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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The only way to escape the purgatory of the Florence Stockade was to die. So on February 3, 1865, Zebulon Hogan died and was buried in the prisoners' cemetery. It was young Ebenezer Chase, a runaway slave, who saw his hand clawing out of the dirt over the shallow grave. Zeb swore an oath to the other prisoners to hunt and kill a traitorous sergeant, but he knows nothing of the surrounding country. Ebenezer does. Together, they may get where they want...
5022) Peyton: a western duo
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Lost in the vast plains without a guide, a horseman must brave the elements and the local Cheyenne if he has any hopes of survival! In "Man from the Sky," Paul Torridon and his plainsman guide ride together on their way to Fort Kendry. But one morning the guide has vanished without a trace, and Paul is left with just his faithful steed. Paul knows that his destination will be near impossible to find without a guide, and that's only if he and his horse...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Jack Hare, a tough, young cowboy, owes his life to August Naab, the stern but kind old settler who rescued him from sure death and offered him refuge. But Hare soon learns that Naab's Utah ranch is little more than an island paradise surrounded by a sea of danger. Hare must meet the challenge of a brazen gang of cattle thieves and of a corrupt rancher who attempts to steal Naab's water rights.
5024) Troublesome range
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Joe Bonnyman left town after he sold his small outfit to the Middle Arizona Cattle Company, which earned him the scorn of his fellow ranchers. Now that a cattle war between the syndicate Joe sold to and the various ranches seems imminent, Joe's father summons him home to Lodgepole. But some back-door deals of the most underhanded kind suddenly ease the situation, and Yace Bonnyman tells his son to go back where he came from. In his short stay at home,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike/Chivers
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for lynching a priest, a crime that shocked all New Mexico Territory. Yet most people believe that Cole, the son of wealthy Senator Roman Cole, will never be executed. Father Virgilio is so convinced that he will escape execution at Chama that he has raised a reward for anyone who will successfully transport the prisoner there. Britton Wade, a gunfighter and gambler, is determined to do just that....
5026) Murder in Georgetown
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Description
Washington Post reporter Joe Potamos investigates the murder of a prominent U.S. senator's daughter.
5027) Dry ice: a novel
Author
Formats
Description
Alan Gregory finds his family targeted by a brilliant murderer when the latter is released from the Colorado State Mental Hospital, a situation that is complicated by the murderer's detailed knowledge about Alan's innermost secrets.
5028) A winter haunting
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston's War.
Winston Churchill at his lowest ebb – pitted in personal confrontation with Adolf Hitler, and with ghosts from his tormented past.
Friday 10 May 1940. Hitler launches a devastating attack that within days will overrun France, Holland and Belgium, and bring Britain to its knees...
5030) The final reckoning
Author
Series
McMurtrie and Drake legal thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"His last challenge: live long enough to save the lives of those he loves. Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he'd bring 'a reckoning' on Tom and everyone the southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, he aims to fulfill his promise. Victim by victim, he's getting closer to his ultimate target. But for Tom, who's dying of cancer, the role of savior and protector...
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mystery volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A gathering of witches in Melbourne to celebrate Samhain, a rash of bad drug reactions, a cache of valuables stolen from Greek Jews during WWII, and the appearance of Corinna Chapman's boyfriend's beautiful and svelte former girlfriend, Georgiana Hope, add up to villainy and a puzzle waiting to be solved by the hefty Melbourne baker.
5032) Man of the year
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Description
Tom Dobbs makes an off-hand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a voting computer glitch and not winning the majority vote...
5033) Lost boys: the tribe
Publisher
Warner Premiere
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The vampires of Luna Bay, California quickly dispatch anyone who crosses their path. Into this dark world arrive Chris Emerson and his younger sister, Nicole. Having just lost their parents in a car accident, the siblings move in with their eccentric Aunt Jillian and quickly become new prey for the locals. When Nicole unwittingly falls for a local vampire, Chris must locate and destroy the gangs lifeline before his sister can complete her transformation....
5034) A bitter truth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex.
5035) The taken ones
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest. Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation."
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In an adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the present day, a thirty-year-old James Bond goes head-to-head against one of the most compelling and horrific villains in modern thriller fiction. This isn't the Cold War Bond: it's the best of Fleming and Deaver in one seriously sharp and stylish novel. Bond's license to kill meets Deaver's razor-sharp storytelling in a cat-and-mouse game that takes Bond from the Balkans to London to a searing climax on the...
5037) Crave
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Aiden craves a better life where he can escape his gruesome job as a crime scene photographer; meet the woman of his dreams, and save the world from evil. As Aiden's dark vigilante fantasies invade his reality, he'll soon learn that his imagination is on the verge of destroying the life he's risking everything for.
5038) The envy of the stranger
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Roz Gilmour is a happy woman with two children, a loving husband, a successful career as a local radio presenter and a comfortable home in North London. Sometimes she can't believe just how fortunate she is. But a woman who has everything has everything to lose, and Roz's luck is about to change. Not everybody is as content as Roz Gilmour. There are people who dislike her - if only because of the apparent ease and success with which she lives her...
5039) Run for cover: a novel
Author
Series
Michael Gannon volume 2
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Fresh from a lethal entanglement with some of the deepest and darkest players in the global intelligence services, Michael Gannon heads to the safest place he can think of: deep in the wilds of Utah on the ranch of one of his oldest and closest war buddies. But when his friend's brother is found dead in the rocky foothills of Grand Teton, Gannon realizes there are some things more important than keeping your head down. Is his death just one in a string...
5040) The beast
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
"Over the years, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus have got through a lot together. They've faced more than their share of serial killers and psychopaths. But this time two very different cases may cause them to re-evaluate everything they hold dear. One case involves Gabe, the troubled boy they've taken into their home. The other is much stranger - a man is found dead in his apartment, apparently mauled by his pet tiger. There is more to each case than...
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