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"A refuge for outlaws at the close of the 1800s, the Arizona Territory was a wild, lawless land of greedy feuds, brutal killings and figures of enduring legend. These gunfighters included heroes as well as killers, and some were considered both. Bandit Pearl Hart committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the country, and James Addison Reavis pulled off the most extraordinary real estate scheme in the West. With fearless lawmen like...
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"Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class...
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Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 10
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"Revenge isn't the only dish served cold ... Ali Reynolds's longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona highway. The girl had been running away from The Family, a polygamous cult with no patience for those who try to leave its ranks. Something about her strikes a chord in Sister Anselm, reminding her of a case...
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The hardworking single mother of a young daughter, Joanna Brady still feels the acute pain of loneliness and loss, and the hole that was left in her heart when her policeman husband was brutally murdered. But Sheriff Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her private trials to interfere with the job she was elected to perform -- especially now that murder has shattered the small town's fragile peace. A local gun dealer has died...
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"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
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The dead woman was an artist recently arrived from Washington State, cruelly cut down in the early stages of a promising career. Now all that remains of Rochelle Baxter lies on a cold slab in the Cochise County morgue, and Sheriff Joanna Brady knows that murder has once again infected her small desert community. But there is more to this homicide than initially meets the eye -- and more to the victim, who died while supposedly under the conscientious...
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After being cleaned out by his ex-wife seven years earlier, Butch runs a bar in Peoria, Arizona, but when his ex turns up dead and he is the prime suspect, a group of former law enforcers try to help him prove his innocence.
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The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2015]
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"The relationship between Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg--Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher's daughter and Brooklyn girl--transcends party, religion, region, and culture. Strengthened by each other's presence, these groundbreaking judges, the first and second to serve on the highest court in the land, have transformed the Constitution and America itself, making it a more equal place for all women. Linda Hirshman's...
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Harper
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[2013]
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For nearly fifty years she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. Kirschner brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her tale: a spirited and colorful tale of ambition, adventure, self-invention, and devotion; from the post-Civil War years to World War II, and from New York to the Arizona Territory to old Hollywood.
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[YouWriteOn]
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[2012]
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Dust from the demolished Berlin Wall has barely settled, the East German police state is teetering on the edge of collapse, and Stasi General HOLGER FRANTZ will stop at nothing to save it. Caught in his intrigue are two unlikely heroes: American lawyer ROLF KELLER, recently divorced, fresh off the bottle, and mysteriously dispatched by his senior law partner to coordinate document drops by a defecting Stasi agent, and aspiring opera diva SYLVIA MAZZONI,...
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Lionsgate
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2010.
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Cheatin' hearts: After walking out on his wife and two daughters over a year before, a man abruptly returns for a bittersweet reuion on his youngest daughter's wedding day.
South of heaven, west of hell: The marshal of a desolate Arizona town is threatened by a family of outlaws--his family.
Barbarosa: A farmhand is forced to run and takes up with an aging outlaw after accidentally killing his brother-in-law.
A Texas funeral: The family of Jeremiah...
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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[2013]
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Against the backdrop of the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains, aspiring diva SYLVIA MAZZONI hopes to combine her Santa Fe Opera debut and a romantic reunion with her lover, Washington attorney ROLF KELLER. But Rolf?s old nemesis from law school, CHARLES SLATER, now an archaeologist, intrudes on their tryst. He is on the run from ruthless antiquities traffickers, who are after his recent find of prehistoric Indian artifacts. After Slater vanishes under...
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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[2011]
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Once upon a Texas train: A former Texas Ranger is forced out of retirement when a criminal from his past evens the score. The decoy: Deputy John Cooper is ordered to escort the man accused of murdering his in-laws to be hanged, and he struggles with his duty as a lawman and his desire to exact revenge. The desert trail: A rodeo performer and his partner are accused of a holdup and murder. They roam the countryside as fugitives in order to track down...
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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2011.
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YUMA: U.S. Marshal Dave Harmon has been appointed by the Governor to bring order to the Yuma Territory--an area known for running off any lawman who dares to bring the rowdies to heel.
THE GATLING GUN: When a small band of cavalry--transporting the newfangled gun to their fort?cross hostile territory, they find themselves in a battle with a tribe of Apache hell-bent on confiscating the weapon.
SITTING BULL: General George A. Custer engages the proud...
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Crown Forum
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[2008]
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America's most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the people, stories, and events--often unheralded--that make the American drama so endlessly entertaining and instructive. With Will's signature erudition and wry wit always on display, One Man's America chronicles a spectacular, eclectic procession of...
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