As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.

Paul Stephens has it all -- a wonderful job at the FBI, a new girlfriend, and a great apartment. Even when Jimmy, a friend from his past, unexpectedly ends up on his couch, Paul has no worries. But when arresting a corrupt judge puts his girlfriend's life in danger, Paul and Jimmy will do anything to save her. How far will Paul go to protect the ones he love? Filled with suspense and action, Defensive Tactics shows just how much the bonds of friendship...

"These five stories range from the surreal to the tear-jerker, as the Old West is held upside down by its boots and shaken until all common sense falls out into the crucible of parody. In Rumors from the Edge of the World, Kid Concho and his Arizona outlaw gang of misfits stumble upon a prophetic Apache spring. Too Long in the Saddle follows the exploits of a Boston newspaper reporter who is ordered on assignment to frontier Kansas. Code of the Ranger...

The Killing at Pipestone: Small rancher Jack Cole saves the life a young woman who calls herself Julie Krohn. He takes her back to his ranch house to recover, and the very next day he's arrested in Pipestone -- for the murder of Julie Krohn! Longhorn Trail: Jess Howard is an experienced trail boss whose job is to take a herd of longhorns to Kansas. He's hired a veteran crew, as well as Wayne Levitt and Jeb Brown. Wayne Levitt is an odd man who avoids...

At age 8, Neil and Brian played on the same baseball team in their small Kansas hometown. Now 10 years later, Neil is a hustler and Brian a nervous introvert who believes he has been abducted by aliens. As their lives intersect, they discover a shared past shrouded in mystery.

"A cattle drive faces long odds in this exciting new installment in Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series. Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to Wichita, Kansas, or face losing his land, which the bank is fixing to foreclose on. He's forced to take his herd on a little-used route called the Red Trail. It's a tough trek: dangerous, narrow, and fraught with banditry. Along the way, Durst and his men face numerous obstacles thrown up by Mother...

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold...

In 1854, two West Point graduates are sent to Kansas to help establish peace in the territory war-torn by skirmishes between pro-slavery and abolitionist John Brown's forces, so that Santa Fe Trail construction can proceed.

A con artist and his nine-year-old orphan companion sell Bibles to widows in Depression-era Kansas.

Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in Kansas, but is one day caught up in a tornado and lands in Oz, somewhere over the rainbow. She sets out to find the Wizard to help her get back home.