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Fallon
Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he’d christened Red Horse. So when a band of vicious outlaws and a kid who fancied himself a gunslinger threatened to rip Red Horse apart, Fallon found himself caught in one predicament he’d never gambled on. He had come to Red Horse to make a quick fortune, but now he might have to pick up a gun and risk his life for a place he never wanted to call home.…
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Here is a deluxe gift-box edition of L.M. Montgomery's classic stories about one of the most beloved fictional heroines of all time--Anne of Green Gables.
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From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
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A Search for a Secret
All But Lost
Out on the Pampas
The Young Franc-Tireurs
The Young Buglers
The Cornet of Horse
In Times of Peril
Facing Death, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit
Winning His Spurs
Friends Though Divided
Jack Archer
Under Drake's Flag
By Sheer Pluck
With Clive in India
In Freedom's Cause
St. George For England
True to the Old Flag
The Young Colonists
The Dragon and the Raven
For Name and Fame
The Lion of the North
Through the Fray
The Bravest of the Brave
A Final Reckoning
The Young Carthaginian
With Wolfe in Canada
Bonnie Prince Charlie
For the Temple
In the Reign of Terror
Orange and Green
Captain Bayley's Heir
The Cat of Bubastes
The Curse of Carne's Hold
The Lion of St. Mark
By Pike and Dyke
One of the 28th
With Lee in Virginia
By England's Aid
By Right of Conquest
Chapter of Adventures
Maori and Settler
The Dash For Khartoum
Held Fast for England
Redskin and Cowboy
Beric the Briton
Condemned as a Nihilist
In Greek Waters
Rujub, the Juggler
Dorothy's Double
A Jacobite Exile
Saint Bartholomew's Eve
Through the Sikh War
In the Heart of the Rockies
When London Burned
A Girl of the Commune
Wulf The Saxon
A Knight of the White Cross
Through Russian Snows
The Tiger of Mysore
At Agincourt
On the Irrawaddy
The Queen's Cup
With Cochrane the Dauntless
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
A March on London
With Frederick the Great
With Moore at Corunna
Among Malay Pirates
At Aboukir and Acre
Both Sides the Border
The Golden Cañon
The Stone Chest
The Lost Heir
Under Wellington's Command
In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers
No Surrender
A Roving Commission
Won by the Sword
In the Irish Brigade
Out With Garibaldi
With Buller in Natal
At the Point of the Bayonet
To Herat and Cabul
With Roberts to Pretoria
The Treasure of the Incas
With Kitchener in the Soudan
With the British Legion
Through Three Campaigns
With the Allies to Pekin
By Conduct and Courage
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