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The Orchardist
14 critic reviews | 315 user reviews | Published: April 30, 2013
New York Times Bestseller "Amanda Coplin's somber, majestic debut arrives like an urgent missive from another century. You can only be thrilled by a 31-year-old writer with this depth of understandingâ¦the final epiphany equals in stark grandeur similar scenes in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Pat Barker's Another World." -Washington Post At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, ...
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House of Earth: A Novel
15 critic reviews | 6 user reviews | Published: February 5, 2013
Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie's only fully realized novel—a powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, filled with the homespun lyricism and authenticity that have made his songs a part of our national consciousness. It is the story of an ordinary couple's dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world. Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike y...
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Hard Country
11 critic reviews | 110 user reviews | Published: May 10, 2012
Michael McGarrity has crafted a richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women set in the hard country of the frontier American Southwest.A tale of love and loss, survival and sacrifice, lawlessness and virtue, Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico.In the wake of the death of his wife as she gives birth to his son, and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave...
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Boleto
16 critic reviews | 111 user reviews | Published: May 8, 2012
An unforgettable story of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket outWill Testerman is a young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself. Money is tight at the family ranch, where he's living again after a disastrous end to his job on the Texas show-horse circuit. He sees his chance with a beautiful quarter horse, a filly that might earn him a reputation, and spends his savings to buy her. Armed with stories and the confidence of youth, he devotes himself to her training -- first, in the familiar barn...
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Thunder and Rain
4 critic reviews | 112 user reviews | Published: April 3, 2012
Center Street welcomes New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin with a page-turning novel about a retired Texas Ranger, torn between his past and his future.Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed-- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble seeing his greatest weakness. His hard outer shell, the one essential to his work, made hi...
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Texas Bride
5 critic reviews | 83 user reviews | Published: March 27, 2012
HE MAY BE HER ONLY HOPE. SHE MAY BE HIS LAST CHANCE. Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now marriage to a stranger is her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of the Chicago orphanage where they live. With any luck, she can even start a family of her own, once the three of them are settled at Jacob Creed's Texas ranch. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: Her husband-to-be knows nothing about the brothers she's bringing along. What if he calls off the deal whe...
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Trouble Me
8 critic reviews | 33 user reviews | Published: March 27, 2012
TROUBLE ISN'T THE ONLY THING ON HER MIND. The youngest and wildest of the Radcliffe sisters, Jade is the last to return home to her family's sprawling Virginia horse farm and its unsettling memories. She never planned on a night of passion with a stranger before starting her new life as a teacher and riding instructor-or the shock of recognizing the man who gave her so much pleasure standing right there in her classroom. Officer Rob Cooper is stunned. Not only is the woman who rocked his world his daughter's second grade teacher, but she's t...
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Rocky Mountain Desire (Six Pack Ranch)
4 critic reviews | 30 user reviews | Published: March 13, 2012
Nothing comes easy. You’ve gotta work for it. Six Pack Ranch, Book 3 Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he’d be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else the chance to drop-kick his heart. Physical pleasure? Hell, yeah, he’ll take—and give—with gusto, but nothing more. Hope Meridan is working long hours to hold on to her new quilt shop, going it alone since her sister/business partner ran off. Sex? Right, like she’s got the time. Not that she doesn’t have the ...
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Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)
6 critic reviews | 502 user reviews | Published: May 15, 2001
When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience.
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