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Big Stone Gap novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home to Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding close her tight circle of family and friends. But with her daughter Etta, having flown the nest to Italy, Ave Maria has...
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Ballad novels volume 10
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"John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly endearing. Inventor of the Ferguson rifle, and the devoted...
3) Chill factor
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Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney,...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 9
Zebra Western
Smoke Jensen the mountain man volume 9
The mountain volume 6
Zebra Western
Smoke Jensen the mountain man volume 9
The mountain volume 6
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New York Times bestselling series: Another man is about to learn what a mistake it is to draw on Smoke Jensen . . .
Itching for a challenge, adventurer Count Frederick von Hausen has sailed from Germany and now intends to hunt down Smoke Jensen—after hearing that Smoke was considered the meanest, toughest man in the West. And with a party of the nastiest hardcases he can find, von Hausen shadows Smoke into Wyoming's high...
Itching for a challenge, adventurer Count Frederick von Hausen has sailed from Germany and now intends to hunt down Smoke Jensen—after hearing that Smoke was considered the meanest, toughest man in the West. And with a party of the nastiest hardcases he can find, von Hausen shadows Smoke into Wyoming's high...
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William W. Johnston's breathtaking Mountain Man series set the standard for Western adventure. Now a new saga begins as the adopted son of Smoke Jensen takes his place on the unforgiving and violent American frontier... BORN TO BE BRAVE. Matt Cavanaugh was nine years old when a band of outlaws slaughtered his family... Now Matt is 18, honed by hardship, steeped in survival and carrying the last name of the man who raised him: Smoke Jensen. With Smoke's...
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Where There's Fire, There's Smoke Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smoke's arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang...
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A big city like St Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else will he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the Western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, the Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont - who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen...with the Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be worse and the...
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"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her mountain community during the Great Depression. Even the rough people-like ornery Perdita Sweet-have their charms. But can love bloom in such rocky soil?" --
Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. When a charming writer...
10) Gray Mountain
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
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Mountain Man: Matt Jensen volume 11
Matt Jensen the last mountain man volume 11
Mountain Man Matt Jensen volume 11
Matt Jensen the last mountain man volume 11
Mountain Man Matt Jensen volume 11
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English
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"No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet--no idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That's the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to--dazed and confused--until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last thing he remembers, he agreed to help out a friend of Duff MacCallister's--a pretty lady and her husband at a horse ranch. He also recalls their cross-country trip through...
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First mountain man series volume 22
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English
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When trappers in the Rockies are hunted down, murdered and then mutilated, their hearts carved out of their chests, Preacher must go up against a secret cult as old as the Aztecs to save his friends who have gone missing.
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Ballad novels volume 4
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English
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Four sons--a car salesman, a soldier, a naturalist and an actor--gather in Tennessee to build a coffin for their dying father. The novel describes their conflicts as they decide on the future of their farm, which has been in the family since 1790 and which a real estate developer wants to buy.
14) Wish you well
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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...
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It was a duty to a dead man. Jensen had promised his friend that he would deliver money to his brother in St. Louis, but the search leads to Arizona Territory. When a young woman is seized by renegade Apaches, it's up to Jensen to save her from a brutal death.
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Purgatory, Arizona, is the last place you'll ever cross the law. In this town, the law is the personal fiefdom of an evil man - as Matt Jensen discoverd on his first day there, when an unavoidable gunfight and a dead deputy landed him in jail, sentenced to hang at Yuma Prison. But when the train from Purgatory to Yuma is violently derailed, Matt is set free amidst the carnage - with a choice to make. He can run for his life and live like an outlaw...
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"The year is 1884. A 10-year-old British boy has come to visit his uncle's Wyoming spread, just as the vicious Yellow Kerchief Gang has the ranch under siege. Outgunned and outmatched, a British rancher is willing to pay $5000 for help. That is more than enough money to bring Matt Jenson into the fray. A huge, bloody massacre erupts at the Powder River. But Matt has to shoot carefully. The Yellow Kerchief Gang has a hostage--the British lad named...
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