Product Description: Comets, supernovae, black holes, and quasars are among the "monsters" of the book's title—extraordinary astronomical bodies and phenomena that scientists now believe are the key to understanding the rules of the universe. Monsters in the Sky is the sequel to Paolo Maffei's popular Beyond the Moon (MIT Press, 1978), which gave lay readers a grand tour of the natural order of the universe...read more

The epic tale of an Aztec survivor of the Spanish conquest and his times as a warrior, scribe, travelling merchant, confidant of Motecuhzoma II, and envoy to the invading Spaniards.

This powerful, gritty, and vivid novel is the unforgettable story of Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top. Drug dealer, thief, and murdered, Carlito Brigante was once just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a poor boy's dream of flash and fast money -- but as he gets older he determines that it's either take or be taken, and he knows which role he intends to play. Soon he's a mob-connected professional with an easy charm, joie de vivre, stubborn pride, and hair-trigger temper. But the rules change rapidly in a sudden-death world of scams, sell-outs, and payback, where only the strongest and smartest predator can be king of the barrio. And when there's a major changing of the guard in the top echelons of the mob, Carlito will have some hard choices to make. Taut, thrilling, and a joy to read, Carlito's Way established a voice that has lost none of its vivid color or power to enthrall.

In this Eighth Edition of his best-selling briefer text, Dennis Coon presents psychology in a way students find fascinating, relevant, and above all, accessible-in a book that is now streamlined and approximately 130 pages shorter. Built into every chapter are a number of features that help students grasp major concepts, develop a broad understanding of psychology's diversity, and see for themselves how psychology relates to the practical problems of everyday life. In this revision, Dennis Coon provides students with a book that they can experience - not just read. Every pedagogical feature, every boxed highlight, every piece of art is included with the goal of getting students actively engaged and involved with the material. In this Eighth Edition, Coon goes beyond the SQ3R method to include a new "Knowledge Builder" feature that adds a "fourth R" (relate) to the proven study-reading formula of survey, question, read, recite, review, and relate.

Product Description: The Hell's Angels, a gang of werewolves, have escaped a federal penitentiary. Recruited out of Eastern Europe by Abraham Lincoln to end the Civil War, they never returned home. Instead they headed west. Armed with an arsenal of weapons, the deadliest being US marshal Aubrey Coffin, notorious ghoul-hunter Uriah Zane must stop the hordes of shape-shifting creatures pushing west, seeking everlasting life and final dominion over the earth...read more

Product Description: For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone.  Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories...read more

Product Description: No one had ever heard his first name. He was just Lennister. There were many rumors concerning his past, but nothing was known for certain except that he was credited with breaking up rustling bands in Wyoming and had done good work as a special agent for various cattlemen?s associations in the Musselshell country...read more

Product Description: "Anna Keesey's debut novel hums with raw energy: its youthful heroine's, the small town around which the ranches lie, and the new century that's just unfolding....Exhilarating."―The Boston Globe In the tradition of such Western classics as My Ántonia and There Will Be Blood, Anna Keesey's Little Century is a resonant and moving debut novel by a writer of confident gifts...read more

Product Description: Based on actual events, this is the epic story of Abilene, Kansas, at a time when the cowboy was king, might made right, and the future seemed as unsettled as the endless prairie. Abilene, 1871. Will Merritt is fiercely protective of the cattle trade that made his father's fortune...read more

Product Description: Three thrilling stories from one of the greatest Western writers of all time. In "Lawman's Heart," Larry Traynor is driving a stage when his shotgun guard is killed in a holdup. He's determined to bring the thief to justice when fate intervenes...read more

Product Description: In Land Rush white families have lined up, waiting for the U.S. Army's signal to move in on the land vacated by the Ute Indians and make their homestead claims. Steve Regan knows the newly opened land well enough and wants to head for the mesa land because he knows the soil to be superior...read more

Product Description: "Murder Stalks the Fur Trails" opens this new quintet of short novels by Les Savage, Jr., set during the days of the fur trade in the Western wilderness in which Lee Brand, an independent trapper, decides that the time has come to break the monopoly Rocky Mountain Fur has on purchasing the furs he and his partner have harvested...read more

Product Description: Three classics from Zane Grey, the grand master of Western fiction: Riders of the Purple SageZane Grey's most enduring classic, the book that invented the myth of the American West. In the little village of Cottonwoods, Utah, Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen endures persecution, religious zealots, and cattle rustlers trying to prey on her land...read more

Product Description: Ryker opens with a dramatic plea: Your brother Tom has been hurt. He ll never walk again. I think you ought to come and do your share. With these words from Tom s wife, Jake Ryker s freedom came to an end. He is forced to take on the responsibility of a cattle ranch he had never wanted, to deal with a brother and sister-in-law he could not abide...read more

Product Description: John Henry Cole had worked for years as a lawman and then as a detective for an agency out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was this work that he enjoyed, despite its dangers, that had inspired him to establish his own agency. He gathered ex-lawmen like himself, men he knew and trusted, most of whom he had worked with at one time or another...read more

Product Description: La Frontera Publishing presents Broken Promises, its latest collection of thirteen fictional short stories and one novella about the Wild West from America's newest Western writers, authors who may become tomorrow's legends of Western literature...read more

Product Description: Clay Roland, marshal of Paiute City, was on the street when the young stranger rode into town. Clay's experience as a lawman told him that a stranger might mean trouble for him. He was in the open -- his badge was visible. However, the stranger ignored him, riding to the livery stable and putting up his horse...read more