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Plum Creek
(Paperback)
W W McNeal
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R643
R540
Discovery Miles 5 400
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Plum Creek is a historical novel set in nineteenth-century Texas.
It is a coming-of-age story involving Billy McCulloch, a
fifteen-year old boy who accompanies a former Texas Ranger, a black
man, and two of his uncles on a quest to rescue a fourteen-year-old
girl. The girl was captured by a band of renegades led by a
half-breed Comanche killer aft er they slaughtered the rest of her
family in a raid on their home in rural Central Texas. Th e pursuit
of the renegades is set against a backdrop of post-Civil War Texas,
just beginning to recover from the devastation of war and
Reconstruction. Th e character of the former Texas Ranger is
loosely based on John Coffee Hays, known as Jack Hays, who was
called "Devil Yack" by many Mexican and Native American people
because of the fame he won fighting in the Mexican War and, before
and after, fighting the Comanches. As Billy and the older men ride,
Texas is emerging into a new age around them. A new social
structure is taking hold, the old ways of life are dying, and the
future is uncertain.
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A Hill of Beans
(Hardcover)
William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone
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R747
R617
Discovery Miles 6 170
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From the award-winning author of Eliza Waite comes a gripping tale
of adventure and survival based on the true story of the ill-fated
Donner Party on their 2,200-mile trek on the Oregon-California
Trail from 1846 to '47. Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts
danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California.
After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a
month, she-along with eighty-one other members of the Donner
Party-finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake on the eastern side of
the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stuck there for the entirety of a
despairing, blizzard-filled winter. Forced to eat shoe leather and
blankets to survive, will Ada be able to battle the elements-and
her own demons-as she envisions a new life in California?
Researched with impeccable detail and filled with imagery as wide
as the western prairie, Answer Creek blends history and hearsay in
an unforgettable story of challenging the limits of human endurance
and experiencing the triumphant power of love.
THE DELUXE HARDBACK EDITION FEATURING NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS,
BONUS MATERIAL & AN EXCLUSIVE BOUNTY LAW SCRIPT BY QUENTIN
TARANTINO Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction -
at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal - is the always
surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy
Award-winning film. The sunlit studio back lots and the dark
watering holes of Hollywood are the setting for this audacious,
hilarious, disturbing novel about life in the movie colony, circa
1969. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tells the story of washed-up
actor Rick Dalton. Once Rick had his own television series, a
famous western called "Bounty Law." But "it ain't been that time in
a long time" and now Rick's only regular parts are as the heavy,
ready to be bested by whichever young "swingin' dick" the networks
want to make a new star out of come pilot season. When a talent
agent approaches Rick about starring in Italian Westerns
("Eye-talian Westerns"?), it only ignites a new crisis of
confidence for the perpetually insecure actor. And then there's
Rick's stunt double, Cliff Booth, a war hero who killed more
Japanese soldiers during the Second World War than any other
American, and who never thought he'd make it back home. If Rick's
career has stalled, Cliff's has flamed out. Already living under a
cloud of suspicion after the strange death of his wife at sea,
Cliff makes the mistake of picking the wrong fight on set, and is
soon reduced to the status of Rick's full-time gofer. Right next
door to Rick's still glamourous Benedict Canyon home ("the house
that Bounty Law built") some Hollywood dreams are coming true, and
these dreams belong to Sharon Tate. Not only is she Mrs. Roman
Polanski - married to the only true rock star director - but Sharon
is fast becoming a star in her own right, living life on the
upswing in a tough town. Only a few miles away, in the desert
around Chatsworth, lives a different kind of dreamer. Charles
Manson is an ex-con who has spellbound a group of hippie misfits
living with him in squalor on an old "movie ranch." Little do his
young followers know to what degree Charlie himself is an industry
striver, more desperate for Columbia Records and Tapes's attentions
than for the revolution he preaches. These indelible characters -
and many more: an acting child prodigy beaming with hope; a
booze-drenched former A-lister who's lost it all - occupy a
vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant
life in these pages. Here is 1969, the music, the cars, the movies
and TV shows. And here is Hollywood, both the fairy tale and the
real thing, as given to us by a master storyteller who knows it
like the back of his hand. FEATURING NEW PHOTOS AND BONUS MATERIAL:
- Two color inserts featuring never-before-seen photos from the set
and posters and other memorabilia from Rick Dalton's career - An
original, exclusive script for a Bounty Law episode by Quentin
Tarantino titled "Incident at Inez" - A Mad Magazine parody of
Bounty Law titled "Lousy Law: Loser's Last Ride"
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."
