Ken Jackson
21) Hard Luck Money
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The loner volume 14
Pub. Date
2011
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The Loner goes undercover and faces success—or slaughter—in this hard-charging Western adventure from the USA Today–bestselling author.
A beautiful young woman has an incredible story to tell: about her outlaw father, how he got busted out of jail, and then met a bloody end. Katherine Lupo believes her dad, a career train robber, was sprung by someone who wanted to set up Lupo for another crime—and then...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin--Beau Shipman.
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Ishmael Jones novels volume 1
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2015.
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Ishmael Jones is someone who can't afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He's employed to search out secrets, investigate mysteries and shine a light in dark places. Sometimes he kills people. Invited by his employer, the enigmatic Colonel, to join him and his family for Christmas, Ishmael arrives at the grand but isolated Belcourt Manor in the midst of a blizzard to find that the Colonel...
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It was a law Cotton Pickens never asked for and never wanted to enforce. But due to the vigilance of the Women's Temperance Society, and the timidity of their businessmen husbands, the town of Doubtful, Wyoming, is going dry. As of January 1st. No exceptions. No turning back. Doubtful's hell-raisers will not take this lying down, and Sheriff Pickens is fighting bootleggers and vigilantes when the next boot drops. The righteous women push through an...
25) Paradox
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Rogue angel volume 21
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Archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly accepts an assignment on behalf of a covert arm of the U.S. Government. She is to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Ararat to find the truth about what is thought to be the remains of Noah's Ark. But while she doubts the massive anomaly is really the Ark, she can't help but wonder what is up there. Annja must escort a group of militant fundamentalists through civil unrest in eastern Turkey, but the...
27) Avenger
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The last gunfighter series volume 15
Pub. Date
[2007
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A price has been placed on the head of gunfighter Frank Morgan, leaving him only one course of action--kill the man who put it there. Vengefully trekking across the frontier, he survives ambush after ambush, each drawing him closer to a hellish ghost town shootout.
28) Bloody Sunday
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Luke Jensen volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
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Luke Jensen gets caught in a black widow's web in this blazing Western adventure from the authors of Dead Shot.
The Greatest Western Writer of the 21st Century
In the bestselling novels of William W. Johnstone, mountain man Smoke Jensen is a legend. Now, Johnstone presents the adventures of Smoke's long-lost brother Luke, who was reportedly killed during the Civil War. The war is over and Luke is very much alive,...
The Greatest Western Writer of the 21st Century
In the bestselling novels of William W. Johnstone, mountain man Smoke Jensen is a legend. Now, Johnstone presents the adventures of Smoke's long-lost brother Luke, who was reportedly killed during the Civil War. The war is over and Luke is very much alive,...
29) Savage guns
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Spoiled, brash King Bragg is going to hang for the murder of three men in a barroom. But King's arrogant father--and his beautiful sister--use their powers of persuasion to convince Cotton to look into the shooting. And when Cotton does, he uncovers some disturbing secrets about one Crayfish Ruble, the second biggest rancher in Puma County"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2013
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A Wyoming sheriff has his hands full trying to keep the peace in this action-packed Western adventure from the USA Today-bestselling author...
Welcome to the peaceful little town of Doubtful, Wyoming, which has more than its fair share of kill-crazy gunslicks, back-shooters, and flat-out dirty desperadoes. It also has a sheriff named Cotton Pickens, who tries his best to keep law and order without getting his head blown off before...
Welcome to the peaceful little town of Doubtful, Wyoming, which has more than its fair share of kill-crazy gunslicks, back-shooters, and flat-out dirty desperadoes. It also has a sheriff named Cotton Pickens, who tries his best to keep law and order without getting his head blown off before...
31) Rescue
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
William Johnstone single-handedly shaped the landscape of frontier fiction with his classic Mountain Man series. Now he returns to the West with a gritty, realistic tale of blood struggles, revenge, and honor—the saga of a man whose legend would spread across a brave new land.
Rescue
In California, Frank Morgan nearly found a home. But now he's pulled...
