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"The Shortstop" is a novel by Zane Grey a baseball insider about a 17 years old boy, who fights his way to success, and saves his mother and brother out of poverty. Excerpt from the book: "I am going to be a baseball player." He waited quietly for her refusal, her reproach, her arguments, ready to answer them one by one. "I won’t let you be a ball player." "Mother, since father left us to shift for ourselves I’ve been the head of the house. I never disobeyed you before, but now - I’ve thought it out. I’ve made my plan."

Set in the dangerous West Virginia frontier, this story tells of the bravery and heroism of Betty, the beautiful young sister of old Colonel Isaac Zane, one of the most courageous pioneers. Balanced against the grim incidents of the Indian War is the love story of Betty and Alfred Clarke, a handsome young soldier. Their romance, however, is plagued by troubles and endless interruptions before it reaches its stirring climax.

This classic novel of the Western genre tells the story of Lassiter, avenger in black, who comes to a distant Utah town just in time to save a young and beautiful rancher named Jane Withersteen from being forced to marry a Mormon elder. Lassiter is also on a job of his own, leading him to a secret grave on Jane's grounds.

The Border Legion is the adventure of a daring frontierswoman and the men she inspires. Joan Randle is a strong, capable woman living with her uncle in the wilds of Idaho. She likes Jim Cleve but is impatient with his laziness. After a quarrel, Jim heads to the lawless Montana border to prove himself, and a remorseful Joan tries to track him and bring him back.

A survey engineer finds a young woman who has survived a Sioux battle. The story follows the progression of the railway line through Wyoming, in outstanding Zane Grey fashion.

Ten years after the events of Riders of the Purple Sage, John Shefford, a disillusioned preacher from Illinois travels to Arizona and takes refuge in a village controlled by polygamist Mormons hiding from the federal government.

In its first appearance with a text based on the author's holographic manuscript, three cowhands working for the Springer Ranch have tried, through forging letters, to discourage a schoolteacher in the East from coming West to teach school. Their strategy has failed because of a mysterious Frank Owens whose love letters have convinced her that she must come. No one knows who he is.

Tessa Randolph is feeling defeated. On the outs with her boyfriend and suddenly without a job, she's scrambling to pay the rent. She doesn’t exactly have the kind of life she wants. Tessa needs a change. And the ability to afford the wet food her cat Pepper thinks she deserves at every meal. Against her better judgment, but without a better offer, Tessa takes a job from one of the scariest of bosses: her mother, who has a deadly sharp tongue. And just like that, she learns that the life insurance agency at the edge of Mist River isn’t what it seems to be.

It's all fun in the sun, until other reapers start to die.... Tessa Randolph is a reaper, one of the few endowed with the abilities of the real grim reaper. And now, she's been offered a spot to attend the annual reaper conference in Miami. But things get off to a rocky start when another reaper dies on the plane. And none of the other reapers saw his soul depart for the hereafter. Tessa takes it upon herself to figure out why.

The novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time". It has shaped the formula for the popular western novel. A classic!

Jordon is a Dungeon Master, and he liked to think that he was a decent one, after a whole year of writing and running his own home-brewed campaign. He just didn’t think he was so good at it that he could actually write a Fallen God into existence - a God that was hellbent on destroying the multiverse. Now, Jordon descends through the Cadinari Stream, and into a world of his own creation, finding that the life of an Adventurer is much more than improv and dice rolls. And Taldora, that world he had only seen in his dreams, is full of more wonders and mystery.

Allie Treadwell has feelings. Lots of them. And they all center around her friend, Javi - that is, Detective Javier Portillo. But does he feel the same way about her? Allie isn't sure. And she's even less sure she wants to risk ruining things to find out. Their friendship is put to the test when while on a morning jog, the two stumble across a body. And what seems a simple hit and run is anything but as motives are revealed. Lanai is a town full of suspects.

In A Grave for Lassiter, the hero first seen in Riders of the Purple Sage is called into the town of Bluegate to help Josh Falconer save his failing business. But Lassiter arrives too late, and Josh has already made an untimely departure from the land of the living. Now Lassiter will move heaven and earth to punish those responsible.

This box set includes the first three books from Christine Zane Thomas' Foodie File mysteries starring Allie Treadwell. It also includes several recipes mentioned in the audiobooks. Includes: The Salty Taste of Murder, A Choice Cocktail of Death, and A Juicy Morsel of Jealousy.

Long ago, magic entered the world. Now, humans must bond with an angel or demon to live. After Kaiden bonds with a fallen angel, many believe he'll end the centuries-long war between angels and demons. Just as many want him dead. With the help of three amazing hot women, Kaiden attempts to do what most would think crazy. They take on the demon army. Go big, or die trying.

Madeline Hammond, New York society beauty, buys a ranch and is welcomed to the West with a bloody revolution, a bandit raid, and her own abduction.

In 1777, pioneers were faced with displaced Native Americans and marauding white men who preyed upon settlers. But Wetzel, a great frontiersman, became their protector and became known as "the Spirit of the Border".

The third book in the best-selling NOLA Zombie series by Gillian Zane. Alexis, Blake, and Zach survived the zombie apocalypse but found a new enemy to fight. Alexis has been taken, and Zach and Blake are desperate to find her. The men are pretty certain they know who took Alexis, but finding them will be a daunting task. There are millions of places to hide in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, but Zach and Blake will not stop until they've searched every one of them.

When not writing his famous Western novels, Zane Grey was an insatiable angler. Tales of Southern Rivers recounts his tales of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Everglades, and on remote rivers in the jungles of Mexico. With many of these venues being some of today's most popular saltwater fly-fishing destinations, no one will want to miss these highly entertaining and informative stories. Armchair fishing will never be the same.

This thrilling novel from the son of iconic Western author Zane Grey captures the spirit of the elder Grey's most popular and acclaimed book, Riders of the Purple Sage. That book's hero, Lassiter - a softspoken loner with a fierce sense of morality and unsurpassed skill with firearms - helped establish the Western gunman archetype in fiction. Lassiter's tale continues in this action-packed yarn that serves up a hearty helping of frontier justice.