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Cry Macho: A Novel
by N. Richard NashNow a major motion picture directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, a riveting novel of an aging rodeo star's last ride.Mike's best years are behind him. There was a time when he was the best rider in the circuit, but a divorce and years of hard living have worn his body down. After an accident, his career comes to an abrupt end, but his boss gives him one last job: he must cross the border into Mexico, kidnap his boss&’s son, Rafo, from his boss&’s ex-wife, to be used as leverage in their ongoing divorce. Mike arrives to find the boy has already run away, and his plan is immediately exposed to the local police. When he finds Rafo living on the streets of Mexico city, supporting himself though petty crime and winnings from the occasional cockfight, Mike convinces the boy to come back to Texas. Still running from the law, the two set out on a journey northward that forges an unlikely friendship and forces both to reckon with the choices they&’ve made in pursuit of being &“macho.&” Originally published in 1976, N. Richard Nash's novel of friendship and the search for identity is now being adapted for the big screen.
Cry of Eagles (Eagles #7)
by William W. JohnstoneTHE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY No Time for Mercy Falcon MacCallister roams the West, far from home, far from the memories of the peace and beauty of MacCallister's Valley. With a destiny as wide and unsure as the open range, he is a loner. But to those who know him, he is a legend . . . In a small New Mexico town, two young gunslicks are looking for a reputation, eager for a kill, desperate for history to write their names in blood. In a split-second hook and draw, one of them will lie dead. And once again, Falcon MacCallister will be the most wanted man in the West. Now, from the Arizona border to the shadows of the Dragoon Mountains to the burning trail of Apache rage, he must fend off a ruthless posse that has sworn vengeance. Because a man like MacCallister knows: between the final prayer and the snap of the rope there's no time for mercy.
Cry Wolf
by Victoria ThompsonFrom Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner and New York Times bestseller Victoria Thompson, a magnificent historical romance... "Ms. Thompson imbues her characters with strength, eloquence and dignity." -Romantic Times When Lobo rides up to the Davis ranch, Rachel feels a tremor, as if the very earth was about to open. Lobo is the wolf hunter that they desperately need, though he seems to Rachel to be as primitive as the wild creatures he tracks--a sure hunter whose home is the wide-open Wild West. And Rachel can't help but hunger for his touch. But she's also heard the legend of the wolf who walked as a man and wonders if Lobo is more than just a man--his power is undeniable. Though the ranch hands respect him and her little boy adores him, Rachel senses there will come a final day of reckoning between the hunter and the hunted--and a night when she will know the passion as savage as a wolf.
The Crystal Call
by Jaimie N. SchockSequel to The Queen's PainDakota must track down his daughter Kenna, who has gone missing during the attack on the U.S. Capitol. But when he finds her, he is left reeling. Kenna has been chosen to save the world from talismans, and she intends to depart on a dangerous journey to accomplish the task. Moreover, she has no plan to include Dakota.As they go their separate ways, Kenna begins an adventure that will change and damage her. Meanwhile, Dakota and Terrell must rely on each other to continue on without her. Though each group have wildly different missions, they both must learn to survive in new environments and take on challenges that will help define them.Will Kenna finish her work and stop the talisman war for good? And what will happen to Dakota while she's away?
Cuando todo se calme (En el momento perfecto #3)
by Mary CalmesUn libro de historias "En el momento perfecto"La vida previsible de Glenn Holloway terminó el día que le confesó a su familia que era homosexual. Como si eso no fuera suficiente, le echó sal a la herida al alejarse del rancho en el que había crecido para abrir el restaurante con el que siempre había soñado. Sin el apoyo de su padre y su hermano, y demasiado orgulloso para aceptar la ayuda de cualquier otra persona, tuvo que empezar de cero. Con el tiempo, todo salió bien: Glenn estableció con éxito un negocio sólido, creó un nuevo hogar y se forjó una vida de la que podía estar orgulloso. A pesar de su éxito, el distanciamiento de los Holloway sigue siendo una herida que no logra sanar del todo, y una llamada pidiendo ayuda se convierte en la peor pesadilla de Glenn. Atado a una promesa, Glenn vuelve a sus orígenes para lidiar con Rand Holloway y encontrándose cara a cara con Mac Gentry, un hombre demasiado atractivo para el propio bien de Glenn. Todo esto podría conducir al desastre, por la débil reconexión con su familia y por el deseo que no sabía que albergaba en su corazón.
