From the creator of Family Guy and director of Ted comes a hilarious first novel that reinvents the Western.Mild-mannered sheep farmer Albert Stark is fed up with the harsh life of the American frontier, where it seems everything and anything can kill you: Duels at high noon. Barroom brawls. Poisonous snakes. Cholera-infected drinking water. Tumbleweed abrasion. Something called “toe-foot.” Even a trip to the outhouse. Yes, there are a million ways to die in the wild, wild West, and Albert plans to avoid them all. Some people think that makes him a coward. Albert calls it common sense. But when his girlfriend dumps him for the most insufferable guy in town, Albert decides to fight back—even though he can’t shoot, ride, or throw a punch. Fortunately, he teams up with a beautiful gunslinger who’s tough enough for the both of them. Unfortunately, she’s married to the biggest, meanest, most jealous badass on the frontier. Turns out Albert has just discovered a million and one ways to die in the West. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sOa-2EhbTU

Only the Strong Survive. They called it “The Fall”—the total collapse of the United States and the American way of life. Within twelve months, eighty percent of the population is gone. After a time, even the military stops trying to cope and pulls back to the coasts, leaving the interior, from the Alleghenies to the Rockies, on its own. Now, the remnant of Americans left in the depopulated cities and the wilderness that used to be the breadbasket of the world are becoming increasingly desperate, doing anything it takes to survive. In this new America, though, death is always just a heartbeat away. John Trent has survived because he is better at killing than those around him, but he’s getting tired of constantly living on the edge of his wits. As a courier for the army, he’s alway on the move, dodging raiders… and he doesn’t know how much longer he can go on. Then he meets a girl who gives him a reason. But the discovery of a serial killer stalking the forests, killing young women in a horrific and brutal fashion, makes John realize he can’t abandon his skill at the hunt quite yet. Beyond that, a particularly vicious band of raiders is set to descend on a new settlement John has been ordered to protect ahead of a new repopulation effort. Caught in the middle, will he live long enough to enjoy his newfound love, or simply become the latest victim of the anarchy and chaos of the New American Frontier?

Never challenge a cowboy in the courtroom… Surveying the proposed site for a high-end golf course should have been a breeze for spunky Landscape Architect Sophie Smith. But when this born-and-bred city girl is suddenly—and quite literally—swept off her feet by a sexy cowboy on horseback, she realizes that the country life has some serious (and seriously steamy!) possibilities. That is, until she finds out exactly who her smokin’-hot wrangler really is. Cowboy and Tribal lawyer Jake Lodge is desperately trying to block the development. And if that means playing hardball—and being every inch the shark lawyer—so be it. But Sophie is a distraction he didn’t expect. A distraction that makes his blood burn. Two different worlds. Two opposing sides. And when they finally give into the exquisite temptation, the consequences will shake the foundations of both of their lives…

A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers. It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast... When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parker's imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, fans are taken on another trip, to the untamed territories of the West during the 1800s. When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions. This is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best

Romāna «Arizonas Lauva» galvenais varonis Ričs Emss, kas sākumā ir vienkāršs kovbojs, bet, nelaimīgu apstākļu spiests, atstājis savu dzimteni un gadu gaitā kļuvis par tā saukto Arizonas Lauvu, kas visos cīniņos neaizmirst sirdsapziņu un taisnīgumu. Tādēļ viņu bīstas un ciena. Beidzot pēc daudziem grūtiem, gadiem liktenis arī viņu atalgo ar laimīgām dienām

Zena Greijs Arizonas lauva Tulkojis Kaspars Kļaviņš Mākslinieks P. Lisenko Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Tomass Mains Rīds Baltais virsaitis Ziemeļmeksikas leģenda Pazīstamā angļu rakstnieka Tomasa Maina Rīda (1818—1883) ro­māna «Baltais virsaitis» darbība risinās Jaunmeksikā laikā, kad tur sākās spāņu varas noriets. Romāna sižeta pamatā Ir leģenda par kādreizējo Sanildelonsas pilsētu, kas tika iznūcināta Indiāņu un citu Meksikā dzīvojošo tautu cīņās pret spāņu konkistadoriem. Cīņu epizodes, varoņu pārdzīvo­jumi un visa šī apvidus dzīve attēloti romantiskā pacēlumā. Noskanējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis No angļu valodas tulkojusi Erna Sprince Mākslinieks Māris Ozoliņš Tomass Malns Rīda BALTAIS VIRSAITIS Redaktore M. Freiberga. Māksl, redaktore A. Mefere, Tehn. redaktore E. Gureka. Korektore I. Liberte  Zvaigzne, 1984. — 328 lpp., il. © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, pēcvārds. «Zvaigzne», 1984

"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable." Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf. "A classic American novel of regeneration through violence," declares Michael Herr. "McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers."

