Catalog Search Results
21) The drifter
Author
Formats
Description
Cowboy Pete Peterson is looking for work and finds it working on ranches, but doesn't stay long.
22) Second glance
Author
Description
This story begins in current-day vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comstosoo, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.
Author
Formats
Description
Speedy was about to use his special skills as the deputy sheriff of Sunday Slough, where they called a deputy a seven-day-man, because he seldom lived longer than a week. But Speedy had a debt of honor to settle for a friend - and he was about to take on some pretty long odds: three-to-one without a gun!
25) Dakota: A Novel
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Young Andi Oliver is an amnesiac and drifter who awoke in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast with a man's belongings tossed about the room. Adopting a name from the initials on her backpack, Andi moves from one waitress job to the next, from Idaho to North Dakota, until she takes a job at Klavan's, a massive pigfarming facility that specializes in the dark art of modern livestock management. As Andi begins to uncover the truth about Klavan's and a slaughterhouse...
Author
Series
Clyde Barr novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A follow-up to Nothing Short of Dying finds Clyde Barr assisting a sick and elderly Ute whose Native American community is being overrun by a menacing biker gang that is harassing and attacking locals.
27) The Drifter
Author
Series
Jim Reno westerns volume no. 1
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
The Carrs of Skull Ranch control the Valley and dominate the farmers and ranchers there. So long as the Carrs hold sway, no farmer can hope for more than a meager living from the land.
28) Orient: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Suspenseful and haunting, Bollen's thrilling novel Orient is a provocative take on the troubled American dream, in the vein of Lionel Shriver or AM Homes. At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from the hustle of New York City, stands Orient, a village that has been home to a few families for hundreds of years and is now - reluctantly - opening up to wealthy weekenders and artists from the city. On the last day of summer, a young man with a hazy...
29) Sidewinders
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Meet Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, two amiable drifters and old pals. Veterans of cowboying, cattle drives, drunken brawls, and a couple of shoot-outs, Scratch and Bo are mostly honest and don't go looking for trouble--it's usually there when they wake up in the morning. Now, in remote Arizona Territory, they're caught up in a battle between two stagecoach lines. The owner of one, a beautiful widow, has gotten both Scratch and Bo hot and bothered,...
30) The last to die
Author
Series
Cherokee Pointe trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee, has seen murder before, but nothing like what has claimed the life of Jamie Upton, heir to the Upton fortune. The crime is so vicious, so personal and filled with hatred, the authorities are certain it had to be someone he knew...someone hiding an unimaginable sadistic streak behind a friendly façade. The number one suspect is Jamies former lover Jazzy Talbot. The girl from the wrong side of the tracks has always been...
31) The drifter
Author
Formats
Description
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 practice in Coupeville, a cozy village nestled amid the majestic isles and mountains of Washington Territory. But her neighbors are loathe to trust a newcomer, especially a woman doing a man's work. On the run for a crime he didn't commit but can't deny, Jackson Underhill is desperate...
Author
Series
Formats
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...
33) The Master
Description
In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
34) Young Adam
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Young Adam tells the story of Joe, a drifter who works on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the novel opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder?
As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it becomes clear that Joe knows far more than he's telling. Originally published in 1954, Young Adam was made into a film starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"Sidewinders don't look for trouble--it usually finds them. In the west, there's always work for the kind of men willing to get their hands dirty--from rounding stray cattle to stringing barbed wire. Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are just such men. Now they've been hired for the one job they've never tried: wearing badges--in a little stain of a town called Wishkey Flats."--P.4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.]
Description
"In this rollicking new series, the Johnstones cordially invite you to the biggest, baddest event of the season--one that gives a whole new meaning to 'shotgun wedding'... Here come the brides. And the bullets... Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the trigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus...
Author
Series
Andi Oliver volume 2
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Young Andi Oliver is an amnesiac and drifter who awoke in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast with a man's belongings tossed about the room. Adopting a name from the initials on her backpack, Andi moves from one waitress job to the next, from Idaho to North Dakota, until she takes a job at Klavan's, a massive pigfarming facility that specializes in the dark art of modern livestock management. As Andi begins to uncover the truth about Klavan's and a slaughterhouse...
Author
Series
Sidewinders volume 5
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Scratch Morton and Bo Creel set out on a dangerous mission in the midst of a winter storm to reclaim stolen property--including gold, US Army soldiers, and a young widow--from the Devils of Deadwood.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Two years after Wild Bill Hickok made his mark on Deadwood, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel make their own. Their job is guarding gold shipments from the mining camps--shipments that keep getting hijacked by a gang called the Deadwood Devils who carve pitchforks into their victims' foreheads. With Thanksgiving approaching, Scratch just wants to carve a turkey with a good-looking widow woman at his side. But when the U.S. Army decides to lend a helping...
.png)