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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB
PICK MAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS 'Calling it
The Handmaid's Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
goes some way to describe this novel's memorable world, but it is
also wholly its own' KIRKUS '2021 is already a year that could use
a little joy. Here to provide some is Outlawed . . . It's an
absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book:
witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife
trying to build a bomb out of horse dung' Vox 'Outlawed sets a high
bar for the 12 months of publishing still to come . . . It upends
the tropes of the traditionally macho and heteronormative genre
while also being a rip-snortin' good read, too' THE WEEK (Most
Anticipated Books of the Year) 'North is a riveting storyteller . .
. Reader, you are in for a real treat' JENNY ZHANG 'Fans of
Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they
deserve' ALEXIS COE 'A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly
transformed ... In North's galloping prose, it's a fantastically
cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West
inside out' WASHINGTON POST 'A western unlike any other, Outlawed
features queer cowgirls, gender nonconforming robbers and a band of
feminists that fight against the grain for autonomy, agency and the
power to define their own worth' MS. 'A grand, unforgettable tale'
ESME WEIJUN WANG In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.
On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her
broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice
midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to
have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And
after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren
women are hanged as witches, Ada's survival depends on leaving
behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole
in the Wall Gang. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber,
known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women
outcast from society. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang
hatches a treacherous plan. And Ada must decide whether she's
willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of
future for them all.
This sweeping tale captures the essence of Texas on a staggering scale as it chronicles the life and times of cattleman Jordan "Bick" Benedict, his naive young society wife, Leslie, and three generations of land-rich sons. A sensational story of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, Giant was the basis of the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson.
A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's
attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue
his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his
lifelong search for inner peace. The Last Ride is the story of
Maggie Gilkeson, a young woman raising her two daughters in an
isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter is
kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers, Maggie is
forced to re-unite with her long estranged father to rescue her.
The killer and his brutal cult of desperados have kidnapped several
other teenage girls, leaving a trail of death and horror across the
desolate landscape of the American Southwest. Maggie and her father
are in a race against time to catch up with the renegades and save
her daughter, before they cross the Mexican border and disappear
forever. The Last Ride is the story of a race against time and
death, a powerful tale of rescue and reconciliation that provides a
haunting insight into our instincts of kinship and need for
beliefs.
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Extinction
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Bradley Somer
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In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over
the last surviving grizzly bear. With the natural world exhausted
and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single
fragment of the wild. One night, he hears voices in the valley -
poachers, come to hunt his bear. A heart-pounding chase begins,
crossing forests and mountainsides, passing centuries of human
ruins. Sometimes hunter, sometimes prey - Ben must choose the
bear's fate and his own. Is he willing to lay down his life for a
dying breed? Is he willing to kill for it?
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The Blinds
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Adam Sternbergh
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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.
"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.
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.
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Hombre
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Elmore Leonard
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John Russell was raised as an Apache, and even served as a
member of the tribal police. Now the time has come for him to leave
the San Carlos reservation far behind and live again as a white
man. The stagecoach passengers he's traveling with want nothing to
do with this man they call "Hombre," forcing him to ride in the
boot with the driver. But they change their tune when outlaws ride
down on them. Suddenly they all must rely on Russell's guns and his
ability to survive in the desert. They shunned John Russell, and
now they must follow him . . . or die.
Angelina Hunter was seriously minded, and it was a good thing. Her
father's ranch needed a woman who could endure the strenuous work
of ranch life. Since her mother's death, Angelina had been that
woman. She had no time for frivolity-no time for a less severe side
of life. Not when there was so much to be done-hired hands to feed,
a widower father to care for, and an often ridiculously
light-hearted younger sister to worry about. No. Angelina Hunter
had no time for the things most young women her age enjoyed. And
yet, Angelina had not always been so hardened. There had been a
time when she boasted a fun, flirtatious nature even more
delightful than her sister Becca's-a time when her imagination
soared with adventurous, romantic dreams. But that all ended years
before at the hand of one man. Her heart turned to stone...safely
becoming void of any emotion save impatience and indifference.
Until the day her dreams returned, the day the very maker of her
broken heart rode back into her life. As the dust settled from the
cattle drive which brought him back, would Angelina's heart be
softened? Would she learn to hope again? Would her long-lost dreams
become a blessed reality?
