Markham ruled the land-with money and with guns. He also had two beautiful daughters and a sister. To these McAllister and his two henchmen were drawn like bees to a honeypot. To get Markham off their backs and the girls into their arms, they had to fight. And they fought with every weapon they knew of-guile, guns and fists. Matt Chisholm gives you another rioting, rampaging, full-blooded Western. Views: 30
Checking out a reported robbery at Joe Bell's truck stop, Montana State Highway Patrolman Beau McAllister stumbles upon a shootout between Joe Bell and a band of Dakota Indians.From Publishers WeeklyWidowed and divorced, with 19 years on the Montana Highway Patrol, Sgt. Beau McAllister employs deadly wit and disarming humor to defend himself emotionally. Stroud offers a pleasure of the page similar to that afforded by Raymond Chandler as his prairie gumshoe investigates a truck-stop shootout that escalates into extortion and recreates Old West horrors whose victims are Native Americans. In a solid workingman's plot, with neither the astro-artillery of drug novels nor the corporate confusions of syndicate crime, McAllister, who buried his first wife, a Crow Indian, and is battling his second for visitation rights with their young daughter, tracks the far-reaching causes and effects of the case. Stroud, whose nonfiction bestseller Close Pursuit probed the milieu of the NYPD, authoritatively depicts police-radio cross talk, clinical crime-scene details and courtroom tricks. Comfortable on pastureland and reservation, in bars off the interstate, in the mountains and even East L.A., McAllister is a credible, quotably funny and deeply realized figure. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsStroud moves his ongoing and powerful police-paean (Sniper's Moon, 1990; Close Pursuit, 1987) from Manhattan to Montana--and rustles up a bronco of a thriller that throws him near the end of the ride. The myth of the West inspires Stroud to some bravura writing here--his pages practically exhale prairie dust--and some terrific characters, starting with Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Beau McAllister, 45, responding to a robbery report at Joe Bell's truck stop. There, McAllister finds an Indian boy shot dead by Bell, who's now blasting away at four other Indians shooting back with bow and arrow from the shadows of Bell's huge oil tank--reason enough (to prevent a deadly explosion) for McAllister to plug Bell in the buttocks. The Indians escape and Bell threatens to sue, but that's the least of McAllister's troubles, with sleek A.D.A. Vanessa Ballard thinking of bringing him up on charges, and McAllister's shrewish ex-wife and her lawyer-lover trying to drive a dirty wedge between the cop and his young daughter. Even those problems, though, don't match the one posed by Hollywood stuntman Gabriel Picketwire, Lakota Sioux and ex-Army assassin, returning to Montana to avenge the death of the boy shot by Bell. By the time Picketwire catches up to Bell, McAllister has fought the escapees in terrifying nighttime hand-to-hand combat and killed one--prelude to Picketwire's confrontation with Bell, which sees the Indian shot and buried alive, dug up by a dog, and then stalking Bell to skin him alive. All this tremendously virile action derails, however, when McAllister ferrets out the reason for the Indians' attack on Bell--a medical conspiracy so far-fetched it might give even Robin Cook pause, and headed by a most unconvincing villain. Lop off the mixed-up final 50 pages or so, though, and you have a cops-vs.-Indians novel to rival John Sandford's Shadow Prey. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Views: 29
5,000+ words No sex, some nudity and explicit scenes Jurisa, the Alpha female of the Cold Mountains pack, becomes the hunted as other Alpha males chase her down. She’s about to go into heat and it’s driving the males mad. Jurisa’s done everything she can to prepare for the chase, but will it be enough to ensure she gets the male she wants? Views: 29
When she left Earth, Aimee Harrington didn’t expect to end up as the wife of three Ollorin warriors, but her new husbands quickly prove that they will love and cherish her in a way she never could have dreamed of back on her own world.Unfortunately, there are some on Ollorin who disapprove of their leaders marrying a human woman, and these individuals will stop at nothing to tear Aimee away from the men she loves. Can her warrior husbands defeat their enemies and protect their bride? Views: 29
