By Claire Vaye Watkins
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

"A debut collection of ten short works re-imagines the mythology of the American West and includes stories of a foreigner’s arrival at a prostitution ranch, a hermit’s attempt to rescue an abused teen, and a woman’s role in a friend’s degrading Vegas encounter (From the Publisher)."

By Robert B.Parker
Series Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track down the woman who stole Virgil's heart, they find a dispirited prostitute rather than the innocent beauty she once was. Now they must save her, even if murder is the price of redemption.

By Annie Proulx

The story of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys who share a small tent while working as herders and camp tenders during a summer spent on a range far above the tree line. They fall into a relationship that at first seems solely sexual but then reveals itself to be something more. Both men marry and have families, but over the course of many years and frequent separations they find their relationship becomes the most important thing in both their lives, and they do anything they can to maintain it. Proulx's description of their bond is beautiful and haunting and often brutal in its portrayal of the hardships, and ultimately the violence, they face.

By Leslie Marmon Silko
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Deeply scarred Tayo, a WWII veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation.

By Nora Roberts
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Running the Montana ranch that has been home to four generations of her family, Bo and the man she is starting to love encounter her badly injured aunt, who ran off decades earlier, before a local murder reveals sinister activities in the mountains that surround their home.

By William W. Johnstone
Series First Mountain Man
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Mountain man Preacher's plans to find a date for the annual mountain man rendezvous are changed when he agrees to lead a train of sixty wagons on the last leg of the rugged trail to Oregon, encountering outlaws and Native Americans along the way.

By Mark Spragg

Mark Spragg’s first novel is the story of the lifelong friendship between two Wyoming ranchers, McEban and Bennett, and their love for the same woman—Gretchen Simpson, Bennett’s wife. When she leaves them both for a new life, the two men follow her on a journey across the American West, testing the limits of their friendship and love.

By Cormac McCarthy

Stumbling upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than two million in cash during a hunting trip, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that draws him and his young wife into the middle of a violent confrontation.

By John Steinbeck
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The tragic story of two itinerant ranch hands on the run––one is the lifelong companion to the other, a developmentally disabled man.

Became the movie: Of Mice and Men.

By Anna North
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Forced to flee from a community that hangs barren women as witches, 17-year-old Ada joins a gang of outlaws under a charismatic former preacher who hatches a treacherous plan that risks all of their lives.

By Elmore Leonard

Harry Arno, a profit-skimming Miami bookie who wants to retire to the Italian Riviera, becomes the fall guy in an FBI sting and is suddenly on an intercontinental run from lawmen and gangsters alike.

Became the TV show: Justified.

By Patrick deWitt
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Set against the backdrop of the great California Gold Rush, this darkly comic novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired guns, who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.

By Charles Portis

Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father with one–eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side.

By Karen Kondazian

“The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man (From the Publisher).”