«BORNEO SALA «AVOTS»; RĪGA; 1993 RĪGA «AVOTS» TULKOJIS Ē. VALDIS MAKSL1MIEKS I. KREFICS . © Imants Krepcs. māksl. noformējums, Borneo sala ir aizraujošs romāns, kurā stāstīts par jūras­braucēju piedzīvojumiem pēc kuģa bojāejas, par viņu cīņu, lai izdzīvotu, nokļūstot uz mežonīgas salas. Tā varētu būt saistoša lasāmviela skolēniem un visiem, kas interesējas par dabu, dzīvniekiem un neparastiem piedzīvojumiem

Tomass Mains Rīds Borneo sala. Skalpu mednieki Piedzīvojumi, fantastika, ceļojumi Borneo sala ir aizraujošs romāns, kurā stāstīts par jūras­braucēju piedzīvojumiem pēc kuģa bojāejas, par viņu cīņu, lai izdzīvotu, nokļūstot uz mežonīgas salas. Tā varētu būt saistoša lasāmviela skolēniem un visiem, kas interesējas par dabu, dzīvniekiem un neparastiem piedzīvojumiem. Bēgšana un pakaļdzīšanās, cīniņi uz dzīvību un nāvi ar indiāņiem, dzīve prērijā — šādu eksotisku ainu T. Mains Rīds piedāvā romānā «Skalpu mednieki». Grāmata mūsu lasītājam var likties neparasta, jo autors attaisno indiāņu kā īpaši ne­žēlīgu un morāli mežonīgu cilvēku iznīcināšanas iespējamību. Rīga«Avots» © Imants Krepics. māksl. noformējums, Ēriks Valdis tulkojums Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

A train is barreling through a blizzard across the desolate Nevada territory of hostile Paiute Indians toward Fort Humboldt in 1873. Nevada’s Governor, the fort commander’s daughter, and a US marshal escorting an outlaw are onboard. No one is telling the truth, and at least one person is capable of murder. Who will make it to their destination?

New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. When we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It's now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her, his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side. Making their way across New Mexico and Texas, the pair finally discover Allie in a small-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they head north to start over in Brimstone. But things are not the same between Virgil and Allie; too much has happened, and Virgil can't face what Allie did to survive the year they were apart. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has found redemption through the local church and its sanctimonious leader, Brother Percival. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace. As sharp and clear as the air over the high desert, Brimstone proves once again that Robert B. Parker is 'a force of nature' (The Boston Globe)

Bob Zane was certain that somewhere the desert held the evidence—carved in sand—to bring a murderer to justice

VOLUME THREE OF THE BORDER TRILOGY In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. 'In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession. McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' Scotsman 'This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' Daily Telegraph 'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian

Transforming their parents' rundown ranch in Catcher Creek, New Mexico, into a tourist destination is the toughest challenge the three Sorentino sisters ever faced. But now one of them has another fight on her hands—to keep from falling for the sexy town sheriff—again… Rachel Sorentino has spent her whole life protecting her siblings from trouble—only to run headlong into it herself. Her first regret about shooting at the vandals targeting her family is that her aim wasn't better. Her second is that when bullets started flying, it was Sheriff Vaughn Cooper's number she dialed. Vaughn is the mistake she keeps on making, a cowboy lawman who cuts through Rachel's surface bravado to the vulnerability no one else sees. And no matter how inconvenient their attraction—for his career, her tangled case, and their already battered hearts—there's no denying what feels so irresistibly right…

Frank’s shackles were never so heavy as they were after he’d shucked them

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting. The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win a bet against his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But when the paranoid and secretive Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice. William is forced to join forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. With this extraordinary treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and William’s newfound resilience will be tested in his struggle to protect his cache, which pits him against some of the West’s most notorious characters. A page-turner that draws on both meticulously researched history and an exuberant imagination, Dragon Teeth is based on the rivalry between real-life paleontologists Cope and Marsh; in William Johnson readers will find an inspiring hero only Michael Crichton could have imagined. Perfectly paced and brilliantly plotted, this enormously winning adventure is destined to become another Crichton classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4c6GjSlDqo

No one breaks out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows -- but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. They framed him to put him in there, and beat him bloody and nearly dead after his last escape attempt. He'll have help this time -- from a lady with murder on her mind and a debt to pay back. Because freedom isn't enough for primed dynamite like Bowen. And he won't leave the corrupt desert hell behind him until a few scores are settled…permanently

Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Tombstone, the O.K. Corral--the icons are so firmly embedded in American history that we might know nothing more about them than their names. But in this spare, moody riff on the events leading to the 1881 shootout at the O.K. Corral--the signature battle defining the violence of the Old West--Robert B. Parker shades the black-and-white starkness with shifting tones of gray. Parker moves beyond the Hollywood version of the shootout to explore the tangle of family loyalties, dirty politics, and passion that embroiled Wyatt Earp before and after his encounter with the Clanton gang. In Parker's version, the longstanding rivalry between the Earps and the cowboys may stem from cultural difference (the Clantons were ranchers who held Confederate sympathies during the Civil War; the Earps were townsfolk who had Union loyalties), and it may be exacerbated by alcohol, machismo, and fiery accusations from both sides. But the spark that leads to the final conflagration is simpler: Wyatt falls in love with Josie Marcus, Sheriff Johnny Behan's beautiful, self-assured companion. Parker's Wyatt Earp is, like his detective hero Spenser, by turns arrogant and humble, and Earp's firm-jawed struggles with honor, family, and love will feel familiar to fans of that long-running series. But the author has abandoned the series' relatively intricate plotting and its touches of goofy humor. The novel is a curious amalgamation of inexorably linear narrative and moments of static contemplation. It drifts like a tumbleweed through Tombstone, leaving two- and three-month gaps, pausing briefly to dip into moments of conflict and moments of peace. Gunman's Rhapsody is not a big, sprawling western. Hewing firmly to an understated minimalism, it seems at times to have sprung from a collaboration between Hemingway and a Quaker council. Who would have thought that such an unlikely combination could be so rewarding? --Kelly Flynn

The mining settlement of Seneca 6 is set on a distant planet at the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Sheriff Sam Clayton is murdered in the wasteland, beyond the reach of his two children and the people who respected and admired his firm hand in keeping them safe. Twenty years later, Jem Clayton is an outlaw, known as the infamous Gentleman Jim; a ruthless bandit who never once allowed a woman he encountered to come to harm. Back in Seneca 6, an intergalactic PNDA Marshal crash lands with one of the galaxies most despicable criminals and must jail him in the Sheriff’s Office until either help arrives or the Harpe Gang shows up to free him. The gang’s leader, Little Willy Harpe, is carrying a weapon of such alien terror that it will destroy everything in his path if he is not stopped. Join Jem Clayton, Doctor Royce Henry Halladay, and Marshal Jimmy McParlan, for their first amazing adventure. They are the Guns of Seneca 6

The first in a series of collections of the author's westerns, written early in his spectacularly successful career, contains "Bounty Hunters," "Forty Lashes Less One," and "Gunsights," featuring a Bonny-and-Clyde pair of gunslingers. Original. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of the Mountain" from their land. The characters are unforgettable, the plot packed with action and gunfights from beginning to end

Sooner or later, a gent who’s dying for war — meets a hombre who’s killing for peace!

L.VELSKOPFA - HENRIHA HARKA VIRSAIŠA DĒLS No cikla «Lielas Lācenes deli» IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RlGA 1972 Altberliner Verlag Luzic GroBzer No vācu valodas tulkojusi Ērika Lūse I. Kuskova ilustrācijas Vāku un titulu darinājis Eglons Lūsis

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die

Tomass Mains Rīds Main - Rida Kopoti raksti Ceturtais sējums II grāmata Hudzona līcis II Stāsts divas gramatās No krievu valodas tulk. E. Valdis Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv izdevniecība „Grāmatu zieds" Rīga, Tērbatas ielā  Main-Rida Kopoti raksti iznākuši I,II un III sējumi 1 sējuma saturs: „Zeme ziemeļos» „Velna sala“ un „Meža bērni. 2 sējuma saturs: ,.Borneo sala“ un „Skalpu mednieki“« 3 sējuma saturs: „Noklīdušais kalns“ un Meksikas strēlnieki“. IV. sējums. I. grāmata „Hudzona līcis“ I. un „ „Hudzona līcis“ II.  „„Likteņa pirksts“ I. un „ „Likteņa pirksts“ II. Visi Main-Rida raksti iznāks ne mazāk kā 18 lielos sējumos. Abonentu un pārējo lasītāju ērtības labā Main-Rida darbus iespiedis atsevišķās grāmatās ar apvienotu saturu. Katrā sējumā četras grāmatas. Grāmata maksā 60 santimi. Katrs sējums maksā Ls 2.40, abonentiem Ls 2. Main-Rida kopoti raksti iznāks aprobežotā eksemplāru skaitā. Ieteicams lasītājiem iegādāties visas grāmatas iznākšanas kārtībā

Eduards Kleins Indiānis Divi bālģimju kontrabandisti slepus ierodas indiāņu apmetnē, atved ugunsieročus un Stipro ūdeni, bet pēc dienas te tiek nogalināta šīs cilts virsaiša Mežonīgā Zirga sieva — slepkavību dzērumā izdarījis kāds jauns indiānis. Tagad virsaitis sauc kopā visus indiāņu karotājus, lai cīnītos pret bālģimjiem. Karš! Araukāņi allaž aizstāvējuši vienīgi to, kas viņiem pieder; un vienmēr tas izraisījis vienas un tās pašas sekas — karu, kas ildzis jau vairāk nekā trīs simtus gadu, karu, kurā viņi zaudējuši novadu pēc novada . . . Vācijas Demokrātiskās Republikas rakstnieks Eduards Kleins uz vēsturisku notikumu fona Čilē 1860. gadā saistoši attēlo balto un indiāņu attiecības. Romāna galvenais varo­nis ir indiānis Huans Moraless jeb Bulta, kas kalpo Lekvē­nas fortā un par savu galveno uzdevumu uzskata nodroši­nāt mieru starp baltajiem un indiāņiem pierobežā, palīdzēt araukāņiem atgūt brīvību un viņu bijušās teritorijas. Asas cīņas apstākļos parādīta balto un indiāņu zēnu draudzība. No vācu valodas tulkojis Leonards Varžinskis Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis I.Ločmelis Mākslinieks Uldis Sosnovskis Sprīdītis 1990

