I once told one of my American friends about the great Canadian sea serpent, the Ogopogo of Lake Okanagan. His only response was, Bucky, a country needs to have culture before it can have mythology. Well, the hard reality is that Canada really does have monster legends. Whether or not we have culture yet is still up in the air. However, I will swear to my dying day that the Ogopogo exists, because I saw it with my own eyes. Coincidentally, this sighting took place on the Ogopogos dying day, because I also accidentally killed it. (Hey, I said reality was hard.) Hi. Im Bucky Laroo.
Continuing story about a cowboy bumpkin trucker traveling the Hyways and Byways of the country with his almost seven foot tall sidekick Zeke and his wee little three pound Pomeranian Spike.
Best friends Sam, Alex, and Clover are typical Beverly Hills high school girls who find themselves working, with help from a few supercool gadgets, as undercover spies after they inadvertently stop an international crime at the mall.
In the year 2191, on planet Canadian Exodus, the hundred year war against the Bloodline terrorist faction is drawing to a close.Before the terrorist leaders can be banished, however, the elite paramilitary unit known as Track and Pursuit is called into enemy territory for one last hunt. Days later, five of the six deployed hunters are dead at the hands of a single fugitive, and the survivors of the unitknow that their only hope is to enlist the aid of retired Captain Chester Wolf, the only man more deadly than their adversary. No hunt is what it seems, as Wolf knows very well. The killer is one of their own, and this hunt will be like no other.
Recounts the life of a young woman who marries a rodeo cowboy and their life together as she follows him to ranches in Idaho, Colorado, and California.
Joe Cruncher is thirteen years old, but he’s hardly a typical teenager. Cruncher can communicate with the dead, and he’s not too happy about it—especially since ghosts can be annoying, mean, and downright dangerous. When he starts working one mysterious case in particular, however, Cruncher gets the mob on his tail. Now his life is in deadly danger, but he’s so busy he doesn’t even notice until it’s almost too late. His attempts at providing comfort to lost souls bring many misfortunes his way, and as he is bounced from one awful incident to another he has no time to consider what threats may still be ahead. Cruncher is viewed with suspicion by the police, has to fight a war with some disgusting raccoons, and even has to deal with a horrifying monster in a lake. He’s also in serious danger of losing his girlfriend, Andrea, and that is the threat he fears the most. If he were alone, he would have no hope. Fortunately, he isn’t exactly alone, but, unfortunately, he almost may as well be. The only help Cruncher receives comes from two unlikely sources, and it’s not much. One is a dignified spirit who tries to teach him wisdom, and the other is a former enemy who decides to help him do detective work. Will anything these two do be enough to help Cruncher escape the mob, give peace to an enormous number of miserable ghosts, and keep his girlfriend? Yeah, probably not.
Re-read Book 5 in the romantic suspense series Operation: Midnight by New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo. All Bo Ruskin wanted was to forget his tragic past and to reclaim his quiet cowboy life. Instead, he had orders to protect Special Agent Rachael Armitage. Furious and frustrated, Rachael would rather die than abandon her dangerous mission. For even in the safety of Bo's Montana ranch, an international crime lord was out to grant her wish. Drawn to this mysterious, hardened cowboy from her past, Rachael was certain Bo was hiding something. But first she'd have to learn the lay of the land if she were to live to learn the truth. Riding horseback through the wilderness, would these two desperadoes go down in a blaze of glory—or passion? Originally published in 2007.
"The former cattle rancher whose appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" sparked a lawsuit against both him and Winfrey exposes the hazardous practices of the cattle and dairy industries."--BOOK COVER
The first Turing gate, a mere hundred nanometers across, is forced open in 1963, at the high-energy physics laboratory in Brookhaven; three years later, the first man to travel to an alternate history takes his momentous step, and an empire is born. For fifteen years, the version of America that calls itself the Real has used its Turing gate technology to infiltrate a wide variety of alternate Americas, rebuilding those wrecked by nuclear war, fomenting revolutions and waging war to free others from communist or fascist rule, and establishing a Pan-American Alliance. Then a nation exhausted by endless strife elects Jimmy Carter on a reconstruction and reconciliation ticket, the CIA’s covert operations are wound down, and the Real begins to wage peace rather than war. But some people believe that it is the Real’s manifest destiny to impose its idea of truth, justice, and the American way in every known alternate history, and they’re prepared to do anything to reverse Carter’s peacenik doctrine. When Adam Stone, a former CIA field officer, one of the Cowboy Angels who worked covertly in other histories, volunteers for reactivation after an old friend begins a killing spree across alternate histories, his mission uncovers a startling secret about the operation of the Turing gates and leads him into the heart of an audicious conspiracy to change the history of every America in the multiverse—including our own. This book is a vivid, helter-skelter thriller in which one version of America discovers the true cost of empire building, and one man discovers that an individual really can make a difference. From the Trade Paperback edition.
RETIREMENT FOR ONE COWBOY MEANT GETTING BACK UP ON THE SADDLE All Bo Ruskin wanted was to forget his tragic past and to reclaim his quiet cowboy life. Instead, he had orders to protect Special Agent Rachael Armitage. Furious and frustrated, Rachael would rather die than abandon her dangerous mission. For even in the safety of Bo's Montana ranch, an international crime lord was out to grant her wish. Drawn to this mysterious, hardened cowboy from her past, Rachael was certain Bo was hiding something. But fi rst she'd have to learn the lay of the land if she were to live to learn the truth. Riding horseback through the wilderness, would these two desperadoes go down in a blaze of glory—or passion?