At once a love story and a lush comic masterpiece, Martha Moody is
a speculative western which embraces the ordinary and gritty
details - as well as the magic - of women's lives in the old west.
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?
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader
agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people
in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel
of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores
the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the
wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through
northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying
audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has
lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain
enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is
offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives
in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed
Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised
her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the
ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she
knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and
unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous.
Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at
every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act
"civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors
tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks
the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome.
The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does
not remember-strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A
respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice:
abandon the girl to her fate or become-in the eyes of the law-a
kidnapper himself.
USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her
captivating Women Who Dare series with a female rancher who forges
her own path in the wake of the Civil War... Banished by her
grandfather at the age of eighteen, Spring Lee has survived scandal
to claim her own little slice of Paradise, Wyoming. She's proud of
working her ranch alone and unwilling to share it with a
stranger-especially one like Garrett McCray, who makes her
second-guess her resolve to avoid men. Garrett escaped slavery
years ago and is now a reporter in Washington. He's traveled west
to interview Dr. Colton Lee for an article, yet it's Lee's fearless
sister, Spring, who captures his interest. Clad in denim and
buckskins instead of dresses, she's the most fascinating woman he's
ever met. And he's certain she also feels the connection that
sizzles between them. But when a shadow from Spring's past returns,
all is on the line: her ranch, her safety-and this wild, fierce
love.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2018 'A
great, gripping story, ferociously well-written, with characters
that live and breathe' STEF PENNEY, bestselling author of Under a
Pole Star Tim Harding has spent the fishing season in Canada
working as a deckhand, making an honest living. When his hot-headed
younger brother tracks him down at the shipyards in Vancouver, Tim
senses trouble. Jake is a drifter, a dreamer, an ex-con, and now he
needs help in repaying a debt to the notorious Delaney gang. So
begins an epic, unpredictable odyssey across land and sea as the
brothers journey down to the Delaney's ranch in the U.S., chased by
customs officials, freak storms and the gnawing feeling that their
luck is about to run out. But while they may be able to outrun the
law, there's no escaping the ghosts of their tragic family past and
neither is prepared for who and what awaits at the other end...
Meet New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan's McGraths: a
family as untamed as the land they call home. Tate McGrath just
didn't get it. Why was Liz Scott, his best friend-and the person he
relied on and trusted most-suddenly avoiding him! When he finally
tracks her down, he finds her with a man he knows nothing about and
she's been dating for weeks. Suddenly, he can't make himself ignore
her tempting curves and deep green eyes, and all he wants to do is
keep her all to himself. What was going on? Could he possibly
be...jealous? Liz had made the decision: stop carrying a torch for
Tate and find a guy who wants to be her everything. Tate had always
seen her as honest, dependable, smart, kind...Best friend, not
girlfriend! And she needed to give up the dream of marrying the man
she'd loved since preschool and move on. But when Liz's boyfriend
turns dangerous, Tate steps up to help and soon realizes he's the
cowboy hero she's been waiting for him to be all along.
The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling
Longmire series. "It's the scenery-and the big guy standing in
front of the scenery-that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's
lean and leathery mysteries." -The New York Times Book Review
Recovering from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Sheriff Walt
Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds
and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges that
go back generations. When a shepherd is found dead, Longmire
suspects it could be suicide. But the shepherd's connection to the
Extepares, a powerful family of Basque ranchers with a history of
violence, leads the sheriff into an intricate investigation of a
possible murder. As Walt searches for information about the
shepherd, he comes across strange carvings on trees, as well as
play money coupons from inside Mallo Cup candies, which he
interprets as messages from his spiritual guide, Virgil White
Buffalo. Longmire doesn't know how these little blue cards are
appearing, but Virgil usually reaches out if a child is in danger.
So when a young boy with ties to the Extepare clan arrives in town,
the stakes grow even higher. Even more complicating, a renegade
wolf has been haunting the Bighorn Mountains, and the townspeople
are out for blood. With both a wolf and a killer on the loose,
Longmire follows a twisting trail of evidence, leading to dark and
shocking conclusions.
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