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How did a young mail carrier from Oklahoma put together a ranch in southeastern Colorado, during the depression, and when others were losing theirs? This delightful audiobook tells the story of how my grandfather, Laurence Horner, put our family ranch together. Harold Horner, my dad, begins the tale in Oklahoma, telling how the young Horners ended up in a small ranching community, detailing the process of how my grandfather bought homestead, and his beginning experience as a rancher. Take a step back in time, and witness this family story unfold.

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.

Driving home marks the start of the holidays for Kate and Ed, who have made this journey every Christmas of their 10-year long relationship. Normally the seasonal hits blare from the car stereo, and they are guaranteed to be wearing ridiculous jumpers in anticipation, but this year a frosty silence fills the car. A massive argument leads to the immediate collapse of their relationship. But the show must go on, so they decide to brave their families together one last time.

Silvia secretly planned to divorce George when they reached Arcturus. But a space journey can alter a careful plan - or hatch a worse one. The trouble started when the Arcturus Queen was four billion miles out of Earth, heading for the star after which it was named. It pulled clear of the solar system using conventional drive, then switched into subspace. A few minutes later, the ship shuddered perceptibly, and an authoritative voice came reassuringly from the public address system.

Frane Lewis enjoyed another sadistic shiver as he moved up the narrow passageway to the captain's control room. To his flared nostrils, the warm, moist air of the small space freighter was still heavy with the smell of death. A psychiatrist could have told him that this was a neural confusion of olfactory sensation with the perverted emotional excitement of murder. But no physician ever attended Frane's murders, except at inquests.

You must understand that Palmer loved his wife as much as ever, or he would never have thought of his simple little scheme at all. It was entirely for her own good, as he had told himself a dozen times in the past day. And with that, he stilled whatever qualms of conscience he might otherwise have had. He didn't think of himself as being something of a murderer. Life here had been wonderful, incredibly satisfying. At least it had been that way for him. And now it would be the same way for his wife as well.

It was well after dark when Matt Matthews got back down to the headquarters camp, and saw the city stranger sitting there before the fire. He knew he was a city man after a single glance at the shiny, low-topped shoes and the reminiscence of a crease in the dusty trousers. Matt tossed the gophers and the two small coyotes off his broad shoulders to old Moe Arhelger, across the campfire, staring in suspicious silence from the stranger to Moe and back again. "Who's he?" he asked finally.

The enemy aliens sued for peace...but they lied! To Humanity’s shock and horror, the Titans launched a surprise attack on the Solar System. They devastated the United Planet’s Home Fleet. Henry Gallant’s Task Force 34 is all that stands between the aliens and Earth. At home, Alaina wanted to start a family. Forcing Gallant to assess if he was a Natural "superman" or a disappointment to one and all.

What starts off as dinner results in a night of tequila, great sex, and wedding rings. This is a marriage of inconvenience for both of them, but getting it annulled isn’t quite as simple as Anna thinks. Panicked, she returns to LA, leaving Molly with no way of contacting her, and her only option is to return home and try to forget all about the best mistake of her life. So, when Anna turns up at Molly’s coffee shop four months later, Molly is convinced she’s there for a divorce. How wrong could she be? 

The Queen of Space written by Joseph Slotkin: Helen LaTour had the best hip wriggle in galactic Burleyque. In fact, it was so good she hipped herself smack into another dimension! I was relaxin' with my second Plutonian Stinger in the dignified atmosphere of Charley's Venusian Retreat when there was this strange noise outside the dive, like a flock of hot jets hittin' the atmosphere. Right after a character comes bustin' through the door.

Carlisle police officer Dwayne knows what Robin is doing the moment he lays eyes on the young man at Bronco’s club. But he doesn’t know that, like him, Robin also comes from a family who cast him out for being gay, or that he’s still lugging around the pain of that rejection. Robin leaves the club, and soon after, Dwayne decides to as well - and is close by when things between Robin and his client turn violent. When Dwayne finds out Robin is the victim of a scam that lost him his apartment, he can’t leave Robin to fend for himself on the streets. 

