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1) Whispers
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"Even a man as powerful as Dutch Holland can't keep a scandal buried forever. That's why he's summoned his children home to Oregon before announcing his run for governor. Sixteen years ago, his rival's son, Harley Taggert, drowned in the murky waters of Lake Arrowhead. Dutch needs to know if his three daughters played a part--before the press begins digging into the tragedy. But instead of helping with damage control, the Holland sisters' return is...
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"Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another. The river itself swarms with salmon, bringing along with them another kind of wealth and violent fighting between the fishermen and the fish-packing monopoly. Into this scene comes Keven Bell, returning to face life after being handicapped by a disfiguring wound he received in World War I. Keven teams up with...
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Central Oregon is the last frontier, with transportation still by stagecoach and freight wagon. Now there's a movement afoot for a people's railroad. For years, competing railroad barons James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman have done nothing, but now they both set about building a line there. And for years their front men, Lee Dawes and Mike Quinn, have competed for rights-of-way - and for women. Attracted to Deborah Haig, Dawes is nettled to see...
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Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening-a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town's beaches. The Mercy of the Tide follows four people drawn irrevocably together by a recent tragedy as they do their best to reclaim their lives-leading them all to a...
5) The postman
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After a limited but devastating war the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning strike.
7) Everville
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Book of the Art volume 2
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A metaphysical fantasy novel about the parallel world of Quiddity where humans and creatures battle for possession of "The Art," the power to manipulate time and space. By the author of The Great and Secret Show.
8) Fire front
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Jason Garrett trained as a fire fighter in Portland, Oregon, but when his father, a state senator, pulls some strings he finds himself on an elite wildfire fighting crew called the Firestormers, a job he did not ask for, and is not sure he can handle--especially when Chief Anna MacElreath puts him in charge on his very first wildfire.
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When he was 19 years old, Neal Clark shot two men who were holding up a bank. A third robber, younger than Neal, got away, but the fellow, Ed Shelly, warned Neal hed be back for revenge. Eight years later, Neal is married, with a young daughter; he's manager of the bank and owner of his late father's ranch, the Circle C. But he's having a problem: a couple of shady characters have come into town looking for investors in their bogus irrigation project....
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Mark Kelton is eighteen years old -- part boy, part man. On the trail to set up ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and their strongbox containing $8,000 is stolen. Marks heads out onto the empty plain where he encounters Bronco Curtis, a man who knows what he wants, and Curtis befriends the young orphan. When Curtis was a boy, an older man had done the same for him. Under Curtis's tutelage, Mark becomes a hardened...
11) The third victim
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Robin Lockwood novels volume 1
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"In rural Oregon, two women are found dead after being tortured, battered, and burned. A third woman escapes with evidence that points overwhelmingly to a local man. When a young lawyer joins the team defending him, she uncovers corruption, lies, and secrets that threaten to shake up not only her firm but the entire town" --
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