A rogue thief in 1840s Ireland is sent by angels to a contemporary small town in America. Forbidden to tell anyone why he is there, he must convince the woman he loves to marry another.
Outlaws
- Auteur:Sheets, Tara, Deveraux, JudeSommaire:
- Auteur:Adler, David A.Sommaire:
Cam Jansen has a special talent. Whenever she closes her eyes and says "click," she can call up a perfect picture in her mind of anything she has ever seen. This is very useful when she plays Geography with her best friend...
- Auteur:McCarthy, CormacSommaire:
His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars,...
- Auteur:Cotton, Ralph W.Sommaire:
Seems like every time Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack turns over a rock, a Black Valley Rider jumps out. So when two bounty hunters arrive in Minton Hill trailing the same outlaws, Sam agrees to ride with them. Trouble is, only a drunken...
- Auteur:Estleman, Loren D.Sommaire:
Billy is 16 years old when he critically injures a henchman of infamous crook Boss Tweed during the 1863 New York draft riots. Running for his life, Billy heads for the frontier and finds work playing piano in various saloons. In his...
- Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:
Louis L'Amour said the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a big country needing big men and women to live in it. The two stories in this collection provide a good sample of the kinds of people he had in mind. In...
- Auteur:DODGE, EmersonSommaire:
Marshall Reece Ockendon is ordered to hunt down the outlaw gang led by Reb Shehadie, the man who has befriended broken down rancher Ben Charron and given him the chance to make a new life.
- Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:
Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon, only to find himself in a war the pioneers will undoubtedly lose.
- Auteur:Nelson, Vaunda MicheauxSommaire:
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson received the Coretta Scott King Award for her children's book Almost to Freedom . Here she relays the extraordinary story of Bass Reeves, a lawman in the Old West who escaped slavery to become one of the most...
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W.Sommaire:
A price has been placed on the head of gunfighter Frank Morgan, leaving him only one course of action--kill the man who put it there. Vengefully trekking across the frontier, he survives ambush after ambush, each drawing him closer to a...
- Auteur:GREY, ZaneSommaire:
He didn't talk much or drink but he was one tough cowboy! The old-timers still talked about the time he'd shot three gunslingers while he lay wounded. But no one knew that Ames nursed a secret hurt and it would take a...
- Auteur:Post, StephSommaire:
After his father passes, James returns home and finds out that his younger brother has become ensnared in a deadly race against the mafia and needs his protection.
- Auteur:Soper, S. I.Sommaire:
When Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe was charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems. But it doesn't take long for Gibbs's gang to find them and Fyffe is overtaken...
- Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:
In both of these tales by Louis L'Amour, a young gunslinger must face danger brought on by his background, or his own actions, and then decide to follow his destiny--or seek a new one. Stories include "A Man Called Trent" and "The Rider...
- Auteur:Scali, DominiqueSommaire:
New Babylon n'existe pas. Mais s'il fallait crâeer cette ville, les duels y seraient permis et il n'y aurait pas d'autre loi que celle interdisant les hommes de loi. On y aurait constamment le souffle coupâe, áa cause des paysages, et...
- Auteur:Martin, George R. R.Sommaire:
Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin's monumental epic cycle of high fantasy that began with A Game of Thrones . Now, in A Feast for Crows...
- Auteur:Martin, George R. R.Sommaire:
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three...