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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train,
he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left
him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since
then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while
serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail, driving off
dangerous men. He'd hoped those days were over, but the latest
attack shows he was wrong. Deborah Harkness saved her younger
sister and two toddlers during the attack, and now finds herself at
the mercy of her rescuer. Trace offers the only shelter for miles
around, and agrees to take them in until she can safely continue.
His simple bachelor existence never anticipated kids and women in
the picture and their arrival is unsettling--yet enticing. Working
to survive the winter and finally bring justice to the trail, Trace
and Deborah find themselves drawn together--yet every day
approaches the moment she'll leave forever.
Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung
up like weeds on America's frontier--with hustlers and hucksters
arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen
working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life
with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times-bestselling Grand
Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius,
with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . .
. and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.
Rafe Caradec was a man who always rode at the ready, hardened by a life spent among ruthless men who played for the highest stakes. The only thing Rafe held sacred was his word--and now he had sworn to a dying man that he would save his Long Valley ranch for his wife and daughter, Ann. But Ann thought Rafe was moving in for his own crooked gain, and played right into the deadly hands of the greedy ranchers plotting to destroy her. Then Rafe figured a way to save Ann and the land. It would be dangerous--but that was the only way Rafe Caradec knew.
The third installment of Jakes's classic story of the Kent family
finds Abraham Kent seeking to build a new life on the Western
frontier. This repackaged edition includes a new Introduction by
the author. Reissue.
Fifteen Montana cowboys and five hundred longhorns are embarking on
a one of a kind Wild West adventure: a cattle drive across a
thousand miles of Siberia. The clash of cultures between East and
West, American six shooter and Russian saber, begins immediately
when a band of Cossacks arrives to escort them to their
destination. Cowboys and Cossacks must work together or they?ll
never survive the journey, which includes a meeting with the
warrior, Genghis Kharlagawl, and his army of bloodthirsty Tartars.
The code of the cowboy and the credo of the Cossack offer different
measures of manhood ? but honor and courage are the same in any
language when a common enemy must be faced. Book Lust Rediscoveries
is a series devoted to reprinting some of the best (and now out of
print) novels originally published from 1960 to 2000. Each book is
personally selected by NPR commentator and Book Lust author Nancy
Pearl and includes an introduction by her, as well as discussion
questions for book groups and a list of recommended further
reading.
Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised
by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains
him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with
Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two
elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life.
Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and
conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.
Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind
clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to
rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming,
aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural
powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across
the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that
culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale. Written with the
violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness
of Ted Chiang, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is at once a
thriller, a romance, and a story of one man's quest for redemption
in the face of a distinctly American brutality. "In Tom Lin's
novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy's West, or that of the
Coen Brothers' True Grit, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades
of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, and
Katherine Dunn's Geek Love. Yet The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu has
a velocity and perspective all its own, and is a fierce new version
of the Westward Dream." -Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless
Brooklyn
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