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by Joe Abercrombie
Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing.
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by Gil Adamson
At the age of 19, Mary Boulton becomes a fugitive: The self-made widow killed her husband with his own rifle. This murderous act doesn't occur in frustration or in rage but is done calmly, almost dispassionately, owing to a cumulative series of outrages in their brief marriage.
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by Elizabeth Bear
Life in Madame Damnable's isn't bad for a working girl in a frontier town, or it wasn't until Karen got on the wrong side of Peter Bantle - pimp, politician, and possibly murderer. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Lila Bowen
Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight. Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun.
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by Richard Brautigan The identical Misses Hawkline engage a pair of hired-killer "Gothics" (soft-hearted, virtually indistinguishable) to dispose of monster who has already turned their father into an elephant-foot umbrella stand. Three books in one volume: A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster available in alternate format(s) |
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by Emma Bull
In 1881, the Arizona town of Tombstone, becomes a magnet for men and women possessing special gifts or hungry for more power than they already have. The author ascribes magical powers to historical figures like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.. |
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by Michael Crichton
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Sarah Gailey
Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Laura Anne Gilman
Inadvertently trained by the Devil to see the clues and manipulations of human desire, sixteen-year-old Izzy is raised to be his left hand and travel circuit through his territory west of the Mississippi. |
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by Oakley M. Hall
Consulted by a wealthy client whose mistress has been scandalously photographed, Ambrose Bierce and his sidekick, Tom Redmond, follow a trail that pits them against a ruthless pornography ring. |
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by Alma Katsu
An inventive reimagining of a grisly chapter in American history. Westward migration, murder, sensation: the story of the Donner Party has all this, which makes it, in its way, a quintessentially American story. |
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by Stephen King
Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Ruth McClintock is obsessed with the past. For nearly a decade, she has been studying Annie Oakley, convinced that the legendary sharpshooter experienced a scarring event in adolescence that led her to fight for the right of every American woman to own and operate a gun. This fruitless search has cost Ruth her doctorate, a book deal, and her fiancé.
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by Melissa Lenhardt
Margaret Parker and Hattie LaCour never intended to turn outlaw.
After being run off their ranch by a greedy cattleman, their family is left destitute. As women alone they have few choices: marriage, lying on their backs for money, or holding a gun. For Margaret and Hattie the choice is easy. |
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by Erin Lindsey It's the spring of 1887, and Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own as a detective, working alongside her partner, Thomas, as an agent of the special paranormal branch of the Pinkerton Agency. Things are going almost too well, so Rose is hardly surprised when Theodore Roosevelt descends on them like a storm cloud, hiring them for a mysterious job out West. |
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by Maxim Loskutoff
Omens and dreams punctuate the novel, including a particularly vivid dream involving moss and dead skin. An early reference to "her short life" hints at something terrible to come for Ruthie -- but the arc of this novel is anything but predictable. |
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by Josh Malerman
Carol Evers has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: they are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Her husband, who married Carol for her fortune, plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her . . . alive. |
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by Anna North
After a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, Ava's survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. available in alternate format(s) |
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by J. T. Petty
This is the real deal: a filthy, disease-ridden frontier populated by losers, lunatics, and murderers. And when you're a skinny teenager with no family and a name like Chester Kates, your options are limited. It's stand up and fight or roll over and die, so Chester, aka "Lady Kate," is set to fight until it kills him. |
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by Michael Punke
After being badly mauled by a grizzly bear, Hugh is left in the care of two comrades, who quickly decide that he's a goner and not worth waiting for. They take his rifle and knife and abandon him to die alone.
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