Cuatro balas y un beso (Serie Elizabethtown #Volumen 4)
by Isabel JennerNo hay persecución sin peligros. No hay amor sin riesgos. Cada día de su vida, Zerelda Carey tiene que demostrar su valía como una de las escasas agentes femeninas de la Agencia de Detectives Pinkerton. Algo difícil en un mundo de hombres, sobre todo, en uno tan brutal como el Salvaje Oeste. Su nueva misión, con la que espera conseguir más respeto de sus compañeros y casos más importantes de sus superiores, es dar caza a un embaucador de mujeres, cuya pista la conduce hasta Elizabethtown, un fascinante pueblo en territorio de Kansas. Allí conocerá al insufrible Brett McFarlane, el hombre a quien debe capturar. ¿O quizá las cosas no son como parecen? Brett lleva años luchando por superar los demonios de la guerra y encontrar un lugar al que pertenecer. Su sonrisa fácil esconde un carácter duro y no duda en vender su habilidad con el revólver a todo aquel que solicite protección. Como el adinerado dueño de un hotel de lujo en Elizabethtown, quien lo contrata para que cuide de su encantadora hija. Este nuevo trabajo y las ventajas que conlleva hacen pensar a Brett que, por fin, todo en su vida encaja… hasta que la implacable Zerelda Carey se cruza en su camino, dispuesta a sacudir su existencia desde los cimientos. Las chispas saltan, las pasiones se avivan, y Zerelda y Brett están listos para enfrentarse el uno al otro. Pero hay disparos que no pueden esquivarse porque, aunque sean invisibles, van directos al corazón.
Cuervo Blanco
by John W. WoodEn el salvaje Oeste del siglo XIX comienza la saga de una poderosa familia. Luego de que el montañés Isaiah Crow llegase a Alta California, este salva a un grupo de personas de unos bandidos locales. Como si la suerte lo hubiese querido, son familiares y vaqueros del rancho de Don Hernando Batista, una de las familias más poderosas del sur de California - y muy ansiosos de llevar a su nuevo amigo ante el patrón. Luego de que el señor Batista le presenta a Isaiah a su hija Francisca, ambos pronto se enamoran. De esta unión nace un niño - Jedadiah. Él no solo aprendería como leer y escribir, también aprendería el arte de la guerra. A través de Jedadiah, la dinastía Crow se convertirá es una de las familias más influentes del país.
Culinaria France: A Celebration of Food and Tradition
by Andre DomineCulinaria France invites the reader to a culinary journey through this paradise for gourmets. Take a look at Paris’ top gastronomy, learn about the origins of rural cuisine, breathe the air of Provence, and peak into the nets of France’s fishermen on the northern coasts. Lavishly illustrated with wonderful photographs, this volume provides a completely up-to-date portrait of the richness of French specialties and whets the appetite for culinary pleasures à la française.
Cullen and Cobb Mysteries 2-Book Bundle: Serpents Rising / Dead Air
by David A. PoulsenA private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read the first two books in the exciting western crime series Cullen and Cobb Mysteries. Serpents Rising Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto Calgary’s meanest streets on the trail of a runaway and a killer. Dead Air Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities. When ex-cop Mike Cobb is hired as a bodyguard for a conservative radio superstar, he and his partner, crime journalist Adam Cullen, are thrust into the line of fire.
Cullen and Cobb Mysteries 4-Book Bundle: None So Deadly / Last Song Sung / Dead Air / Serpents Rising (A Cullen and Cobb Mystery)
by David A. PoulsenA private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read all four books in the exciting western crime series. Serpents Rising — book #1 Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto Calgary’s meanest streets on the trail of a runaway and a killer. Dead Air — book #2 Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities. When ex-cop Mike Cobb is hired as a bodyguard for a conservative radio superstar, he and his partner, crime journalist Adam Cullen, are thrust into the line of fire. Last Song Sung — book #3 Cullen and Cobb are back to investigate the 1965 disappearance of a folk singer. Kidnapped from the alley behind a folk club, her bandmates shot and killed, Ellie Foster’s whereabouts have remained a mystery for fifty years. Hired by Ellie’s granddaughter, Cullen and Cobb travel into the past to unearth long-buried secrets. None So Deadly — book #4 The brutal killing of a police investigator obsessed with Faith Unruh’s murder has put the ex-cop–private eye and former crime writing journalist back on the killer’s trail — and directly in the line of fire.
