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"A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who...
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The Buffalo Hunter's Bride - Sweet Western Romance41 pagesExcited, buffalo hunter Jeremiah "Buff" Carson gets ready to pick up his mail order bride, Julie Donovan of Chicago, at the Zandfort railway station. But suddenly his orphaned niece Annie shows up in his house on the prairie and Buff is faced with a dilemma. For reasons of her own, his new bride is not at all fond of other people's children right now…This is a western romance suitable for...
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"1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing...
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When their rental truck breaks down, two friends moving cross-country kill time by telling stories about the strange carving in front of the motel where they're awaiting a mechanic . . .
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. When their rental truck breaks down, two friends moving cross-country kill time by telling stories about the strange carving in front of the motel where...
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Lauded Texan author Josh Rountree (The Legend of Charlie Fish) has created a devastating Frankenstein-inspired tale set in the Wild West. With equal parts Cormac McCarthy, Mary Shelley, and Stephen Graham Jones, Rountree creates a work of historical horror that deftly navigates the terrible aftermath of love and death.
"Weird and heartfelt and hard to pull your eyes away from."
-Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
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Indian Lake trilogy volume 1
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"On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in...
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"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"-- Provided...
8) Good Boy
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IT meets The Fisherman in this story of supernatural horror, nostalgia and mystery.After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small Northern town, a woman spies from her window a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance.However, when she confronts him, the man's true purpose is far more chilling than she could have imagined and the history of the town's fatal past unfolds. What has been hiding in this small northern town...
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Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression.
This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination...
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Pike's Portage plays a very special role in the landscape of Canada's Far North and its human history. It is both an ancient gateway and the funnel for early travel from the boreal forest of the Mackenzie River watershed to the vast open spaces of the subarctic taiga, better known as the "Barren Lands" of Canada.
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In the late eighteenth century, the British took greater interest than ever before in observing and recording all aspects of the natural world. Travelers and colonists returning from far-flung lands provided dazzling accounts of such exotic creatures as elephants, baboons, and kangaroos. The engraver Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) harnessed this newfound interest by assembling the most comprehensive illustrated guide to nature of his day.
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Fictionalized biography of Colonel Charles Jesse Jones ("Buffalo Jones"), 1844-1919, a frontiersman and wild game hunter. Jones, the last of the plainsmen, and several associates venture into the region of Buckskin Mountain, along the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars and bring them back alive. After several run-ins with Navajo,...
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Definitive, scrupulously researched work not only tells the dramatic story of shoulder arms, hand guns, percussion and cartridge weapons but also describes the hunters, settlers, peace officers, soldiers, range detectives, rustlers, and outlaws who used them. An invaluable guide for collectors, dealers, enthusiasts and students. 499 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Index.
18) Makoons
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Birchbark house volume 5
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Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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"How does a spacesuit work? What is a probe? What are the parts of a Mars rover? Readers discover the answers to these and many more questions about the technology used to explore space in this fun and fact-filled guide to a high-interest science topic. Detailed and informative images are the focal point of this learning experience, with each chapter devoted to full-color photographs, diagrams, infographics, and more. The main text is creatively placed...
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"Joe R. Lansdale, the acclaimed horror novelist of such titles as EDGE OF DARK WATER and DEAD AIM, took on DC's famed bounty hunter Jonah Hex in these darkly comic epics from the 1990s. In these twisted tales of the Old West, Hex battles a doctor determined to transform him into a zombie, joins up with Buffalo Will's (yes, Will's) Wild West Show and learns the dark secret behind the existence of a demonic baby, and discovers an ancient race of man-eating...






