Speaking Volumes: 953 books

"My father, Wood Hume, worked for the railroad. We followed him from town to town, through Texas and Louisiana in the tomato-red sun that sank into the plains. I learned to read on highway signs." So begins the beautifully told story of Rachel and her itinerant Southern family. In The Only...

Against the stark, sere landscape of New Mexico, acclaimed novelist Robert Mayer here creates a tantalizing thriller of suspense and surprise. Rivaling the best of John Le Carre and Graham Greene, THE SEARCH weaves an intricate web of twists and turns in a strangely chilling story of science, fate,...

When a knock on the door interrupts her nightly escape into the pages of a cheap romance, Midge, aka Beatrice Audra Smith, is understandably annoyed. Paperback romances may not be the world's best protection against the "lonelies," but what else is a 4'11", 87 pound, 30 1/4 year-old...

To a growing boy, life without baseball would be unimaginable, especially in the spring of 1947. History is being made at Ebbets Field. Jackie Robinson is about to break the color line and Brooklyn has a shot at the pennant. In the Bronx, eight-year-old Benjamin "Peewee" Brunig dreams...

WHEN TRACKER COMES LOOKING FOR A MAN, NO KID BETTER GET IN THE WAY Tracker rode in just looking for a man and 20,000 stolen dollars. He didn't count on much trouble... except from women. Until he ran into Pat Garrett wearing a brand new sheriffs badge and gunning to kill his ex—best friend—Billy...

A STUNNING REDHEAD IN A LAWLESS TOWN AROUSES MORE THAN BOLT’S INTEREST! BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW—AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! "There is no law in Taos except Reed Curtin's law—you'd best get out of town while you can!" With these...

When Jesse Ross was eighteen he was forced to learn firsthand that a person's life could be changed irrevocably by one deed—and the endless chain of events this original act sets into motion. That was something Jesse's neighbor Gray Fletcher had experienced years before when he was with the Texas...

The White Rhino Hotel is a sweeping saga of love and revenge, of greed and loyalty, of pioneers struggling for a new life amidst the beauty and wildness of the African bush in the years immediately after World War I. Desperate to win estates of virgin land, thousands of World War I veterans...

IN A BREATHTAKING LAND OF ICE AND COLD DEATH HAS COME... BY FIRE In the lingering chill of the early Alaskan spring, famed "musher" Jessie Arnold confronts the charred remains of a favorite local pub, destroyed by a suspicious blaze that claimed an innocent, unsuspecting life. This...

Lots of boys dream about being gunfighters, but when the kid brother of a pretty Irish woman picks up his six-shooter in earnest, Clint Adams is forced to get involved. The Gunsmith is asked to find the boy and convince him to give himself up. But before he can do that, Clint meets an incredibly...

Clint is visiting a lawman friend of his in the town of Butler’s Gulch, Kansas. The man is glad to see him, because he has a problem he can’t solve. Seems there’s a house in town that everyone seems to think is haunted. They’ve seen odd lights and have heard weird sounds at night. And there...

The newspapers called him "the Gunsmith," a name Clint Adams earned with his lightning-quick trigger finger and arrow-sharp aim. But being the Justice Maker also means taking on every drunken rival who thinks he's got a faster draw. Now, the Gunsmith has a challenger who's deadly serious....

Ever since Clint Adams got the invitation from his old friend. Hank Sayles, he'd had an unsettling feeling that something in Plains was just plain wrong. Cattle rustling, ballot-box stuffing, bride selling, gunfighting...all in a town that was little more than a wide spot in the road. One thing the...

There were a lot of men who wanted Jackson Horne out of the way. Lou Simmons hated Horne because Lou's daughter shunned her parents to live openly with Horne, who had rescued her from the Arapaho. It didn't matter that it was Lou who had begged Horne to go after her in the first place. Garcia...