Cuori feriti
by Ugo Telese Remmy Duchene BLMorticiaLa permanenza di Zane Ashford nel dipartimento di polizia di New York si interrompe bruscamente quando viene ferito durante una missione. Dopo essersi svegliato parzialmente cieco da un occhio, vorrebbe solo rintanarsi in un buco, ma gli amici e la famiglia non lo lasciano solo. Con riluttanza, permette al suo migliore amico di convincerlo a trascorrere la convalescenza in un ranch nel Montana. Quando giunge sul posto e conosce Cyrus Abrams, però, Zane inizia a meditare di commettere un omicidio. Cyrus Abrams è volgare, scontroso, fissato nelle sue abitudini, e non intende cambiare per nessuno, non importa quanto stia bene Zane Ashford nei suoi jeans. Più si scontrano, più Cyrus inizia a vedere Zane sotto una luce diversa, ma si porta dietro un passato che gli ha lasciato grossi problemi e lo ha ferito più di quanto voglia ammettere… un passato che nessuno ha raccontato a Zane. Cyrus teme che, quando quest’ultimo lo scoprirà, il loro rapporto subirà una brusca frenata.
Cupid Bear Creek
by Robert E. HowardRobert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. This is one of his western stories.
A Cure for the Vet
by Ann Roth Julie BensonHEART MEDICINEMontana Vet by Ann RothEmily Miles already has plenty on her plate caring for the dogs she rescues and raising money to keep The Wagging Tail going. She can’t jeopardize the shelter by getting involved with new part-time vet Seth Pettit. And Seth has his own plateful: a teenage ward who hates him, an estranged family he’s trying to mend fences with and a living to make in small-town Montana. Emily needs a full-time partner, and that just can’t be him!The Rancher and the Vet by Julie BensonLeaving his Colorado hometown was the second hardest thing Reed Montgomery ever did. The first was breaking up with Avery McAlister. Now the citified CEO has come home to be surrogate dad to his niece. Avery’s first priority is her financially strapped animal shelter. Her second is helping Reed with his parenting skills. They may be bonding, but her former flame still has some explaining to do about the secret that drove him away.
The Curly Wolf
by Frank GruberSam Forest, The Curly Wolf," had been shotgunned to death. Now there was a stranger in Seven Oaks. Who was this Jim Corbett? Runaway? Cavalry sharpshooter? Gunfighter? Detective? Few ever learned the truth. Fewer still dared to ask, and those who did only lived long enough to hear his soft reply. The question cost their lives.
The Curse of the Incredible Priceless Corncob (Hank the Cowdog Series, #7)
by John R. EricksonWhen Pete the Barncat offers to trade steak scraps for old corncobs, Hank smells a rat. Why would Pete want to trade--unless the cobs were worth a fortune?
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
by Vine Deloria Jr.Deloria writes with ironic, mordant wit and in the process, he resolutely destroys the stereotypes and myths that white society has built up about the Indian.
Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer
by Michael A. ElliottA look at Custer the man, and how the Battle of the Little Bighorn has been retold into history... over and over again. Who has rights to tell the ONE correct side? Is the white version "right", even if the Native American version - with the eyewitness - tells the whites have it wrong? Read about how the history is bring told today, what each version says... You decide - which is right?
Cut Hand
by Mark WildyrFar from the world he knows, he’ll find a home. Among strangers, he’ll find acceptance. And in the arms of an unexpected man, he’ll find love. Young Billy Strobaw comes West to escape the stigma of his Tory family. In the Dakota Territories, he encounters the Yanube warrior Cut Hand. Billy’s attraction to the other man is as surprising as the Yanube perspective on same-sex love. Unlike Europeans, the Siouan tribe celebrate such unions. Billy and Cut Hand can live as partners and build a life together, which Billy agrees to do. As Billy struggles to acclimate to a very different culture, quickly discovering the Yanube have as much to teach him as he has to impart to them, a larger struggle is brewing. The white man is barreling through the Great Plains, trampling underfoot anyone who stands in his way. As a leader of his people, Cut Hand must decide whether it will be peace or war. In a historical romance taking place against the epic backdrop of the early American West, where a single spark can ignite a powder keg of greed, lust for power, and misunderstanding, one man must find his place in history and his role in the preservation of all he has come to value.
