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1) So Big
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.
2) Dream West
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American story 1800-1860 volume 1
Language
English
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"The classic New York Times bestseller back in print for a new generation Telling the amazing true story of famed explorer, John Charles Fremont, and his beloved supporter and muse, Jessie Benton, Dream West made the New York Times bestseller list and became a CBS mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain. Now available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Nevin`s epic of adventure and discovery displays the passion of an early explorer`s dream...
3) The shootist
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Shootist volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gunfighter at the turn of the twentieth century who must confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death. Most men would end their days in bed or take their own lives, but a gunfighter has a third option, one that Books decides to exercise. He may choose his own executioner. As word spreads that the famous assassin has incurable cancer, an assortment of human vultures gathers to feast on the corpse--among them a...
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Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family, while exposing their damning secrets. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken...
9) Firefall
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English
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He brings the Old West to vivid new life in his action-packed stories of heroism, adventure and excitement. With over two million of his books in print, Cameron Judd powerfully depicts, as no other writer can, the struggles of a generation of Americans on a harsh and beautiful frontier.
Montana Territory, 1884. A huge fire has consumed the sin-soaked town of Gomorrah, just as crazy "Parson" Peabody, a drunken, broken-down preacher, had foretold....
10) The Kid: a novel
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English
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"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money,...
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Skye's West volume 10
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English
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During a trip back to the village of his Crow wife, Victoria, she is abducted by a deadly band of Blackfeet, and Skye must risk his life to rescue her, following a trail that takes him back to Canada, where he is still wanted by the British Navy for deserting his ship, four years ago.
12) Diezmo
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Author Rick Bass has won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry and PEN/Nelson Algren Awards for his short fiction. With The Diezmo he crafts a stirring novel that sheds light on an extraordinary but little-known episode of Texas history. When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the glory seeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo-a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.
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Linda Lael Miller
creates a masterwork of Western storytellingin this unforgettable series that brings four cousins — the spirited McQuarry women — to the Nevada Territory
to share an inheritance: the parcel of untamed land known as Primrose Creek.
BRIDGET
She lost her husband to the Civil War; now, starting a new life out West, she never dreamed his best friend, Trace Qualtrough, could spark a forbidden passion.
CHRISTY
All...
creates a masterwork of Western storytellingin this unforgettable series that brings four cousins — the spirited McQuarry women — to the Nevada Territory
to share an inheritance: the parcel of untamed land known as Primrose Creek.
BRIDGET
She lost her husband to the Civil War; now, starting a new life out West, she never dreamed his best friend, Trace Qualtrough, could spark a forbidden passion.
CHRISTY
All...
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The education in real life of a 19th Century dilettante. Philip Hamilton interrupts his philosophy studies at Harvard to deliver money for his father to St. Louis, but his snobbish ways get him into trouble. He is robbed and sold for indentured labor on the frontier in wild and dangerous Indian country.
16) An unseemly wife
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English
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Ruth Holtz has more blessings than she can count - a loving husband, an abundant farm, beautiful children, and the warm embrace of the Amish community. Then, the English arrive, spreading incredible stories of free land in the West and inspiring her husband to dream of a new life in Idaho. Breaking the rules of their Order, Ruth's husband packs up his pregnant wife and their four children and joins a wagon train heading west. Though Ruth is determined...
17) Outlaw's bride
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English
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“A very amusing and imaginative romp that has the Joan Johnston stamp of excellence all over it.”—Affaire de Coeur
When the gorgeous blonde sashayed into Oakville, Ethan Hawk was a goner—until she told him her name: Patch Kendrick. The tomboy tease he remembered from Fort Benton, Montana, was now a luscious lady hunting for her man: him! Nothing, not even his outlaw past, would keep Patch off his trail....
When the gorgeous blonde sashayed into Oakville, Ethan Hawk was a goner—until she told him her name: Patch Kendrick. The tomboy tease he remembered from Fort Benton, Montana, was now a luscious lady hunting for her man: him! Nothing, not even his outlaw past, would keep Patch off his trail....
18) Fair is the rose
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English
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On the run from the law for a crime she didn't commit, a woman must trust her life to a gunslinger who is not what he seems in award-winning author Meagan McKinney's sensual and suspenseful historical romance With her face on Wanted posters from New York to Missouri, Christal Van Alen dons a disguise, determined to clear her name by bringing the real killer to justice. But when outlaws ambush her wagon train, her fate falls into the hands of the most...
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Skye's West volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him.
With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric...
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