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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neighborly requires hard muscle and a clear head. She's also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, When Harley's body is dicovered frozen in a snowdrift one January day in 1912, she...
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"Welcome to the Lost Coyote Saloon. Saddle up to the bar and order a whiskey. Play a few hands of poker. But don't make any trouble. The new owner is savage. Ben Savage. Once a Texas Ranger, he's always cocked and ready for some fool to come looking for payback ... When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died--and left him his saloon--he's not sure what to think ... But when Savage travels to Buzzard's Bluff, Texas, to...
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The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery. Meg helps her brother move his computer company into new quarters. Moving turns into murder when the office practical joker turns up dead on top of the mail cart and Meg must find out who did it.
6) Buzzard bait
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Widowmaker Jones volume 2
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English
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"Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man's bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like 'Widowmaker.' Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There's just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country... When Newt gets word that a renegade...
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Ben Savage, saloon ranger volume 2
Ben Savage Saloon Ranger western volume 02
Ben Savage saloon ranger volume 2
Ben Savage Saloon Ranger western volume 02
Ben Savage saloon ranger volume 2
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English
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"At the Texas Rose Saloon, you can bet your bottom dollar that some lowlife will try to cheat you, beat you, or defeat you. But bar owner Ben Savage won't let a few bad customers ruin a good time. And he's got the guns to prove it... Located in the bullet-riddled heart of Texas, the Texas Rose Saloon in the town of Buzzard's Bluff, is a magnet for drifters, grifters, and outlaws on the run. That's why the bar's manager, the beautiful Rachel Baskin,...
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Magnolia League novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Told in separate voices, Alex, Haynes, and other members of Savannah's Magnolia League seek aid for their own family members from the legendary Hoodoo family, the Buzzards, in violation of an old pact, unaware that a Shadow Man is using one of them to return from the dead.
9) Trickster
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Collects over twenty trickster stories, in graphic novel format, from various Native American traditions, including tales about coyotes, rabbits, ravens, and other crafty creatures and their mischievous activities.
11) Long remember
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840L
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"Long Remember was the first realistic novel about the Civil War since The Red Badge of Courage. Originally published in 1934, this book received rave reviews from The New York Times Book Review, and was a main selection of the Literary Guild. It is the account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as viewed by a pacifist who comes to accept the nasty necessity of combat. Kantor has also interwoven love and lust into this remarkable tale of passion, heroes,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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A princess makes a daring deal with the Queen of the Snakes. A lonely sister weaves stinging plants together in order to save her brothers from their mother. A curious boy suddenly becomes a wolf cub. Discover a worldwide collection of shape-shifter stories, based on folktales and lore from the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. From cursed princes to the first werewolves, things aren't always what they seem!
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Frontier stories volume 02
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English
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Presents a collection of thirty tales of danger, hardship, and adventure on the Western frontier, including "The town no guns could tame," "Horse heaven," and "Strange pursuit."
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"When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn't expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with disturbing fervour. What she never could have predicted...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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Hank the cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, pursues an elusive chicken murderer.
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The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II? As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape. In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation,...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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Hank the Cowdog has one of the scariest adventures of his life when he and his cowardly companion, Drover, find themselves in a strange and spooky place on Halloween night.
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Louis L'Amour collection volume 02
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With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer - who "The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson - will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks...
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