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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser-known...
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Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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"The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck" is a 1909 work by Thomas Longueville. Within it, Longueville examines a famous legal scandal from the sixteenth century involving one Lady Purbeck. Dealing in detail with a fascinating and mysterious case, this volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in notable historical cases of criminality and scandal, as well as those with an interest in 17th English society in general. Many vintage books such...
Author
Publisher
Pickle Partners Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Probably no native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book contains the first full and authoritative account of the Indian silver jewelry fashioned in the Southwest by the Navajo and the Zuni, Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. It is written by John Adair, a trained ethnologist who has become a recognized expert on this craft.
"A volume conspicuously pleasing in its format and so...
"A volume conspicuously pleasing in its format and so...
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English
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The myth of the Trickster-ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman-is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, recorded here in full. Anthropological and psychological analyses by Radin, Kerényi, and Jung reveal the Trickster as filling a twofold role: on the...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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...
48) The ninth nugget
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 14
Language
English
Description
When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit a dude ranch in Montana, they find themselves with another mystery to solve, this one involving the theft of money from the ranch's safe and of a large gold nugget that Josh had found.
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Publisher
Thistledown Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan Musgrave. Equally at home recounting the lore of her outlaw husband Stephen Reid, or interpreting the arcane rituals of her teenage girls, Musgrave brings to her literary essays that same invigorating freshness for which he has become known in her fiction
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy finds herself in danger when she tries to solve the mystery of the old inn, believed to be jinxed.
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Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 9
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 5
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe solve a dangerous mystery involving a payroll robbery, a mine cave-in, a piano-playing ghost and a booby-trapped helicopter.
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Robyn Hoodlum adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Robyn Loxley plans to sieze the opportunity to rescue her parents from the governor's mansion by competing in the Iron Teen contest, although success could bring unwanted attention from Crown.
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Tyme volume 1
Language
English
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Rapunzel believes she is the luckiest person in Tyme, because Witch tells her so, but when Jack climbs into her tower to steal an enchanted rose, he hints that Witch is not telling the whole truth and Rapunzel, driven by her anger and fear, descends to the ground for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He ran the organization for 15 years, gaining fame for making the myth of Santa a reality to poor children by arranging for donors to deliver the toys they requested, until a crusading charity commissioner exposed Gluck as a fraud. The story is wide in scope, interweaving a phony Boy Scout...
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English
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"A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PD Most of us have never heard of Israel Keyes. But he is one of the most ambitious, meticulous serial killers of modern time. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor...
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English
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Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister Maude escape their self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier, they begin an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time however, the "wanted woman" isn't a dime-novel villian, it's Sallie's very own sister! What follows is not the lies the papers printed, but the honest-to-goodness...
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Oklahoma western biographies volume 32
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Biography of the notorious westerner William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, and evaluates more than a century of interpretations of him by biographers and historians, novelists, and film-makers"--
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