Forty West

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Alice Day Pratt
Animals of a Sagebrush Ranch
“I hope readers will be delighted by these stories, which fully inhabit each animal from the smallest newly hatched chick to the wisest mother cow and the most faithful ranch dog and the wiliest coyote.” ―Rosanne Parry, from the Foreword In this classic collection of charming tales from 1931,...
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Michael Crichton
Timeline: A Novel
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headq...
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Dean Swift
The Ladies Lottery: Or, a new Scheme for a ten Thousand Pound Fortune. Written by Dean Swift
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to...
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Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Bobby Bobolink: Tuck-me-In Tales
The Tale of Bobby Bobolink - Tuck-me-In Tales is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Arthur Scott Bailey is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Arthur Scott Bailey then we hi...
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Larry Serfozo
The Dark Dynasty: A Contemporary Satire
Former professional engineer and real estate investor turned fiction writer, Larry Serfozo is the author of twenty novels and three volumes of short stories. He lives in Florida and has a second home in Darien, Connecticut. In this title Larry offers a satirical view of an imaginary country divided ...
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Fay Hoh Yin
Riding with the Wind: Three Generations of My Family in China
In Riding with the Wind, Fay Hoh Yin paints an indelible portrait of three generations of her family in China as the imperial era ends and war with Japan begins. Her parents are among the first young people to escape the archaic traditions of foot binding and arranged marriage, then use their newfou...
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Nan Shepherd
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)
In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures ...
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John R. Erickson
Porch Talk: A Conversation About Archaeology in the Texas Panhandle
When John Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog book series, saved up and purchased a tract of Panhandle property near Perryton, it set off a chain of discovery. Who lived in Texas over a thousand years ago? In Porch Talk , John Erickson and his archaeologist friend Doug Boyd investigate this que...
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John C. Duval
The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter
At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure and certainly made a major impact on the early history of Texas. As a nineteen year old he had heard that one of his brothers had been killed in the Battle of Goliad, an early confrontation in the Tex...
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Rex Stout
Murder by the Book (Nero Wolfe)
“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”— The New York Times Book Review Introduction by David Handler It wasn’t Leonard Dykes’s writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a ...
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Jesse P. Pollack
The Acid King (Simon True)
Real stories. Real teens. Real consequences. A murder in a small Long Island town reveals the dark secrets lurking behind the seemingly peaceful façade in this latest installment of the Simon True series. On June 19, 1984, seventeen-year-old Ricky Kasso murdered Gary Lauwers in what local pol...
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Patrick Bond
Fanons Warning
Is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) a genuine blueprint for Africa's recovery? The question arises not least because some things don't add up. NEPAD argues that if Africa's "enormous potential and human resources are properly harnessed and utilized, it could lead to equitable and...
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Amy Law
Natural History of Trail Ridge Road, A: Rocky Mountain National Park's Highway to the Sky
Constructed from 1929 to 1932 and opened to tourists and drivers the following year, Trail Ridge Road earned immediate inclusion among the scenic wonders of the world. The new path through the park followed the ancient trail across Tombstone Ridge and offered visitors breathtaking views and a privil...
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Jim Dent
Monster of the Midway: Bronko Nagurski, the 1943 Chicago Bears, and the Greatest Comeback Ever
Jim Dent's Monster of the Midway is the story of football's fiercest competitor, the legendary Bronko Nagurski. From his discovery in the middle of a Minnesota field to his 1943 comeback season at Wrigley, from the University of Minnesota to the Hall of Fame, Bronko Nagurksi's life is a story of g...
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Sammye J. Meadows
Lewis & Clark For Dummies
The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group’s journals and maps, and also discusses...
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George D. Smith
An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton (Volume 1)
William Clayton is best remembered today for his hymns, especially “Come, Come Ye Saints.” But as one of the earliest Latter-day Saint scribes, he made intellectual as well as artistic contributions to his church, and his records have been silently incorporated into official Mormon scripture and...
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Michael S. Neiberg
Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service
This book examines the Reserve Officers Training Corps program as a distinctively American expression of the social, cultural, and political meanings of military service. Since 1950, ROTC has produced nearly two out of three American active duty officers, yet there has been no comprehensive scholarl...
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Vincent Di Maio
Morgue
"[AN] ENGROSSING LOOK BEHIND THE HEADLINES OF NOTORIOUS HOMICIDES."― PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) In this clear-eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the...
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Peter A. Galuszka
Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
"Scathing exposé of the coal industry." -- The New York Times Book Review On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years―a disaster that never...
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John P Williams
Montgomery Bell: Tennessee Frontier Capitalist
The name Montgomery Bell is well known to residents of Davidson County and the greater middle Tennessee region. Montgomery Bell State Park is located in Dickson County, forty minutes west of Nashville, and Nashville is home to Montgomery Bell Academy. Both were named for the successful 19th century ...
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