For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone. Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border, but when the Governor of Texas, his wife and daughters climb aboard with their bodyguards and $500,000 in tow, their journey suddenly becomes a lot more complicated. The problem is Bloody Bob Brandice. He and Virgil have had it out before, an encounter that left Brandice face-down in the street with two .44 slugs lodged in him. Now, twelve years later on a night train struggling uphill in a thunderstorm, Brandice is back — and he’s not alone. Cole and Hitch find themselves in the midst of a heist with a horde of very bad men, two beautiful young hostages, and a man with a vendetta he’s determined to carry out

L.VELSKOPFA ~ Henriha IZRAIDĪTO CEĻŠ No cikla «Lielas Lācenes deli» IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1974 No vācu valodas tulkojusi Ērika Lūse I. Kuskova ilustrācijas Vāku, titulu un priekšlapas darinājis Eglons Lūsis  Tulkojums latviešu valodā, ^ «Liesma», 1974

TOMASS MAINS RĪDS Jātnieks bez galvas IZDEVNIECĪBA «ZINĀTNE» RIGA 1971 Reizēm gadās, ka cilvēks izlasa grāmatu, atmiņa saglabā sa­vos apcirkņos pa satura drumslai, bet autora vārds pēc kāda laika, izrādās, pagaisis. Ar .romāna «Jātnieks bez galvas» autoru tas diezin vai var notikt. Katrs, kas draugos ar daiļliteratūru, iz­dzirdējis šo nosaukumu, katrā ziņā atcerēsies izcilā amerikāņu prozista vārdu. Tomass Mains Rīds ir pelnījis, ka viņu atceras. Latviešu va­lodā jau agrāk izdots viņa romāns «Oceola — seminolu virsai­tis». Taču tas nav viņa vienīgais darbs, kas saista uzmanību. Augstākā virsotne Maina Rīda daiļradē ir romāns «Jātnieks bez galvas». Šis romāns vispirms simpātisks ar stingro vēsturisko pamatu, uz kura tas būvēts: pagājušā gadsimta 50. gadu Teksasa, kas zau­dējusi neatkarību un spiesta vilkt ASV jūgu. Ne mazāku mag­nētisko spēku slēpj sižets, kuru autors prot vērpt grodu ar ap­skaužamu prasmi, spilgti kolorētie tēli un atturīgie, bet iedar­bīgie dabas zīmējumi. Inesis Grants Romānā viscaur jūtama ievingrināta meistara roka un humā­nista nostāja pret labo un ļauno. Labajam jāuzvar — tādu de­vīzi sludina Mains Rīds, un tas ir vēl viens moments, kas ieprie­cina lasītāju, vienalga, vai tas pieder pie vecākās vai jaunākās paaudzes, vai stāv uz robežas starp abām. Mainam RīdAm raksturīgajiem iestarpinātajiem mednieku stāstiem. Samākslotas izskatās romāna «laimīgās» beigas: nabaga mustangu mednieks negaidot kūst par bagātu baronetu, un līdz ar to ir iespējamas viņa laulības ar Poindekstera meitu. Nav attīstīta Džeraldā iemīlējušās jaunās meksikānietes sižeta līnija. Par spīti šiem trūkumiem, «Jātnieks bez galvas» ir laba grāmata. Tajā no» sodīti buržuāziskās Amerikas necilvēciskie tikumi, to caurauž ticība godīgo un drosmīgo cilvēku spēkiem. Viens no viņiem — Zebs Stamps —r atklāj Kolhauna noziegumu, glābj un attaisno nevainīgi notiesāto Džeraldu. Sajā romānā izpaužas Mainam Rīdām piemītošā taisnības mīlestība, kritiskā attieksme pret kapitālisma vilku likumiem, simpātijas pret cilvēkiem, kas cieš no tiem. Sīs jūtas sasilda Maina Rīda labākās grāmatas, arī romānu «Jātnieks bez galvas», kuru pamatoti uzskata par vienu no raksturīgākajiem Maina Rīda darbiem. R. Samarins No angļu valodas tulkojis Z. Mākslinieciski noformējis V. Ilustrējis N. Kočergins

