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61) Deepwater
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
A young orphaned drifter (Nat) sets out in pursuit of a farm job in Wyoming. Along the way he comes across a car accident and saves the life of the driver, who offers him a handyman job in the town of Deepwater, West Virginia. Nat is unknowingly lured into a world where nothing is as it seems.
Author
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
"During westward expansion in the nineteenth century, thousands of anonymous individuals drifted into the American West in search of opportunities in trapping and trading, prospecting and mining, military service, railroad construction, freighting, agriculture, town-building, and adventure. Few of these emigrants achieved sufficient notoriety for their names to be recalled today. Two exceptions are James White, who is said to have accidentally traversed...
64) Plunder Canyon
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
After twelve years in Mexico, loner Johnny Barrol was back at the Lazy B Ranch. In his pocket was $200,000 - more than enough to buy the spread his cousin Gaylord had practically abandoned. However, Johnny didn't know that Gaylord had other plans for selling the rancjh - a scam that would net him millions of dollars. For Gaylord and his gang Johnny Barrol is nothing but trouble, so they decide to kill him. But cornering the wary drifter is easier...
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
It was a summer like any other in this sleepy southern town, until a mysterious drifter named Eli Cottonmouth charms the townsfolk with a simple proposition for their upcoming anniversary celebration. But behind this picture-perfect community, two boys will now discover a secret world of mysteries, lies and tragedy that will change all their lives forever.
66) The Master
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Hiding away in a hilltop camp, Matthew spends his days in solitude, collecting and burning the dead. A drifter wanders into his sanctuary, carrying with him a book containing three tales of the apocalypse. As the mysterious traveler begins to reveal his true intentions, Matthew tries to piece together the stories and find the key to saving himself before he becomes just another entry the book.
70) Picnic
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
71) Deadly drifter
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Deadly drifter: Satire of American radicalism moves from psychedelic 60s Greenwich Village to New Age 80s California. Blood tide: Searching for his sister, a lonely man and his wife come to a beautiful, mysterious Greek island. Obsessed with their quest, they are unaware that lurking on this Mediterranean paradise dwells a cunning mythical beast desiring to consume human flesh.
73) Bones and all
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It's a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
The Eiger sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps.
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman's unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer angers a tough NYC police lieutenant.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls...