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41) Eventide
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Wheeler, Arkansas, 1907 When their father descends into madness after the death of their mother, Verity Pruitt and her little sister Lilah find themselves on an orphan train to rural Arkansas. In Wheeler, eleven-year-old Lilah is quickly adopted, but seventeen-year-old Verity is not. Desperate to stay close to her sister, Verity indentures herself as a farmhand. But even charming farm boy Abel Atchley can’t completely distract her from the sense...
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John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations when he was shot and seriously injured. Now, fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker to appear in his court within thirty days. Cole isn't inclined to go, but he knows whatever's on Judge Parker's mind is serious and decides...
43) Powder burn
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Will Tanner novels volume 3
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 3
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 03
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 3
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 03
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner earned his badge the old-fashioned way. He shot the bad guys, saved the good guys, and won the fear and respect of everyone in between. That's how legends are born. But when he visits a friend at his ranch and ends up confronting a trigger-happy horse thief, Will earns the wrath of the deadliest, lowlife killers west of the Mississippi. This is how legends die . . . Turns out Will Tanner is nothing but a moving target...
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"The salacious and scandalous murders of a series of couples on Texarkana's 'lovers lanes' in seemingly idyllic post-WWII America created a media maelstrom and cast a pall of fear over an entire region. What is even more surprising is that the case has remained cold for decades. Combining archival research and investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize nominated historian James Presley reveals evidence that provides crucial keys to unlocking this decades-old...
47) Minari
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[2021]
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A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
48) God's not dead 2
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2016.
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A teacher finds herself in trouble when she answers a student's question about Jesus.
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2012.
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"Finding what she hopes will be an ideal house to share with her new husband and teenage daughter, Claire Malloy learns that the property's previous owner died under suspicious circumstances and that a real estate agent has gone missing"--from NoveList.
50) Roots
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
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1330L
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"A condensed version of a portion of this work first appeared in Reader's digest."
Alex Haley traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors, Kunte Kinte, was captured and sold into slavery. He follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
51) True Grit
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©2011
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Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search...
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[2007]
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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830L
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In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.
54) Bound for Oregon
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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830L
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A fictionalized account of the true life journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
55) Shades of gray
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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800L
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At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the war.
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Hayden Tilden westerns volume 6
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Tilden's latest mission: track down the Coltrane brothers, who butchered most of the Cassidy family and made off with their daughter, Daisy. But when a girl down in Texas claims to be Daisy Cassidy, Tilden smells a lie. Still, he and his partners set off to escort her from Texas to Arkansas-and if they should come across the Coltranes, there might be no need to bring them back alive. Tilden's latest mission: track down the Coltrane brothers, who butchered...
57) Buffalo wagons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
59) Raina's choice
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2014
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Raina Vernay is a slave to her brother-in-law's brutal bidding in a seedy Louisiana saloon. She's at the end of her rope.... Then a mysterious stranger, Ty Kincaid, arrives in town from Mexico, headed for Arkansas by way of the riverboats, and Raina's mind starts churning a plan. She longs to find the father she's never known. Is Ty her ticket to Indian Territory? Maybe not, when Ty lands himself in jail. And yet, what other choice does Raina have?...
60) Hot blooded
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"Katelyn had only been in Wolf Springs a short time before she was bitten by a werewolf. And now she carries that creature's curse in her veins. But she's not alone. Wolf Springs is home to a hidden family of werewolves, the Fenners, who swear that none of them bit her. Apparently there's a monster on the loose, something wild and uncontrollable. And to make matters worse, Katelyn's struggling to resist her own animal urges"--From publisher description....
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