Tomass Mains Rīds Kvarterone jeb piedzīvojumi tālajā Luiziānā Romāns «Kvarterone» pieder pie pazīstamā angļu rakstnieka Tomasa Maina Rīda (1818 1883) populārākajiem darbiem. Zināma mērā tas ir romantisks dēku romāns, taču visi neparasti dēkainie un satraucošie notikumi saistās ar morāles problēmām, «jaunās pasaules» cilvēku drosme, nesavtīga mīlestība un draudzība beidzot gūst uzvaru pār vecās vergturu pasaules aizspriedumiem un pāri tās radītiem šķēršļiem tie atrod ceļu uz laimi. Noskanējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis No angļu valodas tulkojusi Erna Sprince Mākslinieks Māris Ozoliņš Zvaigzne 1984

On a lively night at the Victory saloon in Trinidad, New Mexico, Sheriff Caleb York interrupts his poker game to settle a minor dust-up that raises the stakes into major trouble. The wounded miscreant he ushers to the hoosegow spills the secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a certain stage coach. Bound for Denver, the stage carried three important passengers — beautiful ranch owner Willa Cullen, lovely temptress Rita Filley, and wealthy banker Raymond L. Parker. The two women are rivals for the lawman’s love, while Parker is a key investor in Trinidad’s future. But all are gone, with only the corpses of fellow passengers as bullet-ridden clues. York follows a trail of blood to a ghost town known as Hell Junction. To rescue his lady friends and the banker, he must infiltrate an outlaw den... and pray no one among the thieves, killers, and kidnappers will recognize him. With only his desert rat deputy to back him up, York must free the captives, round up the badmen — and, whenever necessary, send them straight to Hell

Ingram Rescuing a frightened woman from an attack by a one-armed man, Confederate soldier Paul Cable learns that his lands have been taken over by the Union army, and vows to regain his property or die trying

Tomass Mains Rīds Liktenīgais šāviens Amerikas Dienvidu štatu Misisipi baseina dzīve un parašas. Negaidīti aizraujošā sižeta pavērsieni, plantatora meitas mīlestība, bet fonā cietsirdība, nodevība un naids. No krievu valodas tulkojis Ēriks Valdis noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Mākslinieks A. Liepiņš. Redaktors V. Zanders. Rīga 1992

Eighteen twisted tales of the wildest West that’s ever been imagined, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pip & Flinx series Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, who some call “Mad Amos”—though not to his face. Atop his unnatural steed, Worthless, Mad Amos is prepared to step into any fray and set things right, albeit in his own unusual way. Now all of his uncanny exploits—including the brand-new story “Stuck”—are collected together for the first time. For this special edition, Alan Dean Foster has also penned original introductions to the series and to each individual adventure. Featuring eight never-before-collected stories, including… GHOST WIND: Nature has a way of making even the strongest folks meek. And with a ghost wind coming over the valley, even Mad Amos Malone is feeling the chill. HOLY JINGLE: Of all the dangers of the Wild West, love might be the most perilous. Because when it goes awry, there’s no telling what might be at stake. A MOUNTAIN MAN AND A CAT WALK INTO A BAR: Mad Amos isn’t quickly moved to action. Still, when it comes to a dog fight, he’s not afraid to bare his teeth. STUCK: The untouched grove of Sequoias is one of the most beautiful, soul-rejuvenating, downright sacred places Amos has ever visited. Until he hears a cry for help…

MAZAIS BIZONS Arkādijs Fīdlers izdevniecība «Liesma» Rīga 1975 No poļu valodas tulkojis Jāzeps Osmanis Mečislava Majevska ilustrācijas Noformējis mākslinieks A. Krēsliņš  Tulkojums latviešu valodā, «Liesma», 1975

T.Main-Rids OCEOLA- SEMINOLU VIRSAITIS LATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA RĪGĀ 1960 МАЙН РИД Oцеола, вождь СЕМИНОЛОВ Повесть о стране цветов На латышском языке Mākslinieks V. VEIDE. , No angļu valodas tulkojusi R: KOKA

Death in the desert is a grimmer thing than elsewhere—but in all ways the desert is a grim school for men, as Pete and his partner knew only too well

Gold is the pay dirt in all these rip-roaring western stories, more of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Whispering Sands series with their unique desert setting. Again the master storyteller features his rugged western hero, the philosophical prospector Bob Zane. In the title story Zane is true to form when he gets a spoiled rich kid to behave like a man and beat out claim jumpers in the desert. Men learn fast out there, or die, and Zane moves faster than any of them, rescuing a pretty hostage from Yaqui Indians, outwitting murderous gangsters in the Painted Desert, avoiding death from poisonous alkali springs, and hunting lost gold in Death Valley. Around camp at night, the sand whispers on the wind and the philosopher in Zane may start talking — but he always keeps his hand on his gun. The stories move at the headlong pace for which all Gardner adventures are famous, and Zane himself is an exceptional character who often reveals ideas that are clearly Gardner’s own about life, justice, and the debatable values of civilization. Says Zane: “The reason men don’t know the law of life is because they’re afraid to look Eternity in the face. Out in the desert they have to look at Eternity. It’s on all sides of them; they can’t turn their eyes away. That’s the spell of the desert.”

