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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPatrick O'Brian's masterpiece, the Aubrey-Maturin series, follows the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Dr. Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. The series consists of 20 complete and one unfinished novel, the first published in 1970 and the last finished novel in 1999... -
![Redemption by Carolyn Brown]()
Redemption by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGeneva Garner's mind was fixed on survival, her unborn child, escaping out of Savannah, and getting away from the men in the white robes with hoods over their heads. Covered in dirt and smoke from the cellar where she took refuge when the Klan burned her plantation home, she fled on the first stagecoach headed north. She vowed never to trust a man again as long as there was breath in her body... -
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Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBestselling Western author Duane Boehm has written another western novel with enough humor, heartbreak, love, and outlaws to keep you turning the page.While the ranchers around Trinidad are circling like buzzards in wait for Flannery Vogel to fail, the downtrodden widow with a young daughter refuses to surrender as she struggles to run the ranch that cost her husband his life... -
![Coldsmith by Ron Schwab]()
Coldsmith by Ron Schwab
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm]()
Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSun Over The Mountains is the latest novel by bestselling Western author Duane Boehm.When Sammy Landon is called home by his dying mother, he returns to his hometown to find that the things he ran from all those years ago are still as much a part of him as they ever were. Central City still holds the same old heartbreak, temptations, and problems that it always had for his troubled life...Categorized as:
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![Hand Of The Father by Duane Boehm]()
Hand Of The Father by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHand Of The Father is the exciting new sequel to the Bestselling Hand Of Fate.With their troubles behind them, Boone and Flannery anxiously await their wedding day, but men from Boone's past appear in Trinidad just days before the marriage is to take place... -
![Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm]()
Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBestselling Western author Duane Boehm has written another western novel with enough humor, heartbreak, love, and outlaws to keep you turning the page.While the ranchers around Trinidad are circling like buzzards in wait for Flannery Vogel to fail, the downtrodden widow with a young daughter refuses to surrender as she struggles to run the ranch that cost her husband his life... -
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Hand Of Justice by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Boone Youngblood anxiously awaits the arrival of his first child, he wants nothing more than to live the quiet life of a rancher. His wild days of serving as a Texas Ranger are now nothing more than a memory...Categorized as:
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Garnet by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGarnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just minutes inside the doors of the saloon she knew she'd made the right decision to leave her sisters and the wagon train of brides heading to California... -
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Chances by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAdelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton's new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it's cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead... -
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![War of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone]()
War of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRocky Mountain Showdown Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies. . .and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns. . -
![Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone]()
Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the classic second adventure in The Eagles, one of the most iconic and beloved sagas of the American frontier, is back in print as legendary Scottish frontiersman Jamie MacCallister blazes through the Wild West.In peace and war, he was the soul of a nation—and the flesh and blood of the American Frontier . .Categorized as:
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![Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani]()
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPolitics and the novel, Ghassan Kanafani once said, are an indivisible case. Fadl al-Naqib has reflected that Kanafani wrote the Palestinian story, then he was written by it. His narratives offer entry into the Palestinian experience of the conflict that has anguished the people of the Middle East for more than a century...Categorized as:
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![Rise of the Wolf by Steven A. McKay]()
Rise of the Wolf by Steven A. McKay
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSir Guy of Gisbourne is back! Bent on vengeance against Robin Hood and with a turncoat new lieutenant in tow, an unlikely new hero must stand up for herself..Categorized as:
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![Last Hope by Duane Boehm]()
Last Hope by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Hope is the highly anticipated third book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand and Last Chance. Love, second chances, new beginnings, and dispensing justice – all set in the town of Last Stand, Colorado in 1880... -
![Forty Guns West by William W. Johnstone]()
Forty Guns West by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA 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 landowner Elam Parks lies dead -- and there's a $5,000 reward on the head of the man accused: the first mountain man. ..Categorized as:
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![Smoke Bellew by Jack London]()
Smoke Bellew by Jack London
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChristopher Bellew is a success in the eyes of the world, engaged with the San Francisco paper and penning stories daily... but for no pay. When Klondike fever strikes the region, he sees his chance to break from drudgery – starting him on a journey that takes him over mountain passes and down swirling rapids, removing him forever from the world he knew and the man he was...Categorized as:
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![Blood Bond by William W. Johnstone]()
