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The Sackett Brand

Louis L'Amour · 151 pages

Van Allen was a strong, arrogant man who rode roughshod over anything that got in his way. Brutal and uncaring with women, he suddenly found himself guilty of an ugly murder and in a panic, tried to cover it up and destroy the evidence. Tell Sackett was a part of that evidence, but he was not going to be easy to get rid of. Allen murdered Tell's wife, Angie, while he was away. When he returned, on

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The Outlaw Josey Wales

Forrest Carter · 187 pages

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Valdez Is Coming

Elmore Leonard · 208 pages

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem -- and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice -- and some money for the dead man's woman -- they beat Valdez and tied him to a

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The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt · 379 pages

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, El

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The Rustlers of Pecos County

Zane Grey · 200 pages

Into Texas rode Ranger Vaughn Steel, hungering for revenge, thirsting for justice, and determined to wipe out the rustlers of Pecos County.

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Paradise Sky

Joe R. Lansdale · 320 pages

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Retribution Rails

Erin Bowman · 384 pages

Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.

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The Drawing of the Three

Stephen King · 443 pages

The Drawing of the Three continues the epic saga of the Dark Tower, hurling The Gunslinger into the twentieth century. Once again Stephen King masterfully interweaves dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism, as his hero, Roland. The Last Gunslinger, pursues his quest for the Dark Tower. Roaming another world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, he is drawn through a myster

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The Jester

James Patterson, Andrew Gross · 485 pages

Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to discover that his terrifying nightmare has just begun. Merciless killers have slain his young son, kidnapped his wife, Sophie, and destroyed his town in their search for a priceless relic from the Crucifixion. Hugh's quest to find Sophie is one of the most pulse-pounding adventures, mysteries, and unforgettable love stories in all of fiction.

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Preacher Special: Saint of Killers

Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon · 45 pages

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Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino

"Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-top-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the B

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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born

Peter David, Robin Furth · 240 pages

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The Serpent Sword

Matthew Harffy · 400 pages

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The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell · 474 pages

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In Plain Sight

C.J. Box · 224 pages

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Appaloosa

Robert B. Parker · 296 pages

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning up after scavengers, but this one raises the stakes by playing not with the rules—but with emotion.

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The Road to Vengeance

Judson Roberts · 344 pages

Hafdan's training as a Viking warrior leads him to fight in bloody battles between nations--and gives him conflicted feelings about his killer instincts.

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The Golden Lion

Wilbur Smith, Giles Kristian · 402 pages

"The son of pirate and merchant Sir Frances Courtney, Henry "Hal" Courtney was raised at sea. When war broke out between the English and the Dutch empires, his father, fighting for the English crown, attacked a fleet of Dutch East India Company ships off the coast of Africa. That bravery was met with betrayal, and Sir Francis was executed. His heartbroken son witnessed his death and dedicated his

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God of Vengeance

Giles Kristian · 320 pages

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True Grit

Charles Portis · 215 pages

True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest availab

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Hunting the Eagles

Ben Kane · 400 pages

Five long years have passed since the annihilation of three Roman legions in the wilds of Germania. Varus, the general who led the ill-fated army, is long dead and the bones of his 15,000 legionaries moulder in the forests. But not all the Romans were slain in the ambush. Centurion Tullus, a seasoned veteran, survived and now he lives for revenge upon the tribal chieftain Arminius, who masterminde

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Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 22

Nobuhiro Watsuki · 208 pages

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