Resultados Editorial "Audio Holdings LLC" en Literatura y ficción

At 62 Sheriff Clint Benbow is not a sound sleeper. He is awakened one night by the tremors of an explosion, and learns it came from the local bank. It is now his duty to venture into the blizzard outside and apprehend the robbers, but at his age the job seems impossible.

Ralph Olmstead has found life hard in central Oregon in 1904. Three masked men have held up the Bend-Klamath mail stage four miles north of Burnt Creek. A 500 dollar reward is being offered for their apprehension. That money could make the difference between ruin and survival.

Dave Cray and Gramps, after the end of the Civil War, moved east from Oregon to settle a new and bountiful territory. What they did, they did with their hands, but they had no money. Smiling Jim Sully opened a store there, and he had money but allowed the farmers to barter hay for goods. But Smiling Jim had other ideas; he wanted the farmer's lands. Dave Cray had his desire: Smiling Jim's daughter, Ann. It was a spark and a fire that brought all sides into a heated confrontation. How will anyone come out of it alive?

Blister Jones is a horse trainer by profession and a gentleman by instinct, working the horse tracks. How Blister Jones acquired his remarkable nickname and how even more remarkably he managed to acquire his winnings after a race at the old Latonia Racetrack is uncovered in this surprising story.

A 30-something rancher, Adrienne Chastain, both a mother and a grandmother, sees her daughter and one of her granddaughters killed in an Indian raid. She, her young son, and two other granddaughters are captured. Her son is subsequently killed by the Kiowa war chief Satanta, and one of the granddaughters is taken away by a band of Comanches, the Kiowa's allies.

This second and exciting volume of original crime mystery audio provides four hours and another eight stories filled with menace, murder, and mayhem from Ed Gorman, Robert J. Randisi, Christine Matthews, Benjamin M. Schutz, Maxine O'Callaghan, Marlys Millhiser, Marcia Muller, and John Lutz.

This second volume of How the West Was Read, features eight original Western stories written specifically for audio and delivers more of the best of contemporary Western writing.

How the West was Read features eight original Western stories written specifically for audio. This collection is guaranteed to rope in fans of the Western genre. Featuring: "The Alchemist" by Loren D. Estleman, "Backtrack" by Ed Gorman, "Bareknuckler" by Fred Mean, "The Wish Book" by James Reasoner, "Mrs. Crawford's Odyssey" by Deborah Morgan, "Between the Mountains and the Sky" by L. J. Washburn, "Red Feather's Daughter" by W. W. Lee, and "A Tall Man Hangs from a Sort Rope" by Robert J. Randisi.

From alien invaders to journeys to distant worlds to Earth the day after tomorrow, science fiction stories have been the inspiration for some of the best and the worst movies and television shows. Sometimes the films have offered extremely accurate depictions of classic and award-winning science fiction stories, sometimes they've departed radically from the works on which they are based.

The War Between the States is synonymous with romance, tragedy, bravery, and lost causes. The terrible war nearly tore the nation apart. The United States survived, though at a terrible cost. Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, people are still fascinated by this pivotal point in history. Writers, too, find this a fruitful period to investigate. In Civil War Fantastic, some of science fiction’s finest writers take us back to this turbulent time with their own special visions of what might have been.

The Western world’s finest criminal investigator is on the case and is soon pursuing his quarry across Germany. But the hunter will become the hunted - and Desert Fire will soar to its spectacular climax.

Barbara Chessner is down on her luck, up several dress sizes, drowning herself in Bloody Mary’s and, worst of all, has just been dumped by her husband. Tired of living the life of a woman in a "before" ad, Barbara stumbles outside amid a thunderstorm and beseeches heaven to help her, unaware that someone diabolical might be listening. The next morning, Barbara wakes up with golden hair (not her own premature gray), perfect pitch (she's tone deaf), a strange black dog (registered to her), no double chin, a waistline...and definite cleavage!

One crazy morning in the deadest place on earth, the local bum shows up with a gangly underfed horse and challenges all comers to a race! Only an old drunk will bet on him. What could she know?

He pulled a second blade from his boot and sent it flashing after the first. Knife-fighter Abner Galvan must save a desperate woman from a depraved army general. One mistake and there'll be eight bullets in his chest, firing squads never miss.

At West Point they told you how to set security guards, load a wagon, and feed your men. But they didn't tell you how to convince troopers with 20 years' service on their sleeves that you knew more about soldiering than they did. The ambulance drivers are waiting the order to move out, and Lieutenant Thatcher is about to find how much he does know.

Having been away from Yellow Creek for eight years, Jimmy Geary was happy to see the town again. But there are three men who aren't happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short.

Billy the Kid was hiding at the Maxwell Ranch at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when Pete Maxwell, concerned by the attentions being paid to Billy by his sister Paulita, got a message to Pat Garrett who's hunting Billy. Garrett learns that not only gunfighters were loyal to the Kid.

Larry Kehoe had been sent to prison for having killed a man with his gun. Now he has been released and is determined never to use a gun again for any purpose. What he hasn't learned is that sometimes in order to have peace, using a gun becomes necessary.

“Sometimes,” the legendary outlaw Belle Starr reflects, “you got to use your brains. Sometimes you got to go for the dream and never mind what anybody thinks or says. Life's pretty short. If I don't break my neck on a green horse, or get hanged, or shot, I'll sit on my porch when I'm old and remember the good times, all of 'em, and how every once in a while, I found glory.”

The drought is killing everything. There is a way to save the herds but half will die, maybe some ranchers too. But, are they desperate enough?