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Imagine Curious Incident of the Dog . . . with a romance, and you have the beginnings of this story of a young man struggling with the world outside his head--and the woman who gets inside it.The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear - part of...
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Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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a fascinating set of pre-1923 materials that capture the beauty, mystery and adventure of the old west. From honorable cowboys and spirited pioneer women to questionable sheriffs, notorious gunslingers and unruly outlaws, these classic westerns introduce lively characters who embody the essence of the American frontier. Authentic dialog combined with vivid scenic descriptions help re-create a time and place where chasing cattle rustlers, tracking...
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Garden City Publishing Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (April 29, 1887 – May 6, 1949) was a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908. Bedford-Jones was born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada in 1887. His family moved to the United States when he was a teenager and he eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen. After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writer...
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The Arthur Westbrook Company
Pub. Date
2023
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Jesse and his band while passing through Colorado on their way east have many exciting adventures. The great desperado is captured by the Indians, after a battle with United States Cavalry and is rescued by an Indian maiden. He blows up an Indian village with dynamite and performs other of the daring feats for which he was so noted during his career. In a mining city in Colorado, he saves the life of a sheriff and robs two banks, from which he and...
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HARPER & BROTHERS
Pub. Date
2023
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Excerpt: "It all commenced that bright November day of the Indian rabbit drive and hunt. The motley army of the piute tribe was sweeping tremendously across a sage-brush valley of Nevada, their force two hundred braves in number. They marched abrest, some thirty yards apart, and formed a line that was more than two miles long.
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2023
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The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen, whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions, whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women, whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But, nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk.
These two...
10) Alcatraz
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2023
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A horse who had been bred to race escapes his masters home and gets used to freedom, but at a terrible price. Can he survive those who are trying to hunt him down? Nothing proves straightforward as the hunt closes in.
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A.L. Burt
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The Heart of the Range is an exciting western novel by William Patterson White. White was famous for writing books such as The Owner of the Lazy D, Paradise Bend, Hidden Trails, and The Rider of Golden Bar.
"It was a warm summer morning in the town of Farewell. Save a dozen horses tied to the hitching-rail in front of various saloons and the Blue Pigeon Store and Bill Lainey, the fat landlord of the hotel, who sat snoring in a reinforced telegraph...
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A.L. Burt
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The Heart of the Range is an exciting western novel by William Patterson White. White was famous for writing books such as The Owner of the Lazy D, Paradise Bend, Hidden Trails, and The Rider of Golden Bar.
"It was a warm summer morning in the town of Farewell. Save a dozen horses tied to the hitching-rail in front of various saloons and the Blue Pigeon Store and Bill Lainey, the fat landlord of the hotel, who sat snoring in a reinforced telegraph...
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Premio Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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Winner: 2016 International Book Award & Laramie finalist (Survival/Western suspense) A tough young woman and a Latino drifter each search for missing family in a Nevada silver rush scheme that leaves both unsure who to trust—and scrambling to stay alive (clean, ages 14+). Paperback/Kindle/audiobook, includes short story. 54,000 words, 200 pages, 978-0692407974
16) Blood & Bullets
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"As sleepy as Buffalo Peak's been, legendary marshal, Elwood ""Firestick"" McQueen, and his deputies ""Beartooth"" Skinner and ""Moosejaw"" Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up--by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town.
Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin'. Firestick doesn't see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-be--and unwittingly...
17) Texas-Marshal
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Mit letzter Kraft schafft US Marshal Lin Adams den Weg zur Ranch der schönen Fee Allison. Wieder hat er im Namen des Gesetzes getötet und blieb selbst nicht unverletzt. Es ist ein harter Job, den er macht, und oft verflucht er sich deswegen. Besonders, wenn er bei Fee ist, fragt er sich nach dem Sinn seines Tuns, wünscht er sich einen festen Platz auf der Welt. Bei Fee könnte er ihn finden, dennoch treibt es ihn immer wieder fort von ihr auf Verbrecherjagd....
18) Jamie und Clyde
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Seit ich die schöne Jamie Boston zum ersten Mal sah, war ich verrückt nach ihr. Aber die Frau spielte die Unnahbare. Männer duldete sie nur am Kartentisch um sich. Deshalb hatte ich an diesem Abend mit ihr gepokert - was mich fast ein Vermögen kostete. Allerdings hatte ich damit gerechnet. Beim Pokern konnte ich ihr nicht das Wasser reichen. Außerdem spielte die schöne Jamie falsch, und nicht jeder ließ sich ungestraft von ihr die Haut abziehen....
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The 50th book in the bestselling Mountain Man series!
A cold day in hell descends upon Texas when mountain man sharpshooter Smoke Jensen pins on a tin star to tackle a wild bunch of bloodthirsty outlaws in this gun-blazing novel from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone.
Johnstone Country. A Glorious Land.
Jonas Madigan is dying. He spent his life taming towns and upholding justice across the west with no regrets....
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Colorado, Winter 1879. Der junge Arzt Allan Kerrish ist auf der Flucht vor den Männern von Senator Cahill. Auf seinem Weg durch die verschneite Landschaft rettet er Catherine Archer das Leben. Ihr Mann wurde ermordet, und die Täter sind mit der Besitzurkunde für die Archer-Goldmine über alle Berge. Der Doktor und die Witwe landen in dem trostlosen Goldgräbernest Three Oaks - einem gesetzlosen Ort, in dem allein das Recht des Stärkeren zählt....
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