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1) The thief
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 44
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Kate Coldane has sweated blood for this saloon, and she won't let it go down without a fight. Silas Atwood may be the richest rancher in Hudspeth County, but that doesn't give him the right to push her around. When Atwood sends one of his goons to cause trouble at her watering hole, Kate's son Rusty guns him down. It may have been self defense, but Atwood is the law, and that means Rusty has to run. Rusty flees to the home of his uncle, Pearlie,...
Author
Series
The outfit volume 1
Language
English
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Rafe Barr, master tracker, spy, and war hero, is locked away in Yuma Territorial Prison for life, wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and son. Five years into his sentence, Warden Talbot Timmons, who has made Barr's time at Yuma a living hell, offers him a deal; full pardon in exchange for rescuing the young dauther of California's Governor Pendleton from Deadwood's top bad man, Al Swearengen. Rafe smells a rat, but agrees...and finds a whole...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
The first book of the epic fantasy caper Gentleman Bastard Sequence about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin says “captured me right on the first page and never let me go.”
“If you haven’t read [The Lies of Locke Lamora], you should. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.”—Patrick Rothfuss
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in...
“If you haven’t read [The Lies of Locke Lamora], you should. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.”—Patrick Rothfuss
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Double-barreled action—the first two Longarms in one volume!
LONGARM
Longarm has a new mission. Ride to Crooked Lance. Pick up Cotton Younger, killer cousin of Jesse James, from the town jail. Bring him to trial. It should be easy. Except for one thing: Deputy Kincaid has already tried it. And Deputy Kincaid is nowhere to be found. Nobody at Crooked Lance wants Longarm to do his job—not the beautiful...
LONGARM
Longarm has a new mission. Ride to Crooked Lance. Pick up Cotton Younger, killer cousin of Jesse James, from the town jail. Bring him to trial. It should be easy. Except for one thing: Deputy Kincaid has already tried it. And Deputy Kincaid is nowhere to be found. Nobody at Crooked Lance wants Longarm to do his job—not the beautiful...
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Series
Outlaw mail order brides volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Former outlaw Clay Colby is abuzz with his mail order bride's expected arrival. He's fought long and hard to drag Devil's Crossing out of lawlessness...so when his homestead is set ablaze by a bitter rival, he's heartbroken. There's no woman in the world who'd stand by him now. But Tally Shannon is no ordinary woman. After escaping the psychiatric hospital in which she was wrongfully detained, Tally only wants someone to protect her and the little...
Author
Series
Outlaws novels (Elle Kennedy) volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Despite his magnetic personality, Rylan can't seem to seduce Reese, the deadly leader of their town of outlaws. Winning her over is a welcome challenge, but her indifference isn't the only thing standing in his way. If he wants Reese, Rylan must also win over Sloan, her stoic protector ... Sloan has always loved Reese, but their painful past has stolen his chances of a future with her. Rylan's interest in Reese only intensifies the tension - until...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Carnegie Medal for Fiction - Shortlist
2024 Locus Award Nominees - Best Fantasy Novel
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
2024 Locus Award Nominees - Best Fantasy Novel
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
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"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
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Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose...
12) Gut-shot
Author
Series
Flintlock (William W. Johnstone) volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"$10,000. That's the bounty on the head of the most hated man in Texas - the man that Flintlock has been hired to guard. The crime was the brutal murder of a young school-teacher. The verdict was not guilty for lack of evidence. And the suspected killer's first guard was murdered by a shotgun blast. What makes Flintlock believe in this man's innocence? Call it gut instinct. Or call it maybe just a hankering for a fight. Because Flintlock knows that...
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 42
Language
English
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Description
After a Mexican revolutionary crashes the border, killing 22 innocent U.S. citizens and stealing livestock, including 200 of his horses, Smoke Jensen, going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, wages war on the Colonel and his ruthless banditos.
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Series
Brothers O'Brien volume 5
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
The War Between the States has ended. Now, driven from Texas by carpetbaggers, former CSA Colonel Shamus O'Brien sets off for a new frontier--New Mexico. But it takes more than one man to run a ranch, so he offers a partnership to his eldest son with equal shares going to his other three sons. Together the brothers O'Brien will defend their homestead and when necessary administer their own brand of frontier justice.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who's occasionally called Jack. While it's doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if he's still alive, he's in his mid-thirties...
Author
Series
Hell's half acre volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
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Description
A Texas sheriff must defend a murderous Union general from a Confederate family out for revenge in this post–Civil War Western.
They call him The Butcher of Baxter Pass, the notorious former Union General who massacred 200 Confederate prisoners—just because he could. Now it's Sheriff Jess Casey's unenviable job to protect the bloodthirsty murderer from those who want him dead, which turns out be pretty much everyone...
They call him The Butcher of Baxter Pass, the notorious former Union General who massacred 200 Confederate prisoners—just because he could. Now it's Sheriff Jess Casey's unenviable job to protect the bloodthirsty murderer from those who want him dead, which turns out be pretty much everyone...
18) Flintlock
Author
Series
Flintlock (William W. Johnstone) volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a fortune - a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smouldering ruin of his former jail cell and a treasure in the Arizona mountains there will be blood at a U.S. Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns with the schemers, shootists, madmen, and lost women who find their way to Flintlock's side. From a vicious, superstitious...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
En su primer libro de ficci̤n, Borges trabaja con biograf̕as de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces tambǐn heroicos. Aqu̕ est̀n, entre otros, Lazarus Morell, redentor de esclavos; el impostor Tom Castro, hijo perdido y encontrado; y la viuda y pirata Ching, h̀bil en el saqueo de altamar. A estos le siguen Hombre de la esquina rosada
In his first fiction book, Borges works with biographies of real thieves and ruffians;...
20) Town tamers
Author
Publisher
Signet, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Ludlow, Texas, has a problem. A band of rowdy and violent cowhands from the Circle K ranch have been terrorizing the small town: drinking, smashing windows, and even shooting up innocent citizens. With the townsfolk terrorized, Ludlow is on its way to being totally under the gang's control--unless someone does something about it. Asa Delaware has a good reputation as a very bad man to cross. Roaming the West with his two grown children and his gun...
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