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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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During the early 1900s, the infamous and beautiful Etta Place ran alongside the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, evading the law and raising hell. The ever-elusive Etta and her personal life have remained a mystery to historians. Here, Emmy Award-winning television reporter and journalist Gerald Kolpan envisions the life of Etta Place in a remarkable debut novel.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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As the Civil War rages across the land, two courageous young women embark on separate perilous missions ...Heading west on the Oregon Trail with he family's with her Thoroughbreds and a ragtag band of freed slaves, Jesselynn Highwood and her companions are forced to separate from their wagon train and begin a new journey fraught with hardship and peril. Back East, while smuggling medical supplies, her sister Louisa and brother Zachary are captured...
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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.
10) Wings of a dream
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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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2013.
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English
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A tale inspired by the lives of Borgia siblings Lucretia and Cesare traces the family's rise in the aftermath of Rodrigo Borgia's rise to the papacy, during which war, a terrifying sexual plague, and the family's notorious reputation forge an intimate bond between brother and sister.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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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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"A thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles. San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and...
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