Blood Bond by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThorndike Press Western Series titles are selected with the classic Western fan in mind, drawn from the work of the acknowledged masters of Western fiction and some contemporary authors writing in the traditional Western style. Also included are anthologies and collections of short works by favorite authors.Actual Large Print covers may be different from those shown... -
![Blood Valley by William W. Johnstone]()
Blood Valley by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLawmen don't last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. But they have never seen the likes of the man who's known only as Cotton before, who aims to take the badge for $125 a month, save himself a nice chunk of money, and be on his way. Problem is, things don't always work out as you would wish... -
![Grace be a Lady by Heather Blanton]()
Grace be a Lady by Heather Blanton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... Think like a lady. Act like a man. Banished to the dusty cow town of Misery, Wyoming for an alleged affair, Grace Hendrick is facing the hardest decisions of her life. If she tries to return to Chicago, her husband promises to whisk their four-year-old son off to a boarding school and Grace will never see him again. She has no choice but to play along, at least temporarily... -
![Showdown at Dead End Canyon by Robert Vaughan]()
Showdown at Dead End Canyon by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's no peace for Mason Hawke from the ghosts of his past. A drifter and a loner, he's not looking for trouble when he rides into Wyoming Territory –– but it's waiting for him nonetheless. Coming to the rescue of a wealthy landowner's daughter who was kidnapped by a pair of inept outlaws, Hawke finds himself an unlikely hero in a town called Green River... -
![A Texas Hill Country Christmas by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
A Texas Hill Country Christmas by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“This rollicking Western is full of gunfights, outlaws, and an unforgettable holiday... -
![The Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service]()
The Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties...Categorized as:
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![The Macedonian by Nicholas Guild]()
The Macedonian by Nicholas Guild
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNicholas Guild's The Macedonian is a gripping fictional account of the life of Philip of Macedon, the king who sired Alexander the Great and conquered an unprecedented number of ancient Greek city-states.On a cold, snow-swept night in the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, a son is born to the king’s principal wife. His mother hates him for being his father’s child. His father hardly notices him...Categorized as:
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![The Ranger's Wife by Eveline Hart, Natalie Dean]()
The Ranger's Wife by Eveline Hart, Natalie Dean
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Black Hands” Jack Walker spends his time as a US Marshal catching criminals and protecting innocent people, like he always dreamed of as a child. Having moved to the American Frontier to escape his life as a political pawn for his family, he is content. Everything changes when he receives a letter from his father explaining that he is to marry one Elizabeth “Piper” Renwick...Categorized as:
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![Oregon Country: The Story of the 1843 Oregon Trail Migration by T.J. Hanson]()
Oregon Country: The Story of the 1843 Oregon Trail Migration by T.J. Hanson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Oregon Trail had its beginnings in 1843 beneath the wagon wheels of the Oregon Emigrating Company, a group of disparate Americans with a common goal: to seek a new land and make it their own. The trail met its end in 1869 with the completion of the transcontinental railway. Western Passage is a detailed account of the Oregon Migration of 1843 in a "historical fiction" setting...Categorized as:
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![The Renegade Wife by Caroline Warfield]()
The Renegade Wife by Caroline Warfield
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBetrayal by his cousin and the woman he loved may have made Rand Wheatly crave solitude, but his heart isn’t as hard as he likes to pretend. When he discovers that the squatters in his house include sick and injured children, he lets them stay.Meggy Campeau is harboring a secret, but she’ll do whatever it takes to keep her children safe...Categorized as:
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Caleb by Emma Lang
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Texas Ranger, a lady blacksmith, a fierce passion, a dangerous game. Caleb Graham has spent the last four years in too many dangerous situations to count. As a Texas Ranger, he knows no fear, or at least he never shows it. When he’s sent to force a blacksmith off government seized property, he runs face to face into the woman who will change his life...Categorized as:
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![Celebration! by Dana Fuller Ross]()
Celebration! by Dana Fuller Ross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor one hundred glorious years America offered true freedom to those seeking to escape tyranny's chains. Now, in 1876, pioneer & farmer, businessman & laborer, join to celebrate the grand Centennial. It will be a day to remember forever. But unless strong men & women remain vigilant, it can become a time of unforgettable terror as America's enemies once again challenge our courage & our dreams... -
![Sheriffs Don’t Surrender (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler]()
Sheriffs Don’t Surrender (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStepping into battle is never easy. Especially when you’re outgunned and walking into unknown territory. Sheriff Conrad Scott has returned home after a long absence to discover his town in disarray and his young sisters running wild. Even worse, Rudy Galloway and his gang think they can get away with murder... -
![Dry Cross Honor (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler]()
Dry Cross Honor (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSheriff Merrill Vinson is looking forward to a new life in Dry Cross, Texas. But from the moment he arrives, he knows something isn’t right. The townspeople are nervous. Edgy. And no one will look him in the eye. Except for Cherry Jones.Cherry is the sassy saloon owner who keeps the town laughing. And Merrill is smitten. But Cherry’s got secrets she’ll go to her grave protecting... -
![The Half Breed by Bobbi Smith]()
