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1) Devil wire
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By 1884, a new type of fencing called barbed wire-or, as ranchers deemed it, devil wire-is making more enemies than good neighbors in the American West. Jim Hartford, a failed farmer from Tennessee, is looking for a new beginning in Miles City, Montana. What he finds is a territorial disagreement that erupts in bloodshed. A local cattle baron has hired a renegade group of fence-cutters who turn out to be a band of grudge-holding murderers…and now...
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A murder mystery in which author and television personality Steve Allen finds himself a prime suspect!
Creator and first host of The Tonight Show, entertainment legend Steve Allen is asked to stand in for Terry Cole, a late night talk-show host. Easy enough to be a substitute, thinks Allen, but little does he know that the vodka from the on-stage refrigerator is poisoned. Allen is not harmed, but his guest drops dead on the stage! Was the intended...
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In 1875 Savannah, Rachel Fleming Barlow Newman McCandless is known to her neighbors as the Black Widow. Only twenty-one year old, she has been widowed three times, most recently by the death of Phillip McCandless whose last words to her-incoherent ramblings about an illegal arms shipment-have left her terrified as well as grief-stricken.
Phillip's long-estranged brother Captain Daniel Slade, convinced that the "Black Widow" has struck again, pretends...
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Preacher is a wanted man in this straight-shooting Western adventure from the New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of Absaroka Ambush.
A Friendly Place . . .
During a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher learns that even the civilized Midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble . . . especially when a gang of local bully boys decides to pick a fight. Now, wealthy...
A Friendly Place . . .
During a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher learns that even the civilized Midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble . . . especially when a gang of local bully boys decides to pick a fight. Now, wealthy...
5) Dear Emily
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A woman helps a man through college, they marry and he dumps her--old story. What is new is that the protagonist, Emily Thorn, doesn't spend the rest of her life weeping. Instead, she finds herself a handsome physical fitness instructor and launches a chain of fitness centers for women. By the author of Serendipity.
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One Man And...
No one remembered when he'd come to the mountains--it seemed that Preacher had always been there. He'd seen a great deal in the unmapped mountains and forests of the grand North American frontier. In fact, he'd just told a friend that he wasn't surprosed by anything anymore. But Preacher hadn't seen Nova Roma yet...
...A Deadly Dream of Glory
Auddenly, Preacher is faced with the strangest, most dangerous army the High Lonesome has...
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NO COVER CHARGE
From From Cairo to Vicksburg, along Route 61, they lit up the night with the sounds of wailing voices and twanging guitars. All the greats played at roadside clubs filled with smoke, sex, and a driving beat... Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash. These jive joints are now a thing of the past. Or are they? A sheriff's deputy has just stumbled on a mystery that will take him into the cheating heart of rockabilly hell.
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In the seventh book in his bestselling Preacher series, William W. Johnstone gives his millions of avid fans exactly the kind of gritty, action-packed Western novel they look for from this prolific and hugely popular writer.
"A Messiah Shall Lead Them...".
In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To...
"A Messiah Shall Lead Them...".
In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To...
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A once elite, beautiful young woman has turned to a life of Tarot card reading for English nobility in order to maintain a life of squalor for her and her family. But even Jessamine Maitland could not foresee Alistair MacAlpin's irresistible charm. A privileged aristocrat turned infamous cat burglar, he's going to take Jessamine on the adventure of a lifetime. Little does she know, the arrogant thief has absolutely no intention of ever being caught-by...
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Mountain man volume 16
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Johnstone Country. Where the Good Die Young. The Bad Die Sooner.
The Message Was Written In Blood: Bring Me The Head Of Smoke Jensen!
A hard term in Yuma Prison gave Ralph Tinsdale and his gunhawk sidekicks time to nurse a deep hatred for Smoke Jensen-the man who put them there. A bloody escape gives them the chance to get even. Their posse is already forty strong, the price on Smoke's head is up to twenty grand, and with Jensen's own wife shanghaied...
