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Berrybender narratives volume 3
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English
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Continues the saga of the Berrybender family--rich, aristocratic, and English--as they travel across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe where they plan to spend the winter. Along the way they meet up with characters from the West including Kit Carson, the famous scout, and LePartezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief.
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
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English
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Englishman Lord Berrybender's excursion into the American frontier lands him in the custody of Mexican authorities who decide to move the group across the desert to Vera Cruz, while Berrybender's oldest daughter Tasmin, having finally made it to civilization in New Orleans, tries to decide whether she wants her husband, mountainman Jim Snow, to be part of her future.
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Berrybender narratives volume 2
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English
Description
In the Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at the point in time when the Mountain men and trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson though still alive, are already legendary figures...
6) Remembered
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The threat of war--and a final request--send Véronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she searches for the man who has held her heart since childhood--her father. Pierre Girard left Paris for the Americas to seek his fortune in fur trading, vowing to send for his wife and daughter. But twenty-five years have passed and his vow remains unfulfilled. Sifting through shards of broken promises, Véronique...
7) Sin killer
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It is 1830, and the Berrybender family -- rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place -- is on its way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. With irascible determination -- and a great deal of outright chaos -- the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers,...
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Silhouette romance volume 436
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English
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Love under the Texan sky
Underneath her bubbly carefree facade, there was more—much more—to the champagne girl. Catherine Blake had high personal standards, including a sense of duty to her widowed mother, which brought her back to Comanche Flats, the family ranch.
Once she'd returned, her stepbrother, Matt Kincaid, only complicated matters. Matt demanded that she stay on at the ranch, under his watchful eye. But Catherine...
Underneath her bubbly carefree facade, there was more—much more—to the champagne girl. Catherine Blake had high personal standards, including a sense of duty to her widowed mother, which brought her back to Comanche Flats, the family ranch.
Once she'd returned, her stepbrother, Matt Kincaid, only complicated matters. Matt demanded that she stay on at the ranch, under his watchful eye. But Catherine...
10) Marry me
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When she becomes seriously ill, Rhyne Abbot is forced to leave her life of isolation on her father's ranch and come to town, where, while recovering in the home of Dr. Cole Monroe, she falls in love with her handsome caretaker.
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"Head to Hope Falls, Colorado, where three enterprising young women put an ad in the paper for healthy, hardworking husbands-for-hire, never dreaming the suitors would respond so promptly--and in person! Out of the logjam of eligible bachelors, which ones will Evelyn, Lacey, and Naomi choose?"--Amazon.com, viewed November 25, 2013.
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"The ruthless criminal who took Juliana O'Malley hostage was a thief and an outlaw--or so she thinks. But on a perilous journey through the Smoky Mountains, he becomes her unlikely protector. And when he pledges to return her home safely, she somehow finds herself believing him. Evan Harrison has risked everything to find the men who killed his brother. Saving spirited, strong-willed Juliana could blow his cover with a deadly gang. Yet her courage...
13) The jeweled spur
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House of Winslow volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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Laurie Winslow, working with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in order to earn money for college, runs into old friend Cody Rogers and manages to land him a job as a trick roper with the troupe, but as the two young people's feelings for one another grow, so does the fear that Cody's troubled past is about to catch up with him.
14) Santa Fe woman
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Wagon wheel series volume 1
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English
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Ever since her mother's death, twenty-two year old Jori Hayden has lived safely under the shelter of her wealthy father. But when the severe economic depression of the 1800s destroys the family's fortune, the Haydens must venture west together along the Santa Fe Trail in search of a new livelihood. With her father in poor health and her Aunt Kate-a dedicated Christian-keeping charge over the younger siblings, Jori hires Chad Rocklin right out of prison...
15) Lawless
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English
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Texas Ranger Judd Dunn and Christabel Gaines find their marriage of convenience slowly evolving into a union of undeniable passion, but when a mysterious enemy enters their lives, their newfound love is endangered.
16) To tame a land
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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Rye Tyler was 12 when he saw his father cut down in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for Shakespeare and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the lessons of a hard country.
17) The maverick
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Six years ago, Susanne McCord tricked Cass Claxton into marrying her in a shotgun wedding. They haven't seen each other since that day, but when they cross paths again, everything has changed. Susanne has mended her ways, at least some of them, and she needs Cass to help her transport nine orphans crosscountry in a covered wagon. They drive each other crazy as they encounter challenges along the trail, but through it all they find themselves falling...
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Crossroads of grace volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of mistakes, a young woman heads west, leaving behind her hopes of redemption.
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