The Half Breed by Bobbi Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the midst of the vast, windswept texas plains, stood a ranch wrested from the wilderness with sweat and tears. It was the shining legacy of Thomas McBride to his five living heirs. But along with the fertile acres and herds of cattle, each would inherit a history of scandal, lies and hidden lust that threatened to burn out of control. Chase knew he had no legitimate claim to the Circle M...Categorized as:
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![Wanted Man, A by Nancy J. Parra]()
Wanted Man, A by Nancy J. Parra
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrianna McGraw ventures out West to find and rescue her brother from bandits who will sell him illegally to the highest bidder. Separated after they were orphaned a few years ago, Brianna has worked hard as a librarian to save money for the trip. But when she arrives, she realizes she has to somehow come up with a thousand dollars to buy him back... -
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![To Love a Texas Ranger by Linda Broday]()
To Love a Texas Ranger by Linda Broday
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Ranger. A Cowboy. An Outlaw. Men of Legend The Texas RangerGravely injured on the trail of a notorious criminal, Texas Ranger Sam Legend boards a train bound for his family ranch to recuperate...only to find himself locked in battle to save a desperate woman on the run. Determined to rescue the beautiful Sierra, Sam recruits an unlikely ally...Categorized as:
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![The Shadow of a Noose by Ralph Compton, Jason Culp]()
The Shadow of a Noose by Ralph Compton, Jason Culp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA...Categorized as:
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![Larkspur by Dorothy Garlock]()
Larkspur by Dorothy Garlock
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKristin Anderson had never left home before, but no one could stop her from going to Montana to take possession of Larkspur, the ranch she had inherited. At 23, she was considered a spinster, but she stood tall, wound her braids primly around her head, and tucked a derringer in her purse...Categorized as:
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![Comanche Woman by Joan Johnston]()
Comanche Woman by Joan Johnston
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe son of a white father and a Comanche mother, Long Quiet has long loved Bayleigh Stewart, the daughter of the wealthiest cotton planter in Texas, and has searched for years for the beauty, abducted by marauders, until he rescues her from her captors... -
![Sweet Cherry Ray by Marcia Lynn McClure]()
Sweet Cherry Ray by Marcia Lynn McClure
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsExcerpt… “Cherry glanced at her pa who frowned and slightly shook his head. Still, she couldn’t help herself and she leaned over and looked down the road. She could see the rider and his horse—a large buckskin stallion. As he rode nearer, she studied his white shirt, black flat-brimmed hat and double-breasted vest...Categorized as:
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![Fair Blows The Wind by Louis L'Amour]()
Fair Blows The Wind by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHis father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man...Categorized as:
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![Tucker by Louis L'Amour]()
Tucker by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"If a man won't fight for what is rightly his, then he ain't much account." With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends. Dreaming of adventure, Tucker had wanted to join their gang...Categorized as:
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![Kilkenny by Louis L'Amour]()
Kilkenny by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKilkenny wasn’t looking for trouble when he entered the Clifton House stage station, but trouble found him when a reckless youngster named Tetlow challenged him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life.Looking to escape a reputation that he never wanted, Kilkenny settles in the lonely mountain country of Utah, planning to ranch a high, lush valley. But the past is on his trail...Categorized as:
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![Fallon by Louis L'Amour]()
Fallon by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMacon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he’d christened Red Horse...Categorized as:
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![Solar Storms by Linda Hogan, Gary Issacs]()
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan, Gary Issacs
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, “luminous” (Publishers Weekly) story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family... -
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![The Trees by Conrad Richter]()
The Trees by Conrad Richter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Trees is a moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight...Categorized as:
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![Again to Carthage by John L. Parker Jr.]()
Again to Carthage by John L. Parker Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn L. Parker, Jr.’s first novel, Once a Runner, is the cult novel for runners. Self-published in the late 1970s, and for years sold out of the trunk of the author’s car at running events, it went on to sell over 100,000 copies and achieve legendary status among runners.It perfectly captured the intensity, relentlessness, and sheer lunacy of a serious miler’s life...Categorized as:
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![Bowdrie by Louis L'Amour]()
Bowdrie by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him...Categorized as:
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![The Iron Marshal by Louis L'Amour]()
The Iron Marshal by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when young Tom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on a fast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had big dreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figured that a knuckle-and-skull man from Five Points would be perfect for the job...Categorized as:
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![Guns of the Timberlands by Louis L'Amour]()
Guns of the Timberlands by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClay Bell was a onetime drifter who'd grown weary of long trails and settled on the sweetest land he'd ever seen. For six years he fought Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the Bar-B ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But now all that Clay has worked for is threatened... -
![Kiowa Trail by Louis L'Amour]()
Kiowa Trail by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom Lundy broke the law and crossed the line...
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