12) Whitefire
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In an age of unspeakable savagery and unbridled passion, forbidden love sparks wild adventure in #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels's unforgettable novel. . .
Katerina Vaschenko possesses the courage and beauty of her wild Cossack ancestors. Now she seeks vengeance against the marauders who destroyed her village and stole her priceless snow-white horses in the name of the mad czar. Nor will she rest until she has killed the man who...
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USA Today bestselling author: When Wyatt Earp teams up with Smoke Jensen, even the most notorious desperados better think twice . . .
It's a simple job for Smoke Jensen: drive a herd of longhorns to the backwater railhead of Dodge City. When he arrives there, Smoke finds a town in the grip of terror, its only lawman, Wyatt Earp, outgunned by a cutthroat gang forty strong. The rampage of bank robberies, looting, and cold-blooded...
It's a simple job for Smoke Jensen: drive a herd of longhorns to the backwater railhead of Dodge City. When he arrives there, Smoke finds a town in the grip of terror, its only lawman, Wyatt Earp, outgunned by a cutthroat gang forty strong. The rampage of bank robberies, looting, and cold-blooded...
14) Sara's song
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New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels is back with a beautiful, bittersweet tale of two lonely people who find heart-healing love, only to be torn from each other's arms. For everyone who loved Dear Emily, here is another poignant Fern Michaels novels to savor--a story of love, grief, passion, renewal--and incredible second chances.
A brilliant career and loving friends weren't enough to heal Dr. Sara Killian's aching heart. For brief,...
15) Down home murder
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In the first in Agatha Award-winning author Toni L. P. Kelner's smart, witty mystery series, amateur sleuth Laura Fleming finds her trip going South-in lethal ways… They say you can't go home again, and Laura Burnette Fleming thinks they may have a point. Moving to Boston has made her a bona fide Yankee in the eyes of her Byerly, North Carolina family. Yet Laura-forever Laurie Anne to her kin-still rushes back to see her ailing grandpa. Paw is in...
16) Highland honor
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In the second novel of her magnificent trilogy of medieval Scotland, which began with Highland Destiny, Howell returns to the fifteenth century and the embattled Highlands with this spellbinding saga of a Scottish mercenary fated to rescue a spirited young beauty accused of murder.
17) Highland promise
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As Eric Murray sets out to fight for his rightful inheritance, he stumbles upon Bethia Drummond and her infant orphaned nephew, who are escaping ruthless kin who plan to kill them and claim their inherited land.
18) After dark
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When A Shocking Scandal Exposes Southern Secrets. . .
As the blazing heat of summer gives way to sultry September, a shroud of suspicion settles over Noble's Crossing, a sleepy Alabama town. Nothing is as it seems--and never will be again. Lane Noble Graham stands accused of murdering her ex-husband. And the one man who can help, Johnny Mack Cahill, vowed never to return to the town that scorned him--or the woman whose love he knew he didn't deserve....
19) Not without you
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SOMETIMES, WHAT THE MIND CAN'T REMEMBER. . .
Awakening in a hospital, Jarred Bryant has no recollection of the plane crash that nearly killed him. At first, all that remains familiar is the beautiful woman at his bedside: Kelsey-his soon to be ex-wife. Then come the fleeting, fragmented visions-terrifying visions that hint at a conspiracy involving those closest to Jarred. Are they shards of a paranoid imagination. . .or true memories of a hunted...
20) About face
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"When Dr. Blake Hunter discovers Casey Edwards wandering along a Sweetwater, Georgia road, she's a woman without a past, her memory stripped of the terrifying events that shattered her innocence a decade ago. The scrap of paper she clutches in her hand bears the address of Swan House, the magnificent mansion where Casey's mother lives with her mysteriously ailing husband. But 'home' turns out to be anything but a safe haven ..."--Page 4 of cover.