The Business of Dying
The Complete Western Stories
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Collected here are 10 Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy.
In "Mugs Birdsong's Crime Academy", celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. "The Last Days of Dominic Prince" is the tragic tale of a cattle baron and his final conflict with the forces of political correctness. "Dead Weight" introduces us to a coffin maker who constructs a work of art. And in the title story, two young men in the gold fields of California spend one last night together as one of them confronts his own imminent death.
This collection also includes "The Square Reporter", "A Commercial Proposition", "The Great Filibuster of 1975", "The Tinhorn's Lady", "Hearts", and "Looking for Love at a Romance Writers' Convention."
©2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 394
Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend - who might want to be something more. She also has a secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than expected
- De elenne en 10-11-15
De: Rae Carson
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Gunsights
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: Josh Clark
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of the Mountain" from their land.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Maybe The essential Elmore Leonard Western
- De Vales Tales en 08-20-15
De: Elmore Leonard
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Burning Daylight
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Tim Behrens
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Burning Daylight begins as many of London's finest works begin: with the depiction of a man blessed with physical prowess and keen perception who takes on the natural forces of the 19th century Yukon. Supreme gold miner, risk-all gambler, and unbeatable fighter, Burning Daylight is his name. Daylight moves from the Yukon to San Francisco, and plays "the bigger game of finance and wealth," until he is reminded of something he lost, something pure and good....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Favorite Jack London book
- De Anonymous User en 12-02-20
De: Jack London
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That Old Ace in the Hole
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as a novel
- De Sarah C en 05-30-12
De: Annie Proulx
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The Missing
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
In this spellbinder by critically acclaimed author Tim Gautreaux, Sam Simoneaux returns from World War I to rebuild his life. But when a girl is snatched from the New Orleans department store where he's working, he hops aboard a Mississippi steamboat to find her - and dredges up ghosts from his painful past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Missing
- De Michael L. Wintory en 07-11-09
De: Tim Gautreaux
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The Shopkeeper
- A Steve Dancy Tale
- De: James D. Best
- Narrado por: Rusty Nelson
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well written western!
- De J. C. Edmond en 06-11-10
De: James D. Best
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A Man Called Justice
- Silent Justice, Book 1
- De: John Deacon
- Narrado por: A.T. Chandler
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 308
Justice is a drifter with no fear and no memory, trailed by a violent past. Nora is a beautiful widow bravely raising her young son on an isolated New Mexican ranch. When a ruthless cattle baron pushes longhorns into the valley, Justice vows to protect Nora and her boy. But how can he succeed against thirty hired guns… including the four outlaws who left him for dead?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Home run!
- De Charlie en 08-30-22
De: John Deacon
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Varina
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Molly Parker
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 815
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 709
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 706
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read it rather than listen
- De Anonymous en 08-31-18
De: Charles Frazier
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Book of Secrets
- De: Chris Roberson
- Narrado por: Peter Brooke
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
It will take more than angels and demons to stop him. Reporter Spencer Finch is embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left to him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rating < 0
- De Sandra en 04-04-16
De: Chris Roberson
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Pronto
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: Alexander Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,536
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,353
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,350
The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto - which he is, but everybody does it. He was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so Harry figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky - the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody - but not careful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great character, even better dialogue!
- De Ron en 11-15-11
De: Elmore Leonard
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Deadwood Gulch
- De: Ralph Compton
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Deadwood Gulch stars bounty hunter Cas Everett, lightning fast on the draw and deadly as a nest of rattlers. When Cas returns home and finds his ma, pa, and siblings planted in fresh graves, he vows to call down the thunder on all those responsible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good western
- De Richard en 01-02-08
De: Ralph Compton
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,882
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4,331
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,338
He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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Hard Gold (I Witness)
- The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West
- De: Avi
- Narrado por: Alston Brown
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt - and in danger of foreclosure. Early's uncle, Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money - more than the boys can afford....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- De Uki Dominque Lucas en 04-09-19
De: Avi
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Close Range
- Wyoming Stories (Selected Unabridged Stories)
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below", a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderfully Ironic and Surprising Read
- De Susan L. Stewart en 04-21-12
De: Annie Proulx
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This House of Sky
- Landscapes of a Western Mind
- De: Ivan Doig
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 330
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 325
A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Early work by a favorite author
- De Doggy Bird en 09-06-14
De: Ivan Doig