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Dodge Mercer has lead the life of a gunslinger. Hungry for the quiet life, he drifts west looking for a chance to build a spread of his own. He decides on the rugged, dangerous Tonto Basin country of Arizona, and is welcomed to stay and work with the Lilley clan. Nan Lilley is the most beautiful woman Dodge has ever seen. In his quest for her love, he runs up against tough, two-fisted Buck Hathaway, who claims Nan for his own. When Nan chooses
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"Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner's Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family's past. Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser's daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she's...
3) The stills
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"With compassion and insight, Jess Montgomery weaves a gripping mystery and portrait of community in The Stills, the powerful third novel in the Kinship series. Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known to turn a blind eye when it comes to stills in the area. But when thirteen-year-old Zebediah Harkins almost dies after drinking tainted moonshine, Lily knows...
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As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of another father are in perfect health. When an act of violence...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
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[2012]
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Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.
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Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, this book is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after. Forrest, the eldest brother, is fierce, mythically indestructible, and the consummate businessman; Howard, the middle brother, is an ox of a man...
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Texas Moonshiners volume 2
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"Pike Shannon may have put his competitor permanently out of business, but that doesn't mean he's willing to let his family continue to brew white lightning moonshine for the folks of Warbonnet, Texas. Aside from trying to stay on the right side of the law, Pike's attention is divided elsewhere. Vying for his affections are Belle Ramsey, the cousin of his late rival, and Sophie Truesdale, a temperance firebrand. Pike knows women and whiskey don't...
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Lawman westerns volume 1
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2013.
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When potent moonshine is smuggled onto the Cherokee reservation, resulting in the death of a marshal, Jack Slade, a reformed drinker and gambler, must find the killers and put an end to the bootleggers' operation once and for all.
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[2016]
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"In this stunning historical fiction debut set in the world of wrestling in the 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value. Late summer, 1921: Disgraced former lightweight champion Pepper Van Dean has spent the past two years on the carnival circuit performing the dangerous "hangman's drop" and taking on all comers in nightly challenge bouts. But when...
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[2019]
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"When they left the Ozarks to start a new life in Warbonnet, Texas, the Shannon family thought their moonshining days were over. But it turns out that running a horse ranch and farm is harder than it looks--especially when the family patriarch dies under mysterious circumstances. Now it's up to the prodigal son, Pike Shannon, to rescue them from ruin. His plan: break out the old still, brew a batch of the secret family recipe, and sell some 190-proof...
12) Firewater
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Texas moonshiners volume 3
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[2021]
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"Ever since he made friends with the sheriff of Warbonnet County, Pike Shannon has struggled to sell his family's famous moonshine and stay on the right side of the law. His solution? Deliver a shipment of whiskey barrels to the dry-as-dust Pecan County--a week-long journey--and no one would be any the wiser. It won't be easy, though. Pike's sweetheart, Sophie Truesdale, is part of a temperance movement that will stop at nothing to keep this wagon...