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Slocum's raid

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Description: "Slocum was after an army payroll worth half a million dollars. He had seven men to do it with, half of them fighting over the hot little blonde, the other half looking to kill him as soon as he turned his back. Then there were the federal troops scouring the country, trying to nail his hide. One thing was for sure: Slocum was either going to come out of this rich - or dead"--Back cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1981]
Call number: 644281
Creator: Logan, Jake(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0872168638; 9780872168633
Provenance: Gift of the Estate of Donald Duke, 2015.
Dimensions: 18 cm

Iron mustang

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"All Slocum and his friends were after was the money they busted their butts for. But chasing it down turned into the biggest mistake of their lives. The trouble started when they stopped the wrong train and found themselves in the thick of the wildest getaway ever conceived. Captives of a small army of experienced killers in a brothel on wheels, they were trapped on an iron mustang that was surely bound for hell"--Back cover.

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The lonely silver rain

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Someone is trying to kill Travis McGee, someone linked to southern Florida's drug traffickers--either Miami's old-time underworld or the new generation of Latino drug barons--and in order to save his own life, McGee must detonate a drug war.

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Confederate soldier John Mosby is charged with a dangerous mission. He must make his way to the Union capital and bring back an imprisoned female spy who holds the key to the invasion plans of the Confederacy.

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White Fang

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"Northern Canada a hundred years ago was a savage, demanding land, where the will to survive dominated all the other instincts of both men and beasts. White Fang, one quarter dog, three quarters wolf, was a child of this wilderness; free to wander, to conquer and to kill. Until the day that he met the one species that could rule even him--that strange god called Man!"--Back cover.

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The train ride

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The anonymous hero whose brutal adventure is the horror at the heart of The Train Ride is a sailor; he has a vile hangover; he is due back on his ship in a few hours. Equipped with a fistful of dirty magazines, he stumbles onto the train. Half-asleep, bored, jaded, he thumbs through the girlie magazines, his appetite both inflamed and frustrated. What could he possibly do on a train? He looks around - and sees a frail little girl with braided blonde hair. It is here that the author begins his tale with a protagonist who is both villain and victim, both abominably sub-human and upsettingly familiar. His personality, his crime, and his desperate attempt to escape, combine to pose a moral problem not unlike that found in The Collector--Adapted from dust jacket flaps.

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Frederick Moulton Shaw diary

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Diary kept by Frederick Moulton Shaw from approximately 1886-1891 while he was living in Laurel Canyon. His entries include notes on weather conditions, water supply, felling wood, bee keeping, quotes from various books, religious musings, a story about killing rattlesnakes that was later published in the Times, and a few sketches and maps. While these entries are pedestrian, Shaw's eccentricities frequently emerge. A recurring theme is his disputes with his neighbors, specifically a man named E.C. Watson, whom Shaw accuses of trying to a hire a man to have him killed, of shooting at Shaw several times, stealing his horses, trying to sell his bees, accosting him in the street, prowling around his house at night, and "threatening death and destruction...[Watson] Swears he will kill six or seven persons yet before he is done." Shaw also writes of run-ins with his other neighbor E.W. Doss, who "sympathize[ed] with me in my affliction of the head but could not stand any of my 'jaw.'" Another entry includes a drawing of a skull and crossbones and the note that he would place the image on his card until "they quit calling me Doctor...I do not object to being called physician but a doctor is another thing!! The paid Thugs of Society!!!" In the same entry Shaw also says that "I have been the means of saving many thousands of lives by my treatment." Also includes four photographs (1914) and a postcard of land in Laurel Canyon.

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