Rusty Nelson
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Tarzan volume 7
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As WWI breaks out in Africa, the ape man must avenge a brutal attack on his home, in this 1920 adventure novel from the original Tarzan series.
The violence of World War I has spread into colonial Africa, and while Lord Greystoke-better known as Tarzan-is away from his estate, it is destroyed by German soldiers. When he returns to the burned remains of his home, Tarzan discovers what appears to be the body of his wife, Jane. Brokenhearted and mad...
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Beloved American author Gene Stratton-Porter was one of the first influential female figures to raise awareness about the importance of conservation. Like many of her novels, At the Foot of the Rainbow takes place in a beautiful outdoor setting against which a complex human drama unfolds. Will this strange love triangle come to a happy conclusion, or will it implode in tragedy?
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Cripple Creek, Colorado is the most infamous sinkhole of vice and violence in the Rockies. The town's steamy bordello row and gambling halls beckon to Brad Medford who is set on tasting all the pleasures a young man can find. He sets out across the long miles to reach Cripple Creek and prove himself a man, but misfortune takes a hand when Brad's path crosses that of a renowned gunfighter. It turns out Brad's first meal in Cripple Creek may be his...
4) Blood Kin
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 31
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BOUND BY BLOOD: Growing up in the wild frontier of the Rockies, Zach King survived countless dangers, from nature and from human predators. Like his father, the legendary Nate King, Zach has learned to anticipate threats before they appear. But even Zach can't predict the danger he'll face when he travels with his fiancée to meet her family in St. Louis. He knows they'll probably look down their noses at him because he's a half breed. He's used to...
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When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that ruins her face, Bill gets angry. Teamed with his intuitive, observant detective Estelle Reyes-Guzman and her usual sharp eye for physical evidence, Bill implicates Tammy Woodruff, the thrill-seeking daughter of the local Republican County Chairman, in the brutal...
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For four long years, Derwent Conniston has chased outlaw John Keith across the Canadian Arctic. Conniston, a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, falls gravely ill in the course of his dogged pursuit, and to his amazement the accused murderer comes to his rescue. Although they're on opposite sides of the law, the two men find they have a remarkable lot in common, including an uncanny physical resemblance. By the time Conniston realizes that...
7) Twice Buried
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Undersheriff of Posadas County knows ancient Anna Hocking didn't fall down her fruit cellar stairs by accident. He's also sure that elderly Reuben Fuentes knows nothing about the bodies scattered on his dusty, southern New Mexico ranch. No spring chicken himself, Bill summons his former deputy, Reuben's niece, from Mexico to help clear the old man of suspicion. Eventually this generation-spanning law enforcement team finds a thread tying all the crimes...
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"Aging Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner has weathered his quadruple bypass and is taking a rare vacation up in the state's northern mountains. He's escaping meddlesome medical providers who wish he'd reform, but his heart is in staging a reunion with his former detective Estelle Reyes who is working in San Estevan County. Arriving a day early at the Steamboat Rock Campground, his camping plans are interrupted by sirens. Suddenly, Gastner,...
9) Heartshot
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Posadas County, New Mexico, has very few mean streets and no city-slick cop shop. But it has an earnest, elected Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff?William C. Gastner. Pushing sixty, widower Bill has no other life than in law enforcement?and doesn?t want one, even if he?s being nudged gently toward retirement. Then big time trouble strikes. A car full of teens, running from a stop by Deputy Torrez, goes airborne into a rocky outcrop, killing all five...
10) Mountain Cat
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 18
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The savage Rockies - home to bloodthirsty Indians and ferocious beasts. With cunning, grit, and skill, Nate King has hacked a life out of the punishing wilderness. A seasoned hunter and trapper, he can fend off attacks from brutal warriors and grizzlies alike. But a hunt for a huge, deadly mountain lion proves to be his greatest challenge.
11) Savage Hearts
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Nate and Winona King thought they were doing the right thing when they ventured deep into the Rockies to return a little girl to her people. Little did they imagine it would put Winona and the girl in peril for their lives and pit Nate against ruthless enemies. Don't miss this latest in the exciting WILDERNESS saga. The epic struggle for survival in America's untamed West.
12) Tomahawk Revenge
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 5
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In 1828, few white men dared to venture into the immense, unsettled region west of the Mississippi. And of those who did, only courageous men like Nathaniel King had the skills and strength to survive the harsh, frozen wilderness. But when three vicious trappers ambushed him and kidnapped his pregnant wife, Winona, King faced the greatest challenge of his life. For if Nate did not rescue Winona and their unborn child, the life he had worked so hard...
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The first book featuring the American West adventures of John Whyte, an ex-officer from the British Army. John arrives in America just in time for the Civil War and joins the Union side working directly for Abe Lincoln. His first assignment is with Alan Pinkerton who is trying to break up a Confederate spy ring in the north. Lincoln is so impressed with John that he sends him out to work with General Grant and report to Lincoln whether the bad press...
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After the loss of his wife and newborn son, stagecoach driver Clay Logan leaves behind all that he knows to escape his ghosts. From the peaceful country lanes of Ohio, to the windswept prairies of Nebraska and Wyoming, to the sedate Mormon community of Great Salt Lake City to the wild, violent mining town of Idaho City, Clay must run in search of inner peace. But instead, he finds only trouble. His trouble had golden blond hair and sky blue eyes,...
15) Brandish
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A Desperate Stand…At age forty-two, Captain Ethan Brandish had finally given up his command of Fort Lowell, deep in the Apache territory of Arizona. He knew there had to be more to life than constantly battling rattlesnakes and renegades, and now he would find out what it was. But the vicious Apache leader Yellow Shirt had another fate in store for Brandish. He and a group of renegade warriors had attacked an isolated stage station and ridden off...
16) Frontier Mayhem
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 25
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The unforgiving wilderness of the Rocky Mountains forced a boy to grow up fast, so Nate King taught his son, Zach, how to survive the constant hazards and hardships--and he taught him well. With an Indian war party on the prowl and a marauding grizzly on the loose, young Zach was about to face the test of his life, with no room for failure. But there was one danger Nate hadn't prepared Zach for--a beautiful girl with blue eyes.
17) Union Pacific
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President Ulysses S. Grant dispatches Justice Department Special Services Officer, U.S. Marshal J.R. Chance to investigate suspected railroad construction fraud. Chance confronts a ruthless conspiracy that will stop at nothing in its quest to monopolize Union Pacific construction contracts and the lucrative right of way land grants that go with them. Fast paced action sweeps the young marshal, and the Cheyenne woman who saves his life, across the...
18) Wolf Pack
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 20
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Mountain man Nathaniel King and other settlers in the Rockies are forever on the lookout for possible dangers, and always ready to match death with death. But when a marauding band of killers and thieves kidnaps his wife and children, Nate has finally run into enemies who've pushed his skill and cunning to the limit.
19) Vengeance
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In the wilds of the Rocky Mountains, there are the hunters and the hunted. Legendary mountain man Nate King has taught his son to be an excellent hunter. But now Zach finds himself the prey as a vicious killer stalks his every move. Athena Borke will stop at nothing to take vengeance upon the man she believes killed her brothers. Her goal: to capture Zach King and make him suffer a slow death. And she's concocted a plan sure to bring her bitterest...
20) Hawk
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Officially, the American Civil War ended with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. However, many "sympathizers" on both sides of the issue continued to wage their own "private wars." This is the story of the "Hawk" family who were caught up in the bitterness and aftermath of the war. Jubal Hawk served four years as a captain in the Confederate cavalry. He returned home to find his home burned to the ground, his father...