May 14, 2013
New Arrivals · Western Fiction
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Stealing the preacher
May 7, 2013
Witemeyer, Karen.
Minneapolis, Minnesota : BETHANY HOUSE, 2013.
352
"Forced off a train in 1885 Texas and delivered to an outlaw's daughter for her birthday, is it possible this stolen preacher ended up right where he belongs?"-- Provided by publisher.
Redemption
April 24, 2013
Daniels, B. J.
Don Mills, Ont. : Harlequin, c2013.
379 p. ; 17 cm.
"Jack French has had two long years of prison-ranch labor to focus on starting over, cleaning up his act and making things right. When he comes home to close-knit Beartooth, Montana, he's bent on leveling the score with the men who set him up. The one thing he doesn't factor into his plans is beautiful Kate LaFond. With adventure-seeking in her blood, Kate's got big dreams to chase and a troubled past to put to rest. And even though a red-hot connection to a woman with her own set of secrets isn't part of Jack's plans, he just can't resist Kate and the gold cache she's after; even if it comes at a price. But when Kate is accused of murder, he realizes she's not only a suspect, but a target. In the Montana wilderness, he'll do whatever it takes to keep her safe from a killer on a quest to rob them of their chance for a new, passionate life with each other."-- P. [4] of cover.
A place to belong
April 24, 2013
Snelling, Lauraine.
376 pages ; 22 cm.
"Desiring a home, Cassie's promised herself to a rancher already living on the land she inherited, but is her heart leading her toward another?"--Provided by publisher.
Red moon : a novel
April 10, 2013
Percy, Benjamin.
New York : Grand Central Pub., 2013.
533 p. ; 24 cm.
They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers. They change. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is. Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero. Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy. So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge...and the battle for humanity will begin.
Butch Cassidy : the lost years
March 27, 2013
Johnstone, William W.
282 pages ; 24 cm
Asking the question "What if Butch Cassidy wasn't killed in the infamous Bolivian shootout in 1908?", an exciting novel of the Old West follows Butch as he, after fleeing South America, is pulled into the most dangerous train robbery he's ever attempted along with a new Wild Bunch.
The waiting gun : a western story
February 19, 2013
Overholser, Wayne D., 1906-1996.
Detroit [Mich.] : Five Star, 2013.
182 p. ; 23 cm.
Young Bill Varney just can't get ahead. His father treats him like just another hired ranch hand while lavishing attention on his twin sister, Vida, his girlfriend can't commit to marry him, yet entertains attentions from a wealthy shop owner twice her age, and now a gunfighter named Ace Kehoe has come into town challenging his aging, arthritic father to a gunfight and his sister wants him to take his father's place.
Rimfire bride
February 4, 2013
Luck, Sara.
New York : Pocket Books, 2013.
389 p. ; 18 cm.
"Pocket books romance"--Spine.
"Only the boldest of women would set off for the Dakota Territory without a man by her side. But schoolteacher Jana Hartmann is determined to build a new life for herself and her frail sister, Greta. True to her courageous spirit, Jana takes the only job she can find in the town of Bismarck--modeling dresses in a shop window--which has every man staring and every woman gossiping. Adding fuel to the fire, she's agreed to help raise money in the annual kissing booth, where one handsome cowboy wants to buy every kiss for himself. Drew Malone is a lawyer, rancher, and father of two little boys. Although Jana is immediately attracted to the handsome and helpful Drew, she fights it, torn between a budding romance and her responsibility to Greta. But Drew persists and sweeps her away for a romantic Christmas at Rimfire Ranch in the Badlands, where Jana finds herself having to win over the toughest critics of all-- Drew's young sons. As Greta becomes more independent, Jana lets down her guard and opens her heart to the three Malone men. But when the boys are kidnapped on her watch, Jana blames herself and flees to the frontier. Drew must race against the clock to get back his sons . . . and to make Jana his Rimfire bride."--P. [4] of cover.
Ghosts of Timber Wolf
January 21, 2013
Meszaros, V. S.
New York : Avalon Books, c2010.
249 p. ; 20 cm.
