In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror born of nature.

They went searching for a dream. They found America. The first in a trailblazing trilogy of the brave men and women who risked their lives to build a future in the untamed heart of the American frontier . Fort Kearney, Nebraska, is the gateway to the west for a new breed of pioneers. Civil War veterans and widows, card sharps and Indian agents, and drifters-they arrive every day hoping to forge their destiny. Colonel Henry B. Carrington of the U.S. Calvary is assigned the unenviable task o...

RAIDING WITH MORGAN is an historical Civil War novel set in 1863; it focused of the invasion of Indiana and Ohio by Confederate cavalrymen commanded by General John Hunt Morgan a.k.a. the infamous Morgan' s Raiders. Ty Mattson never knew his father who went off to fight I the Mexican War and never returned; and Ty' s mother died giving birth to Ty. For 17 years, Ty wonders why his father never acknowledges his existence. Ty learns that his father joined Morgan' s Raiders, so Ty decides to ...

Ralph Cotton casts a long shadow as one of the finest practitioners of Western fiction to ever set pen to paper. Burnished with the unmistakable character of the Old West, Escape from Fire River showcases Cotton at the height of his form. There's not a man alive who can outdraw Lawrence Shaw, but that doesn't mean he's invulnerable. Garris "The Cat" Cantro and his band of miscreants are hellbent on securing a fortune in gold-a gleaming prize that just happens to be under the protection of ...

Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chu...

New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-selling author Robert Vaughan has received a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a Spur Award for his stories set in the Wild West. The day after their welcoming dinner in Blodgett, Texas, Lucy Goodnight's husband Phil, a bank manager, vanishes, and the bank is robbed. Lucy's only hope is to turn to her grandfathers-legendary lawmen John Carmack and Charley Dawson-to find Phil and clear his name.

Andrew J. Fenady has been justly rewarded for his exceptional fiction with the Owen Wister Award, the Western Writers of America's most prestigious honor. The author's immense talent is on full display in The Trespassers, the tale of four soldiers of fortune who slip into Mexico to nab five million dollars in buried gold. Before they can get their hands on this fortune, however, the rugged band will have to face off against comancheros, hostile Indians-and Benito Juarez's army.

Kent Conwell combines murder, mystery, and the lure of the West in The Last Way Station. Jake Slade and his partner, Three-Fingers Bent, arrive in a small Texas town with plans to start up a stagecoach way station. But when Bent is accused of murder, Slade's got to find the real culprit before his friend's day in the gallows arrives.

Robert Morgan's Gap Creek was an Oprah's Book Club selection and a phenomenal New York Times best-seller. Here he turns his talent to chronicling the life of American frontier legend Daniel Boone. "[An] absorbing and stirring chronicle of the great frontiersman."-Booklist, starred review

One of America's most acclaimed sportswriters, Dan Jenkins has won countless fans with his bawdy sense of humor. Bubba Talks is a series of reflections from the quintessential American redneck-a lover of hot ladies, football, cheeseburgers, and Firebirds.

John Ford’s The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of filmmakers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2008. Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns—a timeless work of vivid, raw Western fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American frontier.From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley and Amos Edwards became searchers. First the...

In the Black Hills of South Dakota lie eleven thousand acres of breathtaking rangeland and rimrock, canyons and pastures - home to more than three hundred wild mustangs. This preserve was the vision of one man - Dayton Hyde - who conceived of a place where wild horses could live and die in freedom and dignity. Stunning photographs and a richly eloquent text tell the story of Dayton's love of horses and the American West - and how he made this wildlife sanctuary become a reality. Readers wi...