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- Another great Max Brand western, first written in 1921. The story follows a cousin who was taken in by his uncle and his two sons. They make fun of him, and use his size and strength to do the hard chores they can’t do. The huge, lumbering outlaw Bull Hunter intends to hunt down and kill the men responsible for his uncle’s death. When he finds out that the ringleader is already behind bars, he devises...
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- The Young Lion Hunter is a story of a young adventurer Ken Ward. Kenneth Ward and his younger brother, Hal, spend their holidays in the Utah Forest Preserve, where they accompany the second Ken and help him capture the mountain lions and the pum in the Grand Canyon. An engaging adventure novel dating from the Old Zachary of America.
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- A classic historical novel set in and around Windsor Castle during the time of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Historical events are sharply aggravated by the appearance of the forest demon Hern the Hunter.
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- Życie Liv już nigdy nie miało być takie samo. Tragiczna strata budzi w niej straszliwe poczucie winy. Dziewczyna próbuje za wszelką cenę walczyć ze swoimi demonami. Co gorsza, na jej drodze staje arogancki dupek, który jest przybranym bratem jej kuzyna. Hunter to facet, na którego widok dziewczyny tracą głowę. Ktoś taki jak on nie może pozwolić sobie na uczucia. Po co mieć jedną kobietę, skoro może...
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- Another compelling and well-written story by H. Rider Haggard! It all starts quite gradually, in England, where the great hunter Allan Quatermain is making one of his rare trips outside of Africa. The story returns to Africa, and Quatermain talks about the unsuccessful speculation at the gold mine. Meanwhile, events that began many years ago in England are developing, and other heroes arrive in Africa...
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- Powell’s Plateau was the most distant, inaccessible corner of the Grand Canyon, when Zane Gray went there with a hunter to the buffalo, camp, a cowboy from Utah and a scout from Navajo State. With the help of ropes and rifles, five men traveled to Mustangs. They were not disappointed. Different paths penetrated through the brush of forest and rocks from all sides.
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- „All the Sad Young Men” is a collection of nine short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes two of his most famous – the beautifully elegiac „The Rich Boy” and „Winter Dreams” which feature wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – who struggle to come to terms with lost love. As with his other collections, its release was timed to...
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- B.M. Bower was an American writer of Western novels and short stories who wrote over 55 novels. Several of her stories were subsequently adapted and made into movies. This story of the cow country concerns the efforts of the Sawtooth Cattle Company, who number their cattle by the tens of thousands, to eliminate the smaller outfits around. Al Woodruff, the evil eye of the Sawtooth, is efficient in his...
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- By the author of the celebrated „Buffalo Bill” stories. Colonel Prentiss Ingraham was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a professional military officer throughout the 1860s and a fiction writer. As well as writing under his own name, he published under pseudonyms including Dr. Noel Dunbar, Dangerfield Burr, Major Henry B. Stoddard, Colonel Leon Lafitte, Frank Powell, Harry Dennies Perry, Midshipman...
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- Years of tough jungle living made Bomba the most powerful hunter around. At 14, he possessed the strength of three men, and could fight the most powerful jungle beasts with little more than a knife. With his extraordinary throwing arm, he could bury a knife up to its hilt in any enemy within fifty yards. His phenomenally strong arms allow him to send an arrow over impossibly long distances while still...
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- „The Gringos” recounts the massive clash of cultures that arose when European-American prospectors streamed into California in pursuit of gold and other natural resources. Dade Hunter and Jack Allen are two cowboys who got caught up in the 1849 California Gold Rush, and had a good fortune in the gold fields. They decide to spend a winter in San Francisco, where Jack gets hooked on gambling, while Dade...
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- One of Max Brand’s greatest gifts as a storyteller is his ability to create unforgettable, larger-than-life characters. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. "The Power of Prayer" (1922) is an unusual and vexing Christmas story in which Gerald Kern,...
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- In „Forlorn River”, young Ben Ide is cast out by his rich dad, branded a wild horse hunter and possible rustler. Ide befriends a wounded man, whom he nicknames „Nevada.” Ide does the same for „Modoc,” an Indian he pulls out of a saloon. All three men form bonds of loyalty in their isolated state as they hunt wild horses in the California wilderness. Then the love of Ben’s youth returns after being...
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- Rodzinna, kojąca duszę, świąteczna powieść o tym, co może się stać, gdy ludzie otworzą swoje serca na nowe możliwości. W. Bruce Cameron, autor bestsellerowych książek z cyklu „Był sobie pies”, opowiada o pielęgnowaniu relacji, nadziei i cudzie przebaczenia, których możemy się uczyć od naszych czworonożnych przyjaciół. W rodzinie Gossów każdy ma swoje problemy, którym musi codziennie stawiać czoła. ...
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- Niepublikowana dotąd powieść Lucindy Riley. To szczególna pozycja, którą autorka udowodniła, że potrafi wykraczać poza ramy powieści obyczajowej, i zrobiła to w doskonałym stylu. Tajemnice Fleat House to powieść kryminalna i choć nasuwają się przy niej oczywiste skojarzenia z Agathą Christie, z resztą twórczości Lucindy Riley łączy ją sposób splatania aktualnych wydarzeń z przeszłością. Prywatna...
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