UNBROKE HORSES winner of the Triple Crown of Western literature awards: Western Heritage Wrangler Award, Will Rogers Medallion Award, and the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award.  It also won the Laramie Award, and the Eric Hoffer Award for literature, and was a finalist for the daVinci Eye Award for cover design.An innocent 14-year old preacher's son is kidnapped by three vile Civil War deserters. When turning-the-other-cheek fails to deter their cruelty, the boy resorts to his own violent behavior for survival, and the retribution he exacts from them casts him in a new struggle, this time for his soul. His redemption comes down to the wisdom of an old man and a small band of unbroke horses. 

Unbroke Horses

Literature & Fiction

Jackson, D.B.

Literary

Goldminds Publishing, LLC

2011 Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Awards for Best Fiction Two Texas families. A blood feud. Prosperity and death. All found in a cowboyâs journalâ After Mr. Charlie died in â77, Pure took over the ranch and thatâs when things began to change. Along the southern scrub, what old-timers called the brasada, the rustlers had banded into large outfits and the Gunn boys were the worst of the bunch. Some folks tell that Mr. Gunn went crazy after losing his oldest son, Ethan, at Antietam in â62. And because none of Mr. Charlieâs sons fought during the war, terrible stories soon spread through McMullen County that the Restons were nothing but âNo-good Yankeeâ sympathizers. Now it wasnât any secret who started these untruths, but Mr. Charlie just ignored them. And for years, thatâs all there was to it. But after Mr. Charlie passed, old man Gunn took a peculiar delight in stealing -R open range cattle and re-branding them as his own, most times right on Reston land. It was like he was testing Pure. And when Mr. Gunn took off down that trail, well thatâs when Pure turned the -R into a gun outfit. I still remember the day that the dust-up with the Gunn clan moved past the name calling. It was a wet April day during the spring round-up. That morning, Pure sent Buckshot Wallace and Billy Green to search for thirty head that went missing after a lightning storm the night before. And things never did get back right after that.

A Hundred Miles to Water

Mike Kearby

Genre Fiction

Disowned by his father, Whit Longstreth leaves home to join the 1812 Georgetown Kentucky militia in a frontier war against fearsome Shawnee warriors. Instead of achieving glory and fame, Whit is in danger of losing his scalp as his quest engulfs him in the bloodshed and terror of the River Raisin Massacre and the defense of Fort Meigs. At his side is veteran frontiersman Coonrod Smythe, the father of a spitfire half-blood daughter with designs on Whit. If he somehow survives the fighting, can Whit hold Jessie Smythe at bay long enough to choose between two beautiful women he believes he loves Deborah Hartwell, the socially prominent belle of Georgetown and Angelique Ravoir, the ravishing beauty he meets on a secret mission to British-held Detroit? But then, will feisty Jesse live with his choice or treat him to a bullet?

Feathered Tide

Jim Woolard

D. B. Jackson

Shannon O'Neil, at age twenty-three, returns to Green Valley in wine country, Missouri, for the funeral of her Aunt Agatha. Shannon is Agatha's only heir, which makes her also the heir to the evil that surrounds the ancestral home. The roots of this evil are hidden in the family genealogy, but another mystery also lies within the family lineage. One leads to Agatha's murderer; the other will change Shannon's life forever.

The Last O'Neil

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

L.S. Walsh

Mystery

The Civil War has broken out in Missouri and Lettie Worthington won't take sides--though she has a brother fighting in each army and a fiancé with a guerrilla band sympathetic to the South. Not involved in the conflict, Lettie deals with her own struggles and hardships at home, and with the help of former slaves, she saves her family's hemp and tobacco farm. Upon learning that both brothers were in the Battle of Lexington, twenty miles west, she leaves the farm and paddles a skiff up the Missouri River to find them.

Brothers, Blue & Gray

Teen & Young Adult

Ellen Gray Massey

Historical Fiction

ON THE DAY TREVOR HODGE graduates from college his life is about to take a sudden turn, and it's not toward the big accounting job that he'd lined up. Surprised by a visitor at his college commencement, Trevor learns that his father, who he never knew, has died in an accident. Trevor is drawn by a subconscious and relentless yearning to go to Oklahoma to the funeral. He ultimately decides to stay the summer with his father's family and travel the rodeo circuit, where his father was a local hero. He falls in love with his lost family, with the rural atmosphere of Oklahoma, as well as a pretty half Choctaw barrel racer. But most of all, Trevor faces an awakening he never expected, and one that leaves his family, and the town of Spiro, on the edge of their seats.

The True Father

Steven Law

Early settlers came to a nearly treeless landscape and learned to build houses and fences from the rock buried in their pastures. Buffalo chips and then cow pies substituted for wood in their hearths. The hard working families formed strong communities and passed their land down from generation to generation. The family farm is becoming something of a legend. Few can afford to live, work and raise a family on a small farm these days. Those fortunate enough to have lived it carry the memories and experiences close to their hearts. Prairie Meals and Memories offers a taste of the past, both figuratively in story, and literally with scores of recipes from the days of home style cooking.

Prairie Meals & Memories: Living the Golden Rural

Biographies & Memoirs

Carolyn Hall

Community & Culture

Near the outset of the Civil War, Ben Riddle's family farm in Missouri is attacked by Kansas Jayhawkers. To counter the Federal raids, Ben follows his older brother into the fledgling guerrilla band led by a mysterious young man named William Quantrill. Ben's romance with a Union girl is split apart by the war as he is gradually baptized into the Confederate brotherhood. He is appalled by many of the events he sees, but he stays with the guerrillas out of loyalty to his brother and friends. Call Me Charlie: A Novel of a Quantrill Raider is how one young man faces the grueling task of balancing loyalty with a nagging sense of right and wrong.

Call Me Charlie: A Novel of a Quantrill Raider

Larry Wood

Contemporary

In this beautifully written and well-crafted book, Ms Massey brings to life an epic of African Americans in the early days of their freedom. While little has been written about this era, their story contributes much to the history of our country. All Americans should read this with a deep and enduring pride, for it shows a strength of character that is beyond race or ethnicity. It is American.

Morning in Nicodemus

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Unbroke Horses

A Hundred Miles to Water

Feathered Tide

Unbroke Horses

The Last O'Neil

Brothers, Blue & Gray

The True Father

Prairie Meals & Memories: Living the Golden Rural

Call Me Charlie: A Novel of a Quantrill Raider

Morning in Nicodemus