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1) The quarry
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A drifter kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief suspects foul play.
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A novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horesemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancentry.
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Lorrimer Weldon has spent his life being a tumbleweed and rolling where the wind blows him. Up to Canada, down to Mexico, through deserts, forests, and mountains; anywhere fortune could be found. Those travels helped earn him a reputation as a gambler and a gunfighter-a reputation that frequently preceded him.
When Weldon rode into San Trinidad, he found he immediately had two job offers: the outlaw Roger Cunningham wants Weldon to join his smuggling...
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Men and women of all ages will warm to Cramer's elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the "old universal truths...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." Sutter's Cross delivers the truth in grand style. Sutter's Cross is a resort town in the southern Appalachians, where people live in comfortable homes, have comfortable portfolios, and wear comfortable clothes. They...
8) Gold
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While traveling through the desert, a drifter finds a valuable gold nugget, and must guard it from thieves amidst harsh conditions.
9) Ridgerunner
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In 1917, after his father, a notorious thief, leaves him in the care of the formidable Sister Beatrice, 12-year-old Jack Boulton breaks free, taking with him something the nun is determined to get back - at any cost.
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"Throatlatch, Wyoming, is a sinister town that preys on travelers. One of them is No Name, a drifter who lives his life without purpose. Something about the little town obsesses No Name, and he finds himself drawn into a whirl of evil - murders and cruelties all done in the name of virtue. No Name soon discovers that Throatlatch is the home of a cult that wants to bring paradise to earth. Will No Name resist? Or will Utopia kill him, too?"--Provided...
11) Leave
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A psychological thriller about a successful writer who has it all but is haunted nightly by a deadly dream. When his therapist tells him to work through it by writing what he dreams, he begins on a journey that threatens to turn his life into a living nightmare.
12) Dakota: a novel
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Amnesiac drifter Andi Oliver moves between waitressing jobs throughout the country until a discovery at a livestock facility renders her a target of two men, including a hired gunman and a pursuer who would claim something from her forgotten past.
13) Buffet froid
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Alphonse keeps stumbling upon corpses, both of strangers and of ones he loves. He drops his knife on the subway, only to find it sticking out of a dying man, and death seems to stalk him in bizarrely surreal ways the rest of the movie. He reports the stranger's demise to his police inspector neighbor, who reacts with casual apathy. This duo then meets up with a confessed killer, and the three of them embark on a series of darkly comic incidents that...
14) Gathering prey
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When his adopted daughter's friend reports that someone has been killing off a circle of nomadic panhandlers, Lucas travels to South Dakota, where he encounters a dangerously violent subculture.
15) Cutthroat canyon
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After a rich man rewards Scratch Morton and Bo Creel with a gold mine, they find more trouble than wealth from the marauding Mexican bandits who frequently attack the mine, and a dangerous, beautiful woman.
19) Blackwood
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The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself -- when confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good. The opposite is true: this is a landscape of fear and ghosts -- of regret and violence -- transformed by the kudzu...
20) Never say never
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"Kai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots in any one place--and she doesn't plan to. But when a chaotic hurricane evacuation lands her in Daily, Texas, she begins to think twice about her wayfaring existence. And when she meets hometown-boy Kemp Eldridge, she can almost picture settling down in Daily--until she discovers he may be promised to someone else."--Publisher's description.
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