Emīls Fišers Peke Votavs Stāsts par balto zēnu, kas XVIII gs. beigās nokļūst pie indiāņiem un tiek uzaudzināts par indiāni, stāsts par ciņu Amerikas rietumos starp indiāņiem un baltajiem kolonistiem. Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Vaga  1993 Pirmizdevums — Alfrēda Ūdra apgada, Rīgā, 1943 No vācu valodas tulkojis K. Smilga Mākslinieks G. Sietiņš "Bēdīgākais ir tas, ka daudz kas ir zudis, kas nekad vairs neatgriezīsies. Nekad vairs kāds no maniem pēcnācējiem nestāvēs augstu klintī, un nevarēs raudzīties uz tālo, plašo, neskarto, paradiziski skaisto mežonīgo novadu kā kungs, karalis savā valstī. Nekad vairs manas ausis nesadzirdēs skrējēju bifeļu baru lielisko rūkoņu. Nekad vairs mani zēni un ja tiem būtu desmitreiz ātrākas kājas par manām nespēs panākt balto zirgu, šo stūrgalvīgo balto mustangu ar melnajām krēpēm un melno asti, kas slauka zemi. Tam visam ir beigas. Un lielais Manitū tikai viens pats zina, kāpēc viņš ļāvis izzust tik daudz kam skaistam. Mana sirds ir bēdīga un kļūs atkal priecīga tikai tad, kad es varēšu ar saviem lielajiem lepnajiem virsaišiem jāt mūžīgajos medību novados, ko mums neviens bālseja nevar nozagt."  Baltais Zirga Ērglis, ASV indiāņu virsaitis, 107 gadus vecs

Džeimss Fenimors Kūpers Pēdējais mohikānis Piedzīvojumi, fantastika, ceļojumi Ievērojamā amerikāņu rakstnieka indiāņu eposa trešais romāns, kurā tēloti iemīļotā varoņa Nati Bumpo teku zinātāja un mednieka jaunība un 1757. gada karš starp Angliju un Franciju par Ameri­kas teritorijām. Romāns 2. izdevums No angļu valodas tulkojušas Eižēnija Turkina un Ruta Koka Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Mākslinieks Aleksandrs Dembo Liesma 1981

D. F. Kūpers PĒDĒJAIS MOHIKĀNIS ROMĀNS 2. izdevums RIGA «LIESMA» 1981 No angļu valodas tulkojušas Eižēnija Turkina un Ruta Koka Mākslinieks Aleksandrs Dembo

Houards Fāsts Pēdējā robeža Pēdējā robeža amerikāņu rakstnieks Houards Fāsts (dz. 1914. g.) romānā «Pēdējā robeža» stāsta par kādas indiāņu cilts traģisko likteni. Šaijeni, kas pārvietoti uz tuksnesigu teritoriju, kurā cieš no bada un slimībām, nolēmuši atgriezties savā senču dzimtenē. Lai bēgļus panāktu, tiek mobilizēti armijas spēki, bet indiāņus nespēj pārliecināt ne ieroči, ne sals, ne bads. Cilvēks bez dzimtenes ir tikpat kā miris,— dzīvība nav augstākā vērtība. Grāmata turpina apgādā «Sprīdītis» aizsākto indiāņu litera­tūras ciklu, kurā jau iznākušas E. Kleina «Indiānis», E. SetonaTompsona «Rolfs mūžamežos» un Dž. F. Kūpera «Takuzinis». Eskadroni jādelēja šurpu turpu. Kādā rančo viņiem paziņoja, ka pazuduši divpadsmit liellopi, un, metot lokus plašajās ganībās, viņi uzdūrās pēdām. Viņi atrada vietu, kur indiāņi bija dīrājuši aizdzītos lopus. Piejājuši pie strauta, viņi ieraudzīja krastā Virdžīnijas papeli, no kuras nokarājās virve, bet tuvumā bija redzams svaigs kaps. — Atrakt!— Merejs drūmi pavēlēja. Tomēr viņš nebija gaidījis, ka no kapa kareivji izcels nolinčotā šaijena līķi. — Kas to būtu varējis izdarīt?— Vints jautāja. Līķi atkal apraka, un Merejs nodomāja: «Vēl par vienu mazāk. Cik ilgi gan viņi noturēsies?» Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Sprīdītis 1993 No angļu valodas tulkojusi Anna Bauga Mākslinieks Normunds Sietiņš Redaktore Rasma Vīlipa

