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Flower Children
by Robert Vaughan
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The 1960's have gone down in history as a decade of social and political upheavals, when Americans grappled with the moral dilemmas and social divisions caused by the Vietnam war, the struggle for civil rights, and the radicalism of the nation's youth. In the ninth volume of Robert Vaughan's stunning American Chronicles, a panoramic picture of the American experience unfolds from the perspective of Americans from all walks of life. Cocky and charismatic Bob Parker courts death every day, pilotin... more info>> (Published: 1996)
Words: 99771 - Reading Time: 285-399 min.
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The New Frontier
by Robert Vaughan
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Vietnam. The Bay of Pigs. A November afternoon in Dallas pierced by gunshots. Robert Vaughan's eighth title in the American Chronicles series opens with the calamitous changes that define a generation and bid good-bye to innocence. With the charismatic young president in office, idealism and optimism run free, the youths of America believe in all possibilities. Deon Booker, a proud African-American, joins Mississippi's Freedom Riders on an unforgettable journey to a shocking revelation. His comp... more info>> (Published: 1995)
Words: 119165 - Reading Time: 340-476 min.
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A Prize for Princes
by Rex Stout
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In this novel of intrigue and suspense, the masterful Rex Stout follows the fortunes of Aline Solini, whose angelic face hides a demon's soul. It is the face that captivates Richard Stetton, a wealthy young American, when he rescues Aline from a Balkan convent about to be sacked by marauding Turks. Stetton also enables Aline to escape Vasili Petrovich, the husband she tried to poison, and introduces her into society's highest circles. There Aline proves her talents for deceit and chicanery among... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 92990 - Reading Time: 265-371 min.
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The Song of Sandy Stream
by David Bulley
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Historical fiction based on a real event. Ever hike across a frozen lake, naked? These men did. (Published: 2000)
Words: 3565 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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The Ghost Horses
by Dave Creek
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Paleontology in the Old West? The Ghost Horses was inspired by the real "bone hunters" who competed with one another in the 1880's. They would destroy magnificent finds of dinosaur bones rather than allow a competitor to make off with them. Dr. George Allenby finds himself in the middle of an old-fashionsed wild west shootout as he pursues his dream of discovery. (Published: 2002)
Words: 5693 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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Fluke
by Martin Blinder
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So begins the tale of one of the most tragic figures in modern American history, as seen through the rather astigmatic vision of his mistress. In America, anybody can become president. In 1920, anybody did. Harding was a strikingly handsome man, a high school graduate of impenetrable ignorance whose only two qualifications for the presidency were that he looked and sounded presidential--provided you didn't look or listen too closely. Ohio's "favorite son" at the nominating convention, he recogni... more info>> (Published: 1999)
Words: 55533 - Reading Time: 158-222 min.
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The Rocky Mountain Company
by Richard S. Wheeler
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In 1841, a St. Louis businessman had a dream: to open up the far reaches of the Yellowstone River and commerce with native tribes. So Guy Strauss put together a team of adventurers led by a half-civilized mountain man named Broken Leg Fitzhugh. The plan was to set up a trading post on the edge of a land he knew. Yet from the very beginning, the expedition was buffeted by disaster, plunging the men of the Rocky Mountain Trading Company into a desperate battle for survival. Out in the harsh wilder... more info>> (Published: 1991)
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Doctor Syn, a Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh
by Russell Thorndike
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Posing as a respectable vicar in Dymchurch at the turn of the 18th century, Dr. Syn is actually the retired pirate Captain Clegg. Clegg, believed hanged in Rye, is no longer being sought by the authorities. However, country life proves too tame for Syn, and his attention turns to smuggling. He takes on a secret identity, The Scarecrow, and returns to his criminal ways. (Published: 1915)
Words: 68485 - Reading Time: 195-273 min.
