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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"
Fans of William Johnstone and Ralph Compton will love this
action-packed historical western featuring a lone gunman and the
people he's tasked with protecting. Jake Paynter escaped the noose,
but the price of salvation is pain. Since reluctantly accepting the
marshal's job at South Pass City, Jake's life has become an
unending run of solving other people's problems. When outlaw boss
Dutch van Zandt and his ruthless band mount a campaign of mayhem in
Jake's corner of the Wyoming Territory, Jake learns that Lucien
Ashley, his persistent adversary, may be aiding the criminals to
expand his burgeoning cattle fortune. The fact that Lucien is the
brother of Rosalyn, a woman Jake admires, complicates matters.
Determined to thwart van Zandt and Lucien, Jake recruits a posse of
old friends and former platoon-mates that puts the outlaw gang on
the run. When Lucien betrays van Zandt, the outlaw leader loots
Jake's town and takes captive Rosalyn and four children. With
friends few and enemies in abundance, Jake must thread a harrowing
needle to run down van Zandt in the rugged Wyoming wilderness and
save Rosalyn and the children without ending up in a shallow grave.
Serenity races against time to save Inara's life in an original
Firefly tie-in novel that reads like a lost episode from the show A
deadly disease Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew
finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of
a terminal illness. It is Kiehl's Myeloma, a form of cancer that's
supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left. A
disreputable scientist Through their shock and despair, rumors of a
cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have developed a
means to treat Inara's condition, but he has been disgraced and
incarcerated for life on a notorious Alliance prison planet. An
infamous prison On the planet of Atata, inmates are abandoned with
no guards and left to survive as best they can. What's more,
terraforming the planet did not take properly, so the world is a
frozen wasteland. To save Inara, the Serenity crew must infiltrate
the prison...
Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's
Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic.
At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy
falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive
"American"-educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and
uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changing way of
life and its tragic consequences.
"A riveting thriller with a family in crisis at the core. It's my
kind of book." -Brad Taylor, bestselling author of American Traitor
In this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box and Jack
Carr, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the
Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise comes after
his family As a decorated undercover DEA special agent, Garrett
Kohl has traveled the world-and fought in most of it-but it's the
High Plains of northwest Texas he calls home and dreams of
returning to one day. Kohl is in the middle of an assignment in
Afghanistan when his commander orders him back to Texas on a short
mission expected to take a week at most. But Kohl is unsettled to
discover that he's moved from one kind of war to another. The
once-peaceful ranching community he loves is under attack by a band
of criminals who have infiltrated law enforcement, corrupted local
businesses, and are now terrorizing Kohl's own family. Hoping to
prevent bloodshed, Kohl tries to resolve matters peacefully. But
when the group strikes first, he has no choice but to go on the
attack. Unfortunately for the criminal crew, besides being an elite
undercover officer for the DEA, Garrett Kohl is a battle-hardened
Green Beret who spent the better part of his career hunting
terrorists. Although outnumbered and outgunned, Kohl knows the wild
and forsaken Llano Estacado region of Texas better than anyone. And
like so many trespassers before them, these murderers will find out
the hard way that the only thing tougher than this land is the
people who call it home.
Welcome to Rustlers Creek, where you'll meet the cowboys whose
hearts are as big as the Montana sky and the women who can't help
but fall in love with them. Hadley Wayne is known all over America
as The Cowgirl Gourmet. A beloved star on The Cooking Network, the
success of her show has turned her sleepy Montana ranching
community into a Hollywood backlot and everyone knows all about her
perfect life with her perfect rancher husband-but it's not real.
Zack Wayne has never felt further apart from his wife, even while
they play up an ideal marriage for the cameras. They're living
separate lives in separate bedrooms. The love he has for Hadley is
still there, underneath mountains of resentment, but he doesn't
know if their marriage can last for much longer. He can't keep up
with the facade anymore, for the cameras or Hadley. When their work
forces them to take a break from the constant schedule of the set,
they begin to rediscover who they are and why they fell in love all
those years ago. If they can mend the hurts that brought them here,
will they still want to say goodbye to their life together? Or will
the cowboy discover he can only say yes to their future?
Like many good stories of the old West, this one begins in a
saloon. In 1914 in El Paso, Texas, two strangers strike up a
conversation at the bar--Bill Roberts, a real-life figure who died
in Hico, Texas, in 1950, and a former US Army scout whose brother
knew Roberts by another name: Billy the Kid. So begins The Gospel
According to Billy the Kid, a tale of the old New Mexico territory,
corrupt lawmen, honest ranchers, murder, betrayal, and the
explosive events of the Lincoln County War that sent young Billy
off seeking justice--and headed toward a bloody rendezvous with a
sheriff hired to track him down. In the saloon Roberts has us
imagine another story, told thirty-three years later over shots of
whiskey, about a young outlaw given a second chance to find
himself, to find peace, and to finally grow up and out from under
the shadow of his own infamy.
