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22) Widowmaker Jones
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"With a bag full of gold dust, Newt 'Widowmaker' Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger--Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan 'Red' Cortina--is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for the...
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From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the "cup of gold."
24) House of gold
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A corporate aristocracy descended from Africa rules a colony on a distant planet. Life here is easy--for the rarified and privileged few. The aristocrats enjoy a powerful cybernetic technology that extends their life spans and ensures their prosperity. Those who serve them suffer under a heavy hand. But within this ruthless society are agents of hope and change. In a secret underwater laboratory, a separatist cult has created a threat to the aristocracy....
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One look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez, brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop, into the adventure of an already adventurous lifetime. The ancient writings tell of a stolen fortune in Montezuma's gold, and of the thief's transformation from conquistatore to alchemist to werewolf.
27) Goldclimbers
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Living in a community that creates objects in gold, fifteen-year-old Aracco knows he doesn't want to be a master goldsmith like his father but sees no other future for himself until, when the supply of gold is threatened, he is selected to find a way to a legendary city whose streets are paved with gold.
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Longarm double volume 4
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"Somebody's stealing the high-grade ore from the Murietta Mining Company, and it's up to Longarm to get it back" -- Cover verso.
29) Cross of gold
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Lucinda Barkley, a hostage of prison escapees, is rescued by part-time lawman Marc Charvein. Wounded in the resulting shootout, she feels due some compensation for her ordeal. So she secretly partners with gambler Sam Stonehouse to dig up a hundred pounds of stolen gold, half of it in the form of a gold cross. Ezra Pitney, the rightful owner, wrongly assumes it was taken by Marc Charvein, the man he hired to find it -- and from there the chase is...
30) Cari Mora
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Thomas Harris, twórca Hannibala Lectera, autor Milczenia owiec i Czerwonego smoka, wraca po 13 latach z nową książką. Cari Mora to wciągająca opowieść o zlu, chciwości i mrocznej obsesji - Harris w najwyższej formie! Przestępcy od lat próbują wytropić skarb ukryty pod posiadlością należącą niegdyś do Pablo Escobara w Miami Beach. W wyścigu po 25 milionów dolarów w zlocie prowadzi targany chorymi namiętnościami Hans-Peter...
31) The stampeders
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"Til Carter found adventure when he headed north into Alaska. The beautiful redhead Julie Condon wanted him to settle down and buy a safe claim, but Til was on hand when the big strike came and the stampede that followed proved to Julie and the other skeptics that gold--like adventure--is where you find it"--
32) Crash site
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Fiona Carver novels volume 2
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"Fiona Carver has landed a dream assignment: conducting an archaeological inventory of Ruby Island, a privately owned, pristine gem in the Caribbean. Two months in paradise exploring and mapping a lush rainforest, vast caves, and a seventeenth-century star fort and following up on legends of hidden Spanish gold. Add a simmering reunion with wildlife photographer Dean Slater and it's enough to take Fiona's breath away. But the sparkle fades when Dean's...
33) Man from Montana
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"In 1913 Woodrow Russell Hart relates how at age fifteen in 1863 he came with older brother Rufus from Washington, D.C., to the violent goldfields of what would become Montana Territory. Woodie discovers in the boomtowns of Virginia City, Bannack, and Hell Gate that the territory is overrun with road agents looking to get rich quick and vigilantes wanting to stop them cold using makeshift gallows. Woodie must deal with romantic rejections, trying...
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Heathcliff Lennox volume 7
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"Murder, mystery and a dog of distinction. Heathcliff Lennox investigates. Ladies man, dandy, charming rogue, thief. Montague Morgan has a buccaneering reputation and he doesn't give a damn--until he falls in love. He has a plan, he needs money and he knows how to get it. He and his lover conspire to escape to exotic lands with stolen gold. But the gold belongs to dangerous people and plans can go awry. Morgan disappears, has he escaped, or has he...
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"Duncan Oliphant's father has insisted he--and all of his brothers--marry and start producing grandsons ... like, yesterday. And Dunc is having none of it. All he wants in life is a small cottage behind his forge and enough gold and silver to craft valuable delicate jewelry. But he is the laird's son, albeit illegitimate, and he knows he has a duty to do; one he's happy to postpone, as he takes one more commission, which has him traveling across the...
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