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Inland
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Tea Obreht
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FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S 2019 READING LIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 'SPECTACULAR' Guardian 'A
WONDER' Daily Mail 'SPARKLING' The Times 'EXQUISITE' Observer
'MAGNIFICENT' TLS 'EPIC' Entertainment Weekly 'A TRIUMPH' LitHub
'INFECTIOUS' Financial Times 'A MASTERPIECE' Sunday Express Nora is
an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her
life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is convinced that
a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home - and her
husband's seventeen-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits.
Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost
souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their
longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous
expedition across the West. Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in
scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It
showcases all of Tea Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts
and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely
- and unforgettably - her own. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE
YEAR BY: Guardian, Time, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly,
Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The New York Public Library 'Should
have been on the Booker longlist' Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times
'Magnificent... Brings to mind Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred
Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved' Times Literary
Supplement 'Exquisite ... The historical detail is immaculate, the
landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more
convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself' Alex Preston,
Observer
Life experience had harshly turned its cruel countenance on the
young Fallon Ashby. Her father deceased and her mother suffering
with a fatal illness, Fallon was given over to her uncle, Charles
Ashby, until she would reach the age of independence. Abused,
neglected, and disheartened, Fallon found herself suddenly blessed
with unexpected liberation at the hand of the mysterious Trader
Donavon. A wealthy landowner and respected denizen of the town,
Trader Donavon concealed his feature of face within the shadows of
a black cowl. When Fallon's secretive deliverer offered two choices
of true escape from her uncle, her captive heart chose its own
path. Thus, Fallon married the enormous structure of mortal
man-without having seen the horrid secret he hid beneath an ominous
hood. But the malicious Charles Ashby, intent on avenging his own
losses at Trader Donavon's hand, set out to destroy the husband
that Fallon herself held secrets concerning. Would her wicked uncle
succeed and perhaps annihilate the man that his niece secretly
loved above all else?
"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.
It is the mid 1870s, and the railroad being built westward toward
San Antonio will eventually connect Texas to California. Luling,
one of the towns springing up along the route, is the end of the
line for a year or so. Established in 1874 a few miles east of the
San Marcos River, Luling is a melting pot of humanity. Later known
as the toughest town in Texas, it is a haven for gamblers, outlaws,
and 'ladies of the night.'Hardeman Lodge follows some of the
characters introduced in Plum Creek (TCU Press, 2016) as they meet
the challenges that life presents them. Billy McCulloch faces some
tough moral choices as he embarks upon the practice of law. Ada
Adams and Everett Hardeman become engulfed in a crisis arising from
her marriage to a cruel husband. And the indomitable Lily Poe is
forced to deal with tragedy. In spite of lingering racial prejudice
and streaks of lawlessness, principles of justice and fair play
still live in the hearts of most of the characters who come near
Hardeman Lodge.
"Brett Riley's COMANCHE is the best western-horror-thriller-ghost
story-PI novel ever written."-Tod Goldberg, author of Gangsterland
Like a cylinder in a six-shooter, what goes around, comes around.
In 1887 near the tiny Texas town of Comanche, a posse finally ends
the murderous career of The Piney Woods Kid in a hail of bullets.
Still in the grip of blood-lust, the vigilantes hack the Kid's
corpse to bits in the dead house behind the train depot. The people
of Comanche rejoice. Justice has been done. A long bloody chapter
in the town's history is over. The year is now 2016. Comanche
police are stymied by a double murder at the train depot. Witnesses
swear the killer was dressed like an old-time gunslinger. Rumors
fly that it's the ghost of The Piney Woods Kid, back to wreak
revenge on the descendants of the vigilantes who killed him. Help
arrives in the form of a team of investigators from New Orleans.
Shunned by the local community and haunted by their own pasts,
they're nonetheless determined to unravel the mystery. They follow
the evidence and soon find themselves in the crosshairs of the
killer.
Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but
nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's
come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the
people who killed his brother. Instead he finds himself trapped by
a blizzard with two children who are terrified of him and stubborn
but beautiful Gwen Harkness, who he worries may be trying to keep
the children. When danger descends on the cabin where they're
huddled, Cam is hurt trying to protect everyone and now finds Gwen
caring for him too. He soon realizes why the kids love her so much
and wonders if it might be best for him to move on without them.
When she sees his broken heart, Gwen decides to help him win back
their affection--and in the process he might just win her heart as
well.
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