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In this sequel to Lonesome Dove, Captain Call, now an old man, is hired by the railroad to hunt down a young train robber from Mexico named Joey Garza, who was raised by Apaches and who strikes targets well into Texas. The cast of characters includes a Yankee accountant sent to keep track of Call's expenses and Pea Eye, Call's longtime deputy, now settled down to a farming life with Lorena, a former prostitute who is the region's schoolteacher.
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2019.
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"Kazi and Jase have survived, stronger and more in love than ever. Their new life now lies before them--the Ballengers will be outlaws no longer, Tor's Watch will be a kingdom, and Kazi and Jase will meet all challenges side by side, together at last. But an ominous warning mars their journey back, and they soon find themselves tangled in a web of deceit woven by their greatest enemies and unlikeliest allies, a place where betrayals run deeper and...
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Orbit
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2016.
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The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her famous. There is only one place left to run....
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"Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver...
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2019.
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"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton aren't the settling down types. They're lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the trigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus Keegan -- the owner of a matrimonial agency -- they receive an unexpected proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail-order brides to a mining town in...
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Appearing for the first time as Grey originally wrote it, this classic novel was previously titled "Man of the Forest." When Milt Dorn overhears a local rancher plotting to kidnap two girls, he's forced to take action--even if it means kidnapping them himself first.
11) High lonesome
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"Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her...
12) Face the night
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The adopted daughter of an outlaw, Catriona Macgregor, once the Blessed, meets a renegade priest who helps her understand how her ability may be part of a much bigger picture -- one involving facing the man who ordered her parents killed and his son, who betrayed them all"--NoveList Plus.
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Stoneface Finnegan westerns volume 2
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When a stranger, who fancies himself an actor, comes to town, intent on killing him, Stoneface Finnegan must go up against this madman who has cut a bloody swath across the American West, saving Stoneface Finnegan for his final act.
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"Rachel Lyndon yearns to escape her scandalous past, but her dreams for a better life seem ruined after she buries her fiancé on the Texas plains. Heath Renier has been evading the law by the skin of his teeth for years. Now he's found a new identify as Holden Renshaw, foreman of Dog Creek Ranch. But the arrival of his boss's mail-order bride, now a widow, upsets his fragile peace and threatens to expose his deadly secrets."--p. [4] of cover.
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2011.
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A century ago, when Indians and alligators roamed frontier Miami, the legendary John Ashley was accused of murder and sentenced to hang. He went on the run with his sweetheart, Laura. Their crime spree lasted years longer and became far more deadly than the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde a decade later. This is their true story of prison breaks, bootlegging, bank robberies, and piracy on the high seas. Their saga of love, passion, and violence is juxtaposed...
16) Cutthroats
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Lifetime outlaws Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits. When the younger members of their gang sell them out to the law, Slash and Pecos decide to pull one last job to finance a retirement far away from the long arm of the law; the target is a rancher's payroll train. When things go wrong, their old enemy, wheelchair bound Marshal Bledsoe will spare their lives -- for a price: that they hunt down and kill the...
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The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family--father Jeremiah, and children, Reuben, Davy and Swede--is upended when Davy kills two teenage boys who have come to harm the family. On the morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell and the Lands set out in search of him. Their search is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.
18) Buzzard's bluff
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"Johnstone County. Wilder than ever. Welcome to the Lost Coyote Saloon. Saddle up to the bar and order a whiskey. Play a few hands of poker. But don't make any trouble. The new owner is savage. Ben Savage. Once a Texas Ranger, he's always cocked and ready for some fool to come looking for payback . . . Eat, drink, and be wary. When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died--and left him his saloon--he's not sure what to...
19) Buzzard bait
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2017.
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"Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man's bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like 'Widowmaker.' Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There's just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country ... When Newt gets word that a renegade...
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2021.
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His wicked ways mostly behind him, reformed bank robber Jimmy "Slash" Braddock is getting hitched to his sweetheart. But before the honeymoon, Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'Em-So" Bledsoe needs Slash and his former partner-in-crime, Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker, to don a couple of deputy marshal badges and saddle up for a trip to Nebraska. Seems the town of Harveyville has fallen prey to a trio of murderous badmen blasting away up and down Main...
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