Ralph Compton's Runaway Stage


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Quince Fremont is wanted for a robbery and murder he didn't commit. Rachel Kinkaid returns from Boston to her family's ranch. Damon Parker is suspected of gambling in almost every saloon in the West. Their fates are tied on the journey of one stagecoach--and the $100,000 cargo inside that can solve their problems or create more.




Ralph Compton Riders of Judgment


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The Strange siblings are on the hunt for justice in this Ralph Compton western. In her guise as “Danny Duggin,” Danielle Strange has spent the past two years hunting down the outlaws who murdered her father. Reunited with her brothers, the twins Tim and Jed, she plans to take her war across the border into Mexico—unaware she's being pursued by a U.S. federal marshall.... Saul Delmano comes from a powerful family of cattlemen whose business stretches from the Southwestern territories into Mexico. He's put a $2,000 reward on Danny Duggin's head, tempting every outlaw and bounty hunter across the West to try to collect it. But the cry of vengeance has been shouted out—and only justice can silence it. More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!




Trailsman #249, The:


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Skye Fargo finds out why Silver City is known for its lead... Skye Fargo successfully delivers a party of silver-hungry pioneers to the desert boomtown of Virginia City, Nevada. But lady luck turns tail when Fargo moseys smack dab into the middle of a war between watering holes—two rival saloons where anyone can get dead drunk on shots of whiskey, or lead.




Trailsman #247, The:


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Skye Fargo fights a family of killer kidnappers... Meet the Swill family. Nine bad brothers and a decrepit dad who are bleeding the town of Le Bois dry, along with anyone who gets in their way. But then the Trailsman hits town and vows to put the Swills in a family plot on Boot Hill...




Trailsman #245, The;


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Skye Fargo faces the fury of a killer clan in the lethal Lone Star State... After Fargo trades lethal lead with a Texas prairie punk, he finds himself the target of the dead man's kinfolk-and they're aimin' to hang his hide no matter what.




Love Among the Ruins


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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter. When Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities. Love Among the Ruins is a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series.




Literary Afterlife


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This is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.







No Logo


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"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.




A Company of Swans


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A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction by Joanna Nadin. Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down . . . 'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson . . . her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' Nigella Lawson, The Times Rediscover Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, in her sweeping historical romances, including The Morning Gift, A Song For Summer and The Secret Countess, originally published as A Countess Below Stairs, Magic Flutes, originally published as The Reluctant Heiress, Madensky Square and A Company of Swans.