They still talk of Braun, and the Fourth Intergalactic Survey. Other men before him had gone out into the far, dark places. Three previous expeditions had gone out and vanished completely. Then the Venture IV went out and out and out countless miles and light-years and whatever else it is - and out there in the lonely darkness, something happened. Nobody knew exactly what happened, but there was a lot of guessing. Only one man came back. Braun. And there was talk...

Prescott stood to make a young fortune if he could capture a Martian zloor - dead or alive! Was there a catch to it? Only for the hunter!

Will von der Mühle ist eine allegorische Kurzgeschichte des schottischen Schriftstellers Robert Louis Stevenson, die 1887 in der Sammlung Die tollen Männer und andere Geschichten bei Chatto & Windus erschien. Die Liebe des Naturphilosophen Will zu der Pfarrerstochter Marjory (in einigen Übersetzungen: Margreet) ist unglücklich. Die Mühle, in der der kleine Will mit seinen Pflegeeltern in einem Hochlandtal lebt, ist nur über einen holprigen, gefährlichen Gebirgspfad erreichbar.

Ich weiß nicht mehr, wann oder wo ich mit jenem prächtigen Menschen bekannt wurde, dem Brevet Brigadier-General John A. B. C. Smith. Nur soweit entsinne ich mich, irgendjemand stellte mich dem Herrn bei einer öffentlichen Versammlung vor, die wohl aus einem bedeutsamen Anlass auf einem Platz abgehalten wurde, dessen Name mir leider entfallen ist. In Wahrheit strebte ich für meinen Teil diese Vorstellung mit einer gewissen nervösen Verlegenheit an, und die erstickte denn auch andre Eindrücke wie die von Zeit und Ort.

Der Mann der Menge (auch Der Massenmensch, engl. The Man of The Crowd) ist eine Erzählung Edgar Allan Poes, die das literarische Motiv des verfluchten Wanderers benutzt. Sie wurde 1840 erstmals veröffentlicht, und zwar in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine. In der Einleitung wird der Leser unter Bezugnahme auf ein deutsches Buch – den Hortulus animae aus dem Verlag Hans Grüninger – darauf vorbereitet, dass es Geheimnisse gebe, die zum Glück ebenso unergründlich seien wie dieses Buch unlesbar...

"Captain" Mannering lebt äußerst zurückgezogen in Hexleigh Manor, einem Landgut in schlechtem Zustand, das in einem großen Park liegt. Mr. Reeder, ein etwas seltsamer Mann, der gerne Scotland Yard zuarbeitet, hat schon länger ein Auge auf Mr. Mannering geworfen. Dann verschwindet die Schwester von Mr. Reeders Dienstmädchen...

Eine Geschichten von Schönheit, Liebe und Wiederkunft: Während einer Wanderung, die mich letzten Sommer durch einige Flusstäler der Grafschaft Neuyork führte, sah ich mich, als der Tag zur Neige ging, in gewisser Verlegenheit, welchen Weg ich einschlagen sollte. Das Land war auffallend hügelig, und in der letzten halben Stunde hatte mich der Pfad, bei meinem Bemühen, mich in den Tälern zu halten, so verwirrend um und rundum geführt, dass ich nicht mehr ahnte, in welcher Richtung das reizende Dorf B. lag, wo ich die Nacht zu bleiben gedachte.

Die toten Seelen ist ein Roman von Nikolaj Gogol (1809-1852). Der erste Teil wurde 1842 veröffentlicht. Ursprünglich war eine Trilogie geplant, aber Gogol vollendete nur die ersten beiden Teile, wovon der zweite aber nur bruchstückhaft überliefert ist. Das Originalmanuskript des zweiten Teils vernichtete Gogol kurz vor seinem Tod.

Benito Cereno ist eine Erzählung des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Herman Melville, die erstmals in drei Teilabdrucken im Oktober, November und Dezember 1855 in der Zeitschrift Putnam’s Monthly Magazine veröffentlicht und 1856 zusammen mit fünf anderen kürzeren Erzählungen in einer leicht veränderten Fassung in den Sammelband The Piazza Tales aufgenommen wurde.