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A brand new Western adventure from Paul L. Thompson! Mary Coats sent U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson a hand carried message by the stage driver Smokey Joe. ‘Shorty, Mallard should have been back at least five days ago. He drove twenty-five head of cattle down to Silver City. He told me it would take three days going and just over a half day coming back. When he didn’t return, I waited two days then saddled my horse and went looking. I found nothing of him, his horse or our cow dog, Brownie. Shorty, he has to be dead or he would be home by now.

Buddy Cole, the acid-tongued raconteur created by comedian Scott Thompson, earned international fame as one of the most beloved characters on Kids in the Hall. Originally published in 1998, Buddy’s classic faux-memoir was a master class in pushing the envelope and pissing off the censors. Now, 20 years later, Scott Thompson is bringing Buddy back to the stage, with an international tour and also a reissue of Buddy Babylon, presented with new never-before-seen material, introducing Buddy to new generations.

Charles LeFlore began his career in law enforcement with the Choctaw Lighthorse Police, helping to bring law, order, and justice to the Indian Territory of the western United States. His success in bringing in wanted men led to his appointment as a United States deputy marshal serving the territory surrounding Fort Smith, Arkansas. Follow along with LeFlore and his fellow Choctaw lawman, Talako P. Vaughn, as they track, capture, and sometimes kill some of the most dangerous outlaws in all of Indian Territory.

The surprising history of Balif has finally come to light.... The Journeyman is charged to use the ancient Anvil of Time to travel back along the river of time and find the lost stories that fell between the pages of the history books. One of the most intriguing figures in Dragonlance is that of Balif, the elven general who was an intimate of Silvanos, the first Speaker of the Stars. Balif founded the city of Balifor, granted the kender a homeland, was an advocate for the wizard Vedvedsica, lived under a curse, was altered by the Graygem - but no one elf could do all those things. Or could he?

The peace of a rural village is shattered by the sudden appearance of a band of renegade warriors seeking slaves. The farmers of Nowhere have no hope unless they can raise a company of champions to defend them, but the motley group of saviors who take up their cause - a shipwrecked sailor, a minotaur poet, a kender treasure hunter, a shamed half-ogre, a disgraced foot soldier, and an eccentric sorcerer - seem nearly as dangerous as the slavemasters.

The final title in the latest trilogy from Dragonlance author team Thompson & Cook. Writing team Thompson and Cook once again explore the history of the ancient Dragonlance world in A Hero's Justice. Considered the historical specialists of the setting, the authors take their storytelling skills to a colorful and violent era of its history that has not been chronicled in any previous novel series.

The remaining free elves of Ansalon have come together at last in the shunned valley of Inath-Wakenti. While the disfigured genius Porthios wants to lead a crusade to free the elves' ancestral homelands, the rightful ruler of the elven nation, Gilthas, dreams of establishing a new homeland in the haunted valley. To do that he will have to solve the riddle of the ancient ruins dotting the landscape, the curse that prevents animals from living in the valley, and deal with swarms of ghosts lurking behind every tree and stone.

After a bloody 10-year war, the mighty city of Tarsis has been brought to its knees. Lord Tolandruth - once the farmer's son Tol - has led the armies of the Ergoth Empire to the enemy's very gates. Poised for final victory, instead he is recalled to Daltigoth. The Emperor is dead, and civil war threatens to tear apart the empire.Tol takes a long, perilous journey back to the seat of power, not only to attend upon a new emperor and be reunited with the woman he loves, but to avenge himself on the wizard who caused his exile. Reclaiming his love and honor calls for sacrifices that will shape his destiny - and the future of Krynn.

From the mists of Krynn's earliest history came the Barbarians. A young brother and sister escape a pack of predators and strike out on their own, their lives taking parallel courses linked to the destiny of different tribes. But dark powers watch the rise of civilization with cold calculation and deadly intent.

