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Outlawed : a novel / by North, Anna,author.;
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga aboutthe search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Outlaws; Outcasts; Midwives; Infertility; Influenza; Epidemics; Pregnancy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Blood and bullets / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
As sleepy as Buffalo Peak's been, legendary marshal, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen, and his deputies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up--by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town. Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin'. Firestick doesn't see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-be--and unwittingly plunging trackers Firestick and Moosejaw headlong into a rescue. With only Beartooth keeping the peace back home, Buffalo Peak's wide open for an outlaw ambush. Sure as dirt, a gang of owlhoots clean out the bank, grab a hostage, and flee, spurring Beartooth on a deadly chase. In one lousy day a lot of people have gotten on Firestick's bad side. And with rifle cocked, and vengeance burning, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen is going to prove just how unforgiving his bad side can be.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Kidnapping; Outlaws; Marshals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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To the gates of hell / by Nix, David.;
"The marshal of South Pass City, Jake Paynter must form an alliance with his adversary Lucian Ashley after he betrays gang leader Dutch van Zandt who retaliates by kidnapping Lucians' sister Rosalyn and her children, forcing Jake to enter the rugged Wyoming wilderness to get them all back alive"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; United States marshals; Outlaws; Kidnapping;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mean and evil / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
"When the vicious Smilin' Doc Ford and his kill-crazy gang leave a trail of bodies near Ty Brannigan's Powderhorn spread in Wyoming's Bear Paw Mountains, he and his kin take justice into their own hands--and deliver it with a furious, final vengeance"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Outlaws; Revenge;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A Gangster's Life : War and Addiction in the New Underworld. by Edwards, Peter.;
Peter Edwards exposes Canada's evolving criminal underworld in this unflinching account of Shane Dankoski, a gang member from Surrey, BC, who rescued himself from certain death by turning his back on criminal life. Edwards lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Lytton'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime;
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Lionhearts / by Makaryk, Nathan,author.;
"All will be well when King Richard returns ... but King Richard has been captured. To raise the money for his ransom, every lord in England is raising taxes, the French are eyeing the empty throne, and the man they called, "Robin Hood," the man the Sherriff claims is dead, is everywhere and nowhere at once. He's with a band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest, raiding guard outposts. He's with Nottingham's largest gang, committing crimes to protest the taxes. He's in the lowest slums of the city, conducting a reign of terror against the city's most vulnerable. A hero to some, a monster to others, and an idea that can't simply be killed. But who's really under the hood?"--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Richard I, King of England, 1157-1199; Robin Hood (Legendary character);
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Legion of Fire / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
When Luke Jensen traps fugitive Ben Craddock in Arapaho Springs, he's ready to collect on his bounty. But the job's not done--not by a long shot. A raid by a savage gang known as the Legion of Fire has left the peaceful settlement looted, burned to the ground, and the ashes scoured for female hostages--including the marshal's daughter. For Luke this is more than a hunt. It's now a rescue. And with Craddock busted out of jail and thrown in with the gang, it's also revenge. Wrangling a small posse, Luke heads for the Legion's hideout in the Kansas badlands. Outnumbered, they can't risk an ambush. Instead, it's going to take cutthroat cunning for the outlaws of the Legion of Fire to go down in flames--one by one.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Gangs; Fugitives from justice;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cruel winter of the mountain man / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
While keeping the peace in Salt Lick, Texas, Smoke Jensen is faced with a twenty-man gang of trigger-happy thieves who have set their sights on this town during a monstrous blizzard, and must rally the townspeople to defend their lives and land from both mother nature and man's worst nature.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Jensen, Smoke; Trappers; Mountain life; Outlaws;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hard road : Bernie Guindon and the reign of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club / by Edwards, Peter,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The spiritual godfather of Canadian bikers tells the story of his fascinating life. You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. Friends from the biker world and Guindon's family have given extensive interviews for Hard Road, including his son, Harley, a convict and outlaw biker himself."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Guindon, Bernie.; Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club.; Gang members; Motorcycle clubs; Organized crime; Motorcycle gangs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The unwilling / by Hart, John,1965-author.;
"Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New York Times bestselling author John Hart's singular style. Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But the day turns ugly when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road. Beautiful but drunk, one of the women taunts the prisoners, leading to a riot on the bus. The woman finds it funny in the moment, but is savagely murdered soon after. Given his violent history, suspicion turns first to Jason; but when the second woman is kidnapped, the police suspect Gibby, too. Determined to prove Jason innocent, Gibby must avoid the cops and dive deep into his brother's hidden life, a dark world of heroin, guns and outlaw motorcycle gangs. What he discovers there is a truth more bleak than he could have imagined: not just the identity of the killer and the reasons for Tyra's murder, but the forces that shaped his brother in Vietnam, the reason he was framed, and why the most dangerous man alive wants him back in prison. This is crime fiction at its most raw, an exploration of family and the past, of prison and war and the indelible marks they leave"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Brothers; Ex-convicts; Murder; Prisoners; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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