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List created by Linda T. (snigglefitz) - , on Mar 1, 2015
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Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War by Newt Gingrich & William Forstchen
The Civil War is the American Iliad. Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson, Grant, and Lee still stand as heroic ideals, as stirring to our national memory as were the legendary Achilles and Hector to the world of the ancient Greeks. Within the story of our Iliad one battle stands forth above all others:...  more


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Never Call Retreat (Civil War, Bk 3) by Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen &...
The New York Times bestselling authors of Gettysburg continue their inventive series with this remarkable answer to the great “what-if” of the American Civil War: After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee’s attempt to bring the war to...  more


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Grant Comes East (Civil War Trilogy, Bk 2) by Newt Gingrich & William Forstchen
Grant Comes East, the second book in the bestselling series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, continues the story of a Confederate victory at Gettysburg. The first book examined the great "what if" of American history: Could Lee have won the Battle of Gettysburg? A Confederate victory,...  more


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Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, Bk 1) by Zane Grey
Initially published in 1912 and the first of Zane Grey's many best-sellers, this stirring tale of adventure in the high country established the prototype for western novels of the twentieth century. The plot's focus is a proud young heroine who's determined to defend her Utah ranch....  more


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The Kingdom (Fargo Adventures, Bk 3) by Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood
A search for a missing father and son. A find that could rewrite human history. Sam and Remi Fargo aren’t about to give up on either. Sam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series. In Spartan Gold and Lost Empire, Clive Cussler brought...  more


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The Jungle (Oregon Files, Bk 8) by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul
Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Juan Cabrillo and the...  more


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Vixen 03 (Dirk Pitt, Bk 4) by Clive Cussler
1954: Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday Bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988: Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic,...  more


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Crescent Dawn (Dirk Pitt, Bk 21) (Large Print) by Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie...  more


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The Lonesome Gods by Louis L'Amour
The Lonesome Gods is Louis L'Amour's biggest and most important historical novel to date, a sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of...  more


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The Doomsday Key (Sigma Force, Bk 6) by James Rollins
At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a bio-hazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the...  more


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The Gunfighters by Bill Pronzini
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Desert Gold by Zane Grey
You'll find romance, adventure, and all of the stark beauty of the Old West in Zane Grey's Desert Gold. Richard Gale, the hapless son of a businessman, arrives in the Arizona border country hoping for a new start. Meeting up with an old friend who is now a Texas Ranger, he soon finds himself...  more


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The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey
western, library withdrawn


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Crusader Gold (Jack Howard, Bk 2) by David Gibbins
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the last days of Nazi power, marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team of adventurers are hot on the trail of history’s most elusive and desired treasure: the lost golden menorah of Jerusalem. And what they discover could change the world...  more


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Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt, Bk 4) by Clive Cussler
The President's secret task force develops the ultimate defensive weapon. At its core: byzanium, a radioactive element so rare sufficient quantities have never been found. But a frozen American corpse on a desolate Soviet mountainside, a bizarre mining accident in Colorado, and a...  more


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The Raiders of Spanish Peaks by Zane Grey
Three for one, and one for three! Laramie had saved Lonesome from hangin' and had helped bust Williams out of jail. Now they were as close as brothers, and their fame as "The Three Range Riders" spread over the prairies. Their plan was to start their own ranch when they had earned enough money....  more


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Rogue River Feud by Zane Grey
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Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest by Clark
This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above....  more


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Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, Bk 14) by Clive Cussler
Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt? -- in a masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high seas and the Mississippi River that can only enhance his status as the grand master of...  more


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Serpent (NUMA Files, Bk 1) by Clive Cussler & Paul Kemprecos
When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the...  more


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Deadly Day in Tombstone (Texas John Slaughter, Bk 2) by William W. Johnstone & J....
Enticed by the biggest poker tourney the west has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless card players is gathering at Tombstone.


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Terror of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man, Bk 42) by William W. Johnstone & J. A. ...
Smoke Jensen has come to Corpus Christi, Texas, to take delivery of five hundred horses he purchased from an old friend. That's when a Mexican revolutionary, Colonel Bustamante Keno, brazenly crashes the border, slaughters twenty-two innocent U.S. citizens in cold blood, and steals a...  more


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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "Those old cows knew...  more


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The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey
1924. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The novel begins: Late in June the vast northwestern desert of wheat began to take on a tinge of gold, lending an austere beauty to that endless, rolling, smooth world of treeless hills, where miles of fallow...  more


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Preacher's Blood Hunt (First Mountain Man, Bk 20) by William W. Johnstone & J. A....
It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game -- it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthless band of killers, and most...  more


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To The Last Man by Zane Grey
The Graham-Tewskbury feud on which To The Last Man is based is as legendary out West as the Hatfield-McCoy feud is back East. Zane Grey, of course, adds his own twist to the facts, but over-all this is probably the most accurate accounting there will ever be, as Zane Grey was able to talk to...  more


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Spirit of the Mountain Man / Ordeal of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
Spirit of the Mountain Man A hard term in Yuma Prison gave Ralph Tinsdale and his sidekicks some time to work up a deep hatred for Smoke Jensen, the man who put them there. Now having escaped, they possess a posse of 40 men and the price on Smoke Jensen's head is 20 grand. With Jensen's wife...  more


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The Mayan Secrets (Fargo Adventure, Bk 5) by Clive Cussler & Thomas Perry
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico when they come upon a remarkable discovery—the mummified remainsof a man clutching an ancient sealed pot. Within the pot is a Mayan book larger than any known before. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, their...  more


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Stranger from the Tonto (A Zane Grey western) by Zane Grey
Lost in the Sonora Desert, Kent Wingfield makes an oath to a dying gold prospector that sends him to a canyon in Utah to fulfill his vow and save a damsel in distress from a man named Bonesteel. Reprint.


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Hell's Half Acre by William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone
Sheriff Jess Casey confronts a gang-run empire of booze, prostitution, and gunfights when he takes charge of Fort Worth Texas.


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