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  • E.L. Doctorow: Welcome to Hard Times : A Novel
    Af E.L. Doctorow (2014)
    Summary: Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage–a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably–and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw. Praise for Welcome to Hard Times “A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.” —The Washington Post “We are caught up with these people as real human beings.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Dramatic and exciting.” — The New York Times “Terse and powerful.” — Newsweek “A taut, bloodthirsty read.” —The Times Literary Supplement “A superb piece of fiction.” — The New Republic

  • Robert Olmstead: Savage Country : A Novel
    Af Robert Olmstead (2017)
    Summary: “The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . .” Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brother’s debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husband’s folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. Elizabeth hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who now depend on her; the buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving the land. Elizabeth and Michael plunge south across the aptly named “dead line” demarcating Indian Territory from their home state of Kansas. Nothing could have prepared them for the dangers: rattlesnakes, rabies, wildfire, lightning strikes, blue northers, flash floods—and human treachery. With the Comanche in winter quarters, Elizabeth and Michael are on borrowed time, and the cruel work of harvesting the buffalo is unraveling their souls. Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmstead’s gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But it’s also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever

  • William W. Johnstone: Twelve Dead Men
    Summary: In this western by the bestselling authors of Rimfire , twin gunfighters have their say when an executed killer's brother plots revenge. In a court of law, it takes twelve jurors to convict a killer. Two of them are Jensens. It all started when those Jensen boys, Ace and Chance, got roped into jury duty. It should have ended when justice was served with the killer dancing on the end of a rope. But no. This is just the beginning of the death sentence for Ace, Chance, and the other ten terrified jurors. He's one of the most notorious outlaws in the west. He's also the brother of the hanged killer. Now he's here in town—and plans to slaughter the jurors, one by one. There's just one hitch: Ace and Chance aren't getting ready for judgment day. They're gunning for justice—Jensen style...

  • Ivy Pochoda: Sing Her Down : A Novel
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    Sing Her Down

    Af Ivy Pochoda (2023)
    Summary: "I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today's life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down . The world will too." —Michael Connelly, author of Desert Star No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-winning author of These Women. Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison—or so her ex-cellmate Diosmary Sandoval keeps insinuating. Dios knows the truth about Florida's crimes, understands what Florence hides even from herself: that she was never a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world's refusal to see it. And she is determined to open Florida's eyes and unleash her true self. When an unexpected reprieve gives both women their freedom, Dios's fixation on Florida turns into a dangerous obsession, and a deadly cat-and-mouse chase ensues from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles. With blistering, incisive prose, the award-winning author Ivy Pochoda delivers a razor-sharp Western. Gripping and immersive, Sing Her Down is a spellbinding thriller setting two indelible women on a path to certain destruction and an epic, stunning showdown

  • William W. Johnstone: Forever Texas : A Thrilling Western Novel of the American Frontier
    Summary: "Superb from start to finish. An instant classic. " — New York Times Bestselling Author Marc Cameron Based on real events and the true history of the legendary King Ranch in South Texas, this riveting historical adventure evokes the reality of life on the Texas frontier, as one pioneering family battles to forge a new life and carve out their own piece of the American West... It's 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis "Bone" McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent rolling prairie: the Santa Calina range teeming with wild mustangs, cattle, and eighteen-thousand acres of lush promise. But all dreams have a price. For Regis, it's hell to pay—and the fire is coming at him from all directions. On one side of the border, it's banditos and a vengeful Mexican heiress with a passionate hatred for greenhorn gringos. Especially those who have their eye on land once owned by her family. On the other side, the Apaches, slave traders, and outlaws have Santa Calina in their sights. And none of them are going to walk away from the bloody battle. The brothers Royle and their partners have the most to lose—including their lives. They made a pledge to themselves to build the greatest ranch in America. To see it through to the end, they'll have to ride hard and learn the bitter necessity of violence and bloodshed

  • Bernard Cornwell: The Last Kingdom
    Summary: *A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now* Welcome to The Last Kingdom Discover the first book in the epic, bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred is a fierce and skilled warrior who kneels to no-one. Alfred – Saxon, king, man of god – fights to hold the throne of the only land still resisting the pagan northerners. Uhtred and Alfred's fates are tangled, soaked in blood and blackened by the flames of war. Together they will change history

  • Kevin McCarthy: The Wintering Place
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    The Wintering Place

    Af Kevin McCarthy (2022)
    Summary: Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but younger brother Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a stream down off the Bozeman Trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. "Wanted" posters appear everywhere along the trail. The likenesses do not resemble the brothers, but their uniforms give them away. Enter any town, and they will have to shoot their way out. The rock and the river become their safe place, and when spring comes, their paradise. But the world seeks its way to them, and even in paradise, human nature makes its own trouble. In this follow-up to his acclaimed novel The Wolves of Eden, Kevin McCarthy tells a story of three very human characters battling to survive in a vast, beautiful, and unforgiving landscape...

  • Af Steve Kelton (2022)
    Summary: Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman , as novel of his middling years, as he looks for work—but not too much work—in 1904 West Texas. Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado, on a horse drive for an old friend, Alvin Lawdermilk, when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in his wake. Deputized to help bring the criminal to justice, Hewey is bestowed with a weight of responsibility that he's long avoided. Never known for his skill—or lack thereof—with a pistol, he can only pray that he and retired Texas Ranger Hanley Baker will be enough to put an end to this trail of dastardly deeds. Steve Kelton will transport you to an Old West full of duplicity, gunfights, and the often-unforgiving hardships of frontier life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied

  • William W. Johnstone: Blood Bond
    Summary: Two friends—one white and one Cheyenne—must choose sides as frontier tensions built to the Battle of Little Bighorn in this historical Western. Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the Native American boy's life. Beneath the Montana sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the Indian and the white man who rode together—and who could draw killing iron with the best of them . . . Now tensions are high in the territory thanks to Lone Dog and his renegades scalping settlers by the dozen. Meanwhile, greedy rancher Tom Thomas is recruiting an army of gunhawks to steal Indian land. And with General Custer and his men riding toward the Little Big Horn River, it seems Bodine and Two Wolves will have to choose sides. Because there will only be two kinds of folk in the battle that's brewing: the kind that kill and the kind that die