Gary Telles
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: "Uniformly excellent" stories about our relationships with each other and with the treacherous natural world (Publishers Weekly).
In the title story, a man and woman travel across an eerily frozen lake-under the ice. "The Distance" casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man's visit to Monticello. "Eating" begins with an owl being sucked into a canoe and ends with a man...
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The loner volume 15
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"In the lawless and violent Kansas territory, Conrad Browning, a.k.a. The Loner, and Jared Tate, an aging U.S. marshal who is slowly losing his sanity, ride together one last time into a fight that will take everything they have left to give"--
3) Flintlock
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"Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a fortune - a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smouldering ruin of his former jail cell and a treasure in the Arizona mountains there will be blood at a U.S. Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns with the schemers, shootists, madmen, and lost women who find their way to Flintlock's side. From a vicious, superstitious...
4) Boneshaker
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Clockwork century volume 1
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Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that...
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On the American frontier, every gun tells a story. A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own--from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher...
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Listen & Live Audio, Inc
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The stories in "Survive" are full of suffering: From the savagery of the Donner Party snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846, to the extreme hunger and brutal cold endured by Ernest Shackleton’s support team in Antarctica in 1915. Such suffering may be hard to listen to, but it engages us, offering glimpses of something essential. When the most basic needs become paramount, some people can achieve a kind of clarity....
7) Savage Texas
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Savage Texas volume 1
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"Sam Heller and Johnny Cross are Hangtree, Texas' newest citizens. Heller is a former Yankee soldier, a deadly shot, and a believer in right from wrong. Cross is a gun for hire with dark dreams of wealth and power-- at any cost. Hangtree, with its rich grazing land and nearby mineral deposits, soon erupts in murderous violence. By fate and by choice, these two strangers will find themselves on opposite sides of the law."--P. [4] of cover.
8) Blood Valley
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Lawmen don't last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. The last one quit, another ended up in a noose, and one more was backshot by hired guns. But Doubtful has never seen the likes of the man known only as Cotton, who aims to take the badge for $125 a month, save himself a nice chunk of money over the next year, and be on his way. At least, that's his plan. Problem is, Cotton has just stuck his nose in the biggest hornet's nest in the...
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Sidewinders volume 7
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2013.
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After Bo's doppelganger frames him for murder, it is up to Scratch to see him vindicated.
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2011
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In this adventure by the bestselling authors of Dakota Ambush, an Old West vigilante must rescue a British boy from a gang of Wyoming outlaws.
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
In the harsh, unforgiving American frontier, in the vast wilderness that is Wyoming, a ruthless gang of cutthroats is ripping a bloody swath of death and destruction through the territory. No one can stop them...no...
11) Savage guns
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Cotton Pickens made it through fifth grade. That and a tin star were good enough to make him the sheriff in the boomtown of Doubtful, Wyoming. And Doubtful's name is no accident. The saying around town is, If you're a lawman, it's doubtful you'll last a day.
Savage Guns
Spoiled, brash King Bragg is going to hang for the murder of three men in a barroom. But King's arrogant father—and his beautiful sister—use their powers of...
Savage Guns
Spoiled, brash King Bragg is going to hang for the murder of three men in a barroom. But King's arrogant father—and his beautiful sister—use their powers of...
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Luke Jensen volume 5
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Pinnacle Books
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2016
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A cowboy on the right side of justice finds himself on the wrong side of a barrel—from the bestselling Western authors of the Sidewinders series.
Mountain Man Smoke Jensen's long-lost brother Luke Jensen is a dead shot scarred by war—the perfect formula for a bounty hunter. And he's cunning, and fierce enough to bring down the deadliest outlaws of his day . . .
Law of the Gun
Luke Jensen has earned this...
Mountain Man Smoke Jensen's long-lost brother Luke Jensen is a dead shot scarred by war—the perfect formula for a bounty hunter. And he's cunning, and fierce enough to bring down the deadliest outlaws of his day . . .
Law of the Gun
Luke Jensen has earned this...
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Pinnacle Books
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c2012
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It was a law Cotton Pickens never asked for and never wanted to enforce. But due to the vigilance of the Women's Temperance Society, and the timidity of their businessmen husbands, the town of Doubtful, Wyoming, is going dry. As of January 1st. No exceptions. No turning back. Doubtful's hell-raisers will not take this lying down, and Sheriff Pickens is fighting bootleggers and vigilantes when the next boot drops. The righteous women push through an...
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While most folks are busy preparing for Christmas, the tightknit Jensen clan can only hope they'll make it home. Luke Jensen is in San Antonio tracking down a dangerous outlaw. But when he finds the man leading a wholesome life-as a charity-working Hill Country pastor-Luke agrees to wait until after Christmas to bring him to justice. Meanwhile, Smoke and Sally Jensen head out from Fort Worth by stagecoach, only to be stranded by unrelenting rains-and...
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 2
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With blood and tears, Chet Byrnes built a life in Texas, only to have it shattered by an ill-fated cattle drive and a deadly family feud. Realizing he and his family need to start over in a new territory, Chet and his young nephew set out for Arizona, hoping to find a new home. Chet and Heck cross over New Mexico and ride into Arizona. Encountering killers, bandits, a punishing climate, and a harsh daunting land, they search for the perfect place...
16) Torture town
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Pinnacle Books
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In the town of Thirty-Four Corners, Colorado, Matt Jensen rides into a savage blood feud. Thirty years ago two friends came West and built a thriving cattle business. Now, their families have become kill-crazy enemies and the town is awash in a frenzy of killing. Add in hired gunmen on both sides of the fight, and two lovers crossing the dividing line, and the terror will never end.
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Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasn't an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors,...
18) Texas blood feud
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 1
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The Byrnes family came to Texas and carved out a place on the land. Three generations paid in blood and treasure. Chet Byrnes is trying to hold the ranch together through one more winter when he hangs three horse thieves this side of the Red River, starting a blood feud that leads to a murder - and then another. But amidst the violence and pain, a man who has seen his youth slip by is about to get one more chance at life and love.
19) Many a river
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2008
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The Barfield brothers are separated by a Comanche raid. Years later, they are destined to be reunited and discover how their separate lives have changed them.
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Savage Texas volume 1
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2011
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
The novels of William Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone have set the standard for hard-hitting Western fiction. In his new series, this master storyteller trains his sights on Texas--and the men and women who sowed their sweat and blood into the land.
A Good Day To Die
In Hangtree, Texas, any day could be your last. For on the heels of the Civil War, Hangtree is drawing gamblers, fast women and faster...