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Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Held hostage in a camp of bandits, Ariana's emotions swing between terror and boredom as days stretch into weeks. Will she ever see her mother and father again, the two who had so lovingly adopted her as an infant and raised her as their own? Will she ever wear the wedding dress so carefully saved for her, her one link with her birth parents, now long dead?
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Two tough-as-nails Americans head to Mexico in the midst of a bloody civil war and finds themselves on the run from a ruthless bandito and doing anything necessary to stay alive. Denmon portrays the American frontier as it really was: dark, gritty, unromantic, and--at times--downright deadly.
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2021.
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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
5) Utah Blaine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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They said his hands moved like the raw edge of lightning. Utah Blaine was a big man, a fighting man, fast with a gun. Very fast. He had to be to face the vigilante terror of the greedy ranchers of Red Creek who were willing to destroy anyone or anything to get at the rich range land of his friend. There were already a lot of stories about Utah Blaine and his guns. After Red Creek they would have to write some new ones - or his epitaph.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
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TURN HOME, RIDER
In this land, the place you leave behind might not be there when you get back. At least not the way you knew it. Tack Gentry of the G Bar, Chat Lock of Dutchman’s Flat, and Ward McQueen of the Tumbling K knew how it felt to struggle against men who were trying to take from them what they believed in. For the bad rush in when the good leave, and men will choose to fight, not just over drunken threats, gambling
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Trail West series volume 2
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The accidental gunslinger Dooley Monahan has quit wandering and settled down to a farmer's life. But when the itch for adventure gets too strong, he packs up and rides west. Along with his horse General Grant, and Blue, a dog who's too smart for his own good, Dooley rides for the Black Hills to strike it rich in the gold fields of Colorado. But fate has other ideas. When the trigger-happy Dobbs-Queeg gang holds up the Omaha bank, Dooley is mistaken...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there're hunters: the one and...
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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
11) Crack in the sky
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Titus Bass novels volume 3
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Grizzled mountain man Titus Bass experiences a series of frontier adventures, from a searing fight with the Comanche to a chase after horse thieves.
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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"Laura's teaching position forces her to live away from home for the first time. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks - every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit"--P. [4] of cover..
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Titus Bass novels volume 7
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The continuing adventures of Titus Bass, a 19th century fur trapper married to an Indian woman as he tries to survive despite over-trapping by such giants as the Hudson Bay Company. In this seventh installment Bass fights wolves.
15) Vengeance road
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Vengeance road volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--