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Ozark Mountain trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"It had to be Riley Jo. She was certain--wasn't she? But when Abby Cummings tells her mother she thought she saw her sister at the store, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. After all, Riley Jo and their father had been missing for years--presumably dead. Yet Abby cannot ignore her intuition. Telling her friend J.D., they investigate. But J.D. may know more about the disappearance than he's telling, or even realizes. And as they work to uncover...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago. When one of Lucy's few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls--the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn't protect....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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The adventures of a ten-year-old boy and the two dogs he bought with money he had earned.
"Billy has long dreamt of owning not one but two dogs. So when he's finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own, he's ecstatic. Soon Billy and his hounds become the finest hunting team in the valley. But tragedy awaits these determined hunters--now friends--and in time Billy learns that hope can grow out of despair."--
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Lexile measure
960L
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English
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From One of America's Best-Loved Writers of the Early Twentieth Century - Harold Bell Wright was truly one of America's master writers of the early twentieth century. His books have sold millions of copies. He possessed an amazing ability to capture a slice of memorable history, to introduce unforgettable characters, and through it all to weave meaningful truth and spiritual significance. The Shepherd of the Hills is the classic story of the stranger...
6) Tomato red
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English
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In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red from her rage and ambition, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother, Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks, that is the most dangerous and courageous...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Billy, old Dan and little Ann- a boy and his two dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan and the brawn, Little Ann had the brains- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley.
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Harold Bell Wright's timeless tale of a young minister and his wayward flock-in a new edition edited by an acclaimed Christian author.
First published in 1909, The Calling of Dan Matthews tells the story of a young minister's coming of age and the challenges he faces as he doggedly seeks to answer God's call. Growing up in the Ozark Mountains, Dan Matthews is deeply devoted to his faith. But when he accepts a post in the Midwestern town of Corinth,...
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Cheney Duvall, M.D volume 2
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 2
Five Star standard print Christian fiction
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 02
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 2
Five Star standard print Christian fiction
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Dr. Cheney Duvall, finding all doors closed to female physicians in 1865, answers a friend's plea to set up a practice in the primitive wilderness of Wolf County, Arkansas, but she finds herself as equally unwelcome in the mountain community as she was in Philadelphia society.
10) Rancher's refuge
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English
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Rancher Austin Blackwell knows a wounded creature when he sees one. Although Annalisa Keller won't reveal how she ended up stranded in Whisper Falls, his conscience refuses to let her leave. The little Ozarks town could be the perfect place for her to start over-just as it was for him. Trying to keep his own past hidden, Austin finds himself falling for the vulnerable beauty with too many secrets.
11) Grave sight
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Series
Harper Connelly mysteries volume 1
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English
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A teenage girl missing from a small Ozarks t'wn is feared dead. Hired by local police, Harper locates the girl*s body in a nearby forest. But there's more than one corpse in those woods, and the second one raises questions no one wants to ask. Soon Harper and her assistant, her stepbrother Tolliver, are under suspicion. All they want is to get out of town, but they will have to clear their reputations first.
13) Zeke and Ned
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English
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A case of adultery spirals into racial violence in 1870s Oklahoma Territory. The story begins when a white man seeks justice because a halfbreed is sleeping with his wife. There is a shootout, the races take side and blood flows.
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Tending roses volume 3
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English
Description
After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
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When her husband is shot in the line of duty and she is hit by a car, ICU nurse Willow Traynor escapes to her brother's cabin in the Ozarks where yet another tragedy befalls her, and now, realizing that someone is trying to kill her, turns to Dr. Graham Vaughn and his sister for help.
17) A Painted House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...
18) Music to die for
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English
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Set at Ozark Folk Center State Park in remote Stone County, Arkansas, Music to Die For finds Carrie McCrite and several friends planning a weekend vacation at the Folk Center, where they're signed up for craft classes. But the crafts will have to take a back seat to a kidnapping, arson, and murder after Dulcey Mason, four-year old daughter of famous country musicians Chase Mason and Tracy Teal, disappears, and her abductor is found stabbed, and his...
19) The wedding kiss
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In the Euraka Springs, Arkansas, of 1901, just surviving was often all a person could do. Having choices about the direction of their lives might be possible for some, but not for Keara. When she agreed to marry Elam Jensen, Keara was doing what was necessary, and she had resigned herself to a marriage of convenience. Keara and Elam would forgo love and passion in favor of obligation. On their wedding day, when Keara and Elam Jensen share their first...
20) The flaming trap
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Series
American adventures (Lee Roddy) volume 5
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Returning to the Ozark Mountains to visit their grandmothers, Hildy and Ruby encounter old mountain hatreds, danger, and forgiveness.
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