Honor at Daybreak
Honor at Daybreak

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: TCU Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780875652634

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Caprock, Texas, is a sleepy cow town where not much happened until oil is discovered in the 1920s. Suddenly the town comes alive, with thousands of people streaming into find their fortune. Some are honest folk like Elisa and Victor Underwood, who pray for a little luck with their daily bread. but too many are two bit swindlers. And then there's Big Boy Daugherty, a frontier mobster who corrupts and destroys everything he touches. In a town where moonshining or lying about your Saturday night date has been about the worst that happened, Sheriff Dave Buckalew now faces a whole different set of circumstances as his town springs to life in good and not so good ways. Allied with Buckalew is Slim McIntyre, a cowboy who's looking for ranch work and finds, instead, a whole lot of trouble.

Nietzsche: Daybreak
Nietzsche: Daybreak

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-11-13

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780521599634

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A new edition of this important work of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy.

Daybreak Zero
Daybreak Zero

Author: John Barnes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1101475897

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A year has passed since the catastrophic event known as "Daybreak" began. Seven billion people have died. Washington, D.C., has been vaporized. The United States barely avoided a second civil war between two rival governments that rose from Washington's ashes. And "Daybreak" isn't over...

The Day the Cowboys Quit
The Day the Cowboys Quit

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-02-05

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780765360557

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When legislation is introduced to stop ranch workers from owning cattle, the cowboys rally together and strike.

Walking Since Daybreak
Walking Since Daybreak

Author: Modris Eksteins

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780618082315

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Part history, part autobiography, Eksteins relates the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II through personal stories from his family. Photos and map.

Curse of Honor
Curse of Honor

Author: David Annandale

Publisher: Aconyte

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1839080175

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The reckless pursuit of honor exposes an empire to demonic invasion, in this epic fantasy novel of duty and warfare, set in the extraordinary world of Legend of the Five Rings. Striking Dawn Castle defends the mountains between the Rokugan empire and the demon-haunted Shadowlands. When a mythical city is discovered in the forbidding peaks, Hida Haru, heir and sore disappointment to his family, seizes the opportunity to prove himself. His rash expedition ends in disaster – just one samurai returns alive, and Haru is lost. Before a power struggle can break out, Striking Dawn’s battle-hardened commander, Ochiba, is dispatched to rescue Haru. She succeeds against supernatural horrors, but Haru is… changed. Now, mysterious deaths and ill fortune plague his family. Something evil is loose and must be stopped, at any cost.

Until the Daybreak
Until the Daybreak

Author: Al Lacy

Publisher: Multnomah

Published: 2012-01-11

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0307814440

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In this sixth installment in the popular Mail Order Bride series, Dorianne DeFeo is a lovely, loyal daughter to widower Franco DeFeo, who works on the docks in Brooklyn. When Franco catches two fellow workers smuggling diamonds, they stab him and he dies in Dori's arms. Persevering through her grief, Dori finds her employment opportunities diminishing and finally answers an ad from Arizona lawman Stone McKenna for a mail-order bride. Traveling west, Dori experiences another shock, and her tired mind shields her from more hurt with a psychologically induced blindness. Will Stone still want his bride now that she's blind? Will the young couple let God penetrate their pain? Can a miracle accomplish what medicine can't? Together Dori and Stone await the daybreak in the darkness of their lives.

The Pumpkin Rollers
The Pumpkin Rollers

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Forge Books

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1429932457

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In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farmboys, almost more trouble than they were worth. When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry. And when luck finally sets him on a cattle drive to Kansas, Trey learns the trade from veteran drover Ivan Kerbow, but he also learns the code of violence and death from outlaw Jarrett Longacre, a man who will plague his life at every turn. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Daybreak Bond
The Daybreak Bond

Author: Megan Frazer Blakemore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1681194813

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Mori and her friends Julia, Benji, and Theo have never seen life beyond the walls of their perfect society, Old Harmonie. That changes when their new friend Ilana is threatened by the rules that are supposed to keep them all safe. They escape together, hoping to find help in Boston with Dr. Agatha Varden, one of Old Harmonie's pioneering founders. But the outside world is nothing like they anticipated. As they face challenges they never expected and encounter a group of kids from the outside, Mori and the others begin to understand the complicated reality of their supposedly perfect community. With the help of these new friends, they just might be able to save Ilana . . . but at what cost? This thought-provoking sequel to Megan Frazer Blakemore's stunningly imaginative novel, The Firefly Code, gives readers a chance to see our world in a brand new light.