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Destry Rides Again – ebook
Max Brand
This fast-paced story is about a tough rebel named Destry who is sent to prison for years, serving time for a crime he did not commit. Once out, he aims to seek revenge on the 12 jury members who sent him to prison and voted for his incarceration. However, his mission isn’t to kill but to find other unique ways as punishment and to make their lives miserable. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates...Data dostępności:
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Red Devil of the Range – ebook
George Owen Baxter
Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand. „Red Devil Of The Range” is one of his Western fiction....Data dostępności:
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The Lightning Warrior – ebook
George Owen Baxter
„The Lightning Warrior” is the name given to the great white wolf that is so swift in attacking its prey. A bounty is offered but no one can catch or kill the animal, that is until Cobalt arrives in the area. When Sylvia Baird, a proud woman determined not to marry Cobalt, a fierce warrior, tells him that she will consent to be his wife only if he brings her the pelt of this elusive white wolf, he...Data dostępności:
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The Trail Driver – ebook
Zane Grey
A great story by „the greatest novelist of the American West”. This one is about the tough men and women who made their living by obtaining herds of cattle and driving them across large territories to be sold. Driving forty-five hundred longhorns is hard enough, but in addition to leading the biggest cattle drive in the history of the Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite and his ten trail-hardened partners have...Data dostępności:
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Thunder Mountain – ebook
Zane Grey
One of the bestselling novelists of the American West brings us a gripping tale of gold, greed, and vengeance. Three brothers find a lode of gold at Thunder Mountain. But instead of finding peace and prosperity, Jake, Kalispel, and Sam Emerson find more treachery than any normal men could hope to survive. Before they can get the claim registered, one of the brothers is killed by a claim jumper and...Data dostępności:
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The Rainbow Trail – ebook
Zane Grey
Originally published in 1915, „The Rainbow Trail” is the sequel to „Riders of the Purple Sage”. At the end of that famous novel, a huge boulder had rolled down to shut off the entrance to Surprise Valley, leaving Lassiter, Jane Withersteen, and little Fay Larkin to a singular fate. Twelve years later a young, disillusioned, ex-preacher in Illinois, hears about the wonderful secret canyon where a couple...Data dostępności:
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The Vanishing American – ebook
Zane Grey
Here is the great romance of the American Indian, revealing in the swift march of its events the tragedy and the glory of a whole race, and the true essence of the West, as only Zane Grey can express it. It tells the story of the love between Nophaie, a young Native American (or American Indian) man and his love for and with a woman by the name of Marian Warner. Also Indian warrior Nophaie strives...Data dostępności:
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The Lone Star Ranger – ebook
Zane Grey
„The Lone Star Ranger” is a 1915 Western novel by American author Zane Grey. Set in Texas, the story revolves around the exploits of a band of Texas Rangers and Buck Duane, an outlaw on a quest for redemption. A captain of the Texas Rangers offers him a pardon and a ranger’s badge if he will infiltrate the gang of the shadowy figure known as „Cheseldine” who wields vast power in West Texas, and make...Data dostępności:
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The Drift Fence – ebook
Zane Grey
Zane Grey evokes the atmosphere, hardships and possibilities of the Old West like nobody else. Leaving Missouri with no knowledge of cattle ranching, Jim Traft of Missouri is put in charge of building one hundred miles of fence on his uncle’s western ranch to prevent cattle from drifting. The job puts him in conflict with the local community and he must find a balance. There’s also the lovely Molly...Data dostępności:
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Riders of the Purple Sage – ebook
Zane Grey
„Riders of the Purple Sage” is Zane Grey’s best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre. The story uses a third person narrator to tell the story from the point of view of two main characters Bern Venter and Jane Withersteen and a few minor characters. Jane Withersteen, Mormon-born Utah native,...Data dostępności:
