C. Joseph Greaves
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In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befreinded by a charasmitic drifter, newly released from the frderal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daugher, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal in captivity, traversing the American West on a crime and killing spree that...
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Returning to her small Colorado hometown to find her old high school flame newly single and a new gas field threatening her family's cattle ranch, eco–activist Addie Decker ignites an armed conflict revealing cold truths about love and family, forgiveness and self–discovery.
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c2015.
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The year is 1936. Charles "Lucky" Luciano is the most powerful gangster in America. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor hired to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown--grifter, heroin addict, and sometimes prostitute--is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a wily defense attorney named George Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, between Dewey and the New York governor's mansion. As the Roaring Twenties give way...