Emmett Lacey is eighteen years old, broke, and hungry for a name worth remembering.When a cattle boss named Dutch brings him into the orbit of Thomas Blackwell - a man whose name alone can make grown men go pale - Emmett gets what he asked for. A place in an outfit. A Colt revolver he names Mercy. And a path that leads from riding drag on a stolen herd to standing in the road with a bandana over his face and a gun in his hand.Set in the Arizona Territory in the early 1880s,...

The first time I threw a man, I didn't know I was supposed to.Holbrook is a bucking bull. Born on a ranch in eastern Arizona, he discovers early that his body knows something his mind hasn't caught up to yet — a violent, instinctive refusal to carry anything on his back. What follows is a life lived at full force: the futurity circuit, the championship arenas, the riders who become rivals, the quiet man who named him and fed him gummy bears, and the slow reckoning with a body that ...

Cole McCoy is nineteen years old and invincible. He has a new truck, a spot on the Challenger tour, and a dream that feels closer every day.Then Sinister shatters his hip.Seven seconds into what should have been his breakthrough ride, his hand catches in the rope. The bull drags him across the arena. And when the hoof comes down, everything Cole has worked for disappears in the Jacksonville dust.Back home in Springerville, Arizona, Cole faces the long dark. The pill...

He came into the world on a spring morning in the San Juan Valley. Wet and confused, his legs folded under him like they'd been packed wrong for the trip.They named him Jack. He was a sorrel with a crooked blaze and a body that refused to be broken. When a horse trainer tried to saddle him at four years old, something ancient in his blood said no. Not out of fear. Not out of confusion. Out of something deeper. Something that had been waiting his whole life for a reason to come out....

Can Itty stop a cheater from winning the Cloud Race? Find out in this fifth adorable book in the Itty Bitty Princess Kitty chapter book series!It’s time for Lollyland’s big Cloud Race, and Itty Bitty Princess Kitty and her friends are finally old enough to enter! Everyone is used to riding clouds around the kingdom, but now they’ll learn how to steer one too. Itty’s driving lessons go smoothly until she overhears a fox say that he might break the rules and...

Owly, the little owl with a heart of gold, returns for another forest adventure in this Eisner-winning series about friendship!Owly always reaches out to a friend in need.Owly is a wonderful friend! He's honest, trustworthy, and kind. And whenever any of his pals are in trouble, he always finds a way to help. In this collection of nine stand-alone stories, Owly demonstrates the power of friendship by cheering up his friends when they're down, rescuing his f...

When their father disappears into the Crazy Mountains, the McKinnon boys rally.Angus McKinnon, the oldest son leaves the elite Delta Forces, returns to Montana and takes up the reins on the family ranch. The last person he expects to run into is the beauty who broke his heart.Bree Lansing promised to wait for Angus but a violent confrontation with her stepfather left her no choice. She had to leave. Later she learned her stepfather had died in the same barn where t...

Shabba me whiskers! It’s one of those Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton. They’re only the craziest, funnest most amazing books for children in the world.Can it really be true that there’s an ancient curse on the town of Lamonic Bibber?And you guessed it, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and his trusty sidekick Billy William the Third have something to do with it. But … our favourite heroes Polly and Friday and the gingerbread biscuit Alan Taylor (only 15.24 cm tall) are det...

He was just an aged Belgian draft horse, left alone in a pasture to live out the remaining days of his twilight years. He spent his time drooling and swishing flies. But one day the old horse stepped out of a wobbly wire fence, and into a new life. He became useful again, as a horse, when he teamed up with the author, who had always wanted a Belgian draft horse.He immediately began to subtly influence her and other people who crossed his path. The horse weighed one ton and was phys...

Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses. Then he meets Liza Hetrick, and in her eyes he sees his future. After establishing himself as marshal of Alta, he retur...

"A marvelous debut" this novel about a violent act in a small Appalachian town "has everything a big novel should have . . . I hated to put it down." —John Grisham, New York Times– bestselling authorAfter seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-pa...

From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, a haunting urban fantasy short story in the Carniepunk anthology—for fans of all things circus, supernatural, and mysterious…It’s been seventeen years since the last time Ada’s carnival passed through her father’s hometown in Alabama—and no one is expecting the reception she gets.