J John: 1441 books

Jed Herne - Herne the Hunter - is on the trail of the corrupt US Senator. A man who has sent others to kill Herne to protect himself from the gunman's vengeance. Firing on a cylinders until its brutal end Shadow of the Vulture is a modern twist on a classic tale of the Old West.

Wild Rose City, Dakota Territory. Eliza and Lily Sowren ran the town with a fist of iron. Eliza, tall and bony, Lily, short and far – both as tough as nails. On the surface, they were both pictures of elderly virtue, but beneath something altogether different … As Jed Herne found out, when the...

Herne had been reluctant to ride along with Sheriff Abernathy in a foolhardy search for Senator Jackson’s daughter, who’d been captured by a ruthless Mescalero raiding party. But a $5000 reward helped change his mind. What he hadn’t reckoned on was meeting five savage white kids, fresh out of Death School. And that ghost from the past. A ghost that was hell-bent on revenge …

When bank robber George Wright decides to take advantage of his fleeting resemblance to Herne the Hunter by crediting his own crimes to the shootist, Herne becomes both hunter and hunted — he must track down Wright and his gang in order to acquit himself, and he must avoid a lynch mob of outraged citizens hell-bent on hanging him high.

Jed Herne had come across the Cheyney family in a remote Virginian forest, where they were being terrorized by two very strange men. He offered to lead the family to safety - for a price, of course - but first they had to go through the small town of Texas, a town where few people survived to tell of the horrors they had seen there...

In his time Herne had killed a whole lot of me; he'd killed them in war and in what the frontier called peace. There'd been times when he'd worn a badge but mostly he hadn't. He'd killed for causes and he killed for money. Sometimes he even killed for love - like he killed...

Passing through Stow Wells, top shootist Jed Herne needs a tooth pulled. Instead, he walks into a whole lotta bloodshed. When he outdraws and kills a kid out to prove himself, instead of arresting him, the sheriff makes Jed an offer to ride shotgun on a stagecoach laden with silver. Herne accepts...

About the Book It is an odd little story that describes an otherwise normal Irish family and their eventual encounters with people and things beyond them. That is a tough topic to tackle if you know the Irish! This story does not end the way one might think it would but a warm smile there is guaranteed....

"We cannot get rid of mankind’s fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM." –Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick As the U.S. continues to simmer with violence, and mass-shootings continue to pile bodies into graves...

Retired San Francisco cop Brad Lyon is settling into a quieter life with his wife Ashleigh in Virginia’s mountain country, where they collect and create teddy bears. But even here, stuff happens. The peace of the Shenandoah Valley is shattered when an intruder breaks into the Lyon home and...

This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish...

‘Coincidental Death?’ is a suspense/mystery short story. (10000+ words) When Ella is excused from class to go to the bathroom the last thing she expects to see is the basketball team carrying what looks like a dead body from the gym to the bushes at the far corner of the school. Upon inspection...

Murderous Sussex tells the stories of all the murderers of the twentieth century who either killed in Sussex, or had a strong Sussex connection, and who went on to pay the ultimate penalty of death at the end of a rope. The result makes absorbing reading about a darker side of the old county.

Christians generally recognize the need to live a holy, or sanctified, life. But they differ on what sanctification is and how it is achieved. Five Views on Sanctification brings together in one easy-to-understand volume five major Protestant views on sanctification. Writing from a solid evangelical...