Desperadoes
ISBN: 9780060976989 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his posse committed. The grit and excitement of these violent times are expertly evoked by the sharp pen and authentic voice of HarperCollins' bestselling author Ron Hansen.
At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. D...
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67,49 zł |
Smonk: Or Widow Town
ISBN: 9780061142772 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E. O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men, all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over-and-under rifle. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty, and goitered--an expert with explosives and knives--Smonk hates horses, goats, and the Irish, and it's high time he was stopped. But capturing old Smonk won't be easy--and putting him on trial could have shocking and disastrous consequences, considering the terrible secret... It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E. O. Smonk has been destroying property, kill... |
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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
ISBN: 9780061242922 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontier--elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue. No author has ever written more evocatively of the dusty, gutsy heyday of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This complete collection of his thirty-one Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between. From his very first story ever... Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America'... |
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84,38 zł |
Cabin Fever
ISBN: 9781517293406 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bud Moore enters into a partnership with a prospector in the Western wilderness and looks forward to a life of adventure and fortune. Little does he know how much soul-searching will go on in the cabin they share, especially when a child enters their lives and changes their destinies. The prolific author B.M. Bower lived on a number of Western ranches and farms in her day and was intimately acquainted with the creeping solitude that can surround those who spend time alone on the range. In Cabin Fever, Bower weaves a subtle psychological thriller into the familiar Western landscape that serves...
Bud Moore enters into a partnership with a prospector in the Western wilderness and looks forward to a life of adventure and fortune. Little does he k...
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
ISBN: 9780140390650 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The epic novel of the American West and the heroic cowboy
Owen Wister's powerful story of the tall, silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil has become an enduring part of American mythology. Set in Wyoming Territory, The Virginiandepicts the loneliness and challenge of an unknown land where the whistle of a freight train sounds across great miles of silence, where easy camaraderie and sudden violence are found around the campfire, and where the rough honesty of "frontier justice" is just beginning to impose a sense of society on an... The epic novel of the American West and the heroic cowboy
Owen Wister's powerful story of the tall, silent stranger who rides into the unci... |
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59,09 zł |
Halo
ISBN: 9780156001137 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A tale of the Old West as it has seldom been imagined before-authentic, frontier-harsh, and ethereal. Scrag, a young man on the trail to Oregon, meets Justly, a young woman, and her mother and is drawn into their lives. Winner of the David Higham Prize as the best first novel published in the U.K. or British Commonwealth.
A tale of the Old West as it has seldom been imagined before-authentic, frontier-harsh, and ethereal. Scrag, a young man on the trail to Oregon, meets...
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92,65 zł |
Fencing the Sky
ISBN: 9780312267346 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From critically acclaimed author of The Meadow comes a haunting novel of the American West. Circumstances spiral out of control when an accidental murder springs from the best intentions. With one man dead and another on the run, this is a story about violence and how it destroys lives when the land is at stake. This lyrical first novel--long-awaited by the many admirers of James Galvin's The Meadow--is nothing less than the story of the disappearance of the American West. From critically acclaimed author of The Meadow comes a haunting novel of the American West. Circumstances spiral out of control when a... |
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88,64 zł |
American West: Twenty New Stories from the Western Writers of America
ISBN: 9780312872816 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once, there was a world where the heroes were defined by their white clothing and the bad guys always wore black. The town sheriff always gunned down the wild gunslinger while the lady in distress cowered. The Indian was to be feared, not understood, and the white man always saved the day. This was the traditional Western. But times change, as did the Western. The evolving Western is told from the point of view of blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, Gentiles, Mormons, Catholics, women, and men. It is about America; it is about life. Whether a story's central element is... Once, there was a world where the heroes were defined by their white clothing and the bad guys always wore black. The town sheriff always gunned do... |
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80,16 zł |
Valdez Is Coming
ISBN: 9780380822232 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First in the "New York Times" bestselling author's classic Western series. Part-time constable Robert Valdez was sent to deal with a man holed up in a shack with a gun--and was set up with no choice but to gun the man down! Valdez killed an innocent man, and when he asked for justice, Valdez was beaten and left for dead. Now he's returned, and the powerful men who set him up begin to die.
First in the "New York Times" bestselling author's classic Western series. Part-time constable Robert Valdez was sent to deal with a man holed up in a...
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29,51 zł |
The Medicine Knife
ISBN: 9780385235211 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Elk-Dog People have two new members, former soldiers in the French Army. Fully assimilated into the tribe, they travel to Santa Fe to help the group trade pelts. But soon trouble starts, and the new tribesmen must defend their people.Don Coldsmith's detailed description of the Elk-Dog People and the harrowing journey to Santa Fe show why he is one of the best authors in western-adventure fiction."
