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2) Devil's due
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Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart thinks he has broken the back of the outlaw organization Los Pistoleros after he arrests its leader, J.T. Priest. But just before his trial, Priest escapes from jail and begins to rebuild his criminal empire.
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When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he's discovered a reason to go on--and he's about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the helpless, the hopeless, and those who others think aren't worth fighting for.
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Considered the quickest gun alive, Fast Larry Shaw works as a hired killer until his wife is slain. Although he longs to be reunited with her, he won't lie down for anyone. Then he slays one of the Katlin Gang, becoming a marked man. He plans to leave Willow Creek after helping Rita Vargas identify the man who fathered her unborn child. One candidate is the infamous William Bonney -- or Billy the Kid -- who now wants Shaw back in the saddle fighting...
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Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is in the Mexican badlands, working his way down a list of killers, rapists, and desperadoes who thought they could escape the law. When Burrack's list of prey leads him to the remote town of Esperanza, he uncovers a hive of American mercenaries in cahoots with corrupt local federales. Led by vicious Desmond Prew, they've been hitting U.S. Army supply trains just over the border, stealing weapons and ordnance. But now they've...
11) Colter's Path
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"Jedediah "Jedd" Colter is a man with big dreams that go beyond the mountains of North Carolina. When he's offered a job of guiding the recently formed California Enterprise Company of Tennessee from Knoxville to the gold fields of California, Jedd knows that the opportunity is too good to refuse. The Sadler brothers promise him a cut of the fortune that mining brings them, but their real plan is to hit pay dirt by becoming merchants and cheat Jedd...
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly,...
16) War and peace
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Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.