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2) Big Ike
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The odds were always against Big Ike. When he risked everything to start a new life in the gold fields of California. When he joined the Union Army and was wounded leading a charge at Shiloh. And more than ever, the odds are against him now, as he leads a wagon train through hostile Apache territory to establish a freight line in Arizona. Big Ike will finally face the greatest odds of his life. He has a gentle nun on one side of him, a reformed prostitute...
3) Remembered
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When Veronique Girard was five, her father left for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a deathbed promise carries Veronique from Paris to Willow Springs to find her long-lost father-said to be mining the near-by mountains. But when she asks local freighter Jack Brennan to take her on his treacherous mining camp deliveries, neither realizes how much such a simple request will forever alter their lives.
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Thorndike Press
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[2008]
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English
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John Silver had never killed a man. But on a smoldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his shipmates dead or dying, his cutlass has just claimed the lives of six pirates. Surrounded by their crewmates, Silver fears his merchant navy career is at an end. Then the pirate captain makes him an offer. On the other side of the world, Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. These two will become deadly partners -...
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Seems like every time Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack turns over a rock, a Black Valley Rider jumps out. So when two bounty hunters arrive in Minton Hill trailing the same outlaws, Sam agrees to ride with them. Trouble is, only a drunken gambler called Tinnis Lucas knows where the gang is holed up-a dead man's land called Black Valley.
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[2010]
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English
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In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity ... and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.
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[2011]
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English
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Rebekah travels to Texas to care for her sick aunt, and she's sure that a glamorous and exciting life is about to start. But the Spanish flu epidemic changes everything, and now she must choose between her desire to escape the type of life she's always led and the unexpected love that just might change the dream of her heart.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two womena female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of...
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