Blue Wells

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C.J. Sommers

The deserted ranch that Trinity and Billy Raglan crossed was a dead land. Nothing remained of it except lost dreams and broken spirits. The question was why anyone as wealthy as Boss Clark would want to buy it. Especially now when the few cattle the grim land had supported were being herded away by the former owner, Polly Travers. Waterless and unfit for livestock, it had triggered a deadly war for ownership. Boss Clark wanted it to add to his huge spread. Polly's greedy son demanded it. And the killer and escaped convict Calvin Dancer wanted it enough to kill anyone who got in his way. All Trinity could do was fight the seemingly futile fight and keep digging the graves for the dead.--Back cover.

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Ethan Flagg

Cowboy Laramie Juke helps out a new buddy whose family is being harassed by Highspade Jack Daley, the unscrupulous Mayor of Jacinto. Attempting to get rid of the Cavendish clan, who have discovered a rich gold seam - the source of which hides beneath his own land - Daley has hired the notorious Shotgun Murphy. But when Juke arrives in Jacinto, he is mistaken for the gunman ... leading to a deadly encounter where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted.

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Amélie Nothomb

""I lived everything during these three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China, I was seven years old."". "So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government housing ghetto of San Li Tun on her "horse" (bicycle). In a tireless battle against boredom, she concocts a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak. During one of her tours of duty as a pathfinder in a war that has broken out in the ghetto between the children of various nations - a hilarious microcosm of "adult" world politics - she encounters a young Italian girl, Elena: beautiful, aloof, disdainful of silly games. Our heroine is instantly infatuated, and comes to realize the only fight worthy of her energies is shattering Elena's indifference."--BOOK JACKET.

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Laurie Paige

WANTED: ONE FAMILY Each time Deputy Sheriff Nick Dorelli saw fatherless Doogie Clay, his heart ached. If boogie's mother hadn't wed another man, he would be Nick's kid. And Nick would be the father the boy so desperately needed. But best of all, Stephanie Clay would be Nick's wife. Once, they'd dreamed of marriage, and although misunderstandings broke them up, Nick had never stopped thinking of--or loving--her. And now was the time for action. Because not only did Nick want to be a father, he wanted to be a husband--Stephanie's husband.