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  • Mose Cabot by R.O. Lane

    Mose Cabot by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mose Cabot leaves Virginia as a young man, gets jobs on steamboats and works his way to Fort Benton, Montana. Along the way, he runs into a lost little boy named Gabriel Allsop. Together they strike out and file a mining claim in Montana Gulch. They work for three years at their mining claim before settling on a homestead in the Bitterroot Valley, where they build a horse ranch...
  • Mariposa by R.O. Lane

    Mariposa by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nash Powell and Ewell Roberts take jobs Mariposa, Texas, to tame the town and bring law and order. It's a tough assignment, and both men escape with their lives repeatedly. Along the way, the men find love and romance. It's a story of two men who grow to respect one another because they always do their duty as their consciences dictate. Another exciting novel from the pen of R. O...
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  • Wilbur by R. O. Lane

    Wilbur by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wilbur dreams of being a U.S. Deputy Marshal, and when he's old enough, he's sworn in and has a taste of the life. He's shot, recovers and goes after the outlaws with an Osage tracker to help him. Eventually, he captures the head of the outlaw gang and transports him back to Fort Smith to face Judge Isaac C. Parker, the hanging judge...
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  • Petrova imperatorica by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

    Petrova imperatorica by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Piše se leto 1727. Ura bije devet zvečer. V času, ko dvor spi, se najvplivnejša ženska Ruskega imperija v predsmrtni vročici prepušča spominom, precej drugačnim od zapisov v zgodovinskih učbenikih.Voltaire je njeno zgodbo imenoval »najbolj neverjeten vzpon 18. stoletja« in v njej prepoznal uresničenje Pepelkinih sanj...
  • Ronan O'Higgins by R.O. Lane

    Ronan O'Higgins by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ronan O'Higgins is assigned to clean up a vicious gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He and his fellow marshal, Clive Sutton, take on the gang and start arresting them. O'Higgins narrowly escapes death. The Irish marshal meets an Irish woman with a son, and they make a life together...
  • The Salvation of Eli Ussher by Sam Scott

    The Salvation of Eli Ussher by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • Yavapai Gold by R.O. Lane

    Yavapai Gold by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kilcannon comes to the Mogollon Rim country of Arizona to help his friend, Lester Sutton, find buried gold in the Bradshaw Mountains. The two men are former Texas Rangers. Along with Sutton's daughter, the former Rangers ride into the Bradshaws with outlaws on their trail, who know that Sutton has a map to buried gold...
  • The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane

    The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Poker Chip is another classic western with a bit of romance. Vance Brennan falls in love with Lexie Moody, but she marries someone else, who turns out to be a scoundrel. Jeff Warren bets his wife, Lexie, on a game of poker. The winner insists that Warren pay up, and he devises a scheme to have his wife kidnapped and taken to Mexico to pay off his gambling debt...
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  • Retribution by C.J. Petit

    Retribution by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Joey couldn’t imagine a better thirteenth birthday. He’d been given his first pistol and now was going to join his six older brothers on tomorrow’s job. They were going to trust him with covering their escape after robbing the bank and he was determined to do it right. He was immensely proud to be a Hogan, and his tough brothers were his heroes...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • Muddy Tilghman by R.O. Lane

    Muddy Tilghman by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane

    Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A young vaquero leaves a cattle drive to look for a woman stolen by Comanches. He spends months in Comanche country only the find that the Army will offer no help whatever. So he hires his own Lipan scout, and travels over much of Indian Territory and Texas to find the woman he loves...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • War Adams by C J. Petit

    War Adams by C J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    United States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief...
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  • Silva Rerum II by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

    Silva Rerum II by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Romāna darbība notiek no 1707. līdz 1710.gadam. Karš, mēris, bads, nesamērīga greznība un nāvīgs izsalkums, zviedru un krievu karavīri, jūdu ārsti, holandiešu kāršu spēlmaņi, turku konkubīnes, franču dāmas, spītīgi žemaiši un ironiski viļņieši, bezvārda mūks, kurš apglabājis vairāk nekā divdesmit tūkstošus mēra upuru, un, protams, vēl viena bajāru Norvaišu dzimtas paaudze...
  • Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit

    Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Virgil Scott and his best friend Roy Sheffield left their horse ranch and were making one of their routine runs to Denver to deliver thirty-two horses...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • Conn Jackson by C.J. Petit

    Conn Jackson by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This was supposed to be a journey to find his dream of starting his own spread. As he left the Bar L just northwest of Cheyenne and rode south into Colorado, Conn already knew where he wanted to build his ranch and had enough money to buy the land and get it started. It was just a hundred mile ride through open country...
  • Hank by R.O. Lane

    Hank by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Henry Hankins of the Tennessee Hankins rides west to find his elder brother, Seth, who has disappeared into the gold fields of Montana. Henry's search takes him to Virginia City and all over the mining centers of southwest Montana. Eventually it leads him to Nevada. On the trip he finds love and romance and adopts a little boy that he learns to love...
  • When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series , the Wild Horse Westerns Series , and the Hand Of Western Series comes When The Ties Bind , a story of loss, love, acceptance, and revenge! With the death of his pa, Wyatt Roundtree not only lost the last of his family, but he also lost their ranch at the hands of an unscrupulous banker and a vengeful rancher...
  • Y Julia retó a los dioses by Santiago Posteguillo

