A fifth-generation Texan and longtime cattle rancher, John R. Erickson is the Lamplighter Award-winning author of over 50 books on Western life. In The Modern Cowboy, he paints a vivid and...
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Author: Erickson, JohnSummary: -
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Includes selections from The book of the Icelander and The book of the settlements; all of The Greenlanders' saga and Eirik the Red's saga. It is interspersed with explanatory background...
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Word-for-word unabridged recording of Job, narrated in contemporary language for easy understanding.
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Author: Edgerton, ClydeSummary:Mattie Rigsbee is a strong-minded senior citizen. When delinquent Wesley Benfield drops into her life, he is an even less likely companion than her stray dog.
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Author: Flynn, RobertSummary:
Pat Shahan, 35, is minister of a Protestant church in an unnamed city. During one typical day filled with budget problems and self-centered parishoners, Pat keeps up an internal dialog with his...
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Author: Bligh, WilliamSummary:Bligh's own extraordinary account of a journey of two years and three months from Plymouth to Tahiti and back.
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip...
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Author: Nichols, PeterSummary:
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever...
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Author: Christopher, MattSummary:Presents one of the author's baseball sport classics.
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Author: Pronzini, BillSummary:
When Molly Malone, kind roadhouse proprietor and McQuestion's lover, is brutally slain and her cupboards robbed, McQuestion suspects the unusually long winter and greed may have driven the guilty...
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Author: Paulsen, GarySummary:A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is forgotten in a farmhouse attic until the fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
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Author: Malone, MichaelSummary:
Noni Tilden and John "Kaye" King meet as young children on Christmas Eve of 1963. Noni is a white, privileged girl, while Kaye comes from a poor, black family. But when Kaye introduces himself by...
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Author: Vonnegut, KurtSummary:
One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature. Now this iconic figure shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on...