Thomas Cobb: 10 books

Winner, Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel (Western Writers of America) and Southwest Book Award (Border Regional Library Association) On February 10, 1918, John Power woke to the sound of bells and horses’ hooves. He was sharing a cabin near the family mine with his brother Tom and their...

IN THE LITERARY TRADITION OF CORMAC MCCARTHY'S AND LARRY MCMURTRY'S HISTORICAL WESTERNS, SHAVETAIL TRACES THE BRUTAL COMING-OF-AGE OF A BOY SOLDIER STATIONED AT A REMOTE U.S. ARMY OUTPOST AND A YOUNG WOMAN'S TERRIFYING PASSAGE ACROSS THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. Set in 1871 in the unforgiving wasteland...

One summer night, Dr Everest of Tunbridge Wells is called to a house near his practice to tend to the dying Colonel Manningtree. But what he believes to be a routine case takes a turn for the sinister when the Colonel's daughter, Dora, visits him the following morning with a strange story. Claiming...

At the age of fifty-seven, Bad Blake is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and "picker" who hasn't recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on gigs that take him mostly to motels and...

It was not a dream, this wonderful thing that happened to Mary Brown, although it seemed very much like a dream at first.

Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, a haunting, suspenseful, and dazzlingly written novel of secrets, corruption, tragedy, and vengeance from the author of Crazy Heart—the basis of the 2009 Academy Award-winning film—an electrifying crime drama and psychological thriller in...

On the night of his wife’s funeral, successful poet Mr Derwent leaves his house and disappears without a trace. Despite the assurances of Inspector Holt, Florence Derwent is convinced that her father has been murdered, and is determined to discover the truth, whatever it takes. Just what has become...

Dick Forsyth's parents died in a train crash when he was a young boy. On the same train was the wealthy Silas Wedderburn. Surviving the accident, Wedderburn adopted the unfortunate orphan as his own. Now, eleven years later, Wedderburn is on the brink of death and everyone in the little village of...

This unique book is about freeing psychology's poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of the soul scientifically or medically, behaviorally or in terms of inner development, all of us are used to thinking of it in an individual context, as...

Quick reference guide to laboratory and other test results with associated normal values Includes guidance on equipment usage in the Coronary Care Unit Includes the latest guidelines from the European Resuscitation Council Abundant tables and artworks give rapid access to key information such as...