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1) Kill or die
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Flintlock (William W. Johnstone) volume 1
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Brewster Ritter, the so-called Baron of the Bayou, had a warning for Flintlock: Do not cross the Sabine River. The vicious crime king is still seething because Flintlock killed one of his gunmen in a Texas dustup. But Flintlock has his own powerful reasons for crossing into the nightmarish swamp country where Ritter is waiting with enough men and guns to kill him ten times over. Flintlock knows what he's getting into, and losing is not an option....
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A Detroit mob war draws Peter Macklin back into his old life as a Mafia assassin in award-winning author Loren D. Estleman's riveting hard-boiled thriller
The Reverend Thomas Aquinas Sunsmith is halfway through his sermon when killers open fire. He is preaching against the evils of gambling, which a cartel of mobsters is trying to legalize in Detroit. The hail of gunfire misses the reverend, but a choir member is cut down-the first victim in the...
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Trail West series volume 1
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In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way north to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper. But fate has other plans. It starts with a family...
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"I'll tell you something else about those cowboy pictures. They're clean, barely a smudge of dirt anywhere, but what happened out there in City of Rocks wasn't clean. It was grimy and smelly and gut-numbingly cold. Men died . . . They got knocked down hard and the life spilled out of them like blood from a butchered hog. I guess I ought to know since I was there. Since it was me who did most of the killing that day." -- Joseph Roper, Federal Writers...
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Out of a job and at loose ends in the Mexican town of San Rafael, Owen Burke overhears a conversation between two Mexican vaqueros seated at a nearby table in the local cantina. After introducing himself, he learns they work for Don Enrique Hernandez de Allende at a horse ranch some distance south. The Don is planning a horse drive to California where his brother-in-law has a ranch. Owen knows those trails and hopes the Don might be in need of a guide....
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Trail West series volume 2
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"When the trigger-happy Dobbs-Queeg gang holds up the Omaha bank, Dooley Monahan is mistaken for one of the robbers. With a price on his head and every lawman in the territory hot on his trail, Dooley has no choice but to join up with the murderous outlaws"--
8) MacKinnon
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"In southern New Mexico, Sam MacKinnon is double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and left with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. Overlooked by a posse, he finds his horse and starts out on the vengeance trail. Stopping to help Katie Callahan and her siblings alters his plans"--
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Perley Gates westerns volume 3
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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion--a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
11) The parting
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Courtship of Nellie Fisher volume 1
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NY Times best-selling author's new series chronicling the separation of families during the New Order/Old Order split in the Amish community in Lancaster County, PA.
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Amish newlyweds Lamar and Emma Yoder Miller seek warmer weather in Sarasota, Florida, and have purchased a small house in the Pinecraft community. But Emma wishes her days had more purpose than leisurely walks on the beach. Before long she is sending back home for her supplies and advertising a quilting class. Wounded and hurting people have a knack for finding their way to Emma's classes for some quilting therapy: Jennifer, a pregnant new mom; Mike,...
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"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph.D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the...
16) Texas tall
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Tylers of Texas volume 3
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She can't forget him. The born rancher who stole her heart, her ex husband, the tough, tender father of her child. Tori Tyler can't let Will Tyler go to prison for a crime that was a simple accident. But she can't deny that her feelings for the man run much deeper than loyalty, and her desire for his strong, sure embrace has never died. Protecting him is second nature, until an unexpected terror threatens to shatter them both... and Tori needs Will's...
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"The stench of death hangs over Happyville. When Flintlock rides into town, he sees windows caked in dust, food rotting on tables, and a forgotten corpse hanging at the gallows. The citizens of Happyville are dead in their beds, taken down by a deadly scourge, and Flintlock must stay put, or risk spreading the killer disease. His quarantine is broken by Cage Kingfisher, a mad clergyman who preaches the gospel of death. He orders his followers to round...
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Ben Knight takes off his badge and rides into Gunsight seeking vengeance for his kid brother's hanging. But the town marshal was killed during the lynching and the townspeople want Ben to take his place. Ben must choose between his trail of vengeance or protecting the town against the Diamond H Ranch"--
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Detective Steven Paul has had the same nightmare for as long as he can remember, a strange symbol figuring prominently into his terror. He decided long ago that the recurring dreams are nothing more than an unfortunate side effect of his often traumatic profession. Until, that is, he's assigned to the case of Emily Lindsey, the beautiful, elusive, and controversial blogger found alone, holding a hunting knife and covered in blood that is not her own....
20) Flintlock
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Flintlock (William W. Johnstone) volume 1
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Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a fortune hunt for a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smoldering ruin of his jail cell and the treasure, there will be blood at a U.S. Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns. From a vicious half-breed to the great Geronimo, Flintlock meets the frontier's most murderous hard cases -- many of whom he must find a way to kill....
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