Classic Western Literature

Miles North's father, the rugged old ruler of the Hammer ranch, had suddenly saddled up and ridden away without trace or explanation. At the same time, just as young Miles found himself in a showdown fight to hold the mighty range, a group of ornery strangers rode into the land, lined themselves up alongside Hammer's foes, and started to close in. But Miles was no quitter. He knew that even though the odds against him had doubled, there was at least one way to save his hide and his father's holdings.

Windfall, Montana. Meet Kim Taylor, the Lucas’ child, adopted along with her sister Mila at a young age, after their parents died in a terrible accident. Now twenty years old and working as a veterinary assistant, Kim receives a scholarship to the local college. There, she meets student advisor Andrew Law, a quiet and funny young man. Driven to Windfall because of his own heartache, Andrew Law imagined himself married, with kids, and a successful career at twenty-four. Instead, he’s alone and wonders if he’ll ever be able to move on from his hurtful past. As Kim and Andrew explore ...

Available as a value box amazon.com/dp/B08Q4G2S4P(copy and paste the link into your browser) In her quest to help them, Juniper will risk everything—her life, her new love … and the possibility that her long-dormant faith in God might just be resurrected. Juniper Hawthorn never wanted to come out west. She followed her sister when Willow decided to become a mail order bride and moved to tiny Twin Creeks, California. Juniper is determined to get out of Twin Creeks as soon as she can, but she doesn’t bargain on falling in love with the young blacksmith, Joseph Braun. Then Juniper gets a...

Available as a value box amazon.com/dp/B08X4YM1Z3(copy and paste the link into your browser) When the two of them begin to work together to bring an end to the Lucas ranch feud, problems arise, and Kara and Liam must learn to trust their instincts and rely on each other. Can Kara and Liam overcome their differences? Or will Kara’s mistake cost her everything? Meet Kara Williams, the Lucas family’s young aunt who left behind Windfall, Montana, to pursue a publishing career. After ten years of struggling, Kara is forced to go back home, brokenhearted and jobless, with no clear plan and no...

California 1855 When Olivia Turner comes to the realization that her family simply can’t support her any longer—the harvest is too meager, and there are too many mouths to feed—she prays to God for help. Help comes in the form of Samuel Fisher, who places an advertisement for a mail-order bride. After a brief correspondence, Olivia sets out for Sonoma with no money in her pockets but a great deal of love and faith in her heart. When she gets to Sonoma, she finds that not only is Samuel wealthier than she could ever have imagined, but he’s also extremely closed off to her. Abandoned ...

It will take all Emily’s unique skills, not to mention her faith in God, to help her get out of this mess alive and get back to the man she’s swiftly fallen in love with! California 1886. Emily Weiss is an unusual young lady from her flaming red hair down to her penchant for rock climbing, learned from her geologist father. But after her father suffers a terrible accident and can no longer support the family, Emily leaves home so there will be one less mouth for her parents to feed. She heads west to marry Dusty Moore, a farmer in tiny Twin Creeks, California. But when she arrives in ...

After Tessa lost her parents suddenly and finding herself both incredibly wealthy and entirely alone, Tessa decides to return to the first place she ever called home. But Cripple Creek doesn’t take kindly to what they call Tessa’s new “airs,” and even Blake Donahue, the boy Tessa loved in childhood and still loves now, is less than warm and welcoming. Initially, he and Tessa butt heads, but as Blake begins to see that the woman he still loves hasn’t really changed all that much, he realizes maybe the problem lies with him. But will he get the chance to tell her that when danger ...

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B0815ZB4W7 (copy and paste the link into your browser) Angie is determined to get back home, desperate to let her mother know that she loves her and always has. Angie Masterson is stationed in Afghanistan when receives news from her brother that their mother is in the hospital. She needs to come home. Now. After receiving leave, Angie meets Bo at the airport, a fellow soldier missing a leg, on his way home for Christmas. Angie and her mother and brother, Brady, have endured a strained relationship since Angie joined the Army. Resentments, harsh ...

