Nelson Nye: 6 books

He was in a tight spot. He knew he couldn’t stand off the Law and Breen, too. The Law was after him for the murder of a marshal—a murder he didn’t commit. Breen was after him for revenge—and Breen wouldn’t stop at anything … blackmail, a frame-up … or murder. He was desperate now and vowed to find a way out—or make one.

Driven off his ranch by a horde of hard-riding renegades, Grete Farraday would stop at nothing to get revenge. But he’d need help. That was where Sary Hollis came in. For a share of his spread, she’d lend him the use of her guns and men, low-down sidewinders all. Farraday didn’t cotton to being...

He was just a no-account cowhand. Then they pinned a tin star on his chest and he was the law. They swore him in quicker than lightning and didn’t expect him to live long enough to pocket his first pay. After all, what chance did a green-as-grass cowpoke have against the killer they called Tularosa? But...

“Did you get the gun?” Reno demanded. The girl shook her head. He snarled and flung the empty bottle against the cabin wall. Linda stood without moving, her soft mouth parted, her dark eyes fixed on his, the color rising in her face. She seemed to be touched with a tawny glow. Reno...

Grete Marratt, a rising young rancher, sat stone-faced and tight-lipped when the judge asked him why he had cold-bloodedly shot and killed Deputy U.S. Marshal Hugh Clagg. With nothing to say in his own defense, he was declared guilty of murder and was sent to Yuma for life. Somehow Marratt managed...

Philosophy's traditional 'man of reason'—independent, neutral, unemotional—is an illusion. That's because the 'man of reason' ignores one very important thing—the woman. As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and '90s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tradition wrote off as...