In a time of war, a princess of Qualinost and an elite band of warriors sail forth to rescue their contrymen from the collapsing Ergoth Empire. Their journey goes awry when a strange mist engulfs Princess Vixa's ship and transports them to a phantom island. Who are the mysterious masters who imprison them in their undersea city? No soul has encountered the fabled Dargonesti or visited the city of pearl marble that rises from the sea floor - and lived to tell the tale.

The village of Yala-tene is flourishing. Twelve years of peace and plenty have allowed the little settlement to grow into a thriving town. But its peace is threatened - from within by an ambitious priest of the dragon cult, and from without by a savage horde of warriors, bent on conquest. Against this array of evil, Chief Amero and the bronze dragon Duranix strive to hold the fragile threads of civilization together.

While the Elven Exiles struggle for survival in the distant kingdom of Khur, the elves remaining in Qualinesti face persecution, enslavement, and extermination. Amid great suffering and unrelieved evil, a rebel leader - masked, anonymous, and with strange powers - appears, determined to cleanse the land of invaders.Meanwhile, Kerianseray, the Lioness, Kagonesti general and wife of Speaker Gilthas, finds herself magically transported from certain death in Khur to equally dire straits in her former homeland.

When the leader of the Silvanesti elves dies, conflict threatens to drive his sons apart. While Sithas wishes the elves to withdraw more and more from any contact with other races, Kith-Kanan and his Wildrunners forge connections and trade goods with the humans of Ergoth. As the world of Krynn watches, a new elven nation rises from the strife.

The hunt for justice never ends with this brand new Western adventure from Paul L. Thompson and Alfred Wallon! After stopping a weapons shipment bound for Mexico, U.S. Marshal Jim Kennedy and his partner, Don Henderson, have made powerful enemies. The El Paso Ring—a ruthless criminal syndicate—won’t let their plans be derailed so easily. Determined to silence Kennedy for good, they send a trio of deadly gunmen to hunt him down. Unaware of the killers on his trail, Kennedy continues his investigation into the shadowy figures controlling the arms trade.

Dalton Brisco rides into town and sees the sheriff of San Angelo, Texas, gunned down. After he kills the two men involved in killing the sheriff, Brisco finds himself in the unusual position of being a gunfighter wearing the sheriff’s tin star. Out-gunned and out-manned, Brisco has to devise a plan to keep the town from being taken over by a crew of gunmen, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves.

A collision of legends. A fight for survival. A journey into the heart of the Texas Badlands. Pharaoh Smith has spent years carving out justice across the rugged Texas frontier, but even he isn't prepared for what awaits in the lawless Texas Badlands. When former sheriff Tom Madison and his family set out on a dangerous journey south to start a new life, Smith and his fellow Texas Ranger, Comanche Jack Horton, are tasked with escorting them through treacherous territory. But the trail is anything but peaceful.

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The book reveals a life as extraordinary as his writing: difficult upbringing in the terraces of Leeds; strict Catholic education; transformative experiences in France and Algeria; time as an inspirational, unorthodox and highly creative teacher; meteoric development as a writer and performer; subsequent discovery by the BBC; Abbey Road recordings and influence on The Beatles; fame, fortune, and remarkable television career...and Jake's rejection of it all.

Fritz wakes up as a prisoner in Delysia, a strange realm ruled by the powerful sorcerer, Malregent, and guarded by an army of Lignumorts. With no hope of escape from his prison walls, he resigns himself to a new life as a slave. When a fellow prisoner is killed for sport in a gladiator ring, Fritz vows revenge and volunteers to fight in the grizzly games. But after discovering that Malregent knows how to unlock the Celestine, Fritz is determined to learn the secret and get back home to save his friends.

For the last five years, Fritz has lived a reclusive, solitary life trying to rescue his imprisoned friends from the Celestine. But, during his absence, the prison he grew up in, Ivanov's Home for Orphaned Boys, re-opened under new, mysterious owners. When he emerges from his self-imposed seclusion, he learns that children all over the world are beginning to disappear, Czar Nicholaus is planning a suicidal conflict with the other Kingdoms over gold, and the remaining Wizards in the Order are more focused on revenge against him than stopping the chaos.