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Holocaust
by Gerald Green
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Historical accounts of tragedies such as the Holocaust often allow readers and students a certain detachment in the formidable but impersonal catalogue of numbers, events, policies and processes. Gerald Green's novel Holocaust, which is based on his teleplay for the 1978 NBC miniseries, seeks to put faces on the tragedy by telling the story of the experience of two German families whose lives intersect at certain points. The Dorfs are "good" Germans, loyal to the new Nazi regime, and their son E... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Bully!
by Mike Resnick
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A Theodore Roosevelt story. (Published: 1990) Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
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Looking for the Fountain
by Robert Silverberg
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A soldier traveling with Ponce de Leon recounts a different version of the search for the fountain of youth. (Published: 1992)
Words: 9472 - Reading Time: 27-37 min.
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Calling Crow Nation [Book 3 of the Calling Crow Series]
by Paul Clayton
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The native Coosa people lived on the land that would one day become the southeastern United States, until the arrival of the white man changed their lives forever. Calling Crow faces the most difficult challenge to his judgment and leadership yet, as the hostile Timuca people grow ever more powerful. They have enlisted the help of a cruel Spanish slaver, trading some of their own people into slavery in exchange for the deadly thundersticks brought by the white men. Although Calling Crow wishes t... more info>> (Published: 1997)
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Slaughter at Buffalo Creek [Pony Soldiers Book 1]
by Chet Cunningham
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Captain Colt Harding, grief-stricken and hungry for revenge, sets out to destroy White Eagle, the Indian who killed his wife and son. White Eagle roams the land raping, pillaging, and murdering, showing no mercy. Captain Harding takes it upon himself to see that this savage be fed to the scavengers. Only with the help of Pony Soldiers, some of the vilest people in existence, will Captain Harding be able to avenge the deaths of his wife and son and rescue his daughter from a life of servitude. (Published: 1987)
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The Canebrake Men [Book 3 of the Overmountain Men Trilogy]
by Cameron Judd
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The Canebrake Men is a powerful saga from acclaimed frontier storyteller Cameron Judd. Capturing the vision, the hopes, the heartache and the triumphs of the men and women who fought to forge a new nation in the wilderness. Following the American War for Independence from the British Crown, a group of Tennessee settlers is on a mission to carve out a new state as well as a new society within the fledgling nation. But this vision of a new Eden is fraught with adversity, as the federal government ... more info>> (Published: 1993)
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Comanche Massacre [Pony Soldiers Book 2]
by Chet Cunningham
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Tired of the evil doings of the government in Washington, the Comanches go on a rampage. Sick of dealing with corrupt whiskey traders, they devote themselves to destroying the lives of the settlers. They go through the land like an unstoppable force, the finger of God, stealing, raping, and murdering. The only group with any chance of stopping the Comanches is the equally bloodthirsty Pony Soldiers. Which side will surrender first? (Published: 1987)
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The Border Men [Book 2 of the Overmountain Men Trilogy]
by Cameron Judd
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From one of the strongest voices in frontier fiction, The Border Men is a bold novel of revolution, adventure, and the spirit of the American pioneers. Cameron Judd tells the compelling story of proud men and women whose passion for liberty led them to fight for their freedom and tame the wilderness. Survival is at its most precarious, as Joshua Colter must defend the land he adopted in his youth, Tennessee. As a captain of the newly formed militia known as the Patriot Rangers, he leads the colo... more info>> (Published: 1992)
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The Overmountain Men [Book 1 of the Overmountain Men Trilogy]
by Cameron Judd
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He was only a boy of ten when he survived a bloody massacre in Charles Town, but with Joshua Colter's survival came the will to fight and survive. On the land that has become his home, a mountain paradise the Cherokee call Tanisi, Joshua must face his destiny of being a leader in the bitter fight for land and power between the Cherokee, settlers and British royalty, or he will lose the only place he can call his own. In an age of revolution in the deep wilderness of the rugged frontier Joshua mu... more info>> (Published: 1991)
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Flight of the Crow [Book 2 of the Calling Crow Series]