Things have never gone well for Jane. In high school, she earned the name “Bad Luck Jane.” It seems that everything that could go wrong in Jane’s life does go wrong. Now, Jane is faced with losing her boyfriend and home, shortly before she loses all her savings to yet another round of absolutely awful luck. She falls head over heels for the one man who continually comes to her rescue as she faces the most difficult challenges of her life—Mike. But will Jane’s terrible luck stop her from finally getting her happy ever after? Read all the books in the Second Chance Romance series by...

Based on an acclaimed short story that was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, "Darker Angels" takes the reader from the bloodstained battlefields of Virginia to the slave auctions of Haiti. Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, and Marie Leveau, the legendary voodoo queen of New Orleans, all have a part to play in the epic tale of a mysterious, one-eyed shaman who dares to raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War.

This captures the spirit of the American west: It is a classic tale of heroism and romance, with a struggle to survive in a harsh and unforgiving environment. It has the breezy charm of “Cattleland,” as a young cowboy has a major task of saving his ranch from ruthless cattle rustlers. He has a romance as the fast-moving action makes its way through stampedes, shooting and bronc riding in the midst of the rugged and wild landscape of Wyoming.

When he learns of his parents' death in a train crash, Sam Dana makes his way home to the Bar D ranch—not to claim it, but to settle the estate and move on. He has no need for the hard life of a cattleman after finally striking it big as a prospector. But what Sam finds is far from the home he remembers. The ranch has become an armed camp led by his cantankerous half-brother, Walt, who's been hiring men more skilled with a six-gun than a lasso. In Sam's absence, things have gone downhill in all ways possible.

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern pop culture, it also overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the women's movement and anarchist labor movements of the early 20th century - both in her native Puerto Rico and in the migrant labor belt in the eastern United States.

Acclaimed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, this gripping novel deftly depicts the political turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia and follows the dramatic developments in the life of a student, Razumov, as he prepares for a career in the czarist bureaucracy. In a plot that twists and turns, Razumov unwittingly becomes embroiled in a revolutionary conspiracy when he gives refuge to a fellow student who assassinated a public official. Increasingly enmeshed in the radical's political intrigue, he betrays the anarchist who had placed blind faith in him.

This entertaining introduction to Shakespeare's work weaves biographical information with excerpts from 33 of his plays. Informative, well-researched commentary, written by two Royal Shakespeare Company actors, provides a glimpse of the man and little-known lore about his work.

Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly and devotes himself to the business. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for 40 years. When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife.

Alexander the Great ruled the greatest Empire of the ancient world, but he was ruled by his mother, called Olympias. There are as many legends about this powerful Queen as there are of her famous son, and the stories began long before she even met Philip of Macedon. Priestess of the Great Goddess, daughter of ruling house of Epiros, witch, and familiar of Serpents... she was a figure of mystery, fascination, and fear even during her own lifetime.

With the coming of the railroads, the American cowboy's job changed drastically, as the great trail herds became a thing of the past. Many cowboys faded into history, but there was a place in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah that still prized their skills. Val FitzPatrick's family homesteaded in this region, and Val became a rider for the Two-Bar at the age of 14. In later years, Val wrote many accounts of his life, and The Arbuckle Cafe is a collection of the best of his stories, all classic and authentic insights of what life on the range was really like.

Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch's best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling - minding the line shack 40 miles from the ranch - and secluded himself from the pity of his peers in the Wyoming wilderness. Now, the T-Bar is being sold, leaving Willis to wonder whether the new owner will want to keep a broken bronc buster on the payroll.

A mountain man can survive anything, even a cold day in hell. Nathaniel Squire is a giant of a man, and the only one Col. Leander Melton thought could lead his pack of greenhorn would-be trappers into the mountains. And deep in Blackfoot territory, Squire must teach the youths to face the ways of survival, the rage of the Blackfeet, the cunning of a traitor - and what it means to be a mountain man.