The timeless, bestselling four-part epic that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove takes readers into the lives of Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, two tough-as-nails Texas Rangers in the heyday of the Old West.Dead Man’s WalkAs young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call--"Gus" and "Call" for short--have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless Indians, but also the deadly whims of soldiers. On their first expeditions--led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western--they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love of his life. Comanche MoonTexas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, are still figuring out how to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life--Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him--when they sign up to pursue the Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf into Mexico. On this mission their captain, Inish Scull, is captured by the brutally cruel Mexican bandit Ahumado, and Gus and Call must come to the rescue, with the aid of new friends including Joshua Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker, as well as the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes. Lonesome DoveGus and Call, now retired from the Texas Rangers and settled in the border town of Lonesome Dove running the Hat Creek Cattle Company, are visited by their old friend Jake Spoon, who convinces Gus and Call to gather a herd of cattle and drive them north to Montana in order to start a cattle ranch in untouched territory. Gus is further motivated by a desire to see the love of his life, Clara Allen (nee Forsythe), who now lives with her children and comatose horse-trader husband in Ogallala, Nebraska. On the way to Montana they travel through wild country full of thieves, murderers, and a lifetime's worth of unforgettable adventure. Streets of LaredoWoodrow Call is back in Texas, a Ranger once again and a general gun-for-hire, but increasingly a relic as the westward sprawl of the railroads rapidly settles the once lawless frontier. Hired by a railroad tycoon to hunt down a dangerous bandit named Joey Garza, Call sets out once again with a hapless Yankee named Ned Brookshire who works for the railroad company that hired Call. Call's old friend Pea Eye Parker--who initially refused to join the expedition because of his family--sets off with the Kickapoo tracker Famous Shoes to try to catch up with Call, until he runs into troubles of his own. The long pursuit of Garza leads them all across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier. Views: 197
Rough Translation is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Jean M. Janis is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Jean M. Janis then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 197
Compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka, contemporary fantasist Jeff VanderMeer continues to amaze with this surreal, innovative, and absurdist gathering of award-winning short fiction. Exotic beasts and improbable travelers roam restlessly through these darkly diverting and finely honed tales.
In “The Situation,” a beleaguered office worker creates a child-swallowing manta-ray to be used for educational purposes (once described as Dilbert meets Gormenghast). In “Three Days in a Border Town,” a sharpshooter seeks the truth about her husband in an elusive floating city beyond a far-future horizon; “Errata” follows an oddly familiar writer who has marshaled a penguin, a shaman, and two pearl-handled pistols with which to plot the end of the world. Also included are two stories original to this collection, including “The Quickening,” in which a lonely child is torn between familial obligation and loyalty to a maligned talking rabbit.
Chimerical and hypnotic, VanderMeer leads readers through the postmodern into a new literature of the imagination. Views: 197
Armed only with squirt guns and water balloons, A 10 year old, orphan girl, and her Artificially Intelligent toy Koala, take on thousands of rogue Ai toys, deceitful humans, and gods to save the universe.Content synopsis: There are two things which can deeply shock people’s hearts, one is the sublime code of ethics in our hearts, and the other one is the gorgeous starry sky over our heads-- Kant.When Sheilor held back his eyes from this line of words, really saw those numerous like sesames stars behind the dust for the first time, was not shocked by, but was angry instead: The stars outside of the region’s sky are so dazzling, who can bear it? If he is shined by these lights everyday, it’s afraid that he will become those stupid wild cats shined by the headlamp in the mine tunnel!So Sheilor gave up the dream to become an auxiliary officer of a noble female warship commander, began to fall in the effect of the gravitation force, fall, fall to become a nonnative poor boy to guard the entrance, a selling body poor man, an engaged in trivial works male nanny… In the magnificent upsurge big era, showing the white teeth, narrowing the eyes and having the silly smile, clothing in the inexplicable splendor, marching toward the nobody knows distance one step by one step.……………………Sheilor, a citizen of the East Forest Region, left from a deserted half-abandoned planet, possessed some bizarre knowledge in his mind, his body also possessed the strength that nobody ever got in touch with in this world, not confused at all and only contented with his lot absurdly to enter into this most boring and also most interesting world.The life of the Guest, should be very exciting. Views: 197
Curt has been beaten, betrayed and brutalized by just about everyone he’s known. And his mother – once a prostitute, now “born-again” and married – has banned him from the family. But six years in prison taught him a lot – including how to force straight cons to ejaculate as he rapes them, and how that can be a very satisfying method of revenge. Views: 197
Bertram Mitford was a prolific British author. Many of his novels are set in South Africa. Views: 196
Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, every conquest she ever made.Kschessinka's riveting storytelling soon thrusts us into a world lost to time: that great intersection of the Russian court and the Russian theater. Before the revolution, Kschessinska dominated that world as the greatest dancer of her age. At seventeen, her crisp, scything technique made her a star. So did her romance with the tsarevich Nicholas Romanov, soon to be Nicholas II. It was customary for grand dukes and sons of tsars to draw their mistresses from the ranks of the ballet, but it was not customary for them to fall in... Views: 196
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The long-awaited sequel to Green Rider, First Rider's Call, and The High King's Tomb.