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Majesty’s Rancho – ebook
Zane Grey
„Majesty’s Rancho” is the sequel to „The Light of Western Stars”, both by Zane Grey. Here we meet the next generation at the ranch. It is wild with college age fun and a mix of gangsters meeting the old west. After Lance Sidway comes to the defense of beautiful Madge Stewart and ends up on the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and finds work on her father’s ranch. Fate certainly seems to...Data dostępności:
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Robbers’ Roost – ebook
Zane Grey
A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of nineteenth-century America. Jim Tex Wall is searching for three men who killed his wife and stole his horses and finds them working for a gang of cattle rustlers engaged in a turf war with a rival gang of outlaws. Finding his horses he joins the gang that are now riding them. Caught in the battle between the gangs when one double-crosses...Data dostępności:
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Desert Gold – ebook
Zane Grey
Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard Gale sees the possibilities of passion and gold when he finds himself trying to save a beautiful Spanish heiress. Love, adventure, and more wait in the Old West of Zane Grey’s western classic „Desert Gold”. When Richard Gale arrives in the border country of Arizona, he hopes for a brand new start. He soon finds...Data dostępności:
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Knights of the Range – ebook
Zane Grey
A true legend, Zane Grey has thrilled a generation of readers with his great stories of the American West. Holly Ripple, a young, headstrong woman, brought up in the upscale boarding schools of the east, has inherited her family’s cattle ranch in 1870s New Mexico, after the sudden death of her father. With the help of the ranch foreman and Renn Frayne, a newly hired hand; a outlaw seeking redemption,...Data dostępności:
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Forlorn River – ebook
Zane Grey
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...Data dostępności:
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The Courts of the Morning – ebook
John Buchan
Although this book was listed in a collection of Richard Hannay stories, Hannay makes only a brief appearance at the beginning. Begins in the pleasant atmosphere of a country house in the Scottish borders, where Richard Hannay is the guest of his old friend, Sandy Arbuthnot. The action is set in Olifa, a fictional country on the west coast of South America. When Sandy Arbuthnot’s friend John Blenkiron...Data dostępności:
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The Prairie – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the 3rd novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. Civilization drives old hunter Natty Bumppo (Leatherstocking) west of the Mississippi to the prairies, where he becomes a trapper and helps a band of emigrants in their conflicts with Indians, miscreants, and the harsh environment. We find Hawkeye removed to the uncharted territory which...Data dostępności:
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Zamek Griffith’ów – ebook
Ewa Kiniorska
Ewa Kiniorska - urodzona w 1977 roku, z wykształcenia jest politologiem. Najczęściej tworzy historie fantasy, sf i bajki dla dzieci. W czasie wolnym rysuje i szuka idealnej dla siebie pracy, w czym często przeszkadza jej rozszalała wyobraźnia i kapryśne usposobienie. Książki kocha ponad życie. W hołdzie ulubionym pisarzom angielskim: Agacie Christie, Jane Austen i Karolowi Dickensowi stworzyła szereg...Data dostępności:
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Wyścig ze śmiercią – ebook
Erica Spindler
Mam kłopoty, Liz. Coś odkryłam... Obserwują mnie... Te słowa, nagrane na automatyczną sekretarkę w mieszkaniu Liz Ames, były ostatnią wiadomością od Rachel, pastor na wyspie Key West na Florydzie. Potem kobieta przepadła bez śladu. Liz postanawia zrobić wszystko, by dociec prawdy o losach swojej siostry. Przenosi się na Florydę i rozpoczyna prywatne śledztwo. Rajska wyspa okazuje się przedsionkiem...Data dostępności:
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Ernest Hemingway – ebook
Zbiór esejów przedstawiających współczesny stan badań nad prozą Hemingwaya, reprezentujących różne metodologie badawcze oraz sposoby jej odbioru. Przedkładając interpretacyjne bogactwo nad krytyczny konsensus, autorzy pokazują różnorodność twórczości mistrza z Key West i starają się przekonać czytelników, że do jego dzieł warto wracać. W pierwszej połowie XX wieku twórczość Hemingwaya była utożsamiana...Data dostępności: