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The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains, and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While 16-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar, and who introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: A wealthy mining magnate who will stop at nothing to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula.

The lure of the American West is in the spirit of adventure, in the majestic expanse of unconquered wilderness and in rugged individuals on a quest for identity and sometimes for survival. Owen Wister's unsmiling Virginian... Dorothy M. Johnson's, "A Man Called Horse": These are a few of the colorful, even legendary characters who populate The American West in Fiction, a collection of stories edited by Jon Tuska.

The word conquer has changed meaning for Bryan Anderson. As a U.S. army sergeant in Iraq, it meant taking down the enemy. After becoming Iraq’s fourth triple amputee from a roadside explosive, what he had to conquer got a bit more personal. On October 23, 2005, the moment Bryan looked down and realized he no longer had legs, he cracked a joke. It was a tragedy that could break many, but Bryan transformed it into something positive, something that propelled him forward.

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them.

Lonnie Holt’s external scars remind him of his failures, his internal scars torment him. Genny Collins seeks safety at the ranch once owned by Lonnie’s uncle. When Lonnie and his brother arrive, sparks fly and distrust abounds. While Lonnie and Genny fight the love growing between them, his past haunts him, and her past pays them a visit.

When Rory Richards wakes up from a failed suicide attempt, he learns that his wife, Maggie, has vanished without a trace. All Rory can remember about the previous night is that the two had the fight of a lifetime. The dispute causes him to storm out of the house and steal prescription pills from his neighbors in an attempt to overdose. After that, everything is a blur.

The generational feud of two royal families comes to a climax, when the last surviving blood member of one family dies in a fire set by the sole survivor of the other and immediately returns as a demonic horse to seek his revenge.

Montressor, angry over insults by his friend Fortunato, a fellow nobleman, plots to murder him during Carnival when the man is drunk, by immurement, sealing him up alive behind walls of bricks. He baits Fortunato by telling him he has obtained, out of season, what he believes to be a pipe of Amontillado, about 130 gallons, a rare and valuable sherry wine. He wants his friend's expert opinion on the subject. Unaware of Montresor's true intent Fortunato leaves with him for the wine cellars of the latter's palazzo.

When a man is killed because of his deformed eye, his heart seeks revenge.

Hop-Frog, a crippled court jester, endures indignities at the hands of a temperamental king and his ministers. But when the king brutalizes Hop-Frog's love, Tripetta, the jester plots revenge.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic horror tales.

After a sudden storm at sea, a man finds the entire crew of his ship dead. He and one other passenger the sole survivors of an out of control ship destined to collide with a gigantic vessel from mythology, where he will seek to learn the secrets of its ancient crew and their unimaginable destination.

A classic satire in which we find that those who can...do.... And those who can’t criticize and have higher stature in our society.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent that they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic Edgar Allan Poe short stories.

Join Doctors Kapa and Yancy as they attempt a series of uproariously funny experiments on representatives from The Sisterhood and The Brotherhood to prove there are no differences between male and female thought processes.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

To his shock, a man discovers the painting of a woman is much, much more than life-like.