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His badge made him the target for every outlaw in town....
On the trail of Theo McSween, the man who loved and then left his sister, Frank Goodnight rides into Sherman City, Wyoming, certain that McSween is hiding out with the Wild Bunch, a gang of outlaws.
The Story of Frank Peace. He was trouble shooter for the Union Pacific, hand-picked as the only man in the West who could get the road over a thousand miles of rugged desert and treacherous mountains. Faced with savage Indians, bands of vicious outlaws, and power hungry...
''Pastors and Masters'' is largely a satirical depiction of Victorian institutions, and a character study of masculine authority and female subservience within the setting of a boys preparatory school after World War I. The narrative unfolds through sharp and often...
For over a century the French Quarter was the center of a city of sin and gaiety unique on the North American continent. The development of the New Orleans of legend was fostered by an improbable mixture of Creoles, river gamblers, pirates, politicians, reckless women,...
Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial...
Delve into the life and legacy of one of Canada's most influential leaders in "Sir John Macdonald" by W. Stewart Wallace. This captivating biography takes readers on a remarkable journey through the political landscape of 19th-century Canada, exploring the life and...
The old ferryman had caught many strange fish in his time, but none so strange as the body he fished out of the harbour one summer evening as the tide was on the turn. To his horror he saw at once that it was Captain Stanlake, the local harbour master. In the few months...
“The Morning Watch” explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an Episcopal boarding school (based on the author's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good...
One U-boat against one destroyer would have been a fair — if deadly — match. But Captain John Murrell’s H.M.S. Hecate was towing a crippled tanker whose cargo was as dangerous as it was precious — four million gallons of high-octane gas! The U-boat commander was...
In Magnolia Street, where Jews and Christians live on opposite sides of the road, feuds and alliances, gossip and good humour thrive. This is a classic saga of working-class life in 1920s Manchester. First published in 1932, it was a bestseller. “I loved this book......
''Life at Happy Knoll'' is a novel by John P. Marquand published in Sports Illustrated as a collection of letters, that uses social satire to explore the issues within a fictional country club near New York. Through the letters of a club board member to the president...
"It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer" takes readers on a suspenseful journey into the heart of a psychological thriller, where the boundaries between reality and illusion blur in a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue and danger. This gripping novel delves into the complexities of the...
Frank Cowperwood, still married to his estranged wife Aileen, lives with his mistress Berenice. He decides to move to London, England, where he intends to take over and develop the underground railway system. Berenice becomes close to Earl Stane, whileFrank has an...
"Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer: Spring's memoir...
From the pomp of Victoria’s reign to the end of World War II, a brilliant panorama of life in England and Europe is the setting of the story of an extraordinary woman. Sarah Rainborough was a little girl when she was taken away from the elegance of London society to...
The author describes his experiences traveling through the Caribbean to Guatemala and southern Mexico in 1933.
When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often...
The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 is a book by Aldous Huxley that compiles his lectures given at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1959, exploring human nature, society, and the modern world's challenges and potentials, synthesized with...
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