Ghost ranch

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Abe Dancer

Sheriff Rufus Stone has good cause for keeping a vigilant eye on the town's comings and goings, meting out brutal, uncompromising treatment to drunks and drifters. So when Will Jarrow happens upon Blue Wells, Stone nails him as the usual, itinerant cowboy. But the young stranger is a lot more than that and his provoking behaviour is soon a burr under the wary sheriff's saddle. For two years, Will has lived with dark thoughts about the fateful night that changed his life and grappled with his need for retribution. How much longer can Will Jarrow pretend to be something he's not? And how much longer will it be before Rufus Stone realizes who he really is?

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Gunter Grass

Based loosely on Grimm's The Fisherman and his Wife, this triumphant blend of folk tale and contemporary story takes place over the course of nine months, during which the wife of the narrator becomes pregnant and is regaled with tales of the various cooks the fisherman has met throughout his life. The emerging themes of the novel expose the periods when men made history and women's contributions went largely, in some cases gravely, unrecognized. Inventive, imaginitive and irreverent, this humorous, fundamentally brilliant novel highlights the value of modern-day myth and timeless legend.

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Max Brand

Doc Byrne was too smart for his own good. His overstuffed brain strained his underdeveloped body to the brink of collapse until the only cure for him was to leave big city life and head west. At the edge of the mountains he found problems even bigger than his. In love with the human mind, he encountered men who paid no mind at all. Jerry Strann, for instance. The people of Brownsville accepted Jerry as the wrath of God for all the local sins. As strong and as wild as a mountain bear, Jerry could kill a wolf with his bare hands. Could any man defeat him? Dan Barry might. Quick as a whip, smooth as a breeze, Dan had built up a reputation as tough as the Stranns'. He rode a powerful black horse named Satan and was followed by a dog that looked like a wolf. Called the Night Horseman, Dan seemed something other than a man. Wherever he went, he whisted, and his whistle seemed to penetrate everywhere, as maddening as a guilty conscience. There would be plenty of work for Doc Byrne before the Night Horseman rode away.

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Eugene Clifton

Sheriff Matt Turner's authority is usurped when Duke Coulter arrives in Jeopardy. Coulter is an ambitious, but unscrupulous man with a handful of hired guns. Townsfolk are dying and Matt finds himself powerless to do anything about it, as a man called Logan now wears the sheriff's badge, and Matt must run for his life.