspect, so while they wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve ... and walk in a dead man's shoes.
It should be an easy assignment — but one thing Tres doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin — and lands in a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side....
This supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West contains a host of new rules and material and offers something for every player.
- Two New Factions: The Forsaken, ragged survivors of the 7th Cavalry tormented by a bestial curse, and the Shadow Dragon Tong, crimelords with an agenda as mysterious as the powers wielded by their enforcers.
- The Hunting Grounds: Scenarios and encounters that focus on this mythical realm and the power and threats found within it.
- Territory: Build and develop your headquarters, and exploit the benefits it offers, but beware your enemies taking the fight to your home turf.
- Outlaws, Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters: New campaign options, allowing you to turn to a life of crime, bring in wanted fugitives, or sell your gun to the highest bidder.
- New Monsters: The denizens of the Hunting Grounds, in all their terrifying glory.
- New Hired Guns: There's all kinds of folk willing to sell their skills, and these new Hired Guns offer a range of tactical options... if you can afford them.
- New Gear: Bring a Gatling Gun to a knife fight, or find out why you were always warned about misusing brimstone chalk and vials of ectoplasm.
- New Skills: Riding and Leadership skills give you new combat options and help your posse stay in the fight.
Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters
Rosenthal Foundation Award
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of
2012
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and
Annie Proulx, "Battleborn "represents a near-perfect confluence of
sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally
powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten
unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way
fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly
reimagining it. Her characters orbit around the region's vast
spaces, winning redemption despite - and often because of - the
hardship and violence they endure. The arrival of a foreigner
transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a prostitution
ranch. A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged
individualism when he tries to rescue an abused teenager. Decades
after she led her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas
hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. Most bravely of all,
Watkins takes on - and reinvents - her own troubled legacy in a
story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of Helter
Skelter. Arcing from the sweeping and sublime to the minute and
personal, from Gold Rush to ghost town to desert to brothel, the
collection echoes not only in its title but also in its fierce,
undefeated spirit the motto of her home state.
When it comes to boiling up a pot of coffee or stirring up a pot of
stew, Old Laramie's about as good a man as you're going to find.
But other than cooking three squares a day for the cowpunchers over
at the Lazy G ranch, Laramie's not good for much. He's about as
heroic as Walter Brennan on a bender.
But Laramie's luck--and life--are about to take an amazing turn.
Quite by accident, he somehow manages to save a family of Mexicans
from bandits, and as a token of their gratitude they give him The
Magic Quirt--a horsewhip that he's told will turn him into a new
man.
The transformation is indeed magical. Suddenly Laramie is
performing feats of ingenuity and courage that would make even the
Lone Ranger proud. But magic is a funny thing--and as Laramie's
about to discover, sometimes it's all an illusion.
L. Ron Hubbard wrote of his childhood: "The weather of Montana is,
of course, brutal. The country is immense and swallows up men
rather easily, hence they have to live bigger than life to survive.
There were still Indians around living in forlorn and isolated
tepees. Notable among them was Old Tom, a full-fledged Blackfoot
medicine man." Hubbard and Old Tom became blood brothers, and the
medicine man shared with him the kind of lore that make stories
like The Magic Quirt as compelling as they are.
Also includes the Western adventures, Vengeance Is Mine , the story
of a young man who sets out to avenge his father's death only to
commit an act beyond redemption, and Stacked Bullets, in which a
game of chance is fixed, a whole town is cheated, and nothing but a
stack of bullets can make things right.
"
"Pure entertainment from first page to last with that L. Ron
Hubbard touch giving this tale an enduring reading engagement from
beginning to end."" --Midwest Book Review
Book one in the Love's Command Series When a woman running scared
runs into the arms of a sexy cowboy, she might lose her fear, but
will she also lose her heart? When a woman on the run hits a town
right out of the Wild West, the first cowboy she meets sets his
sights on her. Alone, scared, and starting over, Susan will have to
decide if the big, bad Russell Ryland, retired Navy SEAL, now
rancher, is for real or just using up his down time between
missions. Russell takes one look at the smiling, blue-eyed beauty
and realises there's a heck of a lot more after retirement than
he'd thought. As he begins to dream of a life with Susan, he fights
an unfamiliar battle within himself-doubt. Does she want him, or is
she merely out for some fun? Time for the reluctant couple nearly
runs out when the very men Susan is hiding from come to call. Will
Russell wake up quickly enough to save her? Or will their doubts
get them both killed?
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