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By Jon Tuska. 1997
This collection of twenty-eight western short stories from the 1920s-1990s includes works by renowned writers such as Zane Grey, Max…
Brand, Conrad Richter, Alan LeMay, and Cherry Wilson, as well as contemporary tales by Richard Wheeler, Ernest Haycox, and Cynthia Haseloff. Some strong languageBy Lisa Kleypas, Lorraine Heath, Vivienne Lorret, Megan Frampton. 2017
Four holiday short stories from popular historical romance writers, originally written between 2001 and 2015. Includes "I Will" by Lisa…
Kleypas, about a man who blackmails a spinster into a pretend courtship. Other authors include Lorraine Heath, Megan Frampton, and Vivienne Lorret. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2017By Eloisa James. 2021
From four beloved writers—Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley—come four original stories that tell a hilarious tale…
of a Christmas house party that serves up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of Greystoke's Christmas Revelry is famous throughout the British Isles for its plays, dancing, magical grotto... not to mention scandals leading to the marriage licenses he hands out like confetti. But not everyone welcomes a visit from Cupid. Lady Cressida, the duke's daughter, is too busy managing the entertainments—and besides, her own father has called her dowdy. Her cousin, Lady Isabelle Wilkshire, is directing Cinderella and has no interest in marriage. Lady Caroline Whitmore is already (unhappily) married; the fact that she and her estranged husband have to pretend to be together just makes her dread the party all the more. But not as much as Miss Louisa Harcourt, whose mother bluntly tells her that this is her last chance to escape the horrors of being an old maid. A house party so large that mothers lose track of their charges leads to a delightful, seductive quartet of stories that you will savor for the Season!By Elizabeth Boyle, Julia Quinn, Laura Lee Guhrke, Stefanie Sloane. 2017
A collection of novellas from popular historical romance authors. Four friends at boarding school find an old sixpence coin in…
a mattress. They decide that it will be their lucky charm, helping each find true love and the perfect husband. Some descriptions of sex. 2017By Shona Patel. 2015
When Biren Roy's father dies at the age of thirty-four, young Biren decides to study to become a lawyer to…
advocate for and protect the interests of his now-widowed mother. He grows up and must navigate the divergent cultures of Britain and Bengal. 2015By Kimberley Comeaux, Debby Mayne, Susan Downs, Susan K. Downs, DiAnn Mills, JoAnn A. Grote, Ellen Edwards Kennedy. 2013
Novellas from six authors explore romance on the homestead. In Grote's A Homesteader, a Bride, and a Baby, set in…
1878 Minnesota, Lorette arrives for a visit with her sister's family only to find that they have all recently died from diphtheria--except for the baby. 2000By Shona Patel. 2013
India, 1943. Seventeen-year-old Layla Roy has been taught the value of education and independence by her grandfather Dadamoshai. She falls…
in love, marries, and learns to navigate life as the effects of World War II reverberate through the country. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2013By Diana Palmer. 2011
Morie Brannt, denied the opportunity to work on her wealthy father's Texas ranch, takes a job incognito on Mallory Kirk's…
Wyoming spread to learn the business. The two manage to hide their attraction--until a crisis leaves Mallory in danger. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011By Paul Andrew Hutton. 2010
An anthology of short stories and essays together with a few poems written by twenty-seven of today's top Western writers.…
Also included is the western novella "The Big Guns," by Andrew Fenady. 2020By Pete Fromm, Maryanne Vollers, William Kittredge, Alan Kesselheim, Tim Cahill, John Clayton, Thomas Lee, Jeff Welsch, Malcolm Brooks, Glen Chamberlain, Daniel Person, Milana Marsenich, Allen Morris Jones, Scott McMillion, Jennifer Graf Groneberg, Fred Haefele, Jeff Hull, Ed Kemmick, Butch Larcombe, Myers Reece, Megan Ault Regnerus, Gail Schontzler, Craig Lancaster, John Byorth. 2015
By Lorraine Heath, Georgina Gentry, Teresa Bodwell. 2006
Three western romances. In Georgina Gentry's "The Great Cowboy Race," heiress Henrietta Jennings enters a thousand-mile horse race from Nebraska…
to Illinois and falls for her toughest competitor, wrangler Comanche Jones. Also includes Teresa Bodwell's "Moonlight Whispers" and Lorraine Heath's "The Reluctant Hero." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006By Various, William Kittredge. 1997
Anthology of stories, poems, essays, and excerpts exploring the range and evolution of Western American literature including the Native American…
experience. Features selections by Louise Erdrich, Lewis and Clark, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry, Raymond Carver, W.H. Auden, Ken Kesey, Barry Lopez, and others. 1997By Dale L. Walker, Western Writers of America Staff. 2003
Anthology of original western stories captures the westward legacy from a North American's first glimpse of a horse in sixteenth-century…
Kansas to a 1913 gunbattle in a Utah copper mine. Authors include Loren D. Estleman, Don Coldsmith, John Jakes, and Richard S. Wheeler. Some strong language. 2003By Richard S. Wheeler. 2000
Fifteen western short stories spanning the frontier experience. "The Indian Summer of Nancy Redwing" by Harry W. Paige depicts the…
despair of a reservation woman at home alone on her thirty-fifth birthday. Loren D. Estleman's "The Cat King of Cochise County" is a comic tale about the discoverer of chicken wire. 2000By Larry McMurtry. 2000
Author of Lonesome Dove (DB 22959) has compiled twenty tales about the American West by writers of the late twentieth…
century, including Wallace Stegner, Jack Kerouac, Louise Erdrich, Annie Proulx, and William H. Gass. These pieces demonstrate how western stories have evolved and matured since the 1950s. Some strong language. 2000By Loren D. Estleman. 2001
Twenty nontraditional "western" tales. "The Guardians," a story by Don Coldsmith, is based on a historical incident in which Native…
Americans are not attackers but protectors. In "A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing," Johnny D. Boggs writes a moving narrative from the perspective of a piano. Some strong language. 2001A selection of eighteen short stories. Includes "The Idyl of Red Gulch" by Bret Harte, "The Lonesome Road" by O.…
Henry, and tales by Jack London, Mark Twain, John Jakes, Louis L'Amour, Evan Hunter, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Ed Gorman. 1996. 1996Nineteen short western stories from well-known authors like Louis L'Amour, John Jakes, Elmore Leonard, and John D. MacDonald. In Lost…
Sister a white woman is returned to her family after living with Indians for forty years. In Markers two cowpokes ponder the different epitaphs they have read. Some violence. 1994By John Jakes. 2000
Thirty western short stories from the twentieth century. Includes work by Louis L'Amour, Jack London, Elmer Kelton, Luke Short, Max…
Brand, and Zane Grey. Introduction by John Jakes. Some violence. 2000By Bill Pronzini, Martin Greenberg. 1990
Nine western stories later made into movies. Includes "Massacre" by James Warner Bellah, starring Henry Fonda and John Wayne as…
cavalrymen at Little Big Horn. In Dorothy M. Johnson's "The Hanging Tree," Gary Cooper is Doctor Joe Frail, who falls in love with Elizabeth, played by Maria Schell. Violence