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  • A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg (the Civil War in the West)

    • ASIN: 0345527399
    • ISBN: 9780345527394
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America’s long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted “Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” a siege for the ages ... [Read More]

  • The Fallen (Memory Man series Book 4)

    • ASIN: B074M62RVY
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town--and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller.Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space ... [Read More]

  • The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West (WRITER'S GUIDE TO EVERYDAY LIFE SERIES)

    • ASIN: 0898798701
    • ISBN: 0898798701
    • Brand: Brand: Writer's Digest Books
    • Manufacturer: Writers Digest Books

    Provides period information on clothes and accessories, food, architecture, medicine, education, communications, crime, and money

  • Into the Wild

    • ASIN: 0385486804
    • ISBN: 0385486804
    • Brand: Random House
    • Size: Exclusive Paper Glossy
    • Manufacturer: Anchor Books

  • Elmore Leonard: Westerns (LOA #308): Last Stand at Saber River / Hombre / Valdez is Coming / Forty Lashes Less One / stories (Library of America Elmore Leonard Edition)

    • ASIN: 1598535625
    • ISBN: 1598535625
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    Library of America presents a definitive collection of classic Westerns by America's master modern crime writer One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for thei... [Read More]

  • Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

    • ASIN: B00KQZY19A
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244) (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 1598532537
    • ISBN: 1598532537
    • Brand: Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was America’s most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, You Know Me Al, Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to th... [Read More]

  • Of Mice and Men

    • ASIN: B001BC2ZS6
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns

    • ASIN: 159448385X
    • ISBN: 159448385X
    • Brand: Khaled Hosseini
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list an... [Read More]

  • T. H. Elkman: A Western Novel

    • ASIN: B01HDVCHX6
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse

    1800’s American West—a place where men find themselves in harsh and cruel circumstances and where lives are short lived. Where women are hard as the steel of a gun, and the sweet burn of whiskey eases the rough, ratted edges. Where death is a pill that must be swallowed, and senses are developed beyond true human comprehension . . .Honest work o... [Read More]

  • Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication

    • ASIN: 1931082278
    • ISBN: 1931082278
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    For writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.” Where Jack Kerouac found a “huge desert encampment,” David Thompson imagined “Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-bu... [Read More]

  • West Winds of Wyoming (A Prairie Hearts Novel Book 3)

    • ASIN: B00JU73A6K
    • Manufacturer: Montlake Romance

    In Book Three of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe, two broken hearts just might find a second chance at love.When widower Charlie Rose shows up looking for work at the struggling Cotton Ranch, no one knows he’s secretly trying to outrun trouble—and he intends to keep it that way. He wants to start over fr... [Read More]

  • 10 Western Novels: Boxed Set

    • ASIN: B00VD9SW3Y

    This boxed set includes 10 western novels by an American author William MacLeod Raine:BRAND BLOTTERSTHE YUKON TRAIL (A TALE OF THE NORTH)BUCKY O'CONNOR (A TALE OF THE UNFENCED BORDER)MAVERICKSCROOKED TRAILS AND STRAIGHTTHE VISION SPLENDIDA DAUGHTER OF THE DONS (A STORY OF NEW MEXICO) THE HIGHGRADERSTEVE YEAGER THE SHERIFF'S SON

  • 9 Western Novels: Boxed Set

    • ASIN: B00T18RPUU

    This boxed set includes 9 western novels by American author Charles Alden Seltzer: THE TWO-GUN MANTHE COMING OF THE LAWTHE BOSS OF THE LAZY YTHE RANGE BOSS"FIREBRAND" TREVISONTHE TRAIL TO YESTERDAYTHE TRAIL HORDE"DRAG" HARLANSQUARE DEAL SANDERSON

  • The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s (Writer's Guides to Everyday Life)

    • ASIN: 0898795419
    • ISBN: 9780898795417
    • Brand: Brand: Writers Digest Books
    • Manufacturer: Writers Digest Books

    Provides information about everyday life in the 1800s in such areas as speech, transportation, the home, clothing, occupations, money, health and hygiene, food and drink, amusements, and marriage

  • Hopalong Cassidy: 7 Western Novels

    • ASIN: B01BJNJ3I6

    This collection includes 7 western novels, written by Clarence Edward Mulford:BAR-20 THE ORPHANTHE COMING OF CASSIDYBAR-20 DAYSTHE MAN FROM BAR-20THE BAR-20 THREE"BRING ME HIS EARS"

  • Cherished Mercy (Heart of the Frontier Book #3)

    • ASIN: B071NJBGCH
    • Manufacturer: Bethany House Publishers

    The Inspiring Conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Heart of the Frontier SeriesMercy Flanagan survived the Whitman Massacre as a child, and now her heart's cry is for peace between the native peoples and the white settlers inhabiting Oregon Territory. Unfortunately, most of the settlers would rather the tribes were removed from the land completely, one ... [Read More]

  • 12 Western Novels: Boxed Set

    • ASIN: B00VJ54998

    This boxed set includes 12 western novels by an American author B. M. Bower:CHIP, OF THE FLYING U THE HAPPY FAMILYFLYING U RANCHTHE FLYING-U'S LAST STAND CABIN FEVERHER PRAIRIE KNIGHTJEAN OF THE LAZY ALONESOME LANDRIM O' THE WORLDROWDY OF THE "CROSS L."SAWTOOTH RANCHSKYRIDER

  • The Golden Spurs: The Best Of Western Short Fiction

    • ASIN: B00DPRHX2S
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

    From out of the west comes THE GOLDEN SPURS--the best Western short stories selected by the Western Writers of America.From the Indians before the coming of the white man, from the deadly shootouts to steadfast wagon trains, from women in horrifying Indian captivity to life and death battles between cattlemen and sheepmen, this is the Western short... [Read More]

  • Trails West: 15 Classic Western Short Stories & 1 Complete Novel

    • ASIN: B01HVKMZZ4
    • Manufacturer: Buckskin Western

    GIANT L'AMOUR BARGAIN - THREE BOOKS IN ONE! 15 of the best western stories and novelettes Louis L’Amour ever penned, along with The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon, one of his most exciting novels of frontier life, danger and heroism.

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