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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)
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.
A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail. Guided by his plainspoken, sure-saddled voice and the living, breathing feel of firsthand experience on every page, we relive dusty cattle drives, perilous river crossings, honor-based gunfights, and narrow escapes from buffalo stampedes, not to mention tall tales passed around the campfire and such unforgettable characters as Bull Durham and Bill Blades. THE LOG OF A COWBOY, newly introduced by Thomas McGuane, offers a true depiction of a cowboy's life and work as well as a classic adventure story of the great American frontier.
In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak.
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
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."
A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET
SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN. In LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER, a Civil War
veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on his
land, while another enemy waits to strike... Paul Cable has fought
- and lost - for the Confederacy but when he returns home he finds
that his own war is far from over. The Union Army and two brothers
- and a beautiful woman - have taken over Cable's spread and are
refusing to give it back. But Cable is determined that no one is
going to take his future away - not with words, not with treachery,
and not with guns.
"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.
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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
The Cowboy Who Came Calling
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.
Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the award-winning Jane Campion film.
Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.
Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years.
When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector.
From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip.
Connealy Combines Western Action and Charming Historical Romance
The Boden clan thought their problems had ended with the death of a
dangerous enemy, but have they truly uncovered the real plot to
take their New Mexico ranch? Rancher Justin Boden is now in charge.
He is normally an unshakable and rugged man, but with his brother,
Cole, shot and in mortal danger, even a tough man faces doubts. And
it doesn't help that Angie DuPree, the assistant to the doctor
trying to save Cole, is as distracting a woman as Justin ever laid
eyes on. With her and the doc's timely skills, Cole looks to be on
the mend, and Justin and the rest of the Bodens can turn their
attention back to the dangers facing them. It's clear now that
everything that's occurred is part of a much bigger plot that could
date back to a decades-old secret. Can they uncover all the pieces
before danger closes in on them, or is the threat to the ranch even
bigger than any of the Bodens could imagine?
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....
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