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Ben Jones novels volume 1
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English
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Ben Jones lives a life of quiet and relative solitude, working as a trucker in one of the most isolated areas of the Utah desert, which has become a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. A preacher who carries a huge cross up and down the highway, brothers living in abandoned train cars, and Walt-the owner of The Well-Known Desert Diner, which hasn't been open since 1987-are among Ben's clients on that desolate strip of Highway...
3) Knockdown
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Rig warrior volume 4
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English
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A legend in the intelligence community, Barry Rivers is called in to track down the enemies in the U.S. government responsible for a perfectly orchestrated assault on a mass-transit railroad line that left countless Americans dead.
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Boldly go to times where no one has gone before. While transporting a contraband Russian time machine and developmental weaponry, Private Everett Dumphee finds himself cast into new settings when the device suddenly activates. What follows are fantastic high-tech experiences that might be called the ultimate off-road adventure. For the determined Dumphee - narrowly escaping with his life and three beautiful women - it is not necessarily a matter...
5) The circle
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Inspector Hen Mallin novels volume 1
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English
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Widowed van driver Bob Naylor is prodded into joining the Chichester Writers' Circle by his teenage daughter. Bob writes limericks and jingles, and fears he will be out of his class among the literati. But the members of the circle come from all walks of life and practice many forms of writing, from fantasy to household hints. There seems to be nothing about any of them to incite a serial killer. However, there is an arsonist in their midst, burning...
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"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - Booklist
Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When the Japanese tourist dies of exposure in Tommy Jack's care, a media storm erupts and sets off a series...
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Ben Jones novels volume 2
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English
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"After discovering an abandoned child along his truck route in the Utah desert, driver Ben Jones decides to take the child with him, unaware of the dangerous consequences he faces as a result of his decision"--
10) Deeply Odd
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Intuition compels Odd to attend the Eventide Festival, where thousands gather every year for three days and nights to celebrate the outr . As Odd finds himself among nihilistic celebrants with sinister intentions, Eventide Festival proves to be a little bit Woodstock and a lot of Hell...
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"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
12) Blood victory
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A secret weapon of a mysterious consortium, Charlotte Rowe, who baits evil predators and stops them in their tracks, goes after a long-haul truck driver whose cargo bay is a gallery of horrors on wheels.
13) Heart of Dixie
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Writer Jake Gannon couldn't believe it-his brand-new Porsche had overheated in the middle of nowhere, and he was towed by a brunette named Dixie! He'd driven south in search of the missing Devon Stafford, the exquisite blond actress whose life story he wanted to write. Instead, he was living in a s.
14) My big rig
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Zoom! While playing with his toy truck, a little boy imagines himself driving an eighteen-wheeler through a city, across a bridge, and into the countryside. Along the way, he uses his two-way radio and parks at a truck stop. Finally, he reaches the coast, where he unloads his cargo. His imagination would keep growing . . . but it's time for dinner!
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2016.
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"In 1119 A.D., a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon--a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world...
16) Bitter trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...
18) Truck driver Tom
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[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
The driver of a tractor-trailer picks up a load of fresh fruits and vegetables, then drives through the countryside, past small towns, and into the big city, passing farms, construction sites, and many other vehicles, then delivers the produce and relaxes with other drivers.
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