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Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

James's great adventure begins with a simple thing — a rustic cabin in the countryside. Charmed by the prospect, he decides to leave his stressful city life behind and move into the woods. But country living isn't boring. There's a quaint town nearby with kind folks who still help each other out. Maybe the bubbly blonde storekeeper has a job or two for James? And let's not forget the magical legacy waiting for James, tracing back through the history of his family.

Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy has resurrected gods, pulled down monsters, averted wars, and saved a city, twice. She thought she'd left her dusty little hometown forever. But that was before her father died.

Dazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler. When his seven-year-old sister is abducted in the dark of night, Dazz pledges to do whatever it takes to get her back, embarking on a quest that threatens to rip apart the very fabric that's barely holding his shattered family together.

It’s been a year since James moved to Tour County and became a High Mage, and his life couldn’t be better! There’s excitement, magic, adventure, but also plenty of peace and quiet at the side of his beautiful women. Now, the time has come to unravel the secrets of Tour and expand his magical influence over his domain. Lofty goals, but there’s also plenty of other stuff to do! With summer in full swing, the farm will be busy. And considering James’s expanding properties, he has some… corporate recruiting to do. Of course, he has his eye on a certain girl at the Tour Bank.

The Winter Fair is here, and it’s time for James and his women to go out, meet some people in town… and pelt them with snowballs. There’s even a snowball tournament, so things might get a little competitive. And after some good old winter fun, a new adventure awaits. James’s new allies from the Plane of Fire will provide him and his women with magical gear, allowing them to explore the Broken Grounds and unravel the legend surrounding the mysterious mage who once lived there.

The first snow of winter has arrived! James and his companions are eager to enjoy a season of good company and fun activities, such as the annual Winter Fair. With snowball fights, laughter, and hot cocoa on the horizon, it’s shaping up to be a great one. However, the cabin is getting more crowded by the day.

Spring is in the air in Tour County, and James is eager to get started on new projects and adventures with his loved ones. Together with his devoted companions, James works to expand and improve Corinne's farm using his ever-growing magical abilities. And with spring underway, it's time to tend to the farm as well! To make the farm work a little easier, James will call on a few magical helpers. With their aid, there will be plenty of time left to go on a date or two with Ella and learn a little bit more about the town's corporate banker girl.

War has come to Discworld…again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, insufferably arrogant, strictly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its ability to beat up on its neighbors. This time, however, it's Borogravia that's...

They came to America to start a new life. Three brothers and their sister, the Baxter heirs lost everything they had in Europe, so they boarded a ship to the Texas coast, hoping to stake a claim in the land of opportunity. They knew frontier life will be hard. But their troubles begin before they even reach Texas. A man is killed on board—a member of the fierce MaClochlainn clan who blame one of the Baxters for his death. So begins a blood-drenched feud that will haunt and pursue them as they try to build a future in Texas Hill Country....

In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring...

Wanneer het huis van zijn oudste vriendin, Ellie Cox, verandert in de ergste moordscène die Alex ooit heeft gezien, gelooft hij dat hij de gevaarlijkste moordenaar tot nu toe achtervolgt. Zijn onderzoek leidt Alex naar het Nigeriaanse criminele milieu van Washington D.C. Daar doet hij een verbluffende ontdekking: verantwoordelijk voor de moorden is een bende tieners, die wordt geleid door de machtige Afrikaanse maffiabaas Tijger. Net als Alex en zijn team denken dat ze de ongrijpbare moordenaar op het spoor zijn, verdwijnt Tijger in het niets.

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS survive the Second World War, knowing that Hitler has torn up the rules of war? Early 1944, and with the tide of the war flowing steadily against the Germans, the SAS – born in North Africa as a strategic raiding force behind enemy lines –...

In September 1873, Elizabeth Coughlin, a widow bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, embarks on a buffalo hunt with her estranged and mysterious brother-in-law, Michael. With no money, no family, no job or security, she hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who depend on her. The buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving their land.

When he learns of his parents' death in a train crash, Sam Dana makes his way home to the Bar D ranch—not to claim it, but to settle the estate and move on. He has no need for the hard life of a cattleman after finally striking it big as a prospector. But what Sam finds is far from the home he remembers. The ranch has become an armed camp led by his cantankerous half-brother, Walt, who's been hiring men more skilled with a six-gun than a lasso. In Sam's absence, things have gone downhill in all ways possible.

Lance Dillon is owner of a new cattle station on the southern fringe of Australia's Arnhem Land. When an aboriginal hunting party targets Dillon's prize bull for a ritual killing and then spears Dillon in the shoulder, it's clear they want him off their traditional land. Under the merciless rays of the burning sun, the wounded Dillon flees into the bush, with expert tracker Mundaru in hot pursuit. Dillon's city-born wife, Mary, and handsome local policeman Neil Adams set out to search for her husband.

Luke Ransom and Jug Sartain, trappers for the American Fur Company, made a formidable team when they partnered up in the grueling winter wilderness of Blackfoot Country. No hostile raids by man, no brutal obstacles of nature could stop them from snaring what they came for. The nicest surprise was that Luke came home with a wife—Willow, a lovely young Crow woman. Now, one year later, in this new trapping season of 1834, it’s Luke, Jug, and Willow who become the hunted.

With each breathtaking, New York Times best-selling entry in her acclaimed Anna Pigeon mystery series, author Nevada Barr earns more and more fans. Loaded with intrigue and adventure, High Country showcases Barr at the top of her game. Anna is lodged in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel when four employees disappear. Sensing evil, Anna hikes a snowy trail to the high country, only to discover a disturbing reality that may end her adventures once and for all.

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, is an 1896 novella and early example of the regionalism genre with its sketches of the fictional fishing village of Dunnet Landing in Maine. The narrator is a woman from Boston who returns to the small coastal town after a brief earlier visit, in order to finish writing her book. She rents an empty schoolhouse with a panoramic view of Dunnet Landing, which serves as a focus of narrative consciousness.

Still disoriented from a recent gunshot wound, Fast Larry Shaw happens across the Dexter Lowe Boys on their way to steal some weapons. Knowing he can’t take these guys on alone in his condition, Shaw contacts U.S. Marshal Crayton Dawson and Deputy Jedson Caldwell for backup.