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The first in the series featuring an Ozarks sheriff’s detective investigating moonshine, murder, and the ghosts of her own past . . .Katrina Williams left the army ten years ago, disillusioned and damaged. Now a sheriff’s detective at home in the Missouri Ozarks, Williams is living her life one case at a time—between mandated therapy sessions—until she learns that she’s a suspect in a military investigation with ties to her painful past.Then the corpse of a...

The Ultimate Western Collection surveys the imaginative territories of the American West and its borderlands through adventure tale, historical romance, frontier realism, detective fiction, humor, and the hard-edged Western yarn. Its capacious selection moves from mythic landscapes and encounters at the edge of settlement to cattle drives, mining camps, military outposts, and contested communities. Canonical frontier narratives sit beside popular serial fiction and lesser-known regional vi...

From the author of A Living Grave comes a gripping police procedural featuring sheriff's detective Katrina Williams as she exposes the dark underbelly of the Missouri Ozarks . . .DREDGING UP THE TRUTHStill recovering from tragedy and grieving a devastating loss, Iraq war veteran and sheriff's detective Katrina Williams copes the only way she knows how—by immersing herself in work. A body's just been pulled from the lake with a fish...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gathers more than 175 Western novels and short stories into a capacious archive of frontier writing. Spanning adventure romance, outlaw tale, mining-camp sketch, cattle-drive narrative, historical fiction, and psychologically charged wilderness drama, the volume charts the genre's movement from nineteenth-century local-color storytelling to the popular Western's modern forms. Classic frontier legends, tales of gunfighters and scouts, and narratives of settlem...

This volume is a study of previously unexplored theoretical convergences between John Dewey’s social pragmatism and the sociology of knowledge.It demonstrates how these convergences, combined with the social psychology of G. H. Mead and Kenneth Burke, create a framework for the construction of a new and more comprehensive approach to the social analysis of knowledge, the social theory of thought. Dunn indicates in what respects Dewey’s philosophy and this theory represent forms of ...

When a rising country star is found dead in the Missouri Ozarks, sheriff's detective Katrina “Hurricane” Williams must confront the possibility that the man she loves is involved…Called to investigate the theft of valuable timber, Katrina finds the dead body of young singer Sharon Rose lying in the snow, shot execution style. When Sheriff Billy Blevins arrives at the crime scene, his strong reaction to seeing the victim is as baffling as a pretty corpse surrounded ...

50 WESTERNS (Vol. 1) surveys the western as a capacious popular form, bringing together frontier adventure, ranching tales, outlaw narratives, wilderness fiction, romance, humor, and historical romance. Its varied prose moves from compressed twist endings and regional sketches to expansive quests, gunfights, cattle drives, and encounters shaped by the contested borderlands of the American West. The volume's strongest distinction lies in its range: familiar myths of individual courage and o...

Sheriff's detective Katrina “Hurricane” Williams confronts deep-rooted hate and greed in the Missouri Ozarks in this riveting police procedural…What at first appears to be a brush fire in some undeveloped bottom land yields the charred remains of a young African-American man. As sheriff’s Katrina Williams conducts her inspection of the crime scene, she discovers broken headstones and disturbed open graves in a forgotten cemetery.As Katrina attempts to sort ...

THE CALL OF THE WILD WEST - Ultimate Western Collection: 175+ Novels & Short Stories in One Volume is a monumental anthology that captures the essence and allure of the American frontier. Encompassing a vast range of literary styles from adventurous narratives to poignant tales of survival, this collection offers an expansive look at the mythos of the Wild West. The stories traverse themes of rugged individualism, the conflict between civilization and nature, and the indomitable human spir...

In 2011, prize-winning fiction writer Robert Dunn read a review of a new Fuji single-lens-reflex camera, and something clicked. Later that day, although the then-new Fuji X100 was as hard to get as the latest iPhone, he’d tracked one down. The next day he went out shooting photos for the first time since a brief dalliance with a cheap Nikon decades earlier.Little did Dunn know his life had changed. He’d always loved photography, and now he took his new camera with him everywhere he...

Embark on a high-seas adventure with 'PIRATE NOVELS: 50+ Adventure Classics, Treasure Hunt Tales & Maritime Novels,' a robust collection that captures the daring spirit and magnetic allure of pirate lore. This anthology offers a stunning array of narrative styles and themes, from thrilling treasure hunts and dramatic sea battles to introspective tales of moral ambiguity and redemption. Readers will traverse the seas with multifaceted characters and experience vivid landscapes that transpor...

Values are inescapable. They pervade and shape our psychology, our agency, and our lives as reflective and self-knowing subjects. This book explores the crucial ways in which values figure within reflection and thereby shape our theoretical and practical lives, against the backdrop of an expressivist moral psychology that is sensitive to the vicissitudes of valuing. Combining a discussion of the role that values play within reflection with a critique of a range of influential contemporary ...