Chisholm: 135 books

Available at a low price for 7 days only!The Comanche Crossing—the dreaded width of the Staked Plain between the Texas brasada and Colorado. McAllister and a handful of men, with three thousand cattle, would have to challenge distance, thirst and the most dreaded Indians in the West if they were...

A compilation of three Celtic stories, short and sweet. "Deirdre the Star-Eyed" is somewhat reminiscent of Sleeping Beauty, while "The Four White Swans" seems to be an allegory to the spread of Christianity in Ireland. "Dermat and Grania", is a sweet, sad story.

If it's true that great writers never die...do they become ghostwriters? Four authors explore this cultural conundrum in ten frightfully amusing holiday stories. First presented as oral entertainment at an annual Gaudy Night--celebrations of Canadian author Robertson Davies--these literary tall tales...

A Practical Guide to Poetry Forms is a practical handbook on poetry forms, giving informative details on the construction of the major set forms. It also includes exercises, all within the scope of the beginner, yet stimulating enough to engage the more experienced poet.

Week in and week out, McAllister remorselessly followed his quarry across the Wind River Country and down into the arid flats of the Humboldt Basin.Their final duel would be a clash of giants, one master pitting his skill against another’s. For they were two men at the peak of their professions—one...

Rem McAllister was a man alone. They drove off his precious horses. They burned his home. They chased him off his land. He had dared to use the open range claimed by the powerful cattle barons – and now he must pay the ultimate price. But they had overlooked one important fact of all – McAllister never surrenders!

In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. Trouble, however, dogs his heels wherever he goes. And where he goes in autumn, after the summer's misadventures in Carlisle, is back to...

It's September 1592, and Sergeant Dodd is still in London with dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey. Carey urgently needs to get back to Carlisle where he is the Deputy Warden; the raiding season is about to begin. However, his powerful father, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, wants him to solve the mystery of a...

Trapped alone in a tower in a land filled with magic, a young girl struggles to survive and to defy her captors. For as long as anyone can remember, the traditions of her kingdom require that one peasant girl be chosen every generation to become the future bride of the king's heir. This time, Little...

BLADE—tough, tender and temperamental. Slow to anger, fast with a gun and no slouch with women. A man tempered by the West, dangerous living and a perpetual gamble with death. THE WOMEN—the Indian girl: lovely waif of a grisly massacre. The Mexican girl: mettlesome as a thoroughbred filly...

Doke Struther had checked in his gun for a bottle of whiskey and looked like he would not survive. That was until Joe Blade came along asking for help in getting two beautiful women to Denver in one piece. But Harry Lister and his a bunch of murdering hardcases are after the women and their gold. An explosive mixture if ever there was—can they survive the blast?

"It was the classic challenge, the meeting of two famous guns ... an incident rare in the West and seen by few men. They met in the lamplight of old Laredo Tow, each man pacing slowly in the face of death. Only one would walk away ..." Even the Texas Rangers and the local law held...

Pecos country – tough on horses, hell for women. Land where Kiowas hunted horses, Comanches looked for loot, Mescaleros hunted the white man-and Joe Blade hunted a child killer. He knew he rode to his own possible death at the hands of the Indians. But he had no choice, for in his hands lay Western justice and the fate of the white girl in the lonely Pecos ranch house.

McAllister had finally struck it lucky. Gold is where you find it. Nobody knew where old Whiskey Joe had found his. But there were a good many hard-cases who wanted to know. And they were ready to go to any lengths to get their hands on it. McAllister intended to stop them... They knew that McAllister...