Download or read book Lone Runner A Novel of the Old West written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Katharine's father dies in 1864, leaving her destitute, her cousin "sells" her to the beastly One-Eye Murray. She then flees west into the wilderness, but One-Eye hires Sun-Shot O'Neill to track the girl across the wasteland to "save" his investment. "A classic tale of survival against all odds, Lone Runner is a superb cat-and-mouse western suspense tale filled with tension, poignancy, and gritty realism"--Robert Reginald.
Download or read book Lone Runner written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Katharine's father dies in 1864, leaving her destitute, her cousin "sells" her to the beastly One-Eye Murray. She then flees west into the wilderness, but One-Eye hires Sun-Shot O'Neill to track the girl across the wasteland to "save" his investment. "A classic tale of survival against all odds, Lone Runner is a superb cat-and-mouse western suspense tale filled with tension, poignancy, and gritty realism"--Robert Reginald.
Download or read book High Mountain Winter written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Stonor family joins the last wagon train to Oregon in the 1840s, little do they realize that disaster awaits. Suddenly 17-year-old Maryla Stonor is left to fend for herself in the mountains of Wyoming, just before the onset of winter. And even if she does survive the endless blizzards and numbing cold, when spring finally arrives, how will she find her way back to civilization? A gripping tale of survival.
Download or read book Vendetta written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their parents, the owners and performers of the Gannelli Family Circus, are murdered by a Yankee Captain in rural Arkansas during the Civil War, young Gian-Carlo and his cousin Magda barely escape with their lives into the surrounding woods. From then on, they have only one purpose in life: a VENDETTA against the Union officer. Their cat-and-mouse game finally reaches its climax in East Texas. Will this be their final performance?
Download or read book The Exiles of Damaria written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Race of enhanced humans in Damaria has been all but destroyed by a revolt of the New People. The two survivors, Riddle the Poet and his nephew, young King Lute, flee to the City of the Mist. There they and the many other refugees plan to build a great ship to ferry them to safety in the Western Isles, where some of their kin remain. But the evil worm Dinorm, their old enemy, is not finished with them yet. The longest and best-realized of all of Ardath Mayhar's epic fantasies, the first half of which was previously published as Riddles & Dreams.
Download or read book Slaughterhouse World Knack Attack Wildside Double 7 written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles," two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title), here is the seventh Wildside Double. SLAUGHTERHOUSE WORLD: A Tale of the Human-Knacker War, by Ardath Mayhar The Knackers looked like a cross between a spider and a crab, except bigger--much bigger, and meaner--much meaner--and they never stopped coming! Joel Karsh is just a grunt slugging it out on Plant 3G 789, a bug factory world, where fresh protein (i.e., human flesh) is being processed for reshipment to enemy depots throughout the cluster. All he wants to do is make it back to the SpaceForce pick-up point. But as his buddies are killed, one by one, and the Knackers swarm ever closer, he's beginning to wonder if he'll even live through the next day! A rousing SF military adventure by a master storyteller. KNACK' ATTACK: A Tale of the Human-Knacker War, by Robert Reginald On the farming planet of Terr'ferme, Rabbs din Chorest has been sent to the hills to tend a herd of clorses (cloned horses) and beefers. Not far distant is the ruin of Spiretown, a long-abandoned place of the Old-uns, a race that had once inhabited this world. Then the Knack's invade, destroying settlements, devastating ranches, and harvesting human and animal flesh. Rabbs is cut off from all contact with the civilized world. When a group of refugees appears, they become Rabbs's responsibility as well. Trapped by a bug troop in a cave near the ruined city, the humans have nowhere to go and no one to ask for help. Will anyone survive the Knack' attack?
Download or read book The Methodist Bobcat and Other Tales written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven scintillating stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, all but two of which are published here for the first time. Robert Reginald says: "Ardath Mayhar is able to evoke eerie, otherworldy settings and creatures with just a few strokes of her subtle pen. Great stuff "
Download or read book The Loquat Eyes written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon Peat, the wry narrator of Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule, returns with 17 more tall tales of Cotton County, Texas, including "The Day of the Boomers," "Fierce as a Banty Hen," "The Ring-Tailed Sidewinder," "The Skunk Works," "The Crooked-Tail Cow," and "The Loquat Eyes." Also featured are two original children's fantasies, "The Jeweled Mouse" and "The Kingdom of Yip."
Download or read book Strange View from a Skewed Orbit written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful memoir of the fantasy, science fiction, mystery, western, and young adult writer, Ardath Mayhar, whose seventy books and hundreds of short stories have charmed readers throughout the world.
Download or read book The Body in the Swamp written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two bodies are spit out by the local swamp, Police Chief Washington Shipp knows he has a drug problem--and the druglords will do ANYTHING to retrieve their missing stash. Only Wash, together with an unlikely crew of swamp denizens and misfits, stand in their way. They don't stand a chance--do they?
Download or read book The Clarrington Heritage written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington, and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she's ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the third floor--but never told why! As the family members begin perishing in odd circumstances, Marise must try to uncover the secret of...The Clarrington Heritage.
Download or read book A World of Weirdities written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of 29 scintillating tales of horror and fantasy, many of them never before published.
Download or read book Strange Doin s in the Pine Hills written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping tales of fantasy, mystery, and horror set in the piney woods of East Texas.
Download or read book Death in the Square written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The upper-class inhabitants of the locked-gate community called Holroyd Square in Templeton, Texas, are used to their sedate, private lives-and the equally private secrets that each of them keeps hidden from the others. But when a vicious blackmailer rudely interrupts their existence, and then is found murdered in the Square, the police must be called, and only Assistant Chief Wash Shipp can uncover the killer and save their tattered reputations. A psychodrama in the best Agatha Christie tradition!
Download or read book The Lintons of Skillet Bend written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Civil War lurches to a close, the Lintons of East Texas are waiting anxiously for their menfolk to return. But the stranger Finis Krim is attempting to extort land from the local women by claiming fraudulent commitments from their absent husbands. Krim's agent, Joshua Birdsong, is sent to the Linton home to search for relevant documents to wrest their farm away. Then Fate, in the person of five-year-old Julia, intervenes. "A wonderful story "--Robert Reginald.
Download or read book Two Moons and the Black Tower written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-Moons-in-the-Sky, an Iroquoian warrior woman and Dreamer, is transported into the strange world of medieval Britain by a dark sorcerer, Lallius, who lives in a black tower. Lallius wants to enslave his captive, whom he regards as primitive, but little does he realize that Two-Moons has magic of her own! "A highly original fantasy with a strong and capable female protagonist"--Robert Reginald
Download or read book Carrots and Miggle written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Ramsdens lose their father, Charlotte ("Carrots"), her brother, her young sister, and her mother continue to operate their East Texas dairy farm. Then their cousin from Eastern Europe, Emiglia ("Miggle") is orphaned, and is forced to come live with them. When she arrives, she's shocked to find her relatives engaging in manual labor, which her late parents considered fit only for peasants. But as the two girls begin to find some common ground, they discover that they're becoming a real family after all. "Filled with well-drawn, sympathetic characters facing real-life tragedy."--Robert Reginald.
