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41) Riding shotgun
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasn't an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors,...
43) Coffin road
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, while homicide detective George Gunn makes the ocean crossing to a remote lighthouse on a rock in the north Atlantic to investigatea brutal murder.
44) Comanche trail
Author
Series
Publisher
A Signet book
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Thad Taylor is no one{u2019}s idea of a fine man. Usually drunk and shiftless, he{u2019}s disapproved of by most{u2014}especially his father. But when his father doesn{u2019}t return from a trip across the Kansas plains, Thad is the only one who can search for him. And he{u2019}s far from ready for the ordeal. Because his father is already dead. He has fallen victim to the bloody Benders{u2014}a demented family who lures travelers into their cabin...
45) Luther, Wyoming
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War back East wasn't much of Adam Sanchez's business, but he fought to preserve the Union. After the end of hostilities, and disillusioned by bigoted treatment because of his Comanchero heritage, Sanchez returns west and teams up with fellow veteran Nelson Cook, now the sheriff of Luther, Wyoming. Cook deputizes his friend to get out of a jam. Shortly afterwards, Deputy Sanchez and Sheriff Cook find themselves on both sides of the law when...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. All that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiance (and her father's business partner) insists she come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic...
47) Westerns
Author
Series
Library of America volume 308
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for...
50) Cold-blooded
Author
Series
Hell's half acre volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sheriff Jess Carey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible, taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas, infamous for murder, mayhem, prostitution, and every random act of bloodshed imaginable. Now the no-good politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Jess Carey's town than hanging 'em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open. Freed outlaws, gunslingers,...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton finds himself in the wild West, where he becomes involved in a showdown with the "wickedest" rat of Cactus City.
Author
Series
Gunsmith volume 350
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When an old friend ropes Clint Adams into providing security for the Colorado River Festival, he's challenged to a shooting contest by "Wild Bill" Flanagan. And the Gunsmith Clint realizes he's been dupe into the role of the festival's star attraction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When his brother and his young bride disappear deep into Sioux territory, Monroe Pratt convinces the legendary Indian scout John Hawk, who is known for delivering swift justice to anyone who stands in his way, to come out of retirement and rescue them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"There are some things in this world that can't be stopped. Like progress, a moving train, and the American Dream. When the bigwigs in Washington decide to build a transcontinental railroad to the West Coast, they need a man who's just as unstoppable to clear a path through Mexican territory. That man is Jamie MacCallister. Jamie knows it's a tough job. The territory is overrun with Apaches. The Apaches are gunning for a fight. And the first patrol...
55) Badland
Publisher
Papa Octopus Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Detective Matthias Breecher is hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals. As he roams the Old West seeking justice, his resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Matt Wheeler was a legend in the West. His fast gun and dedication for justice made him a sought-after lawman for hire, but all of that vanished one dark night. Matt was convicted of murder for killing the man who killed his woman. Now he's spent his time in jail and is looking to even the score against the men who set him up"--FantasticFiction.com.
57) Pals forever
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the girls split up during spring break, Pru must run a children's rodeo by herself on the range, Abigail is at odds with her fancy cousin Ariella, and Lucky worries that her dad and new stepmom may want to move away from Miradero.
58) The Jensen brand
Author
Series
Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Smoke is injured in a shootout with some cow thieves, his wife, Sally, puts out a call for help to the entire Jensen clan, a force to be reckoned with ready to face down the deadliest of outlaws.
59) Never never
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
Language
English
Description
Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an isolated mine deep inside the desolate Australian outback--the...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The sixth novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series--featuring Montana's favorite private detective. Buffalo Jump Blues, fifth in the series, is now available. A story of lost treasure, Cold Hearted River begins with the death of a woman, stranded in a spring snowstorm, who in desperation climbs into a bear's den. When Sheriff Martha Ettinger, reunited with once-again lover Sean Stranahan, investigates, she finds a fly wallet in a pannier...
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