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Don Bendell
With a master’s degree in leadership from Grand Canyon University, 4-time Amazon best-selling western and military author Don Bendell has written 31 books, with over 3,000,000 copies in print worldwide. He is a former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) captain, and 100% disabled Vietnam veteran. Don is also a widely read and controversial editorialist and has appeared on Fox News and many national radio shows, newspapers, and blogs. Don is a Grandmaster Instructor in 4 different martial arts and black sash instructor in Muay Thai kickboxing. He is a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame and retired from teaching in 2014. In 2011, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Tracks of Hope, a Modern-Day Western. In the past, Don wrote, produced, directed, and co-starred in a successful low budget action/adventure feature film, The Instructor, 1984: Shapiro Entertainment Corporation/Vestron, Hollywood, CA.
Praise for Don Bendell
"If you liked Louis L’Amour, you will really love Don Bendell." —Asa Baber, Playboy magazined
"Don Bendell is the heir-apparent to Louis L'Amour!" —Motion picture/Television star Buck Taylor
"Don Bendell writes THE best action scenes ever!" —Jim Morris, author of Operation Dumbo Drop (which was made into a successful Walt Disney movie) and top-selling book War Story
Chief of Scouts
A novel of the U.S. Cavalry...
A hero worthy of the finest military fiction
TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND HONOR
Christopher Columbus Colt, chief of scouts; and nephew of gun-maker Sam Colt was always the best man for the job. His skill with weapons was legendary, his service to the Seventh Cavalry invaluable. But as a friend to the Lakota Sioux and Chief Crazy Horse, Colt's loyalty to the Indians ran dangerously high. At Little Big Horn, by the side of General George Custer, Colt faced the hardest choice of his life: fight for a tyrant against overwhelming odds, or side with the warriors who planned a killing field that would live forever in infamy. Rich with the passion and adventure of real history, this is the roaring saga of frontier military life and of a hero who had to work above the law to uphold justice.
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Crossbow
THE SHOCKING TRUTH REVEALED.
A blistering, firsthand account of an American Soldier who joined forces with the Montagnards
While losing the war against north vietnam, arvn troops conducted a secret program of genocide against the montagnard hill people. The u.s. army didn't intervene. The global media didn't notice. But the 'yards weren't alone. A handful of green berets fought at their side...
Author and former Special Forces Captain Don Bendell risked court-martial to accept a secret brigadier's commission in the Montagnards' FULRO combat force. He survived a half dozen assassination attempts by ARVN political operatives. Woven into Bendell's all-combat account is the fighting biography of Ksor Kok, former guerrilla and current FULRO president. Their tale of blood and vengeance is just one chapter in the valiant history of an oppressed people.
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Strongheart
CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS...
A son of both the Sioux and white worlds, Joshua Strongheart has two prized possessions—his father's bowie knife and his stepfather's Colt .45 Peacemaker—entrusted to him by his dying mother, who made Joshua promise to use them with honor and respect.
...WITH NOTHING BUT HIS WORD.
In the Colorado Rockies, Joshua falls prey to the coldblooded McMahon brothers. When they take his pistol and knife, they have no idea what's hidden inside the money belt—crucial War Department documents, signed by the president, ordering a fair trial for Captain Jack, captured chief of the Modoc tribe. Now Joshua must recover both his birthrights and the secret papers—before violence erupts across the West...
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Old Soldiers Never Die
Fanatical terrorists have planted a backpack nuclear bomb at one of America’s popular tourist attractions intending to kill many innocent people. However, one arthritic old man stands in their way, along with his beautiful passionate lover who is a surgeon, a moderate Muslim police detective lieutenant friend, and a courageous loyal German Shepherd. However, wanting to kill and behead the doctor are the very same extremists who planted the bomb, and they have been chasing her and the old man, a former Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, retired martial arts instructor, and best-selling author. They have chased the pair all over the forested mountains of southern Colorado, and lakes, and cities. The pair is also being pursued by a big law enforcement task force thinking they are cop-killers, so they are trying to elude but protect the innocent but angry officers. One thing the terrorists did not think about was that the old man was also a real cowboy with a real horse, a real ranch, and real survival skills, and lived by his own Code of the West...
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Award-Winning SV Original Publications and #1 Amazon Bestsellers
The Heart Beneath the Badge by George T. Arnold
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
When Sheriff Heath Royal seeks relief for his tormented conscience by attending church services for the first time since his youth, he is beckoned to an empty seat by the wealthy, recently widowed Rebekka Korhenen Brando, and both are immediately, although unwittingly, stirred by an unintentional rekindling of the feelings that almost led to a marriage between them twenty-five years earlier.
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Lakota Cowboy by John Hafnor
2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner
“In Lakota Cowboy the last open range cowboy and last Native American ride across the Little Big Horn into a world of surprise endings.” —BookLife
“This book provides a beautifully human touch to the story of two cultures intersecting at dramatically different times in their histories.”—South Dakota Magazine
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Song of the Horseman by Mark Warren
2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award
Literary Fiction Finalist
"...Warren’s prose is magnificently rendered; the kind of writing that makes the reader put down their book for a moment and marvel."—Judge: Zoe Fishman
Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an “Editor’s Choice” by The Historical Novel Society
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Raven Moon by Robert Westbrook
Amazon #1 Bestseller in Native American Literature 2024
RAVEN MOON is a page-turning roller coaster adventure through the Land of Enchantment with a modern twist of an old evil — the new Conquistadores who arrive in private jets, rather than horses, in search of plunder.
