Western United States

Love Blossoms in the Midst of Battle Emma Winters. A candlemaker’s granddaughter born and raised in Boston. Trapped in Vicksburg during the siege of 1863. Caught between two worlds, she must rely on the enemy to protect her life. Jameson Roberts. A Confederate officer. Sworn to protect his countrymen. Even a misplaced young lady with a slightly northern accent. Can Emma trust an enemy soldier to keep her safe? Or will she be left alone in enemy territory with nowhere to turn? Would the dangers of war change both their lives in a way neither of them could have imagined? An enchanting story...

A Wish. An obsession. One passionate night. What if Cinderella's night at the ball left her with more than a lost slipper? A logical, practical scientist, Anna Becquerel, possesses an overactive curiosity about all things related to time. Devoted to her work, she sets out to finally test her groundbreaking invention. Every last detail planned and executed. Zachary Champlain needs a wife. But the young ladies in his social circle either talked too much or otherwise just didn't suit him. When a scandalously dressed young lady, more beautiful than any goddess, lands in his arms, he believes ...

Strong Southern women and the Northern men who fall in love with them. Gabriella Beauchamp. A young southern belle left alone with her stepmother during the American Civil War. Christopher Monroe. An officer in the Yankee army. When orders bring him to his best friend's home deep in southern territory, he must rescue his friend's little sister from her evil stepmother. Rescued by the enemy, will Gabriella have to give up her life as she knows it? Or will the dashing Yankee soldier offer her something she cannot resist? The winds of war send them in a direction neither of them ever expected....

An enchanting time travel romance with a Cinderella twist. A modern girl returns to her hometown and takes a job in a local historical house. A house with a handsome ghostly presence. A colonial man haunted by a lovely female ghost only he can see. When Hannah Sinclair becomes lost in the past, she discovers more than secrets to her childhood. She discovers a forgotten time in a world that feels like home. And a man who steals her heart along with a kiss. Martinique Laurent discovers he has something in common with his reclusive uncle who may not be insane after all. Discover timeless ...

A successful rancher - A woman desperate to save her sister - A man determined to destroy everything. Theresa's family is about to lose their home until a rich cattle rancher strikes a bargain with her. If she agrees to become a proxy bride, her sickly sister will be sent to Glenwood Springs, where she is able to get the care she needs. Theresa will do anything for her sister, even reluctantly agree to spy on her proxy husband. What she never expects is to fall in love with the man she is deceiving. Calvin Morris, adopted son of one of the largest cattle ranches in Texas, leaves home as a...

San Francisco’s history precedes its name by several thousands of years. Though Europeans had settled in other parts of California much earlier, it wasn’t until 1769 that they stumbled upon the bay area. When the Spanish first arrived, they were floored by its natural beauty, which had been carefully maintained by its longtime residents, the Ohlone Indians.

Brokenhearted after losing the only woman he ever loved to another man, Reverend Joshua Holmes returns to England. Thirty years later, he is summoned to Willow Creek, Arizona. His rival has died, and his deathbed request is for Josh to marry Amanda and keep her safe from harm. But he fears she will not accept his steadfast love.

Dies ist Paul Austers sehr persönliche Abrechnung mit der Vergottung des Waffentragens in der amerikanischen Kultur und Gesellschaft. Er erzählt davon zunächst in biografischen Vignetten, beginnend bei den Spielzeugcolts der Kindheit und den Western im Fernsehen. Es folgen die ersten Einschläge im näheren Umfeld, der von der Großmutter erschossene Großvater - lange Zeit ein Familiengeheimnis, von dem Auster nur durch Zufall erfuhr.

Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with the Crow. This audiobook is about Fort Sarpy, the American Fur Company men who dared to build it in the wilderness, and the Crow tribe, who owe their existence to its creation.

The year is 1815. One October night in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, Yip Tolroy is born, the cord snaked around his fragile neck, his skin a deathly white. As his mother still lies in the blood-slicked sheets and Yip takes his first gulps of air, his father disappears without trace. By the time Yip reaches his 15th year, he has not spoken a word—he is mute, friendless, an outcast. But his life is about to change irrevocably.

Mike Pence is an American politician who has been serving as the fiftieth governor of Indiana since January 2013. He is currently the vice president-elect of the United States and will take office in January 2017, entering history as the forty-eighth vice president of the United States. In 2008, Esquire magazine included Pence on its list of the ten best members of the Congress, after Pence had positioned himself among conservatives as an ideologue with strong principles. He was considered a viable Republican candidate for the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012. In September 2010, ...

When her society matron mother presents Caroline with a one-night stand date a week before her wedding, she's appalled. Even worse, the encounter will take place at the fantasy ranch resort operated by her high school lover, Javier Alvarado. Although determined to remain faithful to her fiancé, she's tempted and intrigued to see her first love again. It's not like she has to sleep with him. But one look and kiss later, she yearns for the man she walked away from so long ago.

Frontier Law follows the exploits of Texas Ranger Frank Sirocco when he rides into San Ysidro to investigate the murder of two colleagues. Up against a deadly band of killers, gunfighters and renegades, Sirocco will need all of his wits and guns to survive this one. Fortunately, help arrived from unexpected sources.

Tesoro Español.... encontrado? Russell Bricklin "Bric" Wahl es el tipo de persona que cada vecino de Cayo Hueso conoce y cada turista quiere ser. Relajado, bronceado y muy cómodo con sigo mismo, es el típico isleño que se sienta junto a ti en Schooner Wharf y te deja que le compres una cerveza. Bric es un ex-Navy Seal, oriundo de Cayo Hueso, cazador de tesoros como profesión y ha estado buscando una fortuna en oro y plata en los Cayos de la Florida toda su vida.

In 1836, John McGregor, a Scottish and Seminole half-breed, kills a white man in Florida. The crime is worse, when the man turns out to be an army sergeant. Self-defense is no excuse. McGregor is angry - angry with God, the maker and taker of breath, and angry with the red man as well as the white. Among the Indians, this rage earns him the name "One Who Gives No Chance".

The Mapps, a fiercely independent Native American family, fight back as government agencies ignore treaty agreements and try to exert control over Mapp family land. Nick Delgado, a young wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management, searches for his own place in a world that teeters between alien and achingly familiar. Faced with the driest fire season on record, the Mapps must place their trust in a government less than honorable, while Nick struggles with regulations and familial expectations to become the man he needs to be.