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Elmore Leonard: Westerns (LOA #308)

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598535624

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Elmore Leonard: Westerns (LOA #308) by Elmore Leonard Pdf

Library of America presents a definitive collection of classic Westerns by America's master modern crime writer One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic confrontations reveal a master at work. Whether describing a Civil War veteran coming back to find his homestead stolen (Last Stand at Saber River), a man raised by Apaches treated with contempt by the white settlers who will ultimately depend on him for their survival (Hombre), a local constable, tricked into killing an innocent man, fighting back against the powerful man who duped him (Valdez Is Coming), or two convicts in a desert prison--one African American and the other half-Apache--plotting a near-impossible escape (Forty Lashes Less One), Leonard's westerns are tough, suspenseful, convincing, and beautifully spare in style. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Hombre

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061832895

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Hombre by Elmore Leonard Pdf

“Although known for his mysteries, Elmore Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.” —USA Today Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as one of the very best crime fiction writers ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed masterworks of American western fiction to his credit—including Hombre, the basis for the classic Hollywood motion picture starring Paul Newman. Set in Arizona mining country, Hombre is the tale of a white man raised by Indians, who must come to the aid of people who hate him when their stagecoach is attacked by outlaws. As thrilling as his contemporary novels of crime, double-cross, and murder in Detroit and Miami, Hombre is Elmore Leonard at his riveting best—no less than one would expect from the creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Justified).

The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061795305

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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard by Elmore Leonard Pdf

The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned. Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. In these classic tales that span more than five decades—including the first story he ever published, “The Trail of the Apache”—Elmore Leonard once again demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that have made him one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.

Valdez Is Coming

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061835773

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Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard Pdf

Touching on the themes of the popular FX series Justified featuring U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, Valdez Is Coming is New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard's classic western tale of corruption, justice, and vengeance. Forced to gun down an innocent man, part-time sheriff Roberto Valdez is nearly killed and run out of town when he seeks justice for the dead man’s family. But the same townsfolk who laughed at Valdez’s dark skin, mocked his decency, and tied him to a cross will find themselves on the wrong side of a gun when the lawman comes back to deliver his own brand of justice.

Prince John Magruder

Author : Paul D. Casdorph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038172592

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Prince John Magruder by Paul D. Casdorph Pdf

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Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Delta
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023090298

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Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2 by Elmore Leonard Pdf

"Escape From Five Shadows: It was supposed to be impossible. No man could break out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows. Until they locked up Bowen. He was like dynamite--charged to go off, to explode out of that desert hell so he could clear his name. Already the deadly trackers have caught him, dragged him back through the mesquite and rocks, beat him and left him to rot in the punishment cell. But they can't stop Bowen. He's a different breed, a man who will go to any extreme to escape. Any extreme. "Last Stand at Saber River: A one-armed man stood before Denaman's store, and the girl named Luz was scared. Paul Cable could see that from the rise two hundred yards away, just as he could see that everything had changed while he was away fighting for the Confederacy. He just didn't know how much. Cable and his family rode down to Denaman's store and faced the one-armed man. Then they heard the story, about the Union Army and two brothers--and a beautiful woman--who had taken over Cable's spread and weren't going to give it back. For Paul Cable the war hadn't ended at all. Among the men at Saber River, some would be his enemies, some might have been his friends, but no one was going to take his future away--not with words, not with treachery, and not with guns "The Law at Randado: Kirby Frye was a local boy come home again--with a badge and a reputation in some circles. But to the men with money in Randado, Kirby Frye meant nothing. Twelve upstanding citizens, prompted by a hard-drinking, free-spending cattleman, hanged two of Kirby's prisoners behind his back. Then they laughed in his face. Frye was young, but he was no fool. He took their taunts, took their hiredmen's blows, and waited. For with a hotheaded sheriff from Tucson and a breed tracker on Kirby's side, it would be three men against many. And what they didn't know about Kirby Frye was that three against many was good enough for him--good enough to go up against their guns, good enough to bring the law back to Randado, and good enough to drive a rich man to his knees.

The Poacher’s Daughter

Author : Michael Zimmer
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504725767

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The Poacher’s Daughter by Michael Zimmer Pdf

The Poacher’s Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. It is a novel you won’t soon forget. In 1885 young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely independent, Rose begins a two-year odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood, a land she once traveled with her father, an itinerant robe trader among the Assiniboines and Blackfeet. But the old ways of the hunter and trapper are disappearing as Europeans flood the ranges with vast herds of cattle. With an aging roan gelding named Albert as her closest friend, Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population, both native and white, as she stubbornly pushes back against the invading aristocracy.