Sundance, Butch & Me tells the story of Etta Place-an outlaw
woman whose original identity may never be known. She accompanied
the leaders of the Wild Bunch as they ran rampant over the American
West, traveled to New York City, and finally fled to South America.
Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring
the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of Etta
Place.
"Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended
reading after dark." - Stephen King After having travelled west for
weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for
their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. They face two
diverging paths which lead to the same destination. One is
well-documented - the other untested, but rumoured to be shorter.
Donner's decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with
him. The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a
bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand. Driven to the
brink of madness, the ill-fated group struggles to survive and
minor disagreements turn into violent confrontations. Then the
children begin to disappear. As the survivors turn against each
other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches
beyond the fury of the natural elements, to something more primal
and far more deadly. Based on the true story of The Donner Party,
The Hunger is an eerie, shiver-inducing exploration of human
nature, pushed to its breaking point.
Featuring the character first written by Elmore Leonard, Raylan
Givens After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County,
Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal, Raylan Givens is offered two choices.
He can either retire or finish his career on the fugitive task
force in the crime-ridden precincts of Detroit. Acting on a tip,
Raylan and his new partner, deputy marshal Bobby Torres arrest Jose
Rindo, a destructive and violent criminal. Rindo is also being
pursued by the FBI who arrive shortly after he is in custody.
Raylan bumps heads with a beautiful FBI agent named Nora Sanchez,
who wants Rindo for the murder of a one of their own. When Rindo,
escapes from the county jail and is arrested in Ohio, Raylan and
FBI Special Agent Sanchez drive south to pick up the fugitive and
bring him back to stand trial. Later, when Rindo escapes again,
Raylan and Nora--still at odds--are reunited and follow the elusive
fugitive's trail across Arizona to El Centro, California and into
Mexico where they have no jurisdiction or authority. How are they
going to bring Rindo, a Mexican citizen, across the border without
anyone knowing? Raylan Goes to Detroit is an exciting continuation
of one of Elmore Leonard's greatest heroes, an edge-of-your-seat,
page-turner in the spirit of Elmore's classic Raylan books.
1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen
angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to
coyotes, Golgotha has come through many nightmarish trials, but now
an army of thirty-two outlaws, lunatics, serial killers, and
cannibals are converging on the town, drawn by a grisly relic that
dates back to the Donner Party...and the dawn of humanity.
Arizona Territory, 1871. Valeria Obregon and her ambitious husband,
Raul, arrive in the raw frontier town of Tucson hoping to find
prosperity. Changing Woman, an Apache spirit who represents the
natural order of the world and its cycle of birth, death, and
rebirth, welcomes Nest Feather, a twelve-year-old Apache girl, into
womanhood in Aravaipa Canyon. Mexican and Anglo settlers have
pushed the Apaches from their lands, and the Apaches carry out
raids against them. In turn, the settlers, angered by the failure
of the U.S. government and the military to protect them, respond
with a murderous raid on an Apache encampment under the protection
of the U.S. military at Camp Grant, kidnapping Nest Feather and
other Apache children. In Tucson, while Valeria finds fulfillment
in her work as a seamstress, Raul struggles to hide from her his
role in the bloody attack, and Nest Feather, adopted by a Mexican
couple there, tries to hold on to her Apache heritage in a culture
that rejects her very being. Against the backdrop of the massacre
trial, Valeria and Nest Feather's lives intersect in the church, as
Valeria seeks spiritual guidance for the decision she must make and
Nest Feather prepares for a Christian baptism.
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. The Saga of Doc Holliday comes to a
dramatic conclusion in Dead Man's Hand. Tombstone, Arizona
Territory, is the richest silver boom town in the country,
promising fortunes to anyone daring enough to stand up to the stage
coach robbers and rustlers who infest the nearby mountains. But
John Henry Holliday is only trying to make a little money off the
gambling tables when he's caught up in a secretive plot to stop the
disturbances before they start a threatened war with Mexico. When
suspicions rise and tempers ignite, the plot turns into a war
between cowboys and lawmen, and he becomes a player in the most
famous street fight in the Wild West.
A BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR Ambitious and
masterfully-wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma's Book of the Little Axe
is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad
to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial
powers and westward expansion. In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendon
quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her
to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason
she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her
talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her
birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British
rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black
property owners-Rosa's family among them-will be allowed to keep
their assets, their land, and ultimately, their freedom. By 1830,
Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn, Montana with her
children and her husband, Edward Rose, a Crow chief. Her son Victor
is of the age where he must seek his vision and become a man. But
his path forward is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept from him. So
Rosa must take him to where his story began and, in turn, retrace
her own roots, acknowledging along the way, the painful events that
forced her from the middle of an ocean to the rugged terrain of a
far-away land.
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