Speaking Volumes: 953 books

In this second adventure of Maggie and Devildust, Maggie survives her year at Miss Porter's School for Girls in Kansas City, and returns home to Texas to continue her training of Devildust and to complete her plans to join the Mulhall Wild West Show. But the theft of Devildust and Lucille Mulhall's...

Men and women, guns and horses, tough situations and no easy solutions—these are the features of a dozen new stories by one of the most acclaimed writers of Western fiction today. John D. Nesbitt shows once again why his work is consistently praised for its evocative setting, realistic characterization,...

Somebody's knocking over stages on the Billings—Saddle City line as easy as a string of dominoes. Wells Fargo needs to stop the road agents pronto—and nobody fixes fast guns better than the Gunsmith. But this ain't the usual bunch of two-bit bandits tripping on their triggers. The leader is all...

WANTED! On the run from a Missouri posse, Jim Thorne headed for Colorado. There he joined up with prospector Eb Graves and in no time the two struck it rich. But Graves stole the young man's share of the gold and left him for dead. Then the oldtimer gathered a band of killers—one of whom...

Polo leaves his San Francisco home base to do a favor for an old friend. It sounds simple enough: Fly to London to hand deliver a letter, a check, and a cassette tape to a distant cousin of Polo's friend Raymond Singh. With first-class plane tickets, a hefty expense account, and reservations at the...

The Barrows Boarding house in Sullivan City is one friendly place. Run by only Linda Barrows and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Lisa, the smiles are warm as fresh pie and doubly wide. But isn't it strange they never seem to have more than one guest at a time? And each guest happens to be a cash-carrying...

Clint Adams was lookin' to lay low for a while, waiting for his horse to get healthy. But right after riding into Dawson City, he got bushwhacked—by Leonard Hollitt, a nineteen-year-old kid! The Gunsmith sent him to his maker, but then discovered the kid drew an empty gun! Clint wondered...

Clint Adams stumbled into a camp of sodbusters—and was greeted with waving gun barrels. Clint can only hope the next soil these folks turn isn't for a fresh grave. The settlers beg Clint to join their feud with deep-pockets landgrabber David Peck. After Clint blasts four of Peck's hired guns...

With her cabin a pile of ashes and her life in pieces, champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold has gratefully accepted a friend's proposal that she drive his motor home up from Idaho, along the Alaska Highway—a breathtaking, two thousand-mile-long route winding past hot springs, glaciers,...

Crown of RosesA SWEEPING HISTORICAL SAGA OF RICHARD IIIPetronel Faldene, married off at fourteen to the dour and spiteful Lionel Eynesby and taken far away from home to be chatelaine of his estate, never suspected that her destiny would become entangled with the future of England and the most powerful...

COLORADO CRACKDOWN No one is better at firing and dodging bullets than the Gunsmith. So when a passel of back-shooting ambushers try to cut him to the quick, Clint Adams is able to shrug them off with hardly a thought, and then make his way to Denver for a hot steak and an even hotter woman. But...

Dr. Jud Tyler had almost decided that it had been a mistake to come back to Framingham, and his first sight of the old hospital building—in an advanced stage of dilapidation—only strengthened that conviction. But waiting inside those grimy walls was a world Dr. Tyler had never known, and Dr. Tyler's...

A novel of Demonology Among the victims of a devastating plane crash was one of America’s most dangerous criminals—a ruthless ter­rorist and self-proclaimed agent of the devil named Lynne Tallman. Among the survivors was another woman—a dedicated reporter named Janet Burke, for...

Doctors' Wives' Disease is not an imaginary ailment. For, in the closed, inbred society of a great medical center, these women, the wives of superbly successful physicians, are driven by loneliness, boredom, and frustration along forbidden pathways. And alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity become their...