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1) Last sunset
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Young pragmatic psychologist Stacey Waters has been content to lead a sheltered-if not boring-life, but it dramatically changes when she starts dating an up-and-coming rock star and begins counseling her most challenging patient yet-a paranoid schizophrenic. Just when she feels she can at last be happy, she develops a disease that stumps her doctor, and a past she thought she'd buried comes back to haunt her. As her world spirals out of control, she...
10) Brave rider
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Jericho Buck is young, tough, and fearless, and has been burning across the western frontier like a prairie fire since he left home at 14. Now 21, Jericho finds his biggest adventures yet riding 100 miles a day through a desolate, hostile landscape for the famed Pony Express.
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Bill Shakespeare saddles up and rides west for this rough-and-tumble iambic adaptation of A Midsummer Nights Dream. Rival brothers Douglas and Lester fight for the delicate hand of Henrietta until trickster Coyotes magic flute makes them sweet on Henriettas best friend Helen. Lost in the woods and led astray under the spells, the four young lovers squabblethe love-struck boys fight over Helen, jealous Henrietta boils with anger and hapless Helen is...
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The smell of fresh cut grass, hot dogs and hamburgers sizzling on the grill, the hard feel of a rough cut bleacher seat underneath, even the smell of chalk line dust wafting in the breeze, and the pop of a baseball off a wooden bat spring forth from comforting memories of youth. That ball, its cork center wrapped in wool and cotton yarn with two pieces of figure eight cowhides held together with waxed red stitching creates a strong gravity in the...
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"Cowboy and humorist Stu Campbell has finally come out with another book of short stories of cowboy humor and perspective. Not that he hasn't been busy writing-this may be only his sixth book of humorous short stories, but he's written a total of nineteen books on cowboy life. And he teams up again with R. Loren Schmidt, whose illustrations grace the pages of this book." from back cover
15) Top hands
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"They were all good hands, the kind of cowboys--or buckaroos--that could work on any cow outfit. They didn't all arrive together, they just sorta drifted in, one at a time. Tom hired them on in January to help with the calving, even though it was early, There wasn't much riding to do, just go through the cattle each day looking for something that might be wrong. The cows weren't supposed to start calving until the middle of February. The ranch already...
16) Bon's echo
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Two runaway teens struggle to make it together on the streets, facing obstacles and adventures. They go from city to city with the constant fear of being brought in by the police.--Back cover.
17) The drifter
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Cowboy Pete Peterson is looking for work and finds it working on ranches, but doesn't stay long.
18) Deadly currents
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The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small townś economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. Turns out, it wasnt́ the rapids that killed him, he was murdered. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals. Mandyś world is upended again when tragedy strikes closer to home. Suspicious that...
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Stray Dogs on the Mountain brings the outside world to Maravilla County, Colorado. In the shadow of the San Juan Mountains, life alters little, and Redbow, the county seat, is a town stuck someplace just this side of the 1950s, no big box stores, fast food restaurants or strip malls. For a cowboy like Wade Peterson, this should be an ideal place to live. But for Wade every day is a reflection of the past, each a reminder of the guilt he feels over...
20) The loner
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"Meet Will Claxton, the loner, as he works his way across the West looking for long-term work, preferably north in the summer and farther south in the winter, where it's warmer. Along the way, he runs into trouble and could end up with the nickname "jailbird." In his own words, "I didn't know where I was going, but had begun to think that working on the dude ranch in the winter, branding calves in the spring, and packing salt during the summer might...