The Elk-Dog People have two new members, former soldiers in the French Army. Fully assimilated into the tribe, they travel to Santa Fe to help the gro...
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63,32 zł |
Little Big Man
ISBN: 9780385298292 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated. So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man s extraordinary double life.
After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, he feasts on dog, loves four wives, and sees his people butchered by horse soldiers commanded by... The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated. So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thom...
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71,76 zł |
Border Empire,The
ISBN: 9780451192097 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A man sets out to Mexico to avenge his father's death in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.
Nathan Stone, the man they called The Gunfighter, lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. The Sandlin gang kicked up that dust as they rode back laughing into Mexico, where the U.S. law couldn't touch them and local law didn't want to. Behind him Nathan Stone left his horse, his Winchester, his custom-made Colts, and his name. The son who had grown up without him took them all. His name is Wes Stone. He used to be a lawman, but when he picks up his... A man sets out to Mexico to avenge his father's death in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.
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35,93 zł |
The Seekers
ISBN: 9780451212498 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 527 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third installment of Jakes's classic story of the Kent family finds Abraham Kent seeking to build a new life on the Western frontier. This repackaged edition includes a new Introduction by the author. Reissue.
The third installment of Jakes's classic story of the Kent family finds Abraham Kent seeking to build a new life on the Western frontier. This repacka...
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Bullet Creek
ISBN: 9780451216151 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gunslinger is forced out of retirement in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.
Tom Navarro, a hostler at the Bar-V Ranch, has retired his gun-slinging boots to find peace of mind. As much as he enjoys working for Paul Vannorsdell, owner and operator of Bar-V, Navarro has plans of moving up north with the woman he loves to open his own ranch and create a new life for himself. Vannorsdell, too, has big dreams: he wants to buy the Rancho de Cava from an old friend, Don Francisco, so he can become one of the largest landholders in Southern Arizona.... A gunslinger is forced out of retirement in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.
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The Argonauts of North Liberty
ISBN: 9781517242138 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless on the seventh, when the Sabbath sun, after vainly trying to coax a smile of reciprocal kindliness from the drawn curtains and half-closed shutters of the austere dwellings and the equally sealed and hard-set churchgoing faces of the people, at last settled down into a blank stare of stony astonishment.
The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was al...
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30,85 zł |
The Shadow Riders
ISBN: 9780553231328 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn the nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives...but one man held their future hostage.
Colonel Henry T. Ashford had gathered an army of criminals and renegade soldiers, leading them on a path of destruction and kidnapping through Texas to the Gulf. Among Ashford's captives were the Travens' sister and Dal's tough-minded fiancee, Kate. Now Mac and Dal must take up arms once again and ride together against Ashford's army--ready to fight another... Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn the nation in two. They w...
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Tucker: A Novel
ISBN: 9780553250220 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If a man won't fight for what is rightly his, then he ain't much account." With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends. Dreaming of adventure, Tucker had wanted to join their gang. But now, with his father gone and the people back home desperately in need of the proceeds from the cattle drive, Shell was determined to uphold his father's reputation and recover their money. He knew the odds were against him. Finding...
"If a man won't fight for what is rightly his, then he ain't much account." With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out aft...
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35,93 zł |
Rivers West
ISBN: 9780553254365 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman's search to find her missing brother, and a ruthless band of renegades. Led by the brazen Baron Torville, this makeshift army of opportunists is plotting a violent takeover of the Louisiana Territory. Jean swears to find a way to stop this daring plan. If he doesn't, it will not only put an end to all his dreams; it will change the course of history--and destroy the promise of the American...
His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled ...
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The Daybreakers
ISBN: 9780553276749 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A magnificent saga of American fiction, the Sacketts series is one of the greatest treasures by legendary storyteller Louis L'Amour. In The Daybreakers, L'Amour spins the tale of two brothers who couldn't be more different -- yet remain bound by their restlessness of spirit.
"RIDE WITH THE LAW, NEVER AGAINST IT". You had to push to start a fight with Orrin Sackett, but not with his brother, Tyrel. Tye had been born to trouble, and the night he stepped between his brother and a bullet changed the course of both their lives forever. Now their trail pointed west, to Santa Fe, a frontier town... A magnificent saga of American fiction, the Sacketts series is one of the greatest treasures by legendary storyteller Louis L'Amour. In The Daybreaker...
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33,73 zł |
Lonely on the Mountain
ISBN: 9780553276787 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L'Amour's solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together--to save one of their own. The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can't drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett's every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies. Tell...
In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L'Amour's solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together--to save one of their own. The rare le...
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