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Minutes into this rollicking good story, the central figure, Lee Chagra, comes alive: "[Lee] washed his morning cocaine down with strong coffee and remembered the time he had met Sinatra, how genuine he appeared." Everything you'll need to know and remember about Chagra-the son of Syrian immigrants to Mexico and an attorney who spun the world of dope-running, border-crossing, high-living outlaws along the El Paso-Juarez border around his finger like...
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The Coyote Saga continues with a new generation in the third book of the thrilling western series.
On assignment for the Bureau of Investigation in the summer of 1927, Trey Ramsey seeks information regarding the disappearances of young Sioux women from their reservations in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Meanwhile, young rancher Kate Connolly is at the right place at the right time to thwart an assassination attempt on the President of the United...
43) Bombing Hitler's Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
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In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long intended to remake as the cultural capital of Europe, filling its planned Fuehrermuseum with world-famous art stolen from his conquered territories.
Inevitably, Linz was also one of the most...
44) Boom Town
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Johnny McCabe brings his new bride to Montana, but finds things are not as he had left them. A gold rush is threatening to change the lives of everyone. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Dusty McCabe and the men riding with him discover Sam Middleton has been confined to a covert facility for political prisoners and enemies of the state. A place where prisoners go in, but they never leave alive. Can Dusty and the men with him break Sam out without getting themselves...
45) Wildburn
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Wildfire smolders in the drought, hit plains of Texas, Juanita Jones has skipped bail, missed a court appearance before she can turn herself in, she's mixed up in a full-blown murder.
US Marshal John Whicher has his own reasons for finding her, and proving her innocence. But where there's smoke is there always fire? Can anything stand in the path of a wild burn?
46) The Long Trail
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First in the best-selling series, the McCabes. The story of a family building a ranch in the rugged wilderness of post-Civil War Montana, and of a young man seeking his family and his destiny. If you liked the movie Open Range or the TV shows Big Valley and Lancer, or the novels of Louis L'Amour and Ralph Compton, then this might be for you.
47) Shoshone Valley
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A few days before Bree's upcoming wedding, she and her father spend a day in the mountains, and he tells her about the family's early days on a small ranch in California, the tragedy that struck her mother, and how they came to live in the valley.
48) Wandering Man
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Joe McCabe returns the mountains, and the solitary life he prefers. It is alone by a campfire at night, or riding along the ridges by day, that he can let the pain from his past fully die. But when a figure he hasn't seen in years steps back into his life, bringing a whole new load of trouble, will it be more than he can handle?
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They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. In it, you will read about the heroic, the scoundrels, the clever, the vanquished, and the hungry. Rich or poor, black or white, “Voices from the Confederacy” shares hundreds of poignant and revealing moments during the war between the states. From...
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"Preacher and Jamie MacCallister search for a hidden fortune that might be just a legend-but the bandits, bullets, and bloodshed they find are all too real ... Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo-especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver...
51) Preacher's Peace
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Long before there was a mountain man called Preacher, a young adventurer set off with a team of fur traders from St. Louis for the time of his life. On a wild frontier, he sought a fortune. Instead, he found blood, betrayal, and the beginning of a legend. Armed only with a knife, surrounded by a fierce Blackfoot war party, the young man was forced to kill a warrior chief in an act of audacious courage. But when a grizzly bear attack left him half-dead,...
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The greatest controversy in the history of the US Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the US brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his coconspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea.
The repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives,...
53) Preacher
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He will Become a Legend . . .
Before the legend of Preacher there was a man, and before the man there was a boy. In this thrilling new novel, William W. Johnstone tells the story of a young man filled with wanderlust and raw courage-who will someday become a hero.
. . . If He Survives
On nothing more than a lark, he leaves his family and begins a journey from Ohio westward. Along the way, he runs up against badlands and bad men, loses his freedom,...
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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE LEGENDS DIE HARD.
Riding shotgun, Red Ryan leads a doomed stagecoach of the damned on the longest, deadliest journey of his life...
5 PASSENGERS. 400 MILES. 1,000 WAYS TO DIE.
According to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. And, now it's Red Ryan's turn to guard...
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Johnstone Men on a Treacherous Trail. Riding Shotgun.
Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce-and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun...
THE DEVIL'S CROSSING
Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables...
56) Till Death
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The bestselling Johnstones turn up the heat in their rip-roaring series, when four destination weddings attract a cold-blooded ring of scoundrels, killers, for better and for worse...
FOUR JOHNSTONE WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, it's Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, they'll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold mining town in Alaska....
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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. ONE WILD RIDE.
Stagecoach guard Red Ryan has managed to survive every dirty, danger-filled trail in Texas. But this time, the journey is hell on four wheels. And the next stop could be his last…
BIG TROUBLE IN A SMALL TOWN
It starts with an unusual request: "On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women." No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks-until he meets the passengers. They include four holy...
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Red Ryan is one of the fastest guns in the West. But this time, he's in for the longest, hardest ride of his life. Where danger lurks around every turn-and all roads lead to hell..700 MILES OF MAYHEM. Gold. Silver. Cold hard cash. Stagecoach guard Red Ryan and his driver Buttons Muldoon have ridden shotgun on some pretty valuable cargo in their day. But they're about to learn-the hard way-that the most dangerous cargo of all is human. They've been...
59) Popcorn Bob
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Ellis loves popcorn. No, she REALLY loves popcorn. It's serious.
So when her school and her dads ban all snack foods-INCLUDING POPCORN-Ellis won't listen. But when she tries to quietly sneak her favorite salty snack, one kernel refuses to pop. LOUDLY. Soon, the kernel has sprouted a face, arms, and legs! He's alive, his name is Popcorn Bob, and he is NOT in a good mood. He is HANGRY.
Will Ellis be able to keep Bob a secret until she can get rid...
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In the depth of a cruel High Lonesome winter comes a cryptic message for Smoke Jensen. The letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Smoke knows only one person in the city by the bay: the well-rounded, open-natured Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure palaces.
Smoke once rescued her from raiding Cheyenne, but now Madame Francie is mysteriously dead... and Smoke's...