Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

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Mentats of Dune

By Herbert, Brian

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

"The sequel to Sisterhood of Dune...The thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity's future continues. Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal--to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family's downfall. Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo's anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily . . . The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity's future--whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age"--

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Greasy grass: a story of the Little Big Horn

By Boggs, Johnny D.

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Boggs brings the events and personalities of Little Big Horn to life in a series of first-hand accounts.

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Stagecoach: a western story

By Brand, Max

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Sammy Greeg is a tenderfoot from New York City on the frontier to make his fortune. He has a fearless determination to succeed no matter the cost, and that makes Sammy a formidable adversary to horse thieves, robbers, and killers. When the lead starts flying, it turns out Sammy has a lot more grit than folks thought.

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The wolf and the man: a western story

By Brand, Max

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: W

Call Number: W

There is a $2,500 reward for the head of the killer wolf, Gray Cloud. When Dave Reagan, considered little better than a half-wit by all who know him, finds the wolf held in his traps, something in the fearless animal's eyes keeps Dave from killing him. Instead, he releases Gray Cloud and carries him on his back to save the wolf from a prairie fire that is threatening them both. Dave brings Gray Cloud home and chains him in a shed that he uses as a blacksmith shop. Dave expects now that, as a result of this feat, his cousins who have always called him a dummy will for the first time come to respect him. But his cousins don't feel anything of the kind. As far as they are concerned, this is the time to put a bullet in Gray Cloud and claim the $2,500 reward. Dave escapes with Gray Cloud to live in the wilderness, away from humans . . .

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Ride the man down

By Brooks, Bill

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

John Henry Cole, working as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations, in pursuit of a group of white renegades who were in hiding there above all a particularly vicious renegade named Caddo Pierce. He had a wagon of captive renegades when he was shot and seriously injured. He managed to come out of the Nations with his prisoners, but decided that he had enough of that job and so resigned. Now fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker. He learns that Caddo Pierce and his gang are systematically murdering Indian law enforcement officers and their families in the Nations. By treaty, Parker cannot send any officer into the Nations to pursue a killer unless that killer has killed a white man, so Cole is without backing in his pursuit of Pierce.

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War in Lincoln County: a western story

By Coolidge, Dane

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Curly Wells knew there was something off about the young gunfighter who nearly took his life during a simple trip to find a stolen horse. A suspected rustler, the gunfighter, named Tuffy Malone, has been harassing Melissa McCoy. When Curly's horse again goes missing, Curly faces a group of renegade rustlers who seem bent on war.

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Jury of six

By Fisher, Dave P.

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: W

Call Number: W

"Jury of Six is a steadily moving western set against the backdrop of 1880 Nebraska. Families like the MacMahons were the backbone of the developing west. It was a time when the law was spread thin and honest men and women took care of difficulties in black and white. Good men were respected; bad men were dealt with by the law of rope and gun. For eight years the disappearance of Niobrara ranchers Owen and Aiden MacMahon remained a mystery. When an outlaw gang begins running roughshod over the country leaving another MacMahon for dead, the hard-as-nails MacMahons go hunting for those responsible only to find an old enemy and the answer to the eight-year-old mystery"--

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The story of Buckhorn: a western duo

By Paine, Lauran

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Saturday night for the town of Dunnigan, Wyoming in The Valley of Thunder is something to be dreaded. For months now hoorawing range men have been bursting into Dunnigan, bringing fear to its citizens. Now that Hugh Mitchell, the new town marshall, has come to Dunnigan, his job is to put an end to this chaos. But the problem is not simply the rowdy range men, but the owners of the ranches where they work. The Story of Buckhorn is the story of a ranch. The Buckhorn is owned by two brothers, opposites in all things. Gard Ashley is like steel in his determination to keep the Buckhorn the best cattle ranch in the Dakota Territory. Court Ashley, Gard's massive, truculent brother, sees Buckhorn's prestige and wealth as an excuse to dissipate and swagger. Elisa Benton, a dance-hall singer, loved by Court and intensely disliked by Gard, is able to see through them both. If anything, this tension is only increased when Court is murdered and robbed. Gard is bent on personal vengeance, but Elisa Benton seems only to want to protect the criminals from Gard's wrath.

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