In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived leading everything he owned behind him—his thoroughbred stud Shiloh, a mare about to foal, and a mule—he knew his business would not be questioned. To anyone in Tubacca there could be only one extraordinary thing about Drew, and that he could not reveal: his name, Rennie. Drew had come west from Kentucky to find a father he had thought dead until the year before. Kinship with a man like Hunt Rennie, however—the legendary Don Cazar, owner of a matchless range and prize stallions—was not a claim to be made quickly or lightly. Posing as Drew Kirby the young veteran contrived to get himself and his friend Anse hired as corral hands at Rennie's Range, but he was hardly prepared for the suspicion and danger which stood between him and his father. As hotheaded as his father, Drew was ready to move on to California—until the day all proof of his Rennie name was stolen from him, and his unwarranted arrest for horse-thieving brought on the accusations of the one man whose trust he needed. Andre Norton's Ride Proud, Rebel! dramatically portrayed the last year of the Confederacy, when brave men like Drew Rennie met defeat with honor. In this sequel, Drew's struggle to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw, unsettled land reflects the courage of thousands of rootless men set adrift by the Civil War

The New York Times'"bestselling author's richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction. I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I'd taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn't take too long for things to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the saloon with the shotgun in my lap for two peaceful nights. On my third night it was different. I could almost smell trouble beginning to cook . . . .' After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It's the kind of town that doesn't have much in the way of commerce, except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill repute. Hitch takes a job as lookout at Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as protector of the ladies who work the backrooms - as well as a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the O'Malley copper mine. Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman, tensions continue to mount, so that even the self-assured Hitch is relieved by the arrival in town of his friend Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship

Zena Greijs Rietumu likums No vācu valodas tulkojusi M. Sarma . Mākslinieks P. LISENKO Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

RIETUMU LIKUMS ZENA GREJS No vācu valodas tulkojusi M. SARMA . Mākslinieks P. LISENKO

Zena Greijs Rietumu likums. Arizonas lauva Abos romānos atspoguļoti tie laiki, kad Amerikas rietu­mus vēl dēvēja par «mežonīgajiem rietumiem», kur visās cilvēku savstarpējās attieksmēs valdīja dažkārt nežēlīgi, bet taisnīgi likumi. Galveno varoņu piedzīvojumi ir līdzīgi abos romānos. Te ir cīņas taisnības, mīlestības, goda dēļ. Sevišķi izceļas romāna «Arizonas Lauva» galvenais varonis Ričs Emss, kas sākumā ir vienkāršs kovbojs, bet, nelaimīgu apstākļu spiests, atstājis savu dzimteni un gadu gaitā kļuvis par tā saukto Arizonas Lauvu, kas visos cīniņos neaizmirst sirdsapziņu un taisnīgumu. Tādēļ viņu bīstas un ciena. Beidzot pēc daudziem grūtiem, gadiem liktenis arī viņu atalgo ar laimīgām dienām. No vācu valodas tulkojusi M. Sarma . Mākslinieks P. Lisenko Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Mākslinieks P. Lisenko Greijs Z. Gr 384 «Rietumu likums» un «Arizonas Lauva». Ro­māni. — R., Firma «Olna», 1995. — 288 lpp. ISBN 5—87926—033—X

Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa when Boston Bill Black’s murder charge was dropped. But all that changed when Augustus Noble Driggs was transferred to a stateside penitentiary just across the border from Mexico. Square-jawed, handsome, and built like a muscled thoroughbred stallion, Driggs manages to intimidate everyone inside the prison walls, including the upstart young warden. In a haunting twist of fate, Driggs and a pack of cold-blooded convicts are suddenly on the loose — and it’s up to any and all territorial lawmen, including Cole and Hitch, to capture the fugitives and rescue the woman kidnapped during their escape. But nothing is ever quite what it seems with the ever-elusive Driggs. Finally free, he’s quickly on his own furious hunt for a hidden cache of gold and jewels — and for the men who betrayed him and left him for dead. With an unlikely and unconventional Yankee detective by their side, Cole and Hitch set off on a massive manhunt. As horses’ hooves thunder and guns echo deadening reports, Driggs discovers one of the lawmen on his trail is none other than a fellow West Point graduate he’d just as soon see dead. Ruthless and willing to leave a bloody path of destruction in his wake, Driggs seeks vengeance at any cost

Appaloosa, the hometown of Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, continues to prosper, but with prosperity comes a slew of new trouble: carpetbaggers, gamblers, migrants, peddlers, drifters, thieves, and whores, all boiling in a cauldron of excess and greed. And there’s a new menace in town: a wealthy, handsome easterner — and the owner of Appaloosa’s new casino — Boston Bill Black. Boston Bill is flashy and bigger than life. He’s a prankster and a notorious womanizer, and with eight notches on the handle of his Colt, he’s rumored quick on the draw. When he finds himself wanted for a series of murders, he quickly vanishes. Cole and Hitch locate and arrest him, but Boston Bill escapes once again. Another murder sets the duo on his trail, eventually taking them back to Appaloosa — where one woman in particular may — or may not — prove to be the apple of Boston Bill’s eye

