Centuries ago the Picture Rocks were painted by a tribe of Arizona Indians that since have vanished, leaving behind the powerful figures on the virtually inaccessible cliff walls. For many years the Picture Rocks basin has sheltered the Jore family from the law. The basin also shelters a fabulous palomino stallion called Black Wing. The Jores have left him to run free with the wild herd, but Race Coulter has a different plan. He has convinced a young kid named René Rand to help him steal Black Wing. But when Rand is befriended by the Jores after a serious illness, he learns lessons that will change the direction of his life.

For many years the Picture Rocks Basin has sheltered the Jore family from the law. Also in the Basin is the Palomino stallion, Black Wing. The Jores have left him to run free, but Race Coulter - who nearly lost his life trying to steal Black Wing from the Jores - has a new plan: to send the Reno Kid to steal the horse.

By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.Each entry describes a separate book, listing everything readers need to know to make selections. Arranged by author within six genre sections, detailed entries provide: Title Publisher and publication dateSeriesNames and descriptions of charactersTime period and geographical settingReview citationsStory typesBrief plot summarySelected other books by the authorSimilar books by different authorsAuthor, title, series, character name, character description, time period, geographic setting and genre/sub-genre indexes are included to facilitate research.

The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe. Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that send messages of their own composition into the Twittersphere, mingle with the tweets of human creators; the next person to follow you on Twitter or to “like” your tweets may not a person at all. The next generator of content that you follow on Twitter may also be a bot. This book examines the world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to the hows and whys of bot-building to the place of bots in the social media landscape. In Twitterbots, Tony Veale and Mike Cook examine not only the technical challenges of bending the affordances of Twitter to the implementation of your own Twitterbots but also the greater knowledge-engineering challenge of building bots that can craft witty, provocative, and concise outputs of their own. Veale and Cook offer a guided tour of some of Twitter's most notable bots, from the deadpan @big_ben_clock, which tweets a series of BONGs every hour to mark the time, to the delightful @pentametron, which finds and pairs tweets that can be read in iambic pentameter, to the disaster of Microsoft's @TayAndYou (which “learned” conspiracy theories, racism, and extreme politics from other tweets). They explain how to navigate Twitter's software interfaces to program your own Twitterbots in Java, keeping the technical details to a minimum and focusing on the creative implications of bots and their generative worlds. Every Twitterbot, they argue, is a thought experiment given digital form; each embodies a hypothesis about the nature of meaning making and creativity that encourages its followers to become willing test subjects and eager consumers of automated creation. Some bots are as malevolent as their authors. Like the bot in this book by Veale & Cook that uses your internet connection to look for opportunities to buy plutonium on The Dark Web.” —@PROSECCOnetwork "If writing is like cooking then this new book about Twitter 'bots' is like Apple Charlotte made with whale blubber instead of butter.” —@PROSECCOnetwork These bot critiques generated at https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/PROSECCOnetwork

DigiCat presents this meticulously edited collection of the carefully selected - best and most exciting Westerns: Rebel Spurs (Andre Norton) Ride Proud, Rebel! (Andre Norton) The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey) Winnetou (Karl May) The Untamed (Max Brand) The Night Horseman (Max Brand) The Seventh Man (Max Brand) The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Owen Wister) The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) The Prairie (James Fenimore Cooper) Chip, of the Flying U (B. M. Bower) The Flying U Ranch (B. M. Bower) The Flying U's Last Stand (B. M. Bower) Cabin Fever (B. M. Bower) Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn) The 'Breckinridge Elkins' Series (Robert E. Howard) The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte) Heart of the West (O. Henry) White Fang (Jack London) The Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood) The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days (Andy Adams) The Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer) The Law of the Land (Emerson Hough) The Short Cut (Jackson Gregory) Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman) A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo) The Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge) Hidden Water (Dane Coolidge) That Girl Montana (Marah Ellis Ryan) A Voice in the Wilderness (Grace Livingston Hill) The Rules of the Game (Stewart Edward White) Paid Off (Walt Coburn) The Lonesome Trail (John Neihardt) Spawn of the Desert (W. C. Tuttle) A Texas Ranger (William MacLeod Raine) Gunsight Pass (William MacLeod Raine) The Conquest (Oscar Micheaux) John Brent (Theodore Winthrop) The Lone Ranger Rides (Fran Striker) The Heart of Canyon Pass (Thomas Holmes) The Lions of the Lord (Harry Leon Wilson) Raw Gold (Bertrand William Sinclair) The Valley of the Giants (Peter B. Kyne)...

From the author of the global phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice! They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have skills. And courage - which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field . . . especially when not everyone thinks of it as playing. John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice, creates a new cast of characters to populate his world of Skandians and Araluens, a world millions of young readers around the world have come to know and admire. Full of seafaring adventures and epic battles, Book 1 of The Brotherband Chronicles is sure to thrill readers of Ranger's Apprentice while enticing a whole new generation just now discovering the books. Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, and George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Get your spurs and saddles on and ride alongside the heroes, cowboys and outlaws in the Wild West. E-artnow presents this meticulously edited collection of the carefully selected - best and most exciting Westerns:_x000D_ Rebel Spurs (Andre Norton)_x000D_ Ride Proud, Rebel! (Andre Norton) _x000D_ The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs)_x000D_ Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey)_x000D_ The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey)_x000D_ The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey)_x000D_ Winnetou (Karl May)_x000D_ The Untamed (Max Brand)_x000D_ The Night Horseman (Max Brand)_x000D_ The Seventh Man (Max Brand)_x000D_ The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Owen Wister)_x000D_ The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)_x000D_ The Prairie (James Fenimore Cooper)_x000D_ Chip, of the Flying U (B. M. Bower)_x000D_ The Flying U Ranch (B. M. Bower)_x000D_ The Flying U's Last Stand (B. M. Bower)_x000D_ Cabin Fever (B. M. Bower)_x000D_ Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn)_x000D_ The 'Breckinridge Elkins' Series (Robert E. Howard)_x000D_ The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte)_x000D_ Heart of the West (O. Henry)_x000D_ White Fang (Jack London)_x000D_ The Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood)_x000D_ The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days (Andy Adams)_x000D_ The Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer)_x000D_ The Law of the Land (Emerson Hough)_x000D_ The Short Cut (Jackson Gregory)_x000D_ Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman)_x000D_ A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo)_x000D_ The Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge)_x000D_ Hidden Water (Dane Coolidge)_x000D_ That Girl Montana (Marah Ellis Ryan)_x000D_ A Voice in the Wilderness (Grace Livingston Hill)_x000D_ The Rules of the Game (Stewart Edward White)_x000D_ Paid Off (Walt Coburn)_x000D_ The Lonesome Trail (John Neihardt)_x000D_ Spawn of the Desert (W. C. Tuttle)_x000D_ A Texas Ranger (William MacLeod Raine)_x000D_ Gunsight Pass (William MacLeod Raine)_x000D_ The Conquest (Oscar Micheaux)_x000D_ John Brent (Theodore Winthrop)_x000D_ The Lone Ranger Rides (Fran Striker)_x000D_ The Heart of Canyon Pass (Thomas Holmes) _x000D_ The Lions of the Lord (Harry Leon Wilson) _x000D_ Raw Gold (Bertrand William Sinclair)_x000D_ The Valley of the Giants (Peter B. Kyne)...