It's been approximately sixteen years since one of the most prolific and influentional novels of our time--Lois Lowry's The Giver--received the Newbery Medal in 1994. The story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. This gift edition celebrates this Houghton Mifflin touchstone and a Two-Time Newbery Medalist with twelve freshly brushed illustrations by acclaimed artist Bagram Ibatoulline. The Giver as a book stands on its own, of course, but the illustrations of Ibatoulline add to and amplify this work to make it a gift that is even easier to give. Who wouldn't want to give The Giver as a gift? The Giver is the first in the trilogy of books that includes Gathering Blue and The Messenger. This is not their first collaboration as Lowry's text met Ibatoulline's illustration in the picture book Crow Call published by Scholastic in Fall 2009. Views: 29
Written by Jay Bonansinga, based on the original series created by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead: Descent follows the events of The Fall of the Governor, and Lilly Caul's struggles to rebuild Woodbury after the Governor's shocking demise.Out of the ashes of its dark past, Woodbury, Georgia, becomes an oasis of safety amidst the plague of the walking dead – a town reborn in the wake of its former tyrannical leader, Philip Blake, aka The Governor.Blake's legacy of madness haunts every nook and cranny of this little walled community, but Lilly Caul and a small ragtag band of survivors are determined to overcome their traumatic past... despite the fact that a super-herd is closing in on them.This vast stampede of zombies, driven by inexorable hunger and aimed directly at Woodbury, becomes their first true test. But Lilly and company refuse to succumb, and in a stunning counteroffensive, the beleaguered... Views: 29
When Navy SEAL Jacob Hunter is sent to Syria on a mission to eliminate a terrorist cell, his team discovers a mysterious artifact instead. Later, in the furor of battle, its ancient power is activated and the team is hurled through time & space to the age of Ancient Rome, where their first priority is to find a way home. But Rome's duplicitous elite have other plans for these powerful newcomers... Views: 29
During her senior year of high school, Natalie Sorenson meets Devin Brandt, an ultra-hot and slightly mysterious guy in her chemistry class. Their whirlwind romance is short lived when Devin has to move out of state, leaving Natalie with a broken heart, and wondering what could have been. The whirlwind begins again a few years later, when she meets James Silverman, a country boy with lots of charm, and they're married soon after. But she soon finds her world upside down when she discovers her husband has been cheating on her. As Natalie's emotions run high, and Devin pops back up on her radar, she must decide if her marriage is worth saving, or if it's worth a trip down memory lane one more time to rekindle the love she lost. Views: 29
Sex and the City meets The Wedding Planner in this prequel to USA TODAY bestselling author Lauren Layne's The Wedding Belles series about three high-powered New York City women who can plan any wedding—but their own.Up-and-coming wedding photographer Leah McHale's career is on the rise–thanks in no small part to the Wedding Belles, the elite New York wedding planning agency that always throws top-tier business Leah's way. So when one of the Belles asks Leah to fill in at the former First Daughter's wedding, Leah is overjoyed to say yes–until she finds out who she'll be working with. Jason Rhodes is the one man who was able to capture Leah's heart and, once he had it, promptly stepped all over it and left her broken. Now he's working side-by-side with her at the biggest wedding of the season and Leah is determined to give him the cold shoulder. Despite his persistence, she is not going to fall for his charming, impish ways... Views: 29
One year. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track...SPA SPA SILVER MEDAL WINNER, BEST NON-FICTION BOOK 2015"...another action-packed and funny memoir from Frank Kusy..." "...fast moving, highly engaging, informative and hysterically funny..." "...scratches the hilarious underbelly of travel journalism and makes it purr..." "...I know I will read again just because it was so much fun the first time..."OFF THE BEATEN TRACKIn 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in love with someone else, and it got a lot worse. Trapped in a small bedsit in London, with strange foreign curses coming through the door, he jumped at the chance to write a travel book on SouthEast Asia. There followed the craziest year of his life... Views: 29
