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Original, unflinching, gritty and visionary, The Stranger is a stunning feminist Western for our times. In Darkwater, being female doesn't amount to much. But Chelsea's luckier than most. She's the young lover of the town's feared leader, which she keeps telling herself is a good thing, what...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive...

Reece Quaid doesn't want to be known as "The Man Who Killed Smoke Jensen." But when the legendary mountain man shows up in the middle of a stagecoach robbery, Quaid has no choice but to shoot him. He didn't even know his victim was the famous Smoke Jensen—until he goes through his pockets and finds his papers. That's when Quaid comes up with a plan. Since he resembles Smoke, he'll simply assume his identity. Rob some banks. Hold up more stagecoaches. And shoot anyone who tries to stop him. Soon the whole world will be asking. Has Smoke Jensen gone bad?

Mac is back. Framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Dewey “Mac” Mackenzie is a wanted man on a cattle drive heading west–as a chuckwagon cook. Though he’s never even boiled an egg, Mackenzie has a natural gift for cobbling together good trail drive grub. Now, with two trail drives under his belt, Mackenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He’s good at serving up justice, too–with a side of hot lead.

Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-mile desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight.

Shad Williams joined the army to fight for his country, not to fight aliens. But when he's abducted through a portal along with his terminally ill grandfather and kid sister, that's exactly what he finds himself doing. Now, deep below the surface of the planet Ganymede, they find themselves with other equally confused groups of humans drafted into serving under extraterrestrials battling for control over the Reality Engine, an advanced supercomputer capable of producing miraculous resources and technologies. 

Zane Grey is considered the creator of the Western genre and remains its most popular author. The famous critic T. K. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga, "a battle of passions with one another and with the will, a struggle of love and hate, or remorse and revenge, of blood, lust, honor, friendship, anger, grief—all of a grand scale and all incalculable and mysterious." This fourth Volume contains four more of his novels: The Light of Western Stars, The UP Trail, The Spirit of the Border and The Call of the Canyon.

Abigail is hiding from her father and her late husbands solicitors. She takes her young daughter and escapes to the London property belonging to the late earl. After learning a few things about her past and the parts certain people played in them, she begins to grow up. She becomes more confident in her role as the Countess of Worthington, something she hadnt been able to do during her marriage. Will her father ever cease his efforts to get his hands on her inheritance? If not, she is prepared to leave England and flee to the last place on Earth he would expect to find her!

Born Simone Jules, reinvented as Eleanor Dumont, and largely remembered as Madame Moustache, A Betting Woman is a historical novel inspired by the tumultuous life, times, and loves of America's first professional croupier of modern-day blackjack, bringing to life an intrepid and entrepreneurial real-life woman who lived on her own terms.

Part 2 of 2: Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight. Deputy Mutt's old nemesis, Snake-Man, returns to begin a final bloody war against the Whites, purging them from the land forever.

Jonathan Crowley is having a problem with dead men. They just keep getting back on their feet. From the ghost dancers at a strange burial site to the corpse of a man he literally just killed, the dead refuse to lay down and die, and now it's up to Crowley and his traveling companion Lucas Slate to try to figure out why the dead are restless and determined to kill whatever crosses their paths.

La plupart des voleurs de trains sont pas malins, et c'est une chance pour les compagnies de chemins de fer. À eux seuls, cinq bandits pas trop idiots pourraient braquer tous les trains de ce pays. Ainsi parle Woodrow Call, ancien capitaine des Texas Rangers reconverti en chasseur de primes...

Ride into a lawless frontier town where the wrong decision can kill you before sundown. Welcome to Placerita. The whiskey's cheap, the guns are loaded, and the sheriff isn't especially interested in saving you. You're an outsider caught in a town where outlaws, grudges, bad luck, and something far worse all collide. Draw too fast and you might start a war. Trust the wrong stranger and you might end up in an unmarked grave. Wait for the law and you might die waiting. Read the room, pick your allies, and decide whether courage means standing your ground or getting on your horse.

It's been 15 years since Noose Holcomb perpetrated the Buzzard's Edge Train Robbery of 1872, leaving Rory Daggett an orphan. Settled in with a new family and a second chance at life, Rory never quite sheds the thirst for revenge. When one of the gang members returns to Buzzard's Edge, Rory's life is violently upended once more. Capturing the rogue spurs on a furious chain of events that pits Rory against each member of Noose's gang, every one more twisted and terrifying than the last, in order to work his way to their leader.

The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job: track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by a local gang. Their client is Annie Roberts, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the murdered man. Lucky for them, Annie Roberts is more than capable of handling herself. Unlucky for them, the job is lot more complicated than they at first think it is. Annie’s father is not just the victim of local gang violence but also the target of some powerful men.

For most couples, the marriage vows end with “‘Til death do us part.” But when Smoke Jensen takes Sally Reynolds as his lawfully wedded wife, it’s just the beginning. The tragic deaths of Smoke’s first wife and child weigh heavily on his heart. Thankfully, Sally is there to give him the support he needs when they return to Colorado, where it all happened. She’s ready to embrace her husband’s past—for better or worse—and to welcome his friend Preacher into the family. But when outlaws make an attempt to kidnap a local girl, Sally is forced to use the gun skills she had learned from Smoke.

The culling took most of the men from Cochran Texas away to a dusty old town that exists between this plane and the next called Cocytus. Run by a maniacal power-hungry man named Lycus and his adopted protégé daughter Alastor, he conducts chaos with the help of a group of bandits called Calamity Three. His goal: tip the cosmic scales to bring the Void crashing into the world and claim the place of power to which he believes he is owed.

Liebe Hörerinnen und Hörer, mit "... das war eine furchtbar traurige Geschichte, Herr May..." endete in der Wirtschaft von Frau Krummbiegel in Falkenau unsere erste Karl May Hörspielerzählung "WEIHNACHT". "SATAN & ISCHARIOT" setzt die Rahmenhandlung in der Gaststätte zu Falkenau fort und lässt Karl May von seinen ruhmreichen Abenteuern im Wilden Westen als OLD SHATTERHAND erneut in die Vergangenheit blicken. "Die Felsenburg liegt hoch in den Bergen der Sonora und birgt ein grausames Geheimnis, das einem deutschen Auswandererzug zum Verhängnis werden soll.

Widely regarded as “the most popular western novel of all time”, Zane Grey’s adventure set in the sunbaked deserts of southern Utah is an unparallelled classic. When Jane Withersteen, a wealthy Mormon, is pressured to become Elder Tull’s third polygamous wife, she resists. Gunslinger Jim Lassiter rolls into town on a mission of his own. Jane hires him to help resist the powers that be in her efforts to extend help to everyone in need, regardless of religion or creed.

Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Privatdetektiv und verfolgt den irren Sohn eines reichen Mannes, der von einem Gauner ausgeplündert wird, ohne es zu merken. Mit Winnetou bewahrt Old Shatterhand den Frieden zwischen Weißen und Indianern - lebt und kämpft mit ihm im Amerika des Sezessionskrieges im Schatten des Sklavenproblems.