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Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the infamous retired gunman, Gabriel Wolff, took the job of city marshal in Crystal City, Kansas, he succeeded in taming the wild cattle town in short order. The trouble was that he took to the notion that taming the town would end all the evil that lurked there... -
![Mountain Massacre: Rocky Mountain Saint Book 4 by B.N. Rundell]()
Mountain Massacre: Rocky Mountain Saint Book 4 by B.N. Rundell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a grief-stricken young mountain man goes to Fort William to re-supply, he runs smack into a bully and a drunkard. That meeting leads Tate Saint to take on the responsibility of guiding a bunch of dirt-farmers across the beginnings of the Oregon Trail and to the distant Wind River mountains and South Pass... -
![Hand Of Justice by Duane Boehm]()
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... -
![The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman]()
The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 1 in the bestselling “Ride” series, which won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel 2014 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Western Novel 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel for 2013. The Texas-Mexico border, the winter of 1886—The Great Die Up. A raw rift separates Mexicans and Anglos... -
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![The Woman Who Built a Bridge by C.K. Crigger]()
The Woman Who Built a Bridge by C.K. Crigger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShay Billings is pleasantly surprised at discovering a new bridge over the river, as it cuts several miles from his trip into town. Ambushed and left for dead, he has even more cause to be grateful when the bridge-builder saves his life. Shay’s savior turns out to be a mysterious young woman with extraordinary skills... -
![Two Thousand Grueling Miles by L.J. Martin]()
Two Thousand Grueling Miles by L.J. Martin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA QUEST – STAY ALIVE, KEEP FAMILY SAFE, AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, KEEP MOVING WEST. Young but determined, the man of the family too soon, Jake Zane comes of age with the help of a massive mute escaped slave. It’s conquer the wilderness, protect your mother and sisters, or die trying...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... -
![Last Stand by Duane Boehm]()
Last Stand by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGideon Johann had been gone from Last Stand, Colorado for eighteen years, seeming to have vanished after the Civil War. He is a man running from his conscience and keeping on the move seems to be the only thing preventing it from destroying him... -
![Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, James R. Kincaid]()
Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, James R. Kincaid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition can be found here and here.T.C. Boyle's riotous first novel, now in a new edition for its 25th anniversary Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music, a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller... -
![Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton]()
Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHewey Calloway, the footloose cowboy of The Good Old Boys, is trying to adjust to the trappings of modern life springing up around him in the Smiling Country of West Texas in 1910--all the while regretting his decision for years earlier to run away from the only woman he ever loved... -
![Lost Lady of Laramie by Robert Vaughan]()
Lost Lady of Laramie by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA wife abandoned to the savage Sioux...a bold young beauty fights against two worlds of powerful men in search of love and fulfillment... -
![Last Chance by Duane Boehm]()
Last Chance by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Chance is the highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Last Stand. Gideon Johann is the new sheriff of Last Stand, Colorado, hoping to put roots down in the place where he grew up... -
![The Sixth Shotgun by Louis L'Amour]()
The Sixth Shotgun by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom his classic short story collection, Outlaws of Mesquite, Louis L'Amour spins another exciting tale of gunslingers and cowboys. The fortunes of two men undergo dramatic, unforgettable reversal in this full-cast performance... -
![West of the Tularosa by Louis L'Amour]()
West of the Tularosa by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLouis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it". This volume presents eight of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories - history that lives forever.©2014 Louis L'Amour and Jon Tuska (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc... -
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![Comstock Lode by Louis L'Amour]()
Comstock Lode by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures—they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth... -
![Grub Line Rider by Louis L'Amour]()
Grub Line Rider by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fury of the Wild West explodes in this thrilling collection of classic Louis L'Amour short stories. Most folks would call Kim Sartain an easygoing, peace-loving man. But the few who crossed the young drifter knew there was nothing he liked better than a good fight... -
![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... -
![Justice On The Ranch (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler]()
Justice On The Ranch (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohnnie Porter lives the quiet life of a rancher, untouched by the outside world. Until that world comes crashing down on him. Now he’s fighting for his family, his home, and the lives of everyone in Sunnycrag. And just when he thinks he’s got outlaw Shephard Elliot beat, he learns things are only getting started between them.Shephard Elliot is not the type of man who quits... -
![Battle at Dry Cross (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler]()
