Westerns for All
The Western genre is ripe for imagination, with blazing of new frontiers, commitment to authenticity, and opportunities for independence. Check out these titles that reimagine the possibilities of the genre! Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created August 2023)
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Silver on the Road
Taking a job in the untamed American West serving a being of immense power who makes deals with people and gives them exactly what they deserve, Izzy receives training in the manipulations of human desire and travels throughout the territory to spread magical chaos.
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All God's Children
A novel about the remarkable people living on the edge of freedom and slavery, All God’s Children brings to life the paradoxes of the American frontier – a place of liberty and bondage, wild equality, and cruel injustice.
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An Easy Death
Guiding two wizards through the magic-wary country of Texoma, a gunslinger navigating the Great Depression in the wake of FDR's assassination searches for a low-level magician who may be able to save the tsar.
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The Sweetness of Water
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle.
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This Tender Land
Fleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a summer marked by struggling farmers, faith healers and lost souls.
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Lone Women
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the "lone women" taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
Reimagines the classic Western through the eyes of a Chinese American assassin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact his revenge on her abductors.
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Hundred in the Hand
The story of Fetterman's Massacre in 1866 as told through the eyes of Cloud, a dedicated warrior who fights alongside a young Crazy Horse, as well as the white soldiers who mistake Cloud's redheaded wife for a captive.
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Continental Divide
Newly out as transgender, Ron finds himself adrift: kicked out by his family, jilted by his girlfriend, unable to afford to return to college in the fall. So he heads out to Wyoming for a new start, a chance to prove that—even though he was raised as a girl, even though everyone in Boston thinks of him as transgender—he can live as a man. A real man.
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Outlawed
A riveting adventure story features a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.
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