Washoe County Library System

After centuries of strife, the seven powers dividing the land have worn themselves down into a stalemate. The monstrous King Joffrey is dead, and the Northern rebels are scattered. Into this blasted peace, however, come the scavengers, outlaws and renegades, who have been waiting to pick over the remnants. Daring new plots and alliances are formed, and personalities new and old have emerged from the struggle to take up new positions. It is a time...

The odds were always against Big Ike. When he risked everything to start a new life in the gold fields of California. When he joined the Union Army and was wounded leading a charge at Shiloh. And more than ever, the odds are against him now, as he leads a wagon train through hostile Apache territory to establish a freight line in Arizona. Big Ike will finally face the greatest odds of his life. He has a gentle nun on one side of him, a reformed prostitute...

"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...

"Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who's occasionally called Jack. While it's doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if he's still alive, he's in his mid-thirties...

"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...

Nick Graves is a Mourner. He arranges funerals and organizes gatherings for wakes as well as hangings, supplementing his meager income by making coffins. He's come to this profession he learned from his father after years making his living with a fast draw and a cool nerve. Nick wants to forget his past by assuming a simple life and a quiet vocation. But the town is full of corrupt men who will make it very difficult for Nick to continue the family...

This duo combines two book-length Western stories by the incomparable Lauran Paine, marked by his characteristic authenticity and strong characters. In "Outlaw's Hide-Out," drifter Hap Thompson has lived in a secluded valley since robbing a bank made him a wanted man. But his tranquil life is interrupted when he discovers a strange horse and tracks it back to an injured young woman. Wesley Potter is the "Sheriff of Hangtown," and friend to Dick Ruffin,...

"Texas Ranger Rory Yates is not keen for hero status. But it's unavoidable once his girlfriend, country singer Willow Dawes, writes a song about his bravery. Rory escapes his newfound fame when he's sent to the remote West Texas town of Rio Lobo, a municipality with two stoplights. And now, according to the Chief of Police, it has one too many Texas Rangers. Rio Lobo Detective Ariana Delgado is the one who requested Rory, and the only person who believes...