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"Amanda Porterfield longs to experience real adventure. So when she's offered a position in bustling Tucson, she leaps at the chance despite unknown dangers--dangers like the mysterious Seth Grover. As an undercover detective working to stop a gang of outlaws, Seth can't afford the distractions a woman like Amanda inspires. Yet when the fiercely intelligent beauty is thrust into the middle of a heist gone wrong, Seth will fight for a future that may...
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"Acclaimed author Richard Prosch won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2016 for his short fiction. This volume of stories from old Wyoming and Nebraska brings the best of his westerns together under one cover for the first time. A wrecked wagon spells trouble for a Niobrara river man; the leader of a roadhouse band needs a tough man for a dangerous job; a gambler bets on the outcome of a western showdown; a pulp fiction character haunts...
1623) Rider of the Rifle Rock
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"Rifle Rock was tough, hard, and merciless - it was a snarling lobo wolf of a town, tense, sullen, waiting for the lid to rip off ... waiting for the bloody range feud that had to come. It sure was a tough town to tackle - too tough for a crippled cowboy trying to come back. Too tough for Chet Minor. He tried it - and got smashed. He was whipped, ready to quit - but something happened. Something sparked off the fuse and suddenly Rifle Rock exploded....
1624) The savage valley
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Logan Family Western volume Book 2
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"You men got a choice. Pull leather and die, or drop your guns. Makes no never mind to me."
Callum Logan is a man of quick decision and execution. His fast gun has saved him on more than one occasion. Though hardened by the horrors of the Civil War, he gives each man a chance, unless they prove it's undeserved.
Now, on his way to begin a new life in the Colorado West, Callum is eager to put the killing behind him. But while rescuing a family from...
1625) Vein pursuits
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Black badge novel volume 2
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James Crowley has ridden the road to Crescent City before, but never with companions like these. Never with a woman whose very presence jeopardizes everything he's fought for over the past two decades. The swamps are a brutal, nasty place filled with creatures most people think only exist in nightmares and fever dreams. When Crowley, along with Rosa, Bram Stoker, Harker, and Irish stumble upon such a creature, and one of their party finds themselves...
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After the Bugles : Joshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his brother Thomas. The war with Mexico has cost him much, but it has also given him a strong bond to the land and to the Mexican families who stood with him against the tyrannies of Santa Ana. Josh is traveling with Ramon Hernandez, his best friend and the man who had fought with him. Where they are going, he isn't quite sure. His home is in ashes--burned by...
1627) The outlaw's secret
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"Getting taken hostage by a gang of train robbers wasn't in dime novelist Essie Vanderfair's plans, but interviewing these men could make her career soar. Especially since the gang includes legendary outlaw Tex Beckett, better known as the Texas Titan. Tex is famed for his protection of women and children, so she'll be fine...right? Keeping the gang in line was hard enough before a stubborn, beautiful writer interfered. Now Tex is scrambling to keep...
1628) The Chapman legacy
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"Francis Elmore Chapman was born for the West and but temporarily restrained by an 1875-chance-of-birth in Nashville. Just after his eighteenth birthday, Chapman travels to the Pecos River Valley in the New Mexico Territory with his father. There the younger Chapman witnesses his first gunfight between a buffalo-bone hunter and Ab Quezada, one of the last of the legendary cowboys. This is the real thing--not pulp fiction--and Chapman is hooked. Chapman's...
1629) Torn allegiance
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Wanderer volume 3
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"Veteran, outlaw, lawman, hired gun and now Pinkerton detective--John Nichols finds himself in pursuit of two of the most notorious and glamorized outlaws in history, Frank and Jesse James. Hired by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to go undercover, he must tread carefully as he searches for the elusive pair in the backcountry of Missouri, a sanctuary for the outlaw brothers. John will quickly discover his new job is more treacherous than he imagined...
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Kinch Riley: "Something about the boy named Kinch Riley made hardened railroad agent Mike McCluskie take him under his wing. But Kinch got too fast with a gun just as a band of Texas outlaws rode into Newton, Kansas. For the first time, McCluskie will walk into a battle he can't win. Kinch Riley is the masterful retelling of the Newton General Massacre of 1871"--Amazon.com.
Hickok & Cody: "In Hickok and Cody, Russia's Grand Duke Alexis has arrived...
1631) Tributary
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Willa Cather and Sandra Dallas resonate in Barbara K. Richardson's fearless portrait of 1870s Mormon Utah. With "lyrical prose and heartfelt characters" (Publishers Weekly), this lively novel tracks the extraordinary life of one woman who dares resist communal salvation in order to find her own. Clair Martin's dauntless search for self leads her from the domination of Mormon polygamy to the chaos of Reconstruction Dixie and back to Zion where she...
1632) Deadwood
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Little did naive newspaper reporter Nathaniel Jones know that as a special correspondent to General George Custer's military expedition, he would not only witness the conquest of the West, but would also find adventure beyond his wildest dreams.
1634) Settler's hope
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Western dreams volume 2
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"After years of wandering, Pace Williams expects to find a home in the Oregon Country. He doesn't expect to fall in love with a fiery Irishwoman bent on returning home to avenge her people. Oona Moriarty expects one thing: to exact revenge on the English overlords who took her home. She doesn't expect to fall in love with a man who looks like he's been carved from this Western landscape. Together they vow to trust the unexpected and settle into a...
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"Follow Alexander Johnson and his companion, Jacob Miller as they set out on many harrowing and exciting adventures. The beautiful scenery of the Rocky Mountains surround them as they narrowly escape death, fight off dangerous enemies, and drive cattle across the dry, rocky desert regions of the high country. When Alex and Jacob discover riches, not only by means of gold, but also in love, they wonder if its time they settle down. Angela and Martha...
1636) He's my cowboy
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Three celebrated New York Times bestselling authors combine their talents to celebrate Americana, the appeal of the iconic cowboy hero tinged with a hint of danger and romantic suspense. Filled with sizzling tension and well-drawn characters, this anthology is sure to resonate with readers looking to saddle up and find love!
1637) A match made in Texas
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Amanda Lockwood gets more than she bargained for when she's elected Two-Time Texas's first female sheriff. Anxious to prove herself, she sets out to stop crime in its tracks - taking down wanted man Rick Barrett in the process. But there's something special about the charming outlaw. Common sense says he must be guilty...but her heart keeps telling her otherwise. So what's a sheriff to do? Gather an all-female posse and ride to save the day. Things...
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A desolate location in southeastern Wyoming, named Como Bluff, has a reputation as one of the best late Jurassic dinosaur fossil localities in the world. Late Jurassic is the time period from about 160 to 145 million years ago. The location was given the name Como Bluff in the 1800's when the Union Pacific Railway was being built through the area. In about 1865, examples of huge fossilized bones were sent to certain eastern US universities and museums...
1639) The gunslinger's vow
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Runaway brides volume 1
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Alexandra Brighton spent the last five years in Boston, erasing all evidence of the wild frontier girl she used to be. Before she settles, she's determined to visit her childhood home one final time. But when she finds herself stranded far from civilization, she has no choice but to trust her safety to the tall, dark and decidedly dangerous bounty hunter, Malcolm Kincaid. Now that Malcolm finally has the location of his brother's killer, he has no...
1640) Highroller's man
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"It sounded like a good job with nice pay -- five hundred in gold to get the Central Party's candidate through the campaign alive. It was an easy decision for Shawn Starbuck to make. The campaign would be over in two months and the pay would keep him going for many more months as he continued the search for his brother. But Starbuck soon found himself mistrusted by the very ones who hired him! He even met opposition from beautiful Carla Flood, the...