by Paul Clayton
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Calling Crow searches for his wife, kidnapped by a vindictive Spanish priest. Captured and wounded by another tribe, he is dragged from death's door by a woman he will grow to love. Adopted by the Coosa, he becomes their chief. French Protestant colonists settle to the North. Then the Spanish Catholics return to the lands they claimed as their own, bringing Calling Crow's wife with them. The two European groups learn of each other's presence and make war plans. Now Calling Crow must ensure that ... more info>> (Published: 1996)
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Calling Crow [Book 1 of the Calling Crow Series]
by Paul Clayton
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To his people, Calling Crow is a chief and leader, but to the Spaniards who invaded his land, he is a slave. In 1535, the Spanish conquistadors arrived with their armies and claimed the land that would later become known as Georgia and South Carolina. The peaceful native Muskogee tribe was conquered, bound into slavery and forced off the fertile coastal lands that had been their home for generations. But Chief Calling Crow refuses to have his spirit broken by the humiliation of enslavement. His ... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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The Drifter [The Last Gunfighter Book 1]
by William W. Johnstone
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William W. Johnstone, the powerhouse author of the acclaimed series The Mountain Man, has brought us a brand-new saga of western drama. The Last Gunfighter series continues to expand the reach of Johnstone's creative powers, placing the American frontier front and center with tales of down-and-out drifters, simple settlers, gregarious gunmen and loathing lawmen. In the Drifter, farmer Frank Morgan was an honest man with a future and a family before a barbarous baron pushed him off his hard-earne... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 60418 - Reading Time: 172-241 min.
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The Bugles are Silent
by John R. Knaggs
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The Texas Revolution marked one of the most dynamic and turbulent eras in American history. When cultures, religion and political ideology collide in The Bugles are Silent, a stage has been set for a military explosion. While the Texans struggle to preserve their territory and identity against the forces of Mexican dictator Santa Anna, they must remember those things that define their Spanish-influenced heritage. The legendary Alamo defenders, William Barret Travis, Jim Bowie and David Crockett ... more info>> (Published: 1977)
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The Day of Sacrifice
by F. M. Esfandiary
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This is a rare look inside the mysterious, romantic and turbulent Iran of the 1950's. KiaNoush is a young man without any convictions in a land of conviction at a time when sides are being taken. He is a product of eastern inner thought and western self-centered pleasure seeking. These conflicting forces are threatening to pull apart the stability of his Teheran. The city is corrupt and agitated when a plot to murder the Minister of the Interior comes to his knowledge. At the urging of his wise ... more info>> (Published: 1959)
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Heart of Oak
by Tristan Jones
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World War II helped to define Tristan Jones as an adventurous Welsh youth. After losing his parents, he spent much of his life working on sailing barges and so he is no stranger to the seas when he is called to fight for Britain during the Blitz in 1940. Tristan Jones is not only caught in the middle of arduous battles on board, but also the tragic battles he must fight in his heart. When the British Royal Navy commissions him to embark on transatlantic duties on the HMS Eclectic, HMS Hood and t... more info>> (Published: 1984)
Words: 85003 - Reading Time: 242-340 min.
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Comanche Moon [Pony Soldiers Book 3]
by Chet Cunningham
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Still in pursuit, the Pony Soldiers get closer and closer to White Eagle, the kidnapper. He put the noose around his own neck the minute he enslaved Major Harding's daughter. Now he is being hunted like a dog, and the Pony Soldiers have no intention of showing any mercy. They want to tear White Eagle apart and feed him to the buzzards. His death draws nearer as the unrelenting, unstoppable Pony Soldiers seek his head. (Published: 1987)
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Cheyenne Blood Storm [Pony Soldiers Book 4]
by Chet Cunningham
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Skilled at war and bloodthirsty in the heat of battle, the Cheyenne, led by Bear Claw, seek revenge on the white settlers. Having killed every member of the regular cavalry, they prepared to roam the territory raping and plundering the white settlers. Only one group can stop them: the Pony Soldiers, just as fierce and three times more bloodthirsty. The Cheyenne couldn't possibly withstand the bloodshed. (Published: 1988)
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