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Half white and half Indian, Yakima Henry tends to mind his own business among folks who see him as little more than a savage. But when a man named Barstow-who's taking his dead daughter home for burial-is bullied by badmen, Yakima steps in and becomes a target of bandits and lawmen alike.
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Gloria Jennings went on the run when she was accused of murdering her wealthy husband back east. And when she's accused of killing her new rancher husband in West Texas, Luke is able to track her down. But when he does, he surprises himself by not bringing her in -- and actually helping her face down rival ranchers and other threats. Getting to know her, Luke doesn't believe Gloria is a killer. But there are others that do. And when they show, Luke...
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As the Civil War rages through the South, two men take fate into their own hands as fortune hunters, venturing into Mexico where the sacred Bells of El Diablo, forged of pure gold, are said to be buried. The son of a wealthy plantation owner, Confederate Lieutenant James Dunn is young, brash, and a fierce fighter. Crosseye Reeves is a former sharecropper on the Dunn plantation. After a bellyful of the horrors of war, the men go AWOL and head for Mexico....
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It is a perilous profession, similar to the work of a bounty hunter, pursuing oftentimes desperate and dangerous individuals for pay. But with one major difference: Chance Gambel brings in his quarry alive, not draped over a saddle. He is hired to search for witnesses to crimes so that they might testify in trials throughout the frontier territories of the American Southwest, circa 1885. Rarely aware of the consequences of his assignments, Chance...
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At thirty-two, Second Lieutenant George Patton is a West Point graduate mired in a dead-end career. He is a cavalry officer and Saber Master, a nineteenth-century warrior facing the reality of a twentieth-century military that seemingly has no place for him. Prospects for the glorious career he desires seem lost. Then the United States Cavalry is called to one last fight. In the spring of 1916, political instability in Mexico crosses the border when...
7) Sudden fury
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Half Man, Half Beast, All Terror - It kills like an animal. Growling Clawing. Ripping. The loggers call it 'The Terror of the Redwoods.' A local timber baron has put a bounty on the hide of this man-beast, and the woods are teeming with so many trigger-happy dolts and half-cocked drunkards that someone's bound to get hurt - and bad. Frank Morgan doesn't believe in such creatures and decides to get to the bottom of this tall tale. But when he meets...
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Synopsis:In the late 1870s, twelve-year-old Hildy Bacom and her family leave Pennsylvania and head West, to New Tacoma on Commencement Bay in Washington Territory, a community that is barely four years old and with a population of approximately one hundred and fifty. Compared to Pennsylvania, everything in New Tacoma is different. The streets are muddy, there are few buildings, and some people live in hollowed-out cedar tree trunks. There are two...
10) Arctic storm
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In 1908, thirteen-year-old Anya, a Chukchi shaman, will do anything to protect the sled dogs she has raised so she joins forces with sixteen-year-old seafarer Rune Johansson to make a stand against phantom predators hiding in the Arctic West as a powerful ice storm brews.
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