"Fans of Hillerman will love this unique and quirky detective duo."
—Leslie Glass, bestselling author of Tracking Time
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Print Books
How to Dump a Body at Sea and Not Get Caught: The Al Ferrari Story by Mack Maloney & Marc Zappull
Follow Hollywood sensation Al Ferrari on a true-crime odyssey as he navigates the tough urban environment of Greater Boston in the late 1980s. Meet Lonely Larry, Crazy Louie, Jumbo Zal, Pete Pistol and The Plum Girl as they help Al along the way to stardom.
In this book, you will learn:
- How not to burn a car
- How to turn a Celica into a Rolls-Royce
- How not to rip off Sears
- How to really piss off the Mob
. . . and more!
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Guarding the Treasure by Dick Brown
Witness a tragic suspension bridge collapse, river drownings, a train wreck, demolition of early historic hotels, a uranium scare, and the beginning of commercial river-running. Cross the troubled waters of the Colorado on a riveted steel replacement bridge leading to an Army camp, and a creek-fed swimming pool in the inner gorge. Wince at outlandish river dam proposals, high-strung cableways, intrusive canyon overflights, corporate greed, clashing government missions, and other incredible assaults on the Grand Canyon.
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The Counterattack by Brien A. Roche
The chase was on. Capone had escaped from the Hay-Adams House. Capone had shown some guts. He had jumped off the 14th Street Bridge into the Potomac River. Bos knew that was not the end of him. He would have jumped in after him, but for one of his brothers putting him in a headlock and causing him to lose consciousness. But the fight continued. The counterattack culminates at the round table in Chicago.
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OUTLAWMAN by Rod Miller
The Life and Times of Matt Warner
Matt Warner was an outlaw. And a lawman. In a word, an outlawman.
Follow the trail through Brown’s Hole, Robbers Roost, and other outlaw enclaves as a mysterious old man tells the outlawman’s story in a rundown barroom once owned by Matt Warner himself.
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E-Books
God Bless the Child by Anne Shaw Heinrich
When we first meet Mary Kline in God Bless the Child, Book One of The Women of Paradise County series, she is sewing, her main obsession besides eating. It is hard to blame Mary for who she has become. She’s been perpetually hungry since childhood, and as she becomes a woman, she craves something far more delicious—a child of her own.
Everyone in God Bless the Child must reckon with their past as they seek forgiveness and redemption.
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A Glimpse of Darkness by Jack Hillman
A Glimpse of Darkness is a collection of short stories which cover space from a local home and family to a Fantasy home with dragons keeping charge. This is a collection which will ask questions such as “Does a theater really come to life?” or “Do things really protect old farms?” Come join us for a place in the darkness, to see how the world really works and what to do about it.
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Shyla's Initiative by Barbara Casey
Thirty-five-year-old novelist, Shyla Wishon, fears that her life is spinning out of control since her recent marriage to Carl Cores. First, her overbearing new mother-in-law moves to Florida in order to be close to her son, followed by a steady stream of visiting relatives who become a constant intrusion on what was once her time to write. To make matters worse, Carl’s two grown daughters refuse to have anything to do with her, and even though Carl has a good job, bills are starting to pile up. . . .
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Not Fit to Print by Greg Hunt
Before his murder, meek, retiring Edwin Raines secretly wove a complicated tapestry of false identities and unexplained activities that even his widow is at a loss to understand. When magazine publisher Danny Skerett begins looking into the curious, covert life that his friend Edwin led before his death, he is drawn into an investigation that ultimately leads to revelations of murder, arson, fraud, drug trafficking, adultery, and an extremely inconvenient illegitimate child.
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Audiobooks
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the Pattern deep in Castle Amber which defines the very structure of Reality, Corwin must contend with the powers of his eight immortal brothers, all Princes of Amber. His savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining — impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering Forces that challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.
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A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Zelazny manages to cleverly combine Jack (the Ripper), Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein, and Dracula together with witches, werewolves, druids and many others in this amusing tale of an approaching confrontation that, on the Halloween of a full-moon, will change the cosmic balance of power between good and evil. Told through the eyes of Snuff, Jack's guard dog, who performs magical calculations in addition to accompanying his master on “collecting” expeditions into 19th century London.
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The Snatch by Bill Pronzini
In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police to deal with the man who snatched his 9-year-old son from his military prep school, nor is it clear that he trusts the members of his own household. On the appointed evening, Nameless takes a briefcase that contains $300,000 in cash to a secluded location chosen by the kidnapper. Then all hell breaks loose.
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The Collection - Vol. 2 by Bentley Little
He's been hailed by Dean Koontz for his "rock-'em, jolt-'em, shock-'em contemporary terror fiction."
Now Little presents a 32-story collection that could only have come from an author with "a deft touch for the terrifying" (Publishers Weekly). Volume Two consists of 17 stories.
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