Terence Aselford
1) Coolidge
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English
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A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.
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English
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In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.
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English
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"In the 1960s [and 1970s], Americans sought the same goals many seek now: an end to poverty, higher standards of living for the middle class, a better environment, and more access to health care and education. Then, too, we debated socialism and capitalism, public sector reform versus private sector advancement. Time and again, whether under John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, or Richard Nixon, the country chose the public sector. Yet the targets of...
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HarperSanFrancisco
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English
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Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest. Coming to prayer is like coming home, Foster says. "Nothing feels...
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Graphic Audio
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[2014]
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English
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These are not the Avengers or the Fantastic Four-in fact, they're barely even famous-but Rocket Raccoon and the faithful Groot are the baddest heroes in the cosmos, and they're on the run across the Marvel Universe! During a spaceport brawl, the infamous pair rescues an android Recorder from a pack of alien Badoons. Everyone in the galaxy, however, including the ruthless Kree Empire and the stalwart Nova Corps, seems to want that Recorder, who's about...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"A mysterious force is moving through reality, destroying all life in its wake. The world's greatest super heroes, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and thousands of others are confronted with their greatest challenge: stopping this inter-dimensional threat before it destroys all life everywhere! To stop this threat, they must ally themselves with the most dangerous super-villains. If they fail, more than 3,000 universes and untold trillions...
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Forge
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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1818: In the Gulf waters off the Texas coast, the pirate Jean Lefitte and his partner Jim Bowie launch an attack on the Mother Mary, a slave ship carrying an invaluable treasure. The Present: Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong finds herself investigating the murder of the oil rig crew that had found the long-lost wreckage of the Mother Mary. Caitlin Strong, a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, sometimes works as a psychological therapist, in...
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Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
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NYLA
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adventure in the Innkeeper Chronicles! We invite you to relax, enjoy yourself, and above all, remember the one rule all visitors must obey: the humans must never know.
Life is busier than ever for Innkeeper, Dina DeMille and Sean Evans. But it's about to get even more chaotic when Sean's werewolf mentor is kidnapped. To find him, they must...
Life is busier than ever for Innkeeper, Dina DeMille and Sean Evans. But it's about to get even more chaotic when Sean's werewolf mentor is kidnapped. To find him, they must...
10) Talons of eagles
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Pub.Corp
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
DIVIDED THEY FALL
Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister fought his way to manhood on an odyssey that took him from the Alamo to Colorado to the goldfields of California. Now, the United States is divided against itself-North against South, brother against brother, father against son. With his own sons fighting on opposing sides, MacCallister leads his Confederate Marauders into battle from...
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Mountain man ; 10
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English
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Clint Black ran the biggest cattle operation in Montana. His Circle 45 spread controlled the best water, the richest graze, and he had his own personal army of cutthroats. And he didn't like competition. Only a fool could fail to see trouble when Smoke Jensen brought 3,500 head up from Colorado to sell to Black's neighbor. When Clint's greed overcomes his common sense and he butchers Smoke's entire crew, Smoke will seek a vengeance never before seen...
12) Savage Texas
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English
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"Sam Heller and Johnny Cross are Hangtree, Texas' newest citizens. Heller is a former Yankee soldier, a deadly shot, and a believer in right from wrong. Cross is a gun for hire with dark dreams of wealth and power-- at any cost. Hangtree, with its rich grazing land and nearby mineral deposits, soon erupts in murderous violence. By fate and by choice, these two strangers will find themselves on opposite sides of the law." --
13) The stampeders
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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"When a lovely lady steps off a dusty stagecoach in Hangtree, the hardest heart skips a beat--and Sam Heller falls hard for her. What Hangtree doesn't know, however, is that Julia Pepperday isn't who she pretends to be. She is the daughter of the late Black Ear Skinner, a notorious outlaw who wanted his only child to have all the advantages in life and sent her back east. Black Ear Skinner's apple hasn't fallen far from the tree, though. Julia has...
14) Imposter
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The New York Times bestselling author William W. Johnstone delivers the powerful story of a lone man's journey across the wild west—among outlaws, adventurers, and brave men and women building a new land.
Imposter
With his legend dogging him everywhere he goes, Frank Morgan longs for a place to settle down. His choice is a remote corner...
The New York Times bestselling author William W. Johnstone delivers the powerful story of a lone man's journey across the wild west—among outlaws, adventurers, and brave men and women building a new land.
Imposter
With his legend dogging him everywhere he goes, Frank Morgan longs for a place to settle down. His choice is a remote corner...
15) Winchester 1886
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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"Deputy U.S. Marshall Jimmy Mann hunts for the outlaw who robbed a train in Texas tracking the only clue he has, the prized and highly coveted Winchester 1886." --
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Only one man can mete out justice on the unforgiving frontier. First in the Preacher series from the New York Times bestselling western author.
He's known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he's as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never...
He's known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he's as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never...
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Listen & Live Audio, Inc
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English
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The Mafia. La Cosa Nostra. The underground, and often not-so-underground, organization and syndicate of criminal activity that has been a part of American history for the past century. Forget television and movies, hear the true stories of the inner workings of his chaotic, violent, and surprisingly human world, a world of respect, tradition, and honor.
18) Shot in the back
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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When a 95-year-old man walks into a recruiting office in 1942 determined to enlist and claiming to be the one and only Jesse James, the wildest story the West has never known begins, in an exciting new twist on the legend of the notorious outlaw who just might not have died on that fateful April 3, 1882.
19) Dead shot
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2013
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English
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Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo, but before he can collect the bounty, two notorious criminals hit the bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick, Dog Eater. Unfortunately, young would-be man hunter Hobie McCullough is after them, too. With a green kid to protect, renegade Mexican soldiers, and a beautiful runaway bride crossing Luke's trail, the blood hunt takes one deadly detour after another . . ....
20) A reason to die
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English
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"When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure." --