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Spur Award winner Craig Johnson has garnered critical acclaim for his Walt Longmire mysteries. In this riveting seventh entry, Wyoming's Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire is pushed beyond his limits. When three hardened convicts escape FBI custody in a mountain blizzard, an armed psychopath...

The discovery of a treasure in the Yucatan sets former Navy SEALs Dane Maddock and Bones Bonebrake on a search for the legendary Maya city of the dead, and into the path of deadly enemies. From ancient ruins to perilous jungles, Maddock and Bones must outwit the vicious Serpent Brotherhood, and find the fabled city before an old enemy unlocks its secrets and plunges the world into shadow. Can they survive the descent into Xibalba?

It's 1952, and Jasper isn't allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He's lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and his ears open to stay in his uncle's good graces. No one knows where his mother went or whether she's coming back. Desperate to see her again, he must take matters into his own hands. From the farm, he embarks on a treacherous search that will take him to the squalid hideaways of Detroit and back again, through tawdry taverns, peep shows, and gambling houses.

Danica Jensen dreams of a man she knows she can never have. After one brief encounter five years ago, her heart is lost to him forever, and she won't give up hope of seeing him again. Raised by a bitter father, she's learned to be strong and resourceful on her own. When a pleasure trip to the newly created Yellowstone National Park turns into a battle for survival, her inner strength is tested like never before...

Finding a murdered First Nation's girl in Vancouver's Stanley Park in the middle of tourist season was the last thing homicide detective Mark Hanson needed, but that's what he's got. Mark turned for help to the local Friendship Centre, where Metis police liaison Dez Pallaton suggested they ask for help from Spirit Water, a well-known Shaman who held the respect and confidence of the First Nations community.

Assassinating Custer is book one of the Disclosure Files. Based on the never-before-published manuscript of William D. Nugent, who fought and survived the Battle of Little Bighorn.

When a war-weary veteran embarks deep into the pristine Alaskan frontier in search of solitude and healing, he discovers a profound spiritual awakening that holds the key to overcoming his trauma and finding his long-sought redemption. Sam McGee thought he left conflict behind. But when Russia sells Alaska to the American settlers in 1867, it opens up a fresh world of promise, adventure . . . and unspeakable danger.

Whether intended as historical fiction or not, this tale of a California bandit in the early years of the Gold Rush by America's first Native American novelist was based on real occurrences. By early 1853, a certain "Joaquin" was being blamed for seemingly every murder and robbery in the young Golden State—a Robin Hood-like figure originally from Mexico said to be an inspiration a half a century later for the character of Zorro (who in turn was an influence on masked vigilante and avenger characters like Batman).

Tenochtitlan, 1519. Strange, pale-skinned people have arrived on the coast of the One World. They hail from a far away land called Spain and fight for the mysterious Hernando Cortés. To confront Cortés’ army would be dangerous, but inaction may be even more dangerous. The Mexica are the most powerful people in all the One World and regard the uncouth interlopers with a mixture of curiosity and distrust. Keen to discover their intentions, the Mexica send an official envoy to the coast. What they learn is most troubling. 

It’s 1806. A young republic just three decades old - the United States of America - is about to make a great push westward, across the Mississippi, into a wild, beautiful, and dangerous land. A territory of towering mountains and violent waters, of icy glaciers and searing deserts. The great northwest. It is a time and a place where fortunes will be made, destinies will be revealed, and legends will rise.

"The audiobook narrated by Tonantzin Carmelo is enthralling." - Buzzfeed "Narrator Tonantzin Carmelo’s portrayal of Kari imbues her with a rebellious and tenacious attitude that makes her immediately likable." - Library Journal Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel...

Artie Bergeron würde sein Leben in Hazelwood gegen nichts tauschen. Hier hatten er und seine Kinder das Lachen wieder gelernt. Sein Sternerestaurant in Montreal fehlte ihm nicht. Er liebte die Restaurantküche in der alten Mühle – für die er einen weiteren Koch finden musste. Doch kein Bewerber wurde seinen Forderungen gerecht, woraufhin er sich auf Sue Fornier versteifte, die wie er bei Chef Armand gelernt hatte. Sie begann, kurz bevor er das Le Ciel Céleste verließ. Erkennen würde er sie nicht. Dementsprechend fällt seine Reaktion aus, als eine atemberaubende Frau in seine Küche kommt.

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. A contemporary classic, this...

"Narrators Waikamania Seve and Caleb Teaupa unfurl a blood- and brine-soaked epic set in and around the islands of long-ago Polynesia. The lilt of the performers’ Antipodean accents lends a strong sense of place to the novel." —The Wall Street Journal “[Narrator Waikamania] Seve's voice...

As a child, Clementine Monroe had an imaginary friend. Year after year, whenever she visited her grandparents' cabin in South Dakota, she and Wihanbla would meet and spend time learning about each other's worlds - hers in the 21st century, his on the cusp of the infamous battles that would eventually lead to the internment of his people on reservations. Now grown, Clementine and her friend continue to meet, though her family has decided that she should have long ago done away with her "imaginary" friend. Clementine knows better.

Naive and spoiled, Sophia Yancey believes she is the only daughter of a wealthy Boston businessman. She's always struggled to fit in among the city's elite due to her dark hair and bronze skin. When a rugged mountain man from the faraway Teton Mountains arrives to reveal her true identity, Sophia is in denial. Joseph Walker made a promise to a dying friend: travel east to find the old Indian chief's granddaughter and bring her back to her people. Unsure whether the girl is even alive, Joseph arrives on the doorstep of Byron Yancey, his only clue to her whereabouts.

Set on timeless Wiradyuri country and inspired by remarkable true events, Birrang ngiyanhigin.gu (The Journey of Us) connects a sweeping story of love and the unbreakable bonds of family, with a story of resistance and Country. Stolen from her miyagan as a child, Amy Tompkins has spent years in...

New Badge. Old Blood. In the High Lonesome where secrets kill, the only thing shorter than a rookie Sheriff's term is his life expectancy. Nick Drake has traded his wildlife ranger uniform for a Sheriff’s star—but the unforgiving territory doesn't offer election honeymoons. His tenure kicks off with a brutal double homicide meticulously staged to look like a tragic murder-suicide. It’s a convenient lie designed to keep the peace, but Nick isn’t buying it.

Eli Stone doesn't shy away from the ghosts of his past. As he urges his horse down the winding trails into the frontier town of Shadow Gulch, he's greeted by a place where fortunes are for the taking and survival is for the ruthless. But Eli, marked by a life of hardship and the scars of battles survived, seeks something more than gold—redemption. When the town's simmering tensions boil over, Eli finds himself in the midst of lawlessness, with the innocent paying the price.

It is impossible to be unaware of the effect of development, invariably at the hands of outsiders, upon the lands, inhabitants and very nature of faraway climes. Hunter School shows us first-hand the immediate and long-reaching effects of such changes upon an indigenous people. The fabric of the community is changed, its balance and its self-sufficiency undermined, and confusion reigns. A common theme running throughout this charming but important book is that of a young man learning about himself and his heritage from the past, elders, ancestors, and nature itself.