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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry · 945 pages

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The Virginian

Owen Wister · 434 pages

The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and a significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a beautiful, baffling, and sometimes violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles Trampas for supremacy and demonstrates that the "customs of the country" must eventually prevail. In his cour

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy · 301 pages

*All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain* (19

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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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The Big Sky

A.B. Guthrie Jr. · 400 pages

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The Secret of Shadow Ranch

Carolyn Keene · 167 pages

Nancy arrives in Phoenix, Arizona, eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled vacation at Shadow Ranch but finds herself embroiled in a baffling mystery involving a phantom horse and buried treasure. Local people believe that the ghostly animal is carrying out the curse of Dirk Valentine, the romantic outlaw who was killed many years ago at Shadow Ranch, where he had gone to fulfill a promise to his

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The Power of the Dog

Thomas Savage · 283 pages

First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers and the competition between them when one marries now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx.

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Flint

Louis L'Amour · 183 pages

He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated.Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed spe

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Satan in Goray

Isaac Bashevis Singer · 231 pages

Singer's tale of the 17th century Polish town of Goray, whose inhabitants, in the wake of the Chmielnicki massacre, begin to believe that the Messiah shall soon arrive. In fact, it is not the Messiah who appears, but Satan.

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Wolves of the Calla

Stephen King · 714 pages

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Vengeance Road

Erin Bowman · 330 pages

When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen year-old Kate Thompson d9Yisguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice.

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Little Big Man

Thomas Berger · 444 pages

Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by Custer. As a white man, he helped hunt the buffalo into extinction, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok--

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Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse · 454 pages

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Winnetou

Karl May · 690 pages

Abridged translation of Karl May's novel "Winnetou" from 1893, with biographical and statistical material.

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Fitcher's Brides

Gregory Frost · 400 pages

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A Gown of Spanish Lace

Janette Oke · 309 pages

When a young woman is faced with being kidnapped, she is forced to resort to her only hope--God. A young woman among many burly robbers, Ariana is unsure of who to trust, but she must make risks if she ever wishes to leave and go back to the family she dearly loved. This book was one of my top favorites of Janette Oke, it not only showed Ariana's apparent Spiritual strength, but also contained

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Master Assassins

Robert V.S. Redick · 504 pages

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Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin · 245 pages

She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. . . . Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin—where terror is as near as your new neighbors . . . and where evil wears the most innocent face of all. . . . --front flap

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare · 249 pages

Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is

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Fatale, Book Three: West of Hell

Ed Brubaker

"The dark days of the Great Depression, ancient secrets of the Middle Ages, haunted plains of the old West, and bombed out ruins of World War Two... The third book of the hit series Fatale features four interlinked stories of horror and noir, each one a puzzle piece in the mystery of the Femme Fatale."--Back cover.

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Timebound

Rysa Walker · 374 pages

When Kate Pierce-Keller's grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate's present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killin

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The Tombs of Atuan

Ursula K. Le Guin · 160 pages

Tenar was the priestess of the Nameless Ones-the ancient powers. She was responsible for remembering and worshipping them. She forgot her family and home. Then came the young wizard, Ged, who trespassed where none had gone before and none had lived.

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