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Series
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
During the 1920s, a rabies epidemic swept across northern Nevada, decimating wildlife and livestock herds. This historic event is the background for acclaimed writer Robert Laxalt's brilliant new novella. Time of the Rabies follows owner Pete Lorda and his family and ranch hands as the epidemic swirls around them, pulling humans and animals into an epic battle against an invisible but deadly foe. Beginning when a roving coyote is bitten by a rabid...
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Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete, Hayley Poole, is recovered in the Nevada desert, authorities...
Author
Series
Golgotha novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books, St Martins Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets. 1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes,...
Author
Publisher
Lucky Bat Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The Santa Dog Teacher's Edition provides a great classroom reading activity. It starts with the story. When abandoned golden retriever Denby is rescued by Santa in the Nevada desert on Christmas Eve, he knows he has found the perfect family. But over the months between one Christmas and the next, Denby finds himself again and again doing what he has been told not to. Are his actions somehow tied to the injury he had when Santa found him? Or is he...
Author
Series
Dale Brown's Dreamland volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland Strike Zone. An Asian war that would have escalated into a nuclear nightmare has been halted, thanks to the raw courage, unparalleled skill, and total commitment of the Dreamland force. But an analysis of radar data has revealed the presence of an unknown super-weapon in the area: a robot warplane with terrifying...
Author
Series
Read the world volume 5
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Nevada Days is a fictionalised account of Atxaga's nine months' stay as writer-in-residence at the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada. He is accompanied by his wife, Angela, who is also doing research there, and by their two daughters. During their first few weeks, the family encounter a strange mapache (racoon), which is always staring at them from the garden, a flight of helicopters immediately overhead, a black widow spider,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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JACK RABBIT SPEAKS A tall figure stands alone, waiting to be engulfed in flames. It is the Burning Man, the giant wooden centerpiece of Nevada's famous weeklong arts festival. Every year, thousands flock to the middle of the desert to push the limits of creativity and outrageousness. Dex Edden is not one of them. A computer programmer, Dex has come to the wild and wooly festival only to please his boss. Out of the blue, he will be a witness to murder....
Author
Publisher
Tales of Nevada
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
"Virginia City, Nevada, 1862. A mountain of almost pure silver has been discovered and, almost overnight, more than 30,000 miners and prospectors are swarming over the slopes of Mount Davidson in search of a piece of the famous Comstock Lode. But one man, John Stanford, is determined to make his fortune above ground, not below. The miners will need food and Stanford is determined to bring it to them... on the hoof. This is the story of one of the...
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Series
Desert plains volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can't turn down one last investigation. This time, it's a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things. She's the only one who can catch the killer, who's left a trail of bodies in arural community outside of Las Vegas. But the more Jessica finds out, the less clear her case becomes. Out of options, she's forced to consult her serial killer ex-husband-to gain additional insight...
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Series
Publisher
Arcade/CrimeWise
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, a taut, fast-moving contemporary thriller that builds to an explosive, action-filled conclusion. The third book in the acclaimed western thriller series that debuted with Under Tower Peak--named one of the Ten Best Mysteries of the Year by the Wall Street Journal--See That My Grave Is Kept Clean once again features Iraqi war sniper and Eastern Sierra packer Tommy Smith. Now returned from another tour in...
91) Skin
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
94) Rabbit boss
Author
Publisher
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
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