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1) The seekers
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Abraham Kent has served his country by helping to pacify the Indian threat on the frontier. But upon his return to Boston, he finds he cannot embrace the future his father has chosen for him-being a printer in the family publishing house. Defying his father's indomitable will, Abraham will venture west with his new bride to seek out his own fortune-in a land full of limitless opportunity and unknown danger ...
2) Deep river
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"In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal old-growth forests begets rapid development, and radical labor movements begin...
3) The furies
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Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and restore her family's legacy.
4) The rebels
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Beginning with a rag-tag group of Continental soldiers and sweeping across the nation's earliest war-torn years, the rebels continue the chronicle of Philip Kent, patriot soldier, and the colorful men and women who were in the struggle for American independence.
6) My Ántonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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"Orphaned Jim Burden rides the trains from Virginia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, where he will live with his paternal grandparents. Jake, a farmhand from Virginia, rides with the 10-year-old boy. On the same train, headed to the same destination, is the Shimerda family from Bohemia. Jim lives with his grandparents in the home they have built, helping as he can with chores to ease the burden on the others. The home has the dining room and kitchen downstairs,...
7) The bastard
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This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.
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In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all time, is the story of one such man who returned to reestablish himself in a law-abiding society. In Texas, young bank robber Wade Holden, once the toughest, fastest trigger man in the notorious Simm Bell gang, makes a promise to his...
9) The lawless
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Louis Kent has died in ruin. Jephtha Kent's vow to reuinte his family has fallen to his son Gideon. But when Gideon draws Louis's widow, Julia, back into the fold, he fans the embers of illicit romance that will inflame the Kents for generations to come.
10) The Americans
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Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 8
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At the turn of the century, failing health makes Gideon Kent fear for the future of his family dynasty, for his daughter Eleanor, an actress, and his sons, Carter, a con man, and Will, who was scarred by his mother's breakdown.
11) The ghost rifle
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"Descended from a long line of ramblers and rogues, Jack Picaro came to America to seek his fortune. But after killing his best friend in a drunken duel, the apprentice gunsmith flees westward, leaving everything he knows behind. As Jack ventures up the Missouri River, he finds an unspoiled land where a man can live free - and also be attacked by an Arikara war party. His rifle stolen in the bloody skirmish, Jack sets out alone to reclaim it. His...
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Caleb Marlowe novels volume 1
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Caleb Marlowe carved out his own legend as frontier scout and lawman before arriving in the Colorado boomtown of Elkhorn. Famous for a lightning-quick draw and nerves of steel, he is mysterious, guarded, and unpredictable. Now, he wants to leave the past behind. But the past has a way of dogging a man. When Doc Burnett, Caleb's only friend in town, goes missing, his daughter Sheila comes seeking Caleb's help. Newly arrived from the East, she hotly...
13) Shaman
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This New York Times Notable Book is a “sweeping historical drama” of a physician and his family on the Illinois frontier in the nineteenth century (The New York Times Book Review).
Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation.
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"Arizona Territory, 1899. Ruby Fortune faces an untenable choice: murder her abusive husband or continue to live with bruises that never heal. One bullet is all it takes. Once known as "Girl Wonder" on the Wild West circuit, Ruby is now a single mother of four boys in her hometown of Jericho, an end-of-the-world mining town north of Tucson. Here, Ruby opens a roadside inn to make ends meet. Drifters, grifters, con men, and prostitutes plow through...
15) Men of men
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A novel which follows the romances and adventures of Robyn Ballantyne and her brother in the dangerous times during which Cecil Rhodes was establishing his diamond empire in Africa.
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