Allison Parker needs a convincing excuse to come home to Rocky Mountain House. A hopelessly romantic reason that won’t let her mother suspect the truth—that Allison has discovered Mom is keeping a terrible secret from the family. Gabe Coleman is struggling with two of the roughest parts of ranching: dealing with his bull-headed mule of a father, and making enough to pay the bills. When his old friend Allison offers to help him develop his ideas for organic ranching—in trade for pretending to be her fiancé—it sounds like the perfect set-up. Yet the deception leads them in an unexpected direction, where their shared daily hells are erased by nights of heavenly distraction. It’s not supposed to be real, but once the gates are opened, there’s no denying they’ve found in each other a little bit of Paradise. To break free of the past and face the future, though, will take more than temporary pleasures. It’ll take putting their hearts on the line. Product Warnings Tortured hero with a guardian-angel complex, grief-stricken heroine willing to sacrifice everything for family. Break out the tissues, this trip to the ranch is a heartbreaker on the way to the HEA

Matt Coleman always figured at this point in his life, he d be settled down with a family. Since his ex split for the big city, though, no way will he give anyone else the chance to drop-kick his heart. Physical pleasure? Hell, yeah, he ll take and give with gusto, but nothing more. Hope Meridan is working long hours to hold on to her new quilt shop, going it alone since her sister/business partner ran off. Sex? Right, like she s got the time. Not that she doesn't have the occasional dirty fantasy about Matt. Fat chance he d dream of knocking boots with her the younger sister of the woman who dumped him. Nope, she ll just have to settle for the F-word. "Friends" would be far easier if there wasn't something combustible going on between them. And when casual interest starts to grow into something more, their tenuous bond strengthens in the heat of desire. But it may not survive the hurricane-force arrival of the last person either of them ever wanted to see again Warning: Small-town rivals, men in pursuit and family meddling in good and bad ways. Look for a cowboy who knows how to rope, ride and rein in a hell of a lot more than eight seconds of sheer bliss

Beth Danube’s emotionally abusive husband is dead and buried. So is her heart. It’s no big deal, she has all she wants: her three little boys and a fresh start in a small Alberta town. What she doesn’t want is another man in her life—not now, maybe not ever. After ten years of unsatisfactory, missionary-position sex, she never expected her libido to reawaken. One look at sex-in-boots Daniel Coleman in a Calgary bar, though, blows the dust off her sexuality. Sensing an edge of desperation, even fear, beneath Beth’s come-on, Daniel finds himself giving in to the powerful urge to let his normally subdued desires run wild. The lady wants non-judgmental, non-vanilla sex? She’s got it—in and out of the bedroom. At first, friends with blazing-hot benefits is more than enough. Then she realizes Daniel is burning away the protective fortress around her heart…and the guilty secret she dare not reveal. Warning: One woman determined to retake control of her life, a man with the single-minded purpose of offering her—and her body—everything she needs. Inappropriate behavior in barns, change rooms, and oh-my-gawd phone sex with a cowboy

Blake Coleman is old enough to know that acting on impulse causes nothing but a heap of trouble. But when trouble’s a western-hat-wearing blonde with slim legs that go on forever, what’s a man to do? Wanting the sweet girl next door is just wrong. The responsible thing to do is keep his hands off. Jaxi has other plans for Blake’s hands, and his heart. She may have once considered him a big brother, but that was a long time ago. She’s all grown up now and ready to convince him that she’s perfect for him. Except he can’t seem to see past the big “don’t touch” sign that’s apparently still hanging around her neck. When Jaxi ends up living right under Blake's nose, the undeniable heat between them slides off simmer and leaps up to barn-burning levels. However, a few of the younger six-pack Colemans have decided Jaxi’s brand of trouble is worth risking a few busted bones. That is, if Blake’s finally ready to let go the reins and fight for what he wants… Warning: Sexy cowboys seducing and being seduced in trucks, pool halls and barns. Droolworthy country charm, a little double-teaming, a few secrets and a whole lot of brothers to look forward to. Anyone wanna go for a ride?

The best type of growing up involves getting down and dirty Vicki Hansol made different choices than her less-than-reputable mom and sister, yet her fiery temper has left her branded with the same town-bad-girl label. When she desperately needs a change of scenery, her get-out-of-town-free ticket arrives—and requires she face down one of her deepest fears. Easygoing Joel Coleman has nothing to complain about, but he’s never really done anything to brag about either. The youngest member of the Six Pack Ranch is looking to make some changes in his life that include stepping out from under his twin brother’s shadow. So when the bold beauty with the smart mouth approaches him with a proposition, Joel is intrigued. Her request for him to teach her to ride soon takes on a whole new meaning. All that passion in his arms, his bed, in the barn…hell, anywhere he can get it? Bring it on. But tangling the sheets leads to unanticipated complications, and by the time the dust settles, everything family means is going to be challenged. Caution: Saddle up for some youthful vigor applied with great enthusiasm. Ropes, rails and raunchy sex—there’s more places to get dirty around the ranch than first meets the eye