Arizoński klan - Grey Zane
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- Data: 12:55 04-11-2018
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Kowboj rewolwerowiec Mercer, zwany Dodge’em (kimś, kto potrafi się wywinąć), opuszcza równiny Kansas, by rozpocząć nowe życie w Arizonie. W Ryeson dowiaduje się, że Rock Lilley poszukuje pracowników i że planuje wydać swoją córkę Nan za Bucka Hathawaya, z którym łączą go niejasne interesy. Jadąc na ranczo Lilleyów, Dodge spotyka przypadkiem Nan.
Arizona Ames - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:27 04-11-2018
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This late-period Zane Grey is one of the best of his novels. Rich Ames didn’t set out to be a gunslinger – it was forced on him. After the bad guys try to „ruin” his twin sister Nesta, Ames grabs his pistols and the bloody gunfight follows.
Thirty Thousand on the Hoof - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:27 04-11-2018
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Frontier story of Logan Hewitt and his wife Lucinda and their trials and travails as a pioneer family in Arizona. Story proceeds through development of the automobile and World War I. This is a tale of a single family, told mostly from the point of view of the woman who left comfort to move west and marry her sweetheart.
Forlorn River - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:27 04-11-2018
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In „Forlorn River”, young Ben Ide is cast out by his rich dad, branded a wild horse hunter and possible rustler. Ide befriends a wounded man, whom he nicknames „Nevada.” Ide does the same for „Modoc,” an Indian he pulls out of a saloon.
Lost Pueblo - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:28 04-11-2018
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Zane Grey is unrivalled in his mastery of the western scene...
Knights of the Range - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:28 04-11-2018
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A true legend, Zane Grey has thrilled a generation of readers with his great stories of the American West. Holly Ripple, a young, headstrong woman, brought up in the upscale boarding schools of the east, has inherited her family’s cattle ranch in 1870s New Mexico, after the sudden death of her father. With the help of the ranch foreman and Renn Frayne, a newly hired hand; a outlaw seeking redemption, they organize a assorted group of cowboys to protect the herd, and the safety of their ranch, from rustlers, competing cattle barons, and other assorted villains.
Captives of the Desert - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:28 04-11-2018
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Trying to save the life of an Indian child when he’s thrown from his horse, John Curry falls into the arms of a lonely married woman with a jealous, scheming husband. Unless Curry revives his mission of mercy, three people will die – and the first one will be Curry. Here is all the thrilling action, color, and romance of the Old West, exciting tales that make your blood tingle! Ruthless bandits in a lawless land: fearless men and the brave women they fought for.
Desert Gold - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:28 04-11-2018
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Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard Gale sees the possibilities of passion and gold when he finds himself trying to save a beautiful Spanish heiress. Love, adventure, and more wait in the Old West of Zane Grey’s western classic „Desert Gold”. When Richard Gale arrives in the border country of Arizona, he hopes for a brand new start.
Betty Zane - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:28 04-11-2018
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Zane Grey’s first trilogy – „Betty Zane”, „The Last Trail”, and „The Spirit of the Border” together in one volume. „Betty Zane” is an „Eastern” real life adventure story by Zane Grey based upon diaries kept by his great grandmother, Betty Zane, describing her life and adventures after she joined her brother’s family near what is now Wheeling, WV in the late 1700’s. It is the story of the last battle of the American Revolution, in which the heroine was a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl named Betty Zane.
Canyon Walls - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:28 04-11-2018
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The western novels by Zane Grey have been a source of imagery about the American West for almost the entire twentieth century. The plots and characterizations of Grey’s popular novels set in the American West have been thoroughly examined and it is clear that his works acquired a fundamental role in the creation of western imagery. Gunslinger Smoke Bellows leaves behind a violent past in Arizona to begin a new life in Utah, where he finds a ranch that needs the touch of a strong man in order to thrive – and a reason to live.
Avalanche - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:28 04-11-2018
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Pearl Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. Zane Grey is the author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Raised together in the wild country of the Tonto basin, Jake and Verde grew up closer than brothers.
The Desert of Wheat - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:32 04-11-2018
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a German in America and Canada during World War 1? Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and to protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loyalties. He struggles to come to terms with his deepest beliefs and his place in the world. A passionate novel of patriotic and anti-union propaganda, it portrays the anxieties of the young country threatened by a foreign war after the closing of the frontier.
The Day of the Beast - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:32 04-11-2018
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"The Day of the Beast" is the story of Daren Lane and hundreds of thousands like him in the years immediately after the conclusion of WWI, disabled soldiers returning home to an America that simply didn’t want to be reminded of what just took place. His fiancée has forgotten him, his job has been filled, and his poor health is failing quickly. But Lane is not one to be kept down, and with the true love of a strong woman, Lane will overcome every tragedy.
The Call of the Canyon - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:32 04-11-2018
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From the master of the western novel comes a tale full of romance and adventure. This is the story of Carley Burch, a young wealthy socialite living in New York City. As the story begins soldiers are coming home from the trenches of WWI, many of them damaged physically and emotionally.
Nevada - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:32 04-11-2018
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First published in 1926 and 1927, „Nevada”, the suspenseful sequel to „Forlorn River”, continues to be one of Zane Grey’s most beloved novels. Four years after Nevada had killed three men to clear his friend’s name, Ben and Nevada are reunited, but fate again plays a mean trick, and Nevada becomes Jim Lacy again – killer, thief, rustler, and notorious gunman – in order to save Ben from financial ruin. In Nevada, another romantic couple comes along, Marvie Blaine, and the daughter of backwoods rustlers, Rose Hatt.
Raiders of Spanish Peaks - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:32 04-11-2018
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Laramie Nelson and partners Lonesome Mulhall and Ted „Tracks” Williams work their way out to eastern Colorado to Spanish Peaks Ranch. There they meet a family from Ohio that has come west to start a new life and hopefully allow the husband and father to get well in the high and dryer climate. They purchase a ranch and then are in the process of loosing everything.
Riders of the Purple Sage - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:32 04-11-2018
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„Riders of the Purple Sage” is Zane Grey’s best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre. The story uses a third person narrator to tell the story from the point of view of two main characters Bern Venter and Jane Withersteen and a few minor characters.
Sunset Pass - Grey Zane
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- Data: 17:32 04-11-2018
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When the train pulls into Wagontongue, the reader becomes Trueman Rock, returning to town after killing a man six years earlier. Now he returns to find trouble again, but this time his trouble is caused by love. Rock has fallen in love with Ash Preston’s woman, Thiry, and no man in the valley will let him get away with this.