Dave Merrill, a two-fisted ranger out of Fort Pitt, lives by a tough code. Young, reckless, and brimming with hell, he just naturally jumps in to save the pretty widow, Angie Wright, from a brutal Shawnee war party. He deliberately leads them away, using himself as bait. Dave is caught, but not without a desperate chase and a bitter fight. He is taken to Timber Wolf Pass, home of the vengeful Shawnee ancestors. No white man has ever come down alive from those ghostly heights. Even if Dave manages to escape the sacrificial stone and blood-hungry warriors, the lawless Tuttles will be waiting for him to kill him. With everyone wanting a piece of Dave Merrill, will there be anything left of him for Angie Wright?
A Rocky Mountain Christmas
January 2, 2013
Johnstone, William W.
433 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasn't an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors, among them a beautiful young woman with a dark past, a merchant seaman turned rancher, and a senator with his very ill young daughter. Starving under a bitter, driving snow in the brutal, unforgiving Rocky Mountains, and surrounded by armed and desperate outlaws, Matt still dreams of making it home for Christmas. But unless fate lends a hand, nobody will.
Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse
January 2, 2013
Knott, Robert, 1954-
374 pages : map ; 24 cm
Map on endpapers.
"Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, newly appointed as Territorial Marshals, find themselves traveling by train through Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts as a simple prisoner escort mission, but becomes complicated when the Texas Governor and his family board the train--along with $500,000. The men have to watch for and contend with Bloody Bob Brandice, who was left with two .44 slugs in his chest during his last meeting with Virgil"-- Provided by publisher.
A cowboy at heart
December 20, 2012
Copeland, Lori.
Eugene, Or. : Harvest House Publishers, c2013.
287 p. ; 22 cm.
Rosa's land
December 20, 2012
Morris, Gilbert.
Uhrichsville, OH : Barbour Publishing, c2013.
318 p. ; 22 cm.
"Join Lafayette Riordan as he chases his dream of becoming a Wild West marshal. Young Faye longs for an adventurous life protecting the frontier alongside Judge Isaac Parker's famous marshals. But his upbringing has left him more prepared for a life as scholar and artist. When faced with the opportunity to realize his dream, can he summon the courage to hunt down the outlaws? Or will one headstrong female rancher capture his heart first?-- Publisher's description.
Wyoming bride
December 12, 2012
Johnston, Joan, 1948-
New York : Dell, 2013.
419 p. ; 17 cm.
"A Bitter Creek novel"--Cover.
Newly widowed, pregnant, and alone in the Wyoming wilderness, Hannah Wentworth agrees to marry Flint Creed, a bitter man who is in desperate need of a wife, and as the danger of the wild frontier surrounds them, the greatest threats of all are the secrets between them.
Western
December 10, 2012
Yerby, Frank, 1916-1991.
New York : Dell Pub., 1983, c1982.
460 p. ; 18 cm.
A Rocky Mountain Christmas
November 28, 2012
Johnstone, William W.
New York : Pinnacle, c2012.
395 p. ; 18 cm.
Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasn't an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors, among them a beautiful young woman with a dark past, a merchant seaman turned rancher, and a senator with his very ill young daughter. Starving under a bitter, driving snow in the brutal, unforgiving Rocky Mountains, and surrounded by armed and desperate outlaws, Matt still dreams of making it home for Christmas. But unless fate lends a hand, nobody will.
The Black Hills
November 21, 2012
Thompson, Rod, 1938-
New York : Berkley Books, 2011.
376 p. ; 21 cm.
"Young Cormac Lynch looks up to his dad as much as he loves his mother and sister. But one day, a few men ride in ... men who defile everything they touch. They take what they want and move on, leaving Cormac the only survivor. Killing those men won't bring his family back, but it is all he can do to set things right"-- Cover verso.
The road to Cardinal Valley
November 21, 2012
Fowler, Earlene.
New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2013, c2012.
viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Sequel to: The saddlemaker's wife.
Hoping to help her deceased husband's alcoholic brother, Nash, make a fresh start, Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, where she must confront her estranged mother and a terrible secret.
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