"e;The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard way that cowboys don't remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tear of a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwilling alike.
The Virginian, by Owen Wister, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying pin for a weapon.
Taken in by the Lamar Gang after being jailed and falsely accused of robbing a bank with them, Doyle helps the gang in their endeavors as they traverse through the West, obstructing justice to survive-as only men with a price on their heads can.
Scorched by love's intensity in past relationships, a couple risks getting burned again in Candis Terry's Sweet Surprise, the fourth Sweet, Texas novel.