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A despised general, a crooked lawman and a cutthroat cattle buyer join up to double-cross ranchers along the Mexican border. Then, they pick on the wrong man.

The new teacher whipped the overgrown Tucker boy on the third day after the opening of the Windmill School. That night at the supper tables of sheep spreads and cow outfits up and down Catclaw Valley, people said that the young teacher, Bowie Jones, should have been told about the Tuckers. Unfortunately for Bowie Jones, no one had told him.

A cruel, hated man collects a fortune, then disappears in the desert. The Texas Rangers think it's murder and put one of their best on the job but he'll need help. There's evil here that no one suspects.

The rope was already around Bill Peace's neck. He looked at Judge White, hardly able to believe that this man would lend himself to a lynching. But that was before the outlaw Al Sisson interfered. Bill realized that he would be trading certain death for the life of a fugitive, but the prize seemed worth the gamble.

Splinters from the wooden banister flew against his face and he felt the tug of lead... A desperate cowboy starts a range war and ends up the prime target. Can he hire enough guns to save his hide?

Hagger is a man on the run, a thief and would-be killer. He's no good on a horse, and feels miserable and out of place in the snowbound high country. But, then, Hagger comes upon a white bull terrier, abandoned in a mountain cabin, and his whole life begins to change.

Ah Sin was only a boy, 6,000 miles from China, and he wanted desperately to go back. The lawyer had promised him that once Black Margo was convicted and hung, his estate would pay the youth's back wages, a thousand dollars, so he could return to China. But the frontier justice system did not always work as expected.

Two old friends find gold high in the lonely Pinnacle mountains. Their dreams were within reach, until the maniac attacked.

Cal Larimore's intention is to build a mile-long toll bridge across the narrows between two high desert lakes in eastern Oregon. It is a task fraught with intrigue and suspense, but the most important obstacle is the rain. For days, rain has fallen causing big Rampage Lake to run its feeders across the narrows, endangering the span of trestle that has still 200 feet to go before completion.

Some call it purgatory, others know it as the in-between, but for those poor souls who are trapped there eternally it is simply: The Carnival - macabre mockery where night is never-ending, and a sadistic creature known as the Fool rules with an iron fist. And the Fool has one rule: No one leaves the Carnival. Ever. Christopher, the latest arrival thrust reluctantly through the gates, is certain that he doesn't belong there, and he's damn sure he's not going to be staying. To have any chance of escaping, he must confront not only the Fool, but his own dark past.

God has fallen and the Devil is dead. Heaven, once paradise, now lies crumbling, ruinous and infested. It is a vile nest for an ancient evil that has its sights set on humanity. Only Death, and the peculiar band of souls that he has managed to smuggle to safety, are left to resist this threat. Can a marine commander, a samurai, a thief, and an axe-wielding highland warrior succeed where both God and Lucifer failed? Can Death finally find redemption for the most ancient of all sins?

Eddie Evers was at the top of his game, working for the FBI, tracking missing children and the scum who took them. But after his wife and child are killed in a car crash, he becomes a hard-drinking PI. While in pursuit of a phantom criminal, he is hit by lightning.The bolt super-charges the biophotons in his brain, enabling him to see into other dimensions.

She's wild, beautiful, and he's got to have her, so Arizona college boy John Brecken cooks up one hairy plan. It might work - but dangerous outsiders are watching now, ready to step in. Things are getting far too serious.

King of Rats features Max Brand’s unforgettable Reata, a virtuoso of the lariat, who must steal a horse to flush out the desperado, Pop Dickerman, who wants to kill him. With some luckless partners and a gypsy girl he loves, will Reata finally deliver Pop Dickerman to justice?

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers, and observers.

Red Harrigan and Black MacTee have a friendship that is legendary throughout the West - that is until they both fall in love with the same woman.

Buzz Leary has been in the Klondike, working in the timber business around Copper River, but now he comes back to Skidway. Leary still owns the lush stands of white pine that several others have long coveted, and no one is more his enemy than Mary Dardis who blames Leary for having killed her father.

Joseph Larrimee finally makes the gold strike that would prove his worth to everyone, but is he willing to give it up to save a mysterious woman from a gang of hard-bitten desperadoes?

This mob did not want explanations. They wanted a hanging and a quick one. Summoned by a mysterious letter, Howdy McFee and his amazing horse Pink ride to save his uncle's ranch. There's big trouble waiting for them - a crooked lawyer, a pack of hired killers, a crazy prospector, and a fiery, beautiful woman. What do they all want? When will the disasters stop? Can Howdy sort it out before he's shot or hanged?