Forty Lashes Less One

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061841439

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Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard Pdf

The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they'll stay behind bars until they're dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there's hope. And for two hard and hated inmates -- first enemies, then allies by necessity -- it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona's five most dangerous men.

Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Delta
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023109288

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Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3 by Elmore Leonard Pdf

"Valdez Is Coming: The shotgun went off aimed at the wrong man, held in the wrong man's hands. A crowd had gathered to drink and laugh and shoot down at the old shack where a supposed killer was hiding out. Then Bob Valdez, humble town constable and stage-line shotgun rider, walked down to the shack. Moments later Valdez had killed an innocent man, and the crowd, sapped of its bloodlust, wandered off. But for Bob Valdez it was far from over. He wanted the wealthy landowner who had enginnered the scene to give the dead man's woman money for a wrongful death. They laughed at Bob Valdez. They taunted him and beat him until Valdez had no choice but to come back to them again. Only this time Valdez was coming with three guns--three guns and the will to teach a rich man's army how costly atonement can get. "Hombre: Set in Arizona mining country, "Hombre is the story of a stagecoach held up by outlaws. One of the passengers, John Russell, is a white man who was raised partly by Apache Indians, and knows first hand the indignities suffered by them at the hands of the whites who control the reservations. He has also learned to live and fight like an Apache. Combatting the outlaws, Russell finds himself faced with the decision of whether to save only himself or to save his fellow white passengers. John Russell becomes the key player in a drama examining man's responsibilities to his fellow man, acted out on a dusty stage in America's Wild West.

Slicky Boys

Author : Martin Lim#n
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478042

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Slicky Boys by Martin Lim#n Pdf

The second Sergeant George Sueño investigation, follow-up to the New York Times Notable Jade Lady Burning The Slicky Boys rule the back alleys of 1970s Seoul. They can kill a man in a thousand gruesome ways. And you’ll never even see them coming. In order to combat the poverty facing South Korea, they sneak onto well-stocked American military compounds to steal, murder anyone in their way, and vanish. US Army Sergeant George Sueño and his partner, Ernie Bascom, take on the perilous mission of infiltrating this underground criminal syndicate when an innocent favor for an Itaewon bar girl leads to murder.

A Cry for Rodney

Author : JEW
Publisher : A Cry for Rodney
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 166781334X

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A Cry for Rodney by JEW Pdf

Rodney grows up in the ghetto of Camden New Jersey not loving himself because he is raised to look down on the flaws of his race. Through the ups and down of the story you will be able to receive a message of self awareness of the same principles Rodney endures.

Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015079237098

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Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190) by Lafcadio Hearn Pdf

The writings of Hearn's American years reveal an omnivorous curiosity and an always eclectic sensibility. Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) is a stylized retelling of ancient legends, foreshadowing Hearn's later fascination with Asian themes. The exquisitely crafted novels Chita (1889), about the devastation wrought by a Louisiana hurricane, and Youma (1890) about a slave rebellion in Martinique, epitomize his writing at its most luxuriantly romantic. His extraordinary travel book Two Years in the French West Indies (1890) provides a richly impressionistic account of his long stay on Martinique and other Caribbean islands.

Captain America

Author : Nick Spencer
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302497088

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Captain America by Nick Spencer Pdf

CollectsÿCaptain America: Sam Wilson #14-18. The world has received an ULTIMATUM: Peace in our time... or face the fury of The Flag-Smasher! Guest-starring Steve Rogers: Captain America!

Gunsights and Forty Lashes Less One

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062877119

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Gunsights and Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard Pdf

From New York Times Bestselling Author Elmore Leonard come two of his early, beloved westerns–now collected in one volume GUNSIGHTS Together, Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked down Apaches and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they find themselves fierce adversaries in what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and the “People of the Mountain” from their land. Which of these former friends-turned-foes will triumph in the end? FORTY LASHES LESS ONE The hell called Yuma Territorial Prison can destroy the soul of any man. It’s worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and former black soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they’ll stay behind bars until they’re dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there’s hope. Now for two detested inmates—first enemies, then allies by necessity—their chance at salvation waits at the end of a mad, violent contest . . . on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona’s five most dangerous men.

Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061981043

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Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard Pdf

The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned. Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. In these classic tales that span more than five decades—including the first story he ever published, “The Trail of the Apache”—Elmore Leonard once again demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that have made him one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.