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(0)Bertrand William Sinclair
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When the bruised and deeply disfigured Hollister returns from the war, nothing remains of his previous life as he knew it. He was officially declared dead, prompting his wife to remarry and leave. While sinking into an all-consuming depression, he decides to spend his solitary life in the jungle. However, fate has something else in store for him in form of a neighbour. What will happen to Hollister now? What next turn would his life take now? Keep...
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Excerpt: "Long, Long Ago The Gulf of Georgia spread away endlessly, an immense, empty stretch of water bared to the hot eye of an August sun, its broad face only saved from oily smoothness by half-hearted flutterings of a westerly breeze. Those faint airs blowing up along the Vancouver Island shore made tentative efforts to fill and belly out strongly the mainsail and jib of a small half-decked sloop working out from the weather side of Sangster Island...
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Excerpt: "There are no corrals in a city, dear, she explained - and I cried the harder. I could conceive of no joy in a place where I could not go out to the corrals and have some brown - faced cowpuncher hoist me up on a gentle horse and let me hold the reins while the pony moved sedately about."
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Joe Galloway has it all. A thriving, growing business. A beautiful wife named Norma. Life is good. His world comes crashing down when Norma tells him she is in love with another man one day. Joe tries to reason with Norma with no success. Finally, he gives up and heads out on the open road attempting to forget his sadness. Joe meets and goes to work for an old acquaintance at a logging camp. A chance rescue rekindles memories and a serendipitous encounter....
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"In the Badlands" is a novel written by Bertrand W. Sinclair, a Canadian author known for his works of adventure and romance fiction. The novel is set in the rugged and challenging landscapes of the badlands, providing readers with a thrilling story of survival, love, and human resilience. The novel "Easy Money" takes place in the early 20th century against the backdrop of the Canadian wilderness, particularly in the context of the lumber industry....
7) Wild West
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Young rider sees rustlers at work and seeks to get evidence to convict. Rustler tries to provoke rider to fight or flight. Supporting cast includes rider's boss, boss's daughter and fiancé, big rancher, and big rancher's daughter. (Goodreads)
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Excerpt: "Dressed in a plain white shirt waist and an equally plain black cloth skirt, Miss Hazel Weir, on weekdays, was merely a unit in the office force of Harrington & Bush, implement manufacturers. Neither in personality nor in garb would a casual glance have differentiated her from the other female units, occupied at various desks. A close observer might have noticed that she was a bit younger than the others, possessed of a clear skin and large...
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A posh, young woman, Stella Benton, moves after the death of her father from a cultured, city life to the uncouth world of logging in British Columbia, entirely dependent on the charity and goodwill of her brother, Charlie. Eventually, she decides to escape the drudgery of this new poor lifestyle for a loveless (on her side) marriage with the taciturn and slightly enigmatic Jack Fyfe. (Goodreads)
11) Burned Bridges
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Excerpt: "Lone Moose snaked its way through levels of woodland and open stretches of meadow, looping sinuously as a sluggish python-a python that rested its mouth upon the shore of Lake Athabasca while its tail was lost in a great area of spruce forest and poplar groves, of reedy sloughs and hushed lakes far northward. The waterways of the North are its highways. There are no others. No wheeled vehicles traverse that silent region which lies just...