    Y Julia retó a los dioses by Santiago Posteguillo

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Mantenerse en lo alto es mucho más difícil que llegar. Julia está en la cúspide de su poder, pero la traición y la división familiar amenazan con echarlo todo a perder. Para colmo de males, el médico Galeno diagnostica que la emperatriz padece lo que él, en griego, llama karkinos, y que los romanos, en latín, denominan cáncer...
  • Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Navarro is a bounty hunter who stumbles upon a woman who has been kidnapped in the wilds of Colorado in 1877. He rescues her and befriends her, but she has enemies, lots of enemies. She talks Navarro into being her bodyguard, and he takes off after her enemies and the result is another exciting novel from the pen of R. O. Lane...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane

    Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Texas Ranger Jubal Coe returns to the Texas Rangers and tackles one assignment after another. He goes after three escapees from Huntsville Prison and kills all three after they riddle him with bullets. He's assigned to Eagle Pass to stop the cattle rustling and murders of gangs on both sides of the border...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett  | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense

    Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, Book 3) | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense This is a Summary & Analysis of Ken Follett’s novel, Edge of Eternity...
  • The Scalawags by C.J. Petit

    The Scalawags by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Union Army sergeant Sam Walker returns home to Iowa after leaving a prisoner of war camp, only to discover that his sweetheart has married his brother. He heads down to Mulberry, Texas, to keep a promise to his fallen Union army brother-in-arms, Joe Farrell, to make sure that his family is safe...
  • Sam's County by C.J. Petit

    Sam's County by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Yavapai County in Arizona Territory was bigger than Pennsylvania, and Sheriff Sam Hicks and his three deputies were the only law that most of its residents knew. When China Joe's gang knocked off the huge cash shipment heading for Prescott, Sheriff Hicks left his office unsure if this would be his last job one way or the other...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • Tate by C.J. Petit

    Tate by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Laramie had just been hit by the Clayton gang, leaving Sheriff Joe Tate without any deputies to serve the entire county. But, as bad as the gunfight had been, the visitor to his office to file a complaint for something that wasn’t even a crime turned out to be much more significant and life-changing...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • Sarah and Solomon: Only A Stone Should Be Alone by Roberta Kagan

    Sarah and Solomon: Only A Stone Should Be Alone by Roberta Kagan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “…Fathers and Give me your children!” – Chaim RumkowskiIt is September 1942, and the already battered occupants of the Lodz Ghetto have just been dealt another horrendous blow from Hitler’s iron fist. They must surrender their sick, elderly, and children for ‘deportation...
  • El buzón de las impuras by Francisca Solar

    El buzón de las impuras by Francisca Solar

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    En 1863, en el momento más crítico de la Guerra Civil Norteamericana, los miembros de la misión diplomática que el presidente Lincoln envió a Santiago de Chile se transformaron en los inesperados héroes de una de las tragedias más sobrecogedoras de la historia mundial contemporánea: la muerte de más de dos mil mujeres atrapadas y calcinadas en el incendio de la Iglesia de La Compañía...
  • Diferente by Eloy Moreno

    Diferente by Eloy Moreno

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ¿Y SI LO ÚNICO NORMAL ES SER DIFERENTE?Tras el éxito de Invisible y Tierra, Eloy Moreno regresa a las librerías con una de las novelas más esperadas por los lectores...
  • In the Shadow of the Angel: Three Critical Decades in Mexico's History by Kathryn S. Blair

    In the Shadow of the Angel: Three Critical Decades in Mexico's History by Kathryn S. Blair

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the Shadow of the Angel," which has been called Mexico's "Gone with the Wind," takes place during three transformational decades in Mexican history: 1900-1931, as mirrored by the life of an extraordinary Mexican woman, Antonieta Rivas Mercado...
  • Unwanted by C.J. Petit

    Unwanted by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fifteen-year-old Joe Beck wasn’t listening as the minister eulogized his uncle but was already planning on what he would have to do as soon as they returned to the Quimby farm. He wasn’t welcome there even before his uncle had died and knew that his cousin John would soon order him to leave...
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    fiction  western  adult  book  historical  industrial-era
  • يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم

    يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    خلف الوادي انتشرت أشجار هرمة . إلا انها ظلت خضراء على طول عمرها الذي تجاوز مئات السنين .
  • Yo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo

    Yo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    192 d.C. Varios hombres luchan por un imperio, pero Julia, hija de reyes, madre de césares y esposa de emperador, piensa en algo más grande: una dinastía. Roma está bajo el control de Cómodo, un emperador loco. El Senado se conjura para terminar con el tirano y los gobernadores militares más poderosos podrían dar un golpe de Estado: Albino en Britania, Severo en el Danubio o Nigro en Siria...
  • The Silver Widows by C.J. Petit

