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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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In 1940, a tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southeastern Virginia, but a courtroom battle could determine the fate of the entire family.
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains...
2) Black aces
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To prove himself worthy of his sweetheart and impress his neighbors, a down-on-his-luck rancher sets out to unmask the Black Ace Gang, a group of blackmailers terrorizing the town.
3) Rosamund
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Friarsgate inheritance volume 1
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From New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Smallcomes the first novel in the Friarsgate Inheritance series—a sweeping novel of a young girl’s unexpected journey into womanhood, into mystery and passion, and into history...
Rosamund Bolton is the heiress to the manor of Friarsgate in the wild Cumbrian border between England and Scotland. More than a splendid inheritance, Friarsgate will chart the...
Rosamund Bolton is the heiress to the manor of Friarsgate in the wild Cumbrian border between England and Scotland. More than a splendid inheritance, Friarsgate will chart the...
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A story within a story in which a historian discovers a manuscript in an old trunk which proves to be the memoirs of Charles O'Brien, an itinerant healer in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in which he tells of his influence on some of the great writers of the time, and explains how his life changed at the age of forty when he fell in love with, and was rejected by, a beautiful, young Englishwoman.
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Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family's three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fiance to raise the child, dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.
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FBI Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory. This assignment takes them to upstate New York where an elder of the Oneida tribe was found dead, every major bone in her body shattered. Their investigation puts them in the middle of a race war, and soon their lives depend on their...
7) Blood memory
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
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Wild Decembers charts the quick and critical demise of relations between Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler-"the warring sons of warring sons"-in the countryside of Western Ireland. With her inimitable gift for describing the occasions of heartbreak, O'Brien brings Joseph's live for his land to the level of his sister Breege's love for both him and his rival, Bugler. Breege sees "the wrong of years and the recent wrongs" fuel each other as Bugler comes...
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Having fled his family's farm at eighteen with a promise never to return, Guy Pehrsson is drawn back into his past when he receives his grandfather's ominous letter, "Trouble here. Come home when you can." He returns to discover a place both wholly familiar and barely recognizable and is cast into the center of an interracial land dispute with the exigencies of war. Widely acclaimed when first published in the eighties, the timeless novel Red Earth,...
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Author of the acclaimed novel The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty is an American original whose infectious prose will swiftly ensnare any reader. Art in America tells the story of unknown writer Steven Kearney, an aging man whose lifelong commitment to his art finally brings him to homelessness in NYC. Then miraculously he receives an invitation to become playwright in residence of a troubled Rocky Mountain town.
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Silver Hills trilogy volume 3
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English
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When the following spring brings little rain, Angel has only her faith - and Rogers Creek, the only water in Hartville - to see her through.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
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From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge is...
13) Fool's gold
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Bill Tucker has spent most of his life being pushed around. When he moves out to Wyoming and buys his own patch of ground, he is determined not to be seen as a small man anymore. But when he discovers gold on his new acres, he draws the attention of Septimus Arkwright, a local cattle company owner. For, blaming the Homestead Act for bringing Tucker to these parts, Arkwright considers the land - and the gold - to be rightfully his...
14) Nugget City
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"Nugget City was a Colorado mining town that made the transition to a ranching community. But the transition wasn't easy and it left a lot of bad blood. A range war had been brewing for a while, and greed, gossip, and rage were threatening to blow the town apart. The last thing the town needed was a spark to set off the tinderbox. Everyone was afraid that was just what they got when a mysterious stranger stepped off the stage - a stranger who wore...
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St. Helena Vineyard novels volume 3
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"Frankie Baudouin has a hundred reasons not to trust Nate DeLuca. First, he's a DeLuca. Second, he kissed her--in front of the entire town--and then never called. Oh, and he's after her land. Sorrento Ranch is Frankie's last chance to prove to her family--and to herself--that she has what it takes to be an award-winning winemaker. And she will stop at nothing to ensure her success--even if it means playing nice with the starched, sophisticated, and...
17) The gun tamer
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Peace-loving tenderfoot Dan Ferry has walked right into the middle of a war, one thats already claimed the life of his uncle and left him with a ranch to run. But the bad blood between his Triangle F ranch and the nearby Leighton family runs deeper than Dan can imagine, and the dispute over grazing rights is only part of the problem.
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Ben Stillman westerns volume 7
Sheriff Ben Stillman volume 07
Once late with a .38 volume 07
Wheeler large print western
Sheriff Ben Stillman volume 07
Once late with a .38 volume 07
Wheeler large print western
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Sheriff Ben Stillman has enough of a hard time keeping the peace in the town of Clantick without having to worrry abbout the likes of Matt Parrish. Since his father died, Matt has been responsible for the Circle P Ranch in the Two-Bear Mountains-and his notheaded streak has been responsible for a lot of trouble with other ranchers...including his future father-in-law, Tom Suthern.
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