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Avalanche!

Railroad Stories, #1

by E.S. Dellinger ...

Series Book 1 - Railroad Stories
Three yarns from Railroad Stories Magazine (1934 and 1935) featuring the adventures of Rud Randall, engineer, and superintendent King Lawson!E. S. Dellinger, premiere author of railroad fiction, delivers three exciting tales of rugged workers and the challenges they face moving across the country and back.This volume features three stories — Avalanche! deals with a railroad worker coming to terms ... Read more

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Three yarns from Railroad Stories Magazine (1934 and 1935) featuring the adventures of Rud Randall, engineer, and superintendent King Lawson!E. S. Dellinger, premiere author of railroad fiction, delivers three exciting tales of rugged workers and the challenges they face moving across the country and back.This volume features three stories — Avalanche! deals with a railroad worker coming to terms
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The Legend of King Lawson

Railroad Stories, #2

by E.S. Dellinger ...

Series Book 2 - Railroad Stories
Five linked tales from Railroad Stories Magazine starring King Lawson! Written by an author who knew his trains first-hand!"Washout!" ... "Mixed Orders" ... "Boomer Trails" ... "Landslide!" and "Snowed In" -- five hair-raising, heart-tugging stories following William "Kingsley" Lawson from gandy dancer to trainmaster, and then from riches to rags! Lawson turns his back on a harrowing accident, an ... Read more

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Five linked tales from Railroad Stories Magazine starring King Lawson! Written by an author who knew his trains first-hand!"Washout!" ... "Mixed Orders" ... "Boomer Trails" ... "Landslide!" and "Snowed In" -- five hair-raising, heart-tugging stories following William "Kingsley" Lawson from gandy dancer to trainmaster, and then from riches to rags! Lawson turns his back on a harrowing accident, an
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Gangsters of the Rails

Railroad Stories, #3

by E.S. Dellinger ...

Series Book 3 - Railroad Stories
Connie Turner, son of the murdered boss of Cootie's Bluff, walked into plenty of trouble after taking a job on the K., G. & O. Plunder and mystery surrounds the railyards in this nail-biting yarn by E.S. Dellinger, America's premier railroad fiction author.Gangsters of the Rails was serialized in six issues of Railroad Stories Magazine, beginning with the November 1931 issue. "Gangsters" ... Read more

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Connie Turner, son of the murdered boss of Cootie's Bluff, walked into plenty of trouble after taking a job on the K., G. & O. Plunder and mystery surrounds the railyards in this nail-biting yarn by E.S. Dellinger, America's premier railroad fiction author.Gangsters of the Rails was serialized in six issues of Railroad Stories Magazine, beginning with the November 1931 issue. "Gangsters"
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Steam and Steel

Railroad Stories, #5

by E.S. Dellinger ...

Series Book 5 - Railroad Stories
Steam & SteelFriend against Foe and Rail against Rail! A personal squabble that mushroomed into a vengeance game, from the shell-torn tracks of France to the smooth main line of the S.F. & E., back in the U.S.A.DerailsHaunted by the shadow of murder and pursuit, Dave Meade could not forget the roar of the rails. Then, from out of the night and the driving storm on the main line in the Ozarks, came ... Read more

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Steam & SteelFriend against Foe and Rail against Rail! A personal squabble that mushroomed into a vengeance game, from the shell-torn tracks of France to the smooth main line of the S.F. & E., back in the U.S.A.DerailsHaunted by the shadow of murder and pursuit, Dave Meade could not forget the roar of the rails. Then, from out of the night and the driving storm on the main line in the Ozarks, came
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The Heavenly Table

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by Donald Ray Pollock ...

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with ... Read more

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From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with
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Shadows of Men

by Jim Tully ...

This hardboiled collection of somewhat interconnected short stories revolves around men in prison. Tully paints a vibrant picture of their lives behind bars, how they got there, and how some of them die there. These stories are dark and gritty, maybe the hardest hitting of all of Tullys books, yet they overflow with a deep felt compassion for the humanity that few writers could find within these ... Read more

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This hardboiled collection of somewhat interconnected short stories revolves around men in prison. Tully paints a vibrant picture of their lives behind bars, how they got there, and how some of them die there. These stories are dark and gritty, maybe the hardest hitting of all of Tullys books, yet they overflow with a deep felt compassion for the humanity that few writers could find within these
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Invisible Man (National Book Award Winner)

A Novel

by Ralph Ellison ...

Series series Vintage International
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHe describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is ... Read more

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHe describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is
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A Swell-Looking Babe

by Jim Thompson ...

Series series Mulholland Classic
A man is drawn into a murder in "one of Jim Thompson's best. . . . sharp and markedly individual studies in crime and punishment . . . a rattling good story'' ( New York Times).It was supposed to be only a temporary job—something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his feet back on the ground and raise enough money for medical school. After all, there's nothing wrong with being a bellboy at a ... Read more

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A man is drawn into a murder in "one of Jim Thompson's best. . . . sharp and markedly individual studies in crime and punishment . . . a rattling good story'' ( New York Times).It was supposed to be only a temporary job—something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his feet back on the ground and raise enough money for medical school. After all, there's nothing wrong with being a bellboy at a
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Beggars of Life

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Tully’s breakthrough novel about life on the roadJim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories ... Read more

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Tully’s breakthrough novel about life on the roadJim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories
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The Devil and Daniel Webster

by Stephen Vincent Benet ...

IT’S A STORY THEY TELL IN THE BORDER COUNTRY, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead-or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunder storm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, “Dan’l Webster-Dan’l Webster!” the ground’ll begin ... Read more

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IT’S A STORY THEY TELL IN THE BORDER COUNTRY, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead-or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunder storm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, “Dan’l Webster-Dan’l Webster!” the ground’ll begin
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Rancho Bravo 3: Killraine

Rancho Bravo, #3

by Thorne Douglas ...

Series Book 3 - Rancho Bravo
"Nobody does what they did to Rancho Bravo and gets away with it. Not while I'm alive."Killraine had killed men before. He had been a captain in the Union Army. But he had never had a passion for killing.Then Jethro Lawrence and his band of thieving cutthroats ambushed the Rancho Bravo wagons and made off with over a hundred thousand hard-earned dollars. Worse, Lawrence had taken Killraine's girl, ... Read more

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"Nobody does what they did to Rancho Bravo and gets away with it. Not while I'm alive."Killraine had killed men before. He had been a captain in the Union Army. But he had never had a passion for killing.Then Jethro Lawrence and his band of thieving cutthroats ambushed the Rancho Bravo wagons and made off with over a hundred thousand hard-earned dollars. Worse, Lawrence had taken Killraine's girl,
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Belle Starr: A Novel

by Speer Morgan ...

Certain facts about Belle Starr are known and recorded. When she was young the outlaw Cole Younger seduced her, got her pregnant, and abandoned her. Dressing in plumes and Stetson, she took on the role of a fallen woman, theatrically and publicly. Yet in the manner of all true rebels, she took on part of the role and rejected part, evolving an unheard-of style of living that sparked the ... Read more

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Certain facts about Belle Starr are known and recorded. When she was young the outlaw Cole Younger seduced her, got her pregnant, and abandoned her. Dressing in plumes and Stetson, she took on the role of a fallen woman, theatrically and publicly. Yet in the manner of all true rebels, she took on part of the role and rejected part, evolving an unheard-of style of living that sparked the
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