William Johnstone single-handedly shaped the landscape of frontier fiction with his classic Mountain Man series. Now he returns to the West with a gritty, realistic tale of blood struggles, revenge, and honor—the saga of a man whose legend would spread across a brave new land.
Rescue
In California, Frank Morgan nearly found a home. But now he's pulled...
32) Imposter
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Pub. Date
2002
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With his legend dogging him everywhere he goes, Frank Morgan longs for a place to settle down. His choice is a remote corner of untamed Northern California, a land of towering trees and rugged hills. But for Frank, the haven is a hell. A man who is his exact look-alike has been terrorizing the local population and when the townspeople get their hands on Frank, a hangman's rope is sure to follow. If he's going to be taken for an outlaw, Frank Morgan...
33) Winter Kill
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William Johnstone's bestselling The Last Gunfighter novels have become a new classic in frontier adventure. Now, Frank Morgan, the last of a dying breed, sets off from the Pacific Northwest for Alaska—and into a raging blizzard of violence and death.
A Hail Of Lead....
It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boomtown called Skagway. A bushwhacking, a
...34) Killing ground
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The last gunfighter series volume 18
Pub. Date
2008
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A lawman, a drifter, a legend--Frank Morgan returns to the town he once called home and ends up in the middle of a killing ground. . .
Lethal Or Legal.
The Lucky Lizard is bad luck. Not that the Nevada mine is empty; it's full of silver. But the man who thinks he owns it fair and square is in for a very unpleasant surprise--a ruthless, hard driving Easterner named Dex Brighton shows up with a seemingly valid claim. Town marshal Frank Morgan has...
35) Slaughter
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The last gunfighter series volume 19
Pub. Date
c2009
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In his towering Last Gunfighter series, USA Today bestseller William Johnstone chronicles a frontier legend--a drifter, a fighter and a man you only want on your side. . .
Before It Was The City Of Angels,
It Was A Perfect Place To Die With The Devil
When Frank Morgan gets to a town called Los Angeles, he can see the forces gathering around him. For the Spanish landowners, wealth is measured in cattle on the open range. For hardnosed oilmen, a...
36) Deadwood Gulch
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Sidewinders volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
Famed for his Mountain Man and Eagles epics, William W. Johnstone, with J.A. Johnstone, now introduces two hard-riding, trouble-prone Texans-with a knack for keeping the west as wild as it ever was. . .
When A Devil Comes Calling, Meet Him With A Gun. . .
Two years after Wild Bill Hickok made his mark on Deadwood, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel make theirs. Their job...
Famed for his Mountain Man and Eagles epics, William W. Johnstone, with J.A. Johnstone, now introduces two hard-riding, trouble-prone Texans-with a knack for keeping the west as wild as it ever was. . .
When A Devil Comes Calling, Meet Him With A Gun. . .
Two years after Wild Bill Hickok made his mark on Deadwood, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel make theirs. Their job...
37) Sudden fury
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The last gunfighter series volume 20
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Gunfighting legend Frank Morgan is about to come face to face with another kind of legend--one that stalks the woods of northern California.
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Frontiersman series volume 3
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While back on the trail, Breck Wallace, exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, must evade a vicious gang of trappers who are after his goods and who force him to ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone.
39) The frontiersman
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Frontiersman series volume 1
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"In Tennessee, 17-year-old Breckinridge Wallace knew the laws of nature. When his life was in danger, he showed a fearless instinct to fight back. Killing a thug who was sent to kill him got Breckinridge exiled from this Smoky Mountain home. Brutally wounding an Indian attacked earned him an enemy for life. Now, from the bustling streets of St. Louis to the vast stillness of The Missouri headwaters, Breckinridge is discovering a new world of splendor,...
40) Damnation Valley
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Frontiersman series volume 4
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Following the trail of carnage left by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan, fearless pioneer Breckenridge Wallace, aka the Frontiersman, walks into a trap but nevertheless, fueled by righteous fury, he battles to destroy his enemy.