Battle at Dry Cross (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmerson Hunt is a rancher, not a fighter. He wants to raise his two boys in peace. But when his cattle start dying and a mysterious new neighbor rides into town, he can’t turn a blind eye.Outlaw Crosby Burch is the worst kind of murderer—one who doesn’t discriminate. Young, old, man, woman, he’ll shoot anyone who tries to stop him from getting what he wants... -
![The Captain from Connecticut by C.S. Forester]()
The Captain from Connecticut by C.S. Forester
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody, USN. His mission: break the British Blockade. The only thing in his favor was surprise... -
![Long John Silver: The True and Eventful History of My Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune & Enemy to Mankind by Björn Larsson]()
Long John Silver: The True and Eventful History of My Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune & Enemy to Mankind by Björn Larsson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLong John Silver is living out his twilight years on Madagascar. He has a price on his head, and the Royal Navy is looking to bring him to justice. But what obsesses him most is the fear of posthumous obscurity, and this motivates him to pen his memoirs... -
![The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven]()
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA CULT MASTERPIECE—THE ADVENTURE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED JOHN HUSTON'S CLASSIC FILM, BY THE ELUSIVE AUTHOR WHO WAS A MODEL FOR THE HERO OF ROBERTO BOLAÑO'S 2666 Little is known for certain about B. Traven. Evidence suggests that he was born Otto Feige in Schlewsig-Holstein and that he escaped a death sentence for his involvement with the anarchist underground in Bavaria... -
![Coot Club by Arthur Ransome]()
Coot Club by Arthur Ransome
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSomeone is wrecking wild birds' nesting places on the lake and selling eggs to out-of-town collectors. It's the Coot Club Bird Protection Society to the rescue!Dick and Dorothea Callum came to the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail. There, they run into the Coot Club--children who protect the local birds from thoughtless tourists... -
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![Passin' Through by Louis L'Amour]()
Passin' Through by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt seemed the perfect place to lie low. The owner of the ranch was an attractive gray-haired lady who had once been an actress. The other woman was a beautiful, fragile-seeming blonde. They needed repairs done, and he needed to disappear for a while. The first sign that things were not as they should be was when a Pinkerton man questioned him about a missing woman... -
![Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne]()
Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile has gotten into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is on his way to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail with an important mission. The boy who was expected to serve as the captain’s personal valet has been injured and a replacement must be found immediately... -
![Chancy by Louis L'Amour]()
Chancy by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn’t eaten in three days. With the front of his stomach making friends with the back, he was in no position to let an opportunity slip by unnoticed. And when Chancy defended his new herd of cattle with a shotgun, he didn’t miss. The dead man left a pistol on the ground... -
![Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby-Dick by Herman Melville]()
Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBetween 1849 and 1851, Melville wrote three masterful stories of the sea (including the classic Moby-Dick) that captured colorful and comic glimpses of shipboard life, the excitement of the whale hunt, and seascapes that move from the brutal to the sublime; they also displayed a marvelous command of language that mixes the ordinary talk of sailors with the rhythms of the Bible and Shakespearean...Categorized as:
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![Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall]()
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the thrilling account of the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His Majesty's Ship Bounty in 17881789, which culminated in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh... -
![The Treasure of Silver Lake by Karl May]()
The Treasure of Silver Lake by Karl May
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Treasure of Silver Lake is one of Karl May's most popular books.The bandits are preparing for a major heist. First they want to steal the wages of the lumberjacks at the Black Bear Creek. Then they want to raid a rich farm in Kansas on their way to robbing a railway station that has money for the construction of the Union Railways... -
![The Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey]()
The Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
![The Sharks by Jens Bjørneboe]()
The Sharks by Jens Bjørneboe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet at the end of the 19th century, this novel is a tale of mutiny and shipwreck. The narrator, Peder Jensen, is both competent second mate and unworldly philosopher. Esther Greenleaf Muerer has previously translated other works by Jens Bjorneboe, including Moment of Freedom... -
![To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy by William Golding]()
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy by William Golding
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt's journall--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship... -
![The White South by Hammond Innes]()
The White South by Hammond Innes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHuman conflict lies behind the tragedy unfolded in this epic story of the indomitable courage and endurance of a handful of English and Norwegians plunged through unforeseen circumstances into a fight with the pitiless forces of nature... -
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![Blood Drops that Never Fade: A Historical Western Adventure Book by Austin Grayson]()
Blood Drops that Never Fade: A Historical Western Adventure Book by Austin Grayson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Buck Barley is a feared bounty hunter and a Civil War veteran, well-known as The King of Death. Aided by his keen mind and loaded gun, he is driven by an impulse to rid a nation of lawless men in a way no man with a badge could ever achieve... -
