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Daily Texas volume 3
Language
English
Description
A sudden shift in a hurricane's course cancels senior citizen Donetta's cruise at the last minute. Thrown together with a young woman named Kai, Donetta leads a group of evacuees back to Daily, Texas, where the charm of the town--and the high school coach--has Kai rethinking her drifter existence. Donetta, on the other hand, is contemplating moving on from her floundering marriage. As more people seek refuge in the small town, can they transition...
3) Sidewinders
Author
Series
Sidewinders volume 1
Language
English
Description
First in the blazing Western series featuring two reluctant heroes from the bestselling authors of the First Mountain Man and Last Gunfighter novels.
In frontier literature, the name "Johnstone" means big, hard-hitting Western adventure told at a breakneck pace. Now, the bestselling authors kick off a rollicking, dramatic new series—with the first novel about a pair of not-quite-over-the-hill drifters winding...
In frontier literature, the name "Johnstone" means big, hard-hitting Western adventure told at a breakneck pace. Now, the bestselling authors kick off a rollicking, dramatic new series—with the first novel about a pair of not-quite-over-the-hill drifters winding...
Author
Series
Sidewinders volume 5
Language
English
Description
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
Famed for his Mountain Man and Eagles epics, William W. Johnstone, with J.A. Johnstone, now introduces two hard-riding, trouble-prone Texans-with a knack for keeping the west as wild as it ever was. . .
When A Devil Comes Calling, Meet Him With A Gun. . .
Two years after Wild Bill Hickok made his mark on Deadwood, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel make theirs. Their job...
Famed for his Mountain Man and Eagles epics, William W. Johnstone, with J.A. Johnstone, now introduces two hard-riding, trouble-prone Texans-with a knack for keeping the west as wild as it ever was. . .
When A Devil Comes Calling, Meet Him With A Gun. . .
Two years after Wild Bill Hickok made his mark on Deadwood, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel make theirs. Their job...
Author
Series
Sidewinders volume 4
Language
English
Description
Famed for The Last Gunfighter and Mountain Man sagas, master storyteller William W. Johnston joins forces with J.A. Johnstone to let loose a pair of the most unforgettable, trouble-prone, hard-fighting cowboys the West has ever known—who are about to step in the biggest hornet's nest in Colorado Territory. . .
A Good Name—For A Very Bad Town
Bo Creel and Scratch Morton have a lot of experience with the law: they've...
A Good Name—For A Very Bad Town
Bo Creel and Scratch Morton have a lot of experience with the law: they've...
6) Till death
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Series
Language
English
Description
"If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, it's Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, they'll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold mining town in Alaska. The brides-to-be include a dangerously attractive widow, her sweet-hearted niece, and two of their friends. The roadblocks to the altar include a lecherous saloon owner, a lovesick sailor, and a gang of hired guns. And...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are drifters who keep one eye on the horizon and one finger on the trigger. When they save the life of Cyrus Keegan, they receive a proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail order brides to a mining town in New Mexico Territory. All Scratch and Bo have to do is get these gals to the church on time -- and alive. The job seems easy enough. But their prospects look bad when the journey includes Mexican...
8) Ridgerunner
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Language
English
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Description
In 1917, after his father, a notorious thief, leaves him in the care of the formidable Sister Beatrice, 12-year-old Jack Boulton breaks free, taking with him something the nun is determined to get back - at any cost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
10) Sutter's Cross
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Language
English
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Description
In southern Appalachia, a long-haired, bearded drifter who looks strangely like the portrait of Jesus on the billboard at the town's entrance shows up at the annual Sutter's Cross Community Church picnic and sparks change in the lives of several townspeople, forcing them to confront their pasts.
Author
Series
Clyde Barr novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clyde Barr, the drifter with lethal skills, is alone again, wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in. As summer turns to autumn, he trades his car for a horse and heads for the mountains, planning to clear his head and regain his edge with some hunting. But when he runs across an elderly sick man-- a Ute Indian from a nearby reservation-- Clyde's dream of solitude is quickly dashed. On the reservation, Clyde...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020, 2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Throatlatch, Wyoming, is a sinister town that preys on travelers. One of them is No Name, a drifter who lives his life without purpose. Something about the little town obsesses No Name, and he finds himself drawn into a whirl of evil - murders and cruelties all done in the name of virtue. No Name soon discovers that Throatlatch is the home of a cult that wants to bring paradise to earth. Will No Name resist? Or will Utopia kill him, too?"--Provided...
13) The drifter
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author "turns an able and sensual hand to the old story of the capable, straitlaced spinster and the sensual roving rogue." —Publishers Weekly
She seeks a home. He seeks redemption. What they find is each other.
Leah Mundy has spent her life dashing from town to town, one step ahead of her father's dreadful reputation. Now she wants to create a home for herself and build a medical...
She seeks a home. He seeks redemption. What they find is each other.
Leah Mundy has spent her life dashing from town to town, one step ahead of her father's dreadful reputation. Now she wants to create a home for herself and build a medical...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the gang, convincing Charlie's friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to thwart the crime and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught alive, Big Charlie will...
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. The latest installment in James Lee Burke's...
Publisher
Dodi Film Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three strangers of two generations embark on a road trip through post-Katrina Louisiana. Along the way, relationships forge and change in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love.
17) Open road
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominees Andy Garcia and Juliette Lewis join Camilla Belle and Colin Egglesfield in a heartwarming coming-of-age story. Angie (Belle) is a free spirit living on her own terms and occasionally waitressing to make money. But when she makes connections with a drifter (Garcia), a handsome cop (Egglesfield), and his sister (Lewis), she finds herself torn between her life of absolute freedom and being tied to people who care about her.
18) Chosen
Publisher
Doonby
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious drifter arrives in a small town, he is soon met with suspicion and jealousy. Leaving as quickly as he came, the town realizes how one person's presence can make an impact.
19) The quarry
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A drifter kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief suspects foul play.
20) Texas
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy/action-adventure western about two confederate veterans aimlessly wandering around Texas after the Civil War. They go their separate ways, then eventually both end up falling in love with the rancher's daughter.
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