    The Silver Widows by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Ada was angry as she prepared to go to see Mike Bergman, knowing he was doing nothing less than trying to steal their silver mine, and even though she knew that she, Elsa and Bridgette had little chance of standing against him much longer, she wasn’t about to give in...
  • Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm

    Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sun 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...
  • Last Atonement by Duane Boehm

    Last Atonement by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last Atonement is the highly anticipated seventh book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Westerns, Last Stand, Last Chance, Last Hope, Last Ride, Last Breath, & Last Journey.Sheriff Gideon Johann finds himself dealing with two murders in the town of Last Stand, Colorado...
  • Hand Of The Father by Duane Boehm

    Hand Of The Father by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hand 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...
  • The Mersey Girls by Sheila Riley

    The Mersey Girls by Sheila Riley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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  • Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm

    Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bestselling 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...
  • The Wolf At Large by Terry Cloutier

    The Wolf At Large by Terry Cloutier

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “You have no idea what you are yet, Hadrack, but someday you will, and on that day the world itself will tremble.” - Einhard, Sword of the KingA year has passed since the Piths captured the Gander garrison at Gasterny. A year in which an unexpected and unwanted truce has been declared between the two nations...
  • Spindrift by Cindy Brandner

    Spindrift by Cindy Brandner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spindrift usually refers to spray, particularly the spray blown from cresting waves during a gale. This spray, which "drifts" in the direction of the gale, is one of the characteristics of a wind speed of 8 Beaufort and higher at sea.Stories are like waves, slowly building and coming in toward the shore...
  • Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner

    Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Each of us carries within a map of memory. The map is worn at the folds--sometimes right through--and so place names are missing first letters or last or have a hole through the middle. We carry those maps with us always, and this map is mine--an island on the edge of the world and beyond it a place of dragons and sunken cities with bells that still ring a thousand years on..
  • The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa by Julia Brannan

    The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa by Julia Brannan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As well as telling the story of Caroline and Philippa, this book continues the tale of Harriet, which began in The Eccentric’s Tale.Now in her late forties, Harriet is so staggeringly rich and powerful that she fears no one. Along with her sister, she settles down to enjoy her freedom and to live the eccentric life she has always desired, estranged from her disapproving family...
  • Trent by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Trent by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After his mother dies, Trent Donovan finds a letter she wrote telling him about his father—the father she had always said was dead. With the time to confront his father before him, he journeys to Clifton where he discovers his father no longer lives but has three sons—the Stone brothers.Nursing a broken heart, Delaney Gates takes up her aunt’s invitation to visit Clifton...
  • Riley by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Riley by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His father’s death may have brought Riley Madison home to Clifton but nothing is going to make him stay in a place filled with so many bad memories. He’s made a life in Texas and not even a beautiful woman with a little girl who melts his heart is going to make him change his mind. He doesn’t do relationships. Kaitlyn Garrett Parker is happy with her life since her husband’s untimely passing...
  • The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet by Julia Brannan

    The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet by Julia Brannan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Harriet Ashleigh, much-loved eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Darlington knows exactly what she wants from life. Just one simple thing; the freedom to be herself. But for a young woman living in the seventeenth century, freedom is not such an easy thing to achieve...
  • Silva Rerum III by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

    Silva Rerum III by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Żywot człowieka majętnego. Rokokowa odsłona bestsellerowej sagi o dziejach szlacheckiego rodu z Litwy i historii, która stała się kamieniem węgielnym naszej współczesności. Wilno, Anno Domini 1748. Trzydziestosiedmioletni Piotr Antoni z Milkont Narwojsz, najstarszy syn Anny Katarzyny i Jana Izydora, wraz z żoną i trójką dzieci mieszka w okazałym dworku w mieście...
  • Love's New Beginning by Dorothy Wiley

    Love's New Beginning by Dorothy Wiley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Loss took everything, love gave him even more. It's 1800 Philadelphia, and the city cowers before a mysterious killer—Yellow Fever. Daniel Armitage and his family are respected members of Philadelphia society. But their status cannot save Daniel’s loved ones. His entire family succumbs to the horrifying disease. His mother’s startling deathbed confession, shakes Daniel to his soul...
  • Erin's Child by Sheelagh Kelly

    Erin's Child by Sheelagh Kelly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Family ties have united the Feeneys through famine and poverty, but can they withstand success? It is 1875 and the Feeneys have left the squalor of York’s slums behind them. Yet all is not well. Patrick remains a man of simple tastes, increasingly out of touch with Thomasin’s ambition to expand her business empire still further across Yorkshire...
  • Horse Hunt by Wyatt Cochrane

    Horse Hunt by Wyatt Cochrane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Most never get their heart’s desire…, But for a moment, Gus has his. On his own and chasing adventure, he is finally free. Be careful what you wish for. Raised to hate injustice and trained to use guns and fists, he can’t look away and ride on...
  • Last Breath by Duane Boehm

    Last Breath by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last Breath is the highly anticipated fifth book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand, Last Chance, Last Hope, & Last Ride. Cattle are being rustled from ranches around Last Stand and seem to vanish into the night by the time they are discovered missing...
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