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Gunning for True Grit in TexasAfter recent events, Christie Taylor is learning to shoot. Her Pop's been adamant that she's able to protect herself when he's not around. Having grown up around guns, Christie respected them but had no desire to participate. Yet someone is closing in and Christie is worried about her family and friends. A cryptic message is the only clue to unraveling a mystery before a deadly killer strikes again. As Christie is a...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2007]
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Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
The spoilers: Adventure classic about gold and greed in an Alaskan boomtown during the 1890s.
The war wagon: A rancher recruits a brash gunslinger and a raucous crew of misfits and readies them to pull off one of the most impossible heists of all time.
Hellfighters: A demolition specialist battles a perilous oil-well fire and hopes...
63) Revenge
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This title examines the theme of revenge in Hamlet, Othello, True Grit, The Princess Bride, and "The Cask of Amontillado." It features four analysis papers that consider the revenge theme, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme. Critical thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining each thesis and argument, and other possible approaches for analysis help students understand the mechanics of essay...
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Through in-depth and informative text written by film journalist Ian Nathan, The Coen Brothers Archive re-examines the brothers' most famous work including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men and True Grit. Plus, some of their cult films, like The Evil Dead, Paris je t'aime, and A Serious Man. Packed with stunning images from the Kobal archives, this book will also highlight their surprising...
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From a USA Today–bestselling author, a woman reunites with her ex-husband, hoping to get pregnant, and joins forces with him against a dangerous enemy.
Years after ending her relationship with her husband, Wyatt Colton, Bailey Norton shows up on his doorstep with an unexpected request: to father her child. Their passion for each other is just as hot as ever, but their unresolved past stands between them. Then the Colton ranch is mysteriously...
66) The untold
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On the run from two bounty hunters in the Australian outback of 1921, Jessie reflects on her past as a circus rider, horse thief, cattle rustler, and convict while determinedly struggling to reunite with her child.
67) Destiny, Texas
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True Grit, Texas-Style
From the great-grandson of famed U. S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn comes an exciting new legend of the Old West-the epic story of a hero, a family, and a sprawling frontier just waiting to be tamed…
Before the Civil War, Argyle Dollarhyde had everything a man could ever want: a beautiful wife, three strong sons, and a prosperous stake in the booming cotton industry. But now, Union troops have left the South in ruins-and Dollarhyde's...
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"From a celebrated writer on the outdoors, hilarious stories about the joys and pitfalls of hunting, fishing, family, and adventure" -- Amazon.com.
"For more than twenty years, Bill Heavey-- a three-time National Magazine Award finalist-- has staked a claim as one of America's best writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column, 'A Sportsman's Life,' as well as other publications, he has taken readers across the country and beyond to experience...
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This was first published in 1975 and was so popular that it quickly sold out. Brightonian, Daisy Noakes, tells her story from the age of fourteen, when she went into service. She gives us an insight into the life of a woman born and brought up in Brighton. Daisy documents – with humour - her inevitable trials and tribulations in the often physically demanding world that she inhabited during her working life. The autobiography covers her childhood,...
70) Badlands Bride
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Shooting a bandit was reporter Hallie Wainwright's introduction to the Wild West, where she'd traveled with a bevy of mail-order brides. But it was the more intimate "hello" in the arms of Cooper DeWitt that sent her heart racing-and made it all the more difficult for her to tell the brawny plainsman that she wasn't the woman he'd sent for....
When she jumped from the stage, shining with true grit and spewing tall tales, Cooper DeWitt thought he...
71) The kept
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In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband, and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. Twelve-year-old Caleb must tend to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in...
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"The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's first deputy sheriffs. She's proven that she can't be deterred, evaded, or outrun. But when the wiles of a German-speaking con man threaten her position and...
73) Warhorse Trail
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In the wild and rugged Cherokee Nation, a young bounty hunter named Jacob Wolf embarks on a dangerous journey to retrieve stolen horses and seek justice for his retired partner, Jerome Freeman. But it won't be an easy task, as Levi White Horn and his gang will stop at nothing to rid the nation of the rival for beautiful Sarah Longfeather. Filled with heart-pounding action and vivid descriptions of the untamed West, "The Travels of Jacob Wolf: Warhorse...
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More than a star pitcher and accomplished coach, Mel Stottlemyre has a history that serves as a behind-the-scenes tour of five decades of baseball. From Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford to Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, Stottlemyre connected generations of stars during a remarkable career.
In his long-awaited autobiography, Stottlemyre tells his story in colorful detail, from his days as a rookie sensation on...
75) The Open Road
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In this heartwarming comedy, minor leaguer Carlton Garret (Justin Timberlake of FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS, THE SOCIAL NETWORK) takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret (Jeff Bridges of TRUE GRIT, TRON: LEGACY) when Carlton's mother (Mary Steenburgen of THE HELP) becomes sick. Knowing his charming yet painfully immature dad's likelihood to disappoint, Carlton enlists his on-again-off-again...
76) Panhandle
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Beyond True Grit
From the great grandson of the real Rooster Cogburn, iconic hero of the Old West, comes a novel that adds an exciting new chapter to the legend of the Texas frontier.
The Texas Panhandle of the late 1880s is the last great open range of American legend. Into that wild unknown country ride two young cowboys. Nate Reynolds is the scion of a well-to-do family who lit out for the Panhandle in search of adventure--and gold. Billy Champion...
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Gary Dotson is "the unlikely poet." Open and see these unique anointed writings of how true grit has met true grace in this man's life. A good heart shines out of his rough edges to inspire and encourage. Gary doesn't pretend to be super spiritual but expresses his simple but powerful faith in Jesus Christ through common language that happens to rhyme.
He hopes you or someone you love can find deeper meaning in life through these poems. Gary wants...
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The Dark Tower meets True Grit in an epic fantasy Western
Imma once dreamed of leaving her isolated desert town and becoming a Bullet Catcher——an outlaw who can fend off bullets with a bare hand. But that was before her brother Nikko died, and before the Bullet Catchers were wiped out. Now Imma's stuck washing dishes with no prospects for a better future. But when a Bullet Catcher comes to town, everything changes. Her dream rekindled, Imma follows...
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The Flood of 2013 chronicles an unforgettable summer of angry rivers, unprecedented flooding and undeniable human spirit. This book looks at how the disaster irrevocably changed southern Alberta and its people. In the face of disaster, Albertans showed their true grit and rose above adversity--just like their ancestors did for generations before them. The flood began in southern Alberta on June 20 and led to four deaths, billions of dollars in damage...
80) Promises Kept
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Lady of marriageable age with two young boys, in need of husband.
I am a good cook and hard worker.
Victoria Eastman grew up in a Texas saloon--an experience that made her tough, resourceful, and determined to forge a new life. So she places an ad in a gentleman's newspaper. . .and soon finds herself a suitable arrangement on a farm in Promise, Wyoming. Only problem is that her would-be husband turns up dead the day she arrives.
Rancher Colt...
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