Scott Sowers
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Everyone is a suspect in this cozy-style mystery. This book is a sequel to "Life and Death at the Dog Park" that follows the adventures of Vivien Szabo, a retired Secret Service officer in Washington, D.C. and her black Labrador Retriever, Mooky. In this story, Vivien, Mooky and close friend Lenny travel to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia for a weekend getaway. Upon arrival they are confronted by a controversial TV show host who proceeds to insult...
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A normal day at the dog park is disrupted when Mooky, a black lab comes bounding out of the woods with a human leg bone in her mouth. Retired Secret Service agent, Vivien Szabo, who is the owner of Mooky is pulled into this cozy-style, mystery- thriller where her friends and neighbors all become murder suspects. The story is, told through the eyes of Mooky and Vivien, who also finds herself involved with one of the Washington Metro Police detectives...
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Trail drive series volume 6
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English
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Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
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Trail drive series volume 8
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Returning home after the Civil War, Texas rancher Dan Ember and his neighbors find that their only chance of survival is a dangerous cattle drive north across the Llano, an area overrun with killers, gunslingers, and Quanah Parker's Comanches.
5) Quiver
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One of the most riveting and powerful new voices in crime fiction, Peter Leonard delivers a razor-sharp debut thriller.
Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. While Kate struggles with her son's surly guilt, her first love, Jack, an ex-con, reappears, along with a crew of his former "colleagues." While Jack must convince his partners in crime that he really did lose the heist money, his appearance...
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Trail drive series volume 5
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After hard years of ranching, Gil and Van Austin, two Texas brothers, are eager to sell their well-grazed longhorns in California, and they set out on their journey, encountering Indian attacks, outlaw trouble, and brutal Mother Nature along the way.
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Hell's Angels" was Hunter Thompson's first book, an account of the year that the reporter spent riding with the biker gang, then the very symbol of dangerous counterculture. After writing a piece on the Heirs Angels and other cycle gangs for The Nation, Thompson signed a contract with Ballantine and spent time with "as many vicious thugs as possible." His involvement ended on Labor Day 1966 when a group of Angels "stomped" Thompson, nearly kicking...
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Trail drive series volume 7
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Nelson Story has money from his gold claim but is a marked man. The Plummer gang is after him for hanging the outlaw sheriff, Henry Plummer. So Story and his partners go to Fort Worth, buy cattle, and head for Illinois markets, but poor grass and high tolls turn them toward Montana and dangerous Sioux lands.
9) Scarecrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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The newest action thriller from the author of the bestselling Ice Station and Area 7 marks the return of Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield in his fastest, most nail-biting challenge yet. It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world-commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names, one stands out-an enigmatic Marine...
10) Out of range
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"A husband searches for his missing wife--and the secrets of their marriage--and enters into a dangerous world of international espionage in this action-packed, debut thriller from the creator of the hit television series 'Without a Trace'." --
11) Cataloochee
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Debut novelist Wayne Caldwell's Cataloochee, a rich, vivid, arresting work beginning at the dawn of Reconstruction, sprawls across the succeeding generations like the vast green mountains of its rural North Carolina setting. Best-selling author Charles Frazier calls it “a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America.” This enthralling saga evokes the full-color spectrum of mountain life, from lights to darks and...
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Trail drive series volume 3
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From the Texas brakes to the Canadian river they blazed a trail. Armed with only a Colt rifle and a Bowie knife, Ten Chisholm leaves New Orleans with a price on his head. His only crime--loving the daughter of a powerful gambler. With a vow to return, Ten rides into the brakes.
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When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, reporter Sully Carter knows its time to start asking some serious questionsno matter what the consequences. With the police unable to find a lead and pressure mounting for Sully to abandon the investigation, he has a hunch that there is more to the case than a drug deal gone bad or a tale of family misfortune....
14) English Creek
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Depicts the personal struggles of the McCaskill family in 1930s Montana as they face a forest fire, the coming of age of fourteen-year-old Jick, rodeos, and community dances.
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When Edward arrives at the home of Mary Bayly in 1922, he knows the old lady is dying and plans to give him the Retreat, the legendary Mason family estate, since he is the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant. Edward hopes it's a quick process, but instead spends the day listening to her stories of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War.
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When a Texas oil exploration company discovers a massive oil reserve off the Equatorial Guinea coast, the company plots an overthrow of the region's government, a situation that is countered by U.S. President John Henry Harry and former LAPD homicide detective Nicholas Marten.
18) The Oregon trail
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Trail drive series volume 9
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"The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns--and the brains, brawn, and boldness to make the journey to Missouri, where further danger awaits ..."--Pg 4 of cover.
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Two Medicine Country volume 06
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From one of the greatest novelists of the American West comes a surprising and riveting story set in Montana and New York during the Harlem Renaissance, drawing together an unlikely set of thwarted performers in one last inspired grasp at life's set of gold rings: love and renown. Susan Duff-the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from the pages of Doig's most popular work, Dancing at the Rascal Fair-has reached middle age alone, teaching...