Jake: 853 books

Humanity is coming up against the limits of the physical world—but the imaginations of the writers in this anthology reach far beyond those boundaries.   The Launch Pad Astronomy Seminar aims to bring more hard science into science fiction. These twelve stories look into our...

Tony is used to being the best. With his old kart, he won every single race. But now he's twelve, and he's moved up to the next class of racing, TAG karts. Sure, he gets to drive a cool new kart that goes faster than anything he's ever driven. But he has to race against kids three years older than him,...

Slocum’s shot a lot of men—but never in the back… Max Furling has a piece of paper that says he owns the Reilly spread—lock, stock, and barrel. And since Reilly is dead, Max’s claim is foolproof—almost. He’s started a rumor that Reilly was shot in the back by Slocum. And being...

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...

When a landowner gets greedy, Slocum marks his territory—with bullets. Landowner Seth Draper bullied his way through town, buying up smaller ranches and adding the acreage to his own. But when rancher Ian MacTavish refuses to sell, Draper plays dirty. He isn’t above holding Ian’s wife...

Slocum's reputation is about to get soiled… John Slocum never minded visiting houses of ill fame--until he loses a pat hand in a poker game and finds himself paying by playing bouncer at the local brothel. A big rodeo's coming to town, and the place needs a hard man to take care of trouble....

ATB: Some of these events were observed by me as a good friend, some told to me as years passed, and some from surprisingly preserved original documents. But all thats important is I was there, and so were youthat I knew these people, and so did you. Theres a subtext here, too....

THE FINAL NOVEL IN TODAY'S LONGEST-RUNNING ACTION WESTERN! Down on his luck in San Francisco, John Slocum takes a contract with the Central California Railroad. He’s given the difficult task of locating a stolen shipment of silver worth over one hundred thousand dollars, but he catches a...

Slocum’s hoping for the luck of the draw… A wanted man with no horse, a gun with only two bullets, and no hat to cover his head, John Slocum hopes with every passing day that he’ll be forgotten by the law. After escaping a close call with a lion and a rattlesnake, Slocum falls in with...

Slocum learns that trouble is all in the family. When Slocum’s good friend Colonel Gill McKee makes a trade for two sisters who were captured by Comanches, he agrees to return Elania and Katrina Proctor to their wealthy merchant father in Santa Fe. But with winter raging, Slocum won’t be...

On the hunt for riches, Slocum only finds trouble… Upon the discovery of three mutilated corpses, John Slocum’s potentially lucrative buffalo hunt through Kansas is put on hold. When Colonel Charles Bradford and his men arrive to claim the body of his niece, Slocum can’t help but notice...

Slocum always comes in peace. His enemies always rest in hell. Slocum knew he’d be turning a few heads riding into the small town of Davis Junction with a dead man slumped over his horse. After a vicious ambush forces him to make a few outlaws into corpses, Slocum figures there might be a...

A lady in need is trouble indeed… While hunting elk in the Colorado Rockies, John Slocum hears a terrible explosion followed by a frightening rumble. As he rides along the canyon, he comes upon the settlement of Wolf Creek, where an avalanche has buried all the town’s men. Their widows,...

If Slocum is on your trail, draw your last breath… It’s the closest shave Slocum’s ever had—and that’s saying plenty. But rescuing a dark-haired beauty seconds ahead of Apache war parties is just the start of one long nightmare ride that leads to Raul Gomez, an outlaw who’s using...