Cutthroat Canyon: Cutthroat Canyon (Sidewinders #3)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneRollicking Western adventure featuring two hardheaded cowboys who veer towards the wrong side of the law by the authors of the Last Gunfighter series.Here&’s Your Gold. Now Fight for It . . . Sometimes, it&’s bad to be good. That&’s what happens when Scratch Morton and Bo Creel are rewarded with a gold mine for saving a rich man&’s bacon. The catch: this mine is a magnet for marauding Mexican banditos. Budding capitalists, Scratch and Bo fight back. That&’s when they discover that the thieves aren&’t who they thought they were, some really bad guys are on the way, and a beautiful woman might just be the most dangerous bandit of all—the kind that can steal your heart. For Scratch and Bo, this gold mine might make them rich. But it&’s more likely to get them killed—just as soon as they can figure out who wants them dead . . . Praise for the novels of William W. Johnstone &“[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.&”—Publishers Weekly on Eyes of Eagles &“There&’s plenty of gunplay and fast-paced action.&”—Curled Up with a Good Book on Dead Before Sundown
Cutthroats (A Slash and Pecos Western #1)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneJOHNSTONE. KEEPING THE WEST WILD. Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there’s a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos . . . Two wanted outlaws. One hell of a story. After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker are ready to call it quits—though not completely by choice. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement . . . The target is a rancher’s payroll train. Catch is: the train is carrying a Gatling gun and twenty deputy US marshals who know they’re coming. Caught and quickly sentenced to hang, their old enemy—the wheelchair-bound, bucket of mean, Marshal L.C. Bledsoe—shows up at the last minute to spare their lives. For a price. He’ll let them live if they hunt down their old gang, the Snake River Marauders. And kill those prairie rats—with extreme prejudice . . .
The Cutting Kind (Trailsman #291)
by Jon SharpeSkye Fargo knows that in the wild, Indians, animals, and bushwhackers can all end a man's life in a heartbeat. But Jess Van Cleef is a killer like no other. He's blazed a twisted trail of butchery all along the Oregon Trail, killing, ravaging, and mutilating at will. And he's never going to stop the slaughter-because he likes it. Now, the Trailsman is going after Van Cleef, and he's going to make the madman pay for all the blood he's spilled-drop by crimson drop.
A Dad for Daniel (Back to the Ranch #16)
by Janelle DenisonHis secret son... Tyler Whitmore has returned home after nine years to claim his half of the family ranch. Brianne is right to be nervous. When Tyler left he had taken more than her innocence--he had taken her dreams and her heart. But unbeknownst to Tyler, he had left Brianne something in return--a baby! Daniel is her pride and joy. But then, eighteen and pregnant, Brianne had been forced to marry the only man who had asked her--Tyler's brother, Boyd. But now her husband is gone and Tyler is back in town. The years have been more than kind to him. Tyler is as devastatingly attractive as ever. But if he'd never forgive her for marrying Boyd--what would he do if he ever discovers the truth about Daniel?
A Daddy for Christmas
by Linda FordCowboy to the Rescue Summoned by two little girls to help their mother in distress, Blue Lyons rushes to rescue widow Clara Weston. When the cowboy discovers the fatherless family has nowhere to go, he offers them food and shelter. But widower Blue won't get too close to the needy trio. He's lost too many people he's cared for, and he isn't about to set himself up for loss again. For Clara, any dangers she may face on the frontier are preferable to staying with her controlling father. Although she's determined to keep her independence, Blue's kindness and tenderness are hard to resist. Can two pint-size matchmakers help Clara and Blue open their guarded hearts in time for Christmas? Christmas in Eden Valley: Forging a future in Canada's west country
A Daddy for Her Triplets (Lone Star Cowboy League #5)
by Deb KastnerComing soon! A Daddy for Her Triplets by Deb Kastner will be available Feb 1, 2016.
Dakota
by Matt BraunHE CAME WEST HAUNTED BY DEATH AND GRIEF...In 1884, a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory. Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood at the center of a storm...AND IN A VIOLENT LAND, HE WAS REBORN...Less than a decade after an Indian rebellion and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Dakota was being settled by the brave, the ambitious, and the restless. While some men were grabbing power, some were getting away with murder. For Roosevelt, using local cowboys and transplanted Easterners as his ranch hands, this was a place to make his mark, to make a stand and to look a killer in the eye. And this was a time to bring wild Dakota into the heart of America...