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The winner of five Spurs, two Stirrups, and three Western Heritage Awards for his work, best-selling author Loren D. Estleman is among the greatest chroniclers of the American West. The eighth novel in Estleman’s popular and acclaimed Page Murdock series, this action-packed tale finds Murdock and his trusted five-shot Deane Adams revolver enforcing order in a world of chaos.
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- Narrated by: Rusty Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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!
- By J. C. Edmond on 06-11-10
By: James D. Best
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The Bastard
- The Kent Family Chronicles, Book 1
- By: John Jakes
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,031
Set against the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to our fledgling nation, this novel of romance and adventure introduces Phillipe Charboneau. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman, Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the men who set our course for freedom. The Bastard is the first volume in the Kent Family Chronicles, a series of novels that details one family's journey in the early years of the American nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amazing Tale
- By will on 11-06-13
By: John Jakes
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Finn
- A Novel
- By: Jon Clinch
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
One hundred and twenty years ago, Mark Twain left Huckleberry Finn’s father dead in a room crowded with oddities: a wooden leg, women’s underclothing, two black cloth masks, and more. Now, in a resonant and remarkable new novel, Jon Clinch tells the story of how the brutal and explosive Finn met his end in a room jammed with the telltale artifacts of his strange and mysterious life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finn brought to life in Clinch's homage to Twain.
- By Darrell on 03-21-12
By: Jon Clinch
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Cataloochee
- By: Wayne Caldwell
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
Debut novelist Wayne Caldwell's Cataloochee -a rich, vivid, arresting work beginning at the dawn of Reconstruction - sprawls across the succeeding generations like the vast green mountains of its rural North Carolina setting. Best-selling author Charles Frazier calls it "a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America." This enthralling saga evokes the full color spectrum of mountain life, from lights to darks and every shade in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love It!
- By Cynthia J. Hakansson on 02-27-09
By: Wayne Caldwell
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Except the Dying
- A Murdoch Mystery, Book 1
- By: Maureen Jennings
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 305
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 258
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Story4 out of 5 stars 259
In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families?
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1 out of 5 stars
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If you like the show - don't buy
- By Sarah on 06-09-16
By: Maureen Jennings
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Epitaph
- A Novel of the O.K. Corral
- By: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 425
A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD!
- By Cait on 06-30-15
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Sawbones
- By: Melissa Lenhardt
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang...unless she can disappear. With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician's kit and heads West. But even with a new life and name, a female doctor with a bounty on her head can hide for only so long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh Yeah!
- By Syd Young on 05-04-17
By: Melissa Lenhardt
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High Country Bride
- By: Linda Lael Miller
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 705
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 630
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 625
One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good book but not what was in the summary:
- By Zandra Zavalza on 01-30-16
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Left at the Altar
- By: Margaret Brownley
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiancé, Meg's dreams of dragging her quarrelsome neighbors into a ceasefire are dashed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- By Kmacy on 01-15-24
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Hell at the Breech
- By: Tom Franklin
- Narrated by: Larry Pine
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends - mostly poor cotton farmers - form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pull up them breeches, son
- By W Perry Hall on 02-04-14
By: Tom Franklin
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Walk on Earth a Stranger
- By: Rae Carson
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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
- By elenne on 10-11-15
By: Rae Carson
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In Want of a Wife
- By: Jo Goodman
- Narrated by: Talmadge Ragan
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 376
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 342
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 340
Jane Middlebourne needs a way out. In 1891, life in New York is unforgiving for a young woman with no prospects, especially when her family wants nothing to do with her. So when Jane discovers an ad for a mail-order bride needed in Bitter Springs, Wyoming, she responds with a hopeful heart. Rancher Morgan Longstreet is in want of a wife who will be his partner at Morning Star, someone who will work beside him and stand by him. His first impression of the fair and fragile Jane is that she is not that woman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An enjoyable listen.
- By Marydior on 05-25-14
By: Jo Goodman
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Gunsights
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Josh Clark
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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
- By Vales Tales on 08-20-15
By: Elmore Leonard
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A Man Called Justice
- Silent Justice, Book 1
- By: John Deacon
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 368
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 289
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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!
- By Charlie on 08-30-22
By: John Deacon