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1) Never never
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Sydney police department sex crimes detective Harriet Blue is called into her boss's office, she can't imagine it could be to tell her that her brother is the prime suspect in the brutal murders of three women. Shocked and in denial, Harry is transferred to Perth to avoid the media exposure this case will attract. Harry is sent into the outback--the never never--to investigate the disappearance of mine worker Danny Carter. The mining town is...
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Return to the Canadian West volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 20th century, new schoolteacher Beth Thatcher is assigned a post in a remote mining community in Western Canada. There her courage--and her heart--will be tested in unexpected ways"--Provided by publisher.
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Return to the Canadian West volume 3
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English
Description
When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be thankful for: her school is expanding, and she hopes to marry the man she loves in the spring. But soon, a new teacher who openly rejects God gives her cause for concern, as do new challenges in her relationship with Jarrick. Inspired by the Original Hallmark Series When Calls the Heart.
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English
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In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia? It’s...
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The Sacketts volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
Alone in the big city, a fierce young frontierswoman must outsmart a dangerous con man before she can stake her claim to the family fortune.
Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer...
Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer...
6) Matagorda
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English
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Tap Duvarney fought in the War Between the States, then signed on as an Indian fighter with the frontier army. Now he's settled in Texas, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery -- and in the middle of a blood feud between Kittery and the vicious Munson clan. Around Matagorda, most folks are either on the side of the Munsons -- or laying low. With Kittery and the Munsons out to spill each other's blood, and Kittery's woman stirring...
7) Appaloosa
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
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English
Description
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who...
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The Sacketts volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
The saga of the Sackett family continues with Logan Sackett, a cynical and rootless drifter, meeting a fiery old widow, Emily Talon-who is even wilder than himself. Tall and plucky, she is determined to defend herself against the locals who are trying to take her land. And even though Logan initially intends on not getting himself involved, he can't help it when he discovers that Emily had been born a Sackett.
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"The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called "The End of History." Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a "1939 moment." History never...
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First mountain man series volume 17
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English
Description
"The Santa Fe Trail stretches from the Mississippi River to New Mexico Territory through the West's most savage lands. That's why a wealthy trader hires the mountain man called Preacher to keep his trade goods safe--and hopefully deliver a flock of pilgrims to a Promised Land. A young prostitute. The spoiled son of a wagon train owner--these are a few of the souls Preacher must protect. But then a rifle goes off at the wrong moment. A towering grizzly...
11) Sackett's land
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The Sacketts volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett’s father threatens Genester’s inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is attacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate...
12) Lonesome Dove
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Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Language
English
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A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtrys Pulitzer Prize winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic,...
13) Western Europe
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Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Lonely Planet's Western Europe is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Raise a glass of champagne at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, find your own iconic London live music experience, and sense the ghosts of emperors past as you walk the cobbled streets of Rome - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Western Europe and begin your journey now!...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Description
A historical novel, based on a real-life event, follows the lives of two characters, a newly orphaned girl in 1629 who was shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia, and a lonely boy in 1989 who, over three hundred years later, arrives on the same island, discovering the story of an infamous shipwreck.
15) Outlaw country
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set in the early days of the Jensen family saga, this gun-blazing adventure follows Smoke and Sally from their first year of marriage to the founding of the legendary Sugarloaf Ranch.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail, looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only Hank Rossiter wasn’t the man he had been: old now and blind, Rossiter was trying desperately to hold on to a small ranch to support his daughter, Barbara. Suddenly Talon found himself in the middle of a range war, siding with the man he’d marked for payback. But had Rossiter really changed? And could his daughter be trusted by either...
17) Too soon to die
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English
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With their acclaimed novels of the Jensen family, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone have captured the pioneering spirit of America itself. Now a new generation of Jensens prepares to take the reinsand live the dream their ancestors fought for . . . A JENSEN CELEBRATION. A JENSEN RECKONING. Theres nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And theres no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedowneven...
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 9
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English
Description
From the Spur Award–winning author, the saga of one family and the blood spilled to make Arizona Territory their home . . .
Building a ranching empire is one thing, keeping it out of the hands of robbers, kidnappers, murderers, embezzlers, and every no-good opportunist crawling through the Arizona desert is a daily grind for Chet Byrnes. He's just as likely to rescue a stolen daughter as he is to recover rustled cattle on...
Building a ranching empire is one thing, keeping it out of the hands of robbers, kidnappers, murderers, embezzlers, and every no-good opportunist crawling through the Arizona desert is a daily grind for Chet Byrnes. He's just as likely to rescue a stolen daughter as he is to recover rustled cattle on...
19) Valley of bones
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 10
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English
Description
Spur Award–winning author: The telegraph is about to change the American West—and one rancher must battle those who would sabotage his family's future . . .
The Byrnes family saga continues in this epic novel by Western Heritage and Spur Award-winning Dusty Richards, starting with a trailblazing moment in our nation's history—and ending in bloodsoaked vengeance . . .
In a landmark feat of innovation,...
The Byrnes family saga continues in this epic novel by Western Heritage and Spur Award-winning Dusty Richards, starting with a trailblazing moment in our nation's history—and ending in bloodsoaked vengeance . . .
In a landmark feat of innovation,...
20) A reason to die
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Perley Gates westerns volume 2
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English
Description
When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
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