![Old Surehand: Book 1 by Karl May]()
Old Surehand: Book 1 by Karl May
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Winnetou Story. Winnetou, Old Shatterhand and their mysterious new friend Old Surehand are on a desperate mission into the Llano Estacado to defend Bloody Fox’ oasis hideaway against an attack by enemy Comanche... -
![The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr.]()
The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon... -
![The Quick and the Dead by Louis L'Amour]()
The Quick and the Dead by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess.Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries... -
![Paycheck and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick, Steven Owen Godersky]()
Paycheck and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick, Steven Owen Godersky
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsElectronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life -- except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction.Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth and a bus token...Categorized as:
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![The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge]()
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this stunning novel, award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge offers a fictionalized account of the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott in 1912. At once hair-raising and beautiful, here is an astonishing tale of misguided courage and human endurance. The Birthday Boys of the title are Scott and four members of his team, each of whom narrates a section of the book... -
![The Mysterious Rider: "When I Envied a Man's Spurs Then They Were Indeed Worth Coveting." by Zane Grey]()
The Mysterious Rider: "When I Envied a Man's Spurs Then They Were Indeed Worth Coveting." by Zane Grey
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRancher Bill Belllounds had brought up Columbine as though she were his daughter. Out of affection for her foster father, Columbine had agreed to marry Bill's son., Jack-a drunkard, gambler, coward, and thief. But the man she really loved was cowboy Wilson Moore, and he was everything Belllound's son should have been... -
![Destry Rides Again by Max Brand]()
Destry Rides Again by Max Brand
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHarrison Destry, a man who thinks he is better than anyone else and is constantly "proving" it by his skill with a gun, and his ability to win fistfights he provokes, has just lost his horse and his saddle in a card game. He has few friends and many enemies (most of whom he created) in his home town of Wham, Texas... -
![Oriental Odyssey I: The Shadow of the Padishah / Through the Desert by Karl May, Michael M. Michalak]()
Oriental Odyssey I: The Shadow of the Padishah / Through the Desert by Karl May, Michael M. Michalak
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first and only unabridged translation of Karl May's "Giölgeda padishanün" - "In the Shadow of the Padishah". As this book, translated by Michael Michalak, is the first of a larger series that is estimated to span some seven volumes, it has been appropriately renamed "Oriental Odyssey I"...Categorized as:
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![Rescued by the Buccaneer by Normandie Alleman]()
Rescued by the Buccaneer by Normandie Alleman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Frederica Beauchamp boards a ship for the Americas, she dreams of a life filled with adventure, but she gets more than she bargained for when her passenger ship is attacked by pirates... -
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![Youth / Heart of Darkness / The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad, John Lyon]()
Youth / Heart of Darkness / The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad, John Lyon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConrad's aim was by "the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see"Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'seeing,' its relativity and shifting compromise... -
![Threads West: An American Saga by Reid Lance Rosenthal]()
Threads West: An American Saga by Reid Lance Rosenthal
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Adventure and Romance of the America, her people, her spirit, and the West. This is our story...Categorized as:
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![Lonigan by Louis L'Amour]()
Lonigan by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn his newest collection of frontier short fiction, L'Amour celebrates the tough breed of men who work the cattle drives. Men like Danny Lonigan, whose quick draw and hard fists were as respected as his reputation for doing right by the people who did right by him. Hard-riding adventure from America's favorite storyteller...Categorized as:
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![White-Jacket.: Is an 1850 Novel by Herman Melville]()
White-Jacket.: Is an 1850 Novel by Herman Melville
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhite-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War, usually referred to as White-Jacket, is an 1850 novel by Herman Melville... -
![The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne]()
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHere is the first new translation of ever-popular adventure writer Jules Verne's thrilling novel of polar exploration in over a century. In the novel, First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool...Categorized as:
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![The Californios by Louis L'Amour]()
The Californios by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn 1844 nobody believed there was gold in California. Nobody, that is, except the Mulkerina and an old Indian with mystical powers. The Mulkerins needed a treasure to settle the debt on their Malibu ranch. The Indian was willing to lead them to one. But riding hard on their trail was the greediest band of cutthroats north of the Baja. Killing was their business...Categorized as:
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