Once a simple student, Karigan G'ladheon finds herself in a world of deadly danger and complex magic, compelled by forces she cannot understand when she becomes a legendary Green Rider-one of the magical messengers of the king. Forced by magic to accept a dangerous fate she would never have chosen, headstrong Karigan has become completely devoted to the king and her fellow Riders.
But now, an insurrection led by dark magicians threatens to break the boundaries of ancient, evil Blackveil Forest-releasing powerful dark magics that have been shut away for a millennium. Views: 196
HAITI HAS A TRAGIC HISTORY and continues to be one of the most
destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Here, however, Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark,
the caliber of Haitian writing is of the highest order.
EDWIDGE DANTICAT was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when
she was twelve. She is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book
Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, and the
novel-in-stories The Dew Breaker. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying,
was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of a National
Book Critics Circle Award. She is a 2009 recipient of the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation grant and lives in Miami.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: WHICH NOIR?"Odette" PATRICK SYLVAIN (Christ-Roi)"The
Rainbow's End" M.J. FIEVRE (Kenscoff)"The Finger" GARY VICTOR
(Port-au-Prince)"Paradise Inn" KETTLY MARS (Gokal)"Which One?" EVELYNE
TROUILLOT (Lalue)"Twenty Dollars" MADISON SMARTT BELL (Morne du Cap)
PART II: NOIR CROSSROADS"Claire of the Sea Light" EDWIDGE DANTICAT
(Ville Rose)"The Harem" IBI AANU ZOBOI (Delmas)"Rosanna" JOSAPHAT-ROBERT
LARGE (Pacot)"Maloulou" MARIE LILY CERAT (Martissant)"Dangerous
Crossroads" LOUIS PHILIPPE DALEMBERT (Petionville)"Blues for Irene" MARVIN
VICTOR (Carrefour-Feuilles)
PART III: WHO IS THAT NOIR?"The Last Department" KATIA D. ULYSSE
(Putis Blain)"Departure Lounge" NADINE PINEDE (Cap Haitien)"Who Is that
Man?" YANICK LAHENS (Saint-Marc)"Mercy at the Gate" MARIE KETSIA
THEODORE-PHAREL (Croix-des-Bouquets)"The Leopard of Ti Morne" MARK KURLANSKY
(Gonaives)"The Blue Hill" RODNEY SAINT-ELOI (Ozanana) Views: 195
This endearing 19th-century family saga follows the lives, loves and losses of one pioneering family and two escaped convicts as they open up the land in Victoria, Australia. This classic Australian story, which won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia, commands a place in the canon of Australian literature and offers a fascinating record and reflection of early Australian life and perspectives. Views: 195
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Views: 195
First we discovered the Willy Maloon category. Then we discovered Willy himself. Then we data-researched, and postulated a theory. Everything was easy, until it came to the question of proof. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected] Views: 195
A Gallant Grenadier - A Tale of the Crimean War is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 195
