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  Saints and Sinners

  Peter Brandvold

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  Town Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion is back in this third high-action volume in Peter Brandvold's explosive western series!When Jeremiah Claggett, constable of the nearby ghost town of Fury, is murdered by Frank Lord, the kill-crazy leader of a dozen wild outlaws, Bloody Joe has to come to grips with the fact that he's inadvertently to blame. Mannion had turned Frank's brother, Billy, over to Claggett for safekeeping, setting off the chain of events that end his friend's life. Mannion is the kill-crazy one now. Not realizing he's being shadowed by Clagget's beautiful, half-wild granddaughter, Justy, and an inscrutable saddle tramp, Mannion sets out on his vengeance quest.In typical Bloody Joe style, he storms Lord's gang single-handedly, which nearly proves to be his undoing—until he's set upon by a mystery 'Man of the Lord' and given . . . something. Whether that something is good or bad Mannion has difficulty discerning.Saints and Sinners is a crazy, dark, storm-ridden ride through the hell of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Whoever manages to ride out alive—saint or sinner, or maybe a combination—will be changed forever, baptized in gun smoke and blood.

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  The Will to Succeed - Lady Anne...

  Christine Raafat

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  When the 15-year-old Lady Anne Clifford's father died in 1605, she was his sole surviving child and expecting to inherit the Cliffords' great northern estates.  But the Earl of Cumberland leaves a will which ignores an ancient law and bequeaths the lands to his brother, in the belief that a prophecy by his great-grandfather will eventually come true and return the estates to Anne. She and her mother vow to contest the will.
  Anne spends the next three decades battling for what she believes is rightfully hers. She risks everything by opposing her beloved husband, her family and friends, the nobility, the law courts, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the King. She steadfastly (and treasonably) refuses to accept the King's decision, whatever the consequences, but is defeated and left with the prophecy as her only hope.
  Widowed at thirty-four, she survives an anxious period alone with her two young daughters before surprising everyone with an ill-judged second marriage which gives her access to the highest in the land. But the Civil War destroys that power and confines the 52-year-old Anne to a grand palace in London for six years. Still convinced of her rights, will she ever attain "ye landes of mine inheritance"?

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  Something Worth Doing

  Jane Kirkpatrick

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  Some things are worth doing—even when the cost is greatIn 1853, Abigail Scott was a nineteen-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway.Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife andmother. When Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family, what she sees as a working womanappalls her—and prompts her to devote her life to fighting for the rights of women, including the right to vote.Based on a true story, Something Worth Doing will resonate with modern women who still grapple with the pullbetween career and family, finding their place in the public sphere, and dealing with frustrations and prejudices whencompeting in male-dominated spaces.

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  Seaflower

  Julian Stockwin

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  The maritime adventures of a Napoleonic-era British Navy seaman continue in this tale by the international bestselling author of Mutiny. 
   
  The young seafaring hero Thomas Paine Kydd is back on board in Seaflower, the third installment in Julian Stockwin’s thrilling naval adventure series set in the Great Age of Sail. 
   
  England, 1794. Kydd and the crew shipwrecked sailors have returned to England for the court-martial of the sole surviving officer of Her Majesty’s frigate Artemis. Kydd, who was on duty as quartermaster of the starboard watch, knows what happened the night Artemis went down. His evidence can destroy an officer’s career—and, as it turns out, his own. 
   
  When Kydd and his mate Nicholas Renzi are forcibly shipped off to the Caribbean, a whole new set of challenges lies in wait. From the dockyards of Antigua to the shores of Guadeloupe, from warring French and English battleships to a death-defying voyage aboard the plucky naval cutter Seaflower, Kydd’s mettle under fire—as a sailor and a man—will receive the ultimate test. How he and Renzi survive the primal forces of nature at sea, and among their fellow men, is at the heart of this exhilarating, rewarding journey.

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  The Encircling Sea

  Adrian Goldsworthy

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  Flavius Ferox, Briton turned Roman centurion, is charged with keeping Rome's empire intact. But from his base at Vindolanda on the northern frontier of Britannia, he feels enemies closing in on him from all sides. Ambitious leaders await the chance to carve out empires of their own while men nearer at hand speak in whispers of war and the destruction of Rome.And now new threats are reaching Ferox's ears. Stories about the boat-dwelling men of the night who have cursed the land and come ashore only to feast on men's flesh. These are just rumours for now. But Ferox knows that rumours stem from truth. And that no one on this isle is safe from the great encircling sea....

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  MacCallister: The Eagles Legacy...

  William W. Johnstone, J.A....

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  Duff MacCallister is heir to a fierce family of fighting Scotsmen. In a new land, in the extraordinary new saga by best-selling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone, Duff gives new meaning to the words without mercy.The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming, are peaceful. Or so it has seemed — until killers ambush a detail of US soldiers and an officer's wife. One man, an ambitious cavalry officer, flees the carnage and lives to tell the story — his own story, an outright lie. When Duff MacCallister and a few brave men go after the attackers, they discover the officer's wife is very much alive and at the cold merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk. To free the woman, Duff touches off a fierce battle. And when he finds himself surrounded by the blood-crazed renegades, MacCallister knows there is only one way out — by going after Yellow Hawk himself....

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