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Biggie Weatherford, the wealthiest woman in Job's Crossing, Texas, is indignant about the plans to put a garbage dump next to her ancestral cemetery, but certainly not angry enough to poison the mayor's angel food cake. With typical zeal, Biggie sets out to discover who killed the mayor, while continuing to campaign against the dump.
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Smoke Jensen is spending his days herding cows and enjoying his wife's legendary meals. But trouble is always around the bend. A baleful blackcoat with a pistol in one hand and a Bible in the other, Lazarus Cain rides through the countryside claiming to carry out God's plan. In his ominous wake, he has left one of Smoke's cowhands fatally injured.
4) Bloodroot
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Jordan's Crossing...Just the thought of her family's Mississippi plantation is enough to set China Bayles adrift on a sea of memories. The sweet perfume of magnolia blossoms mixed with the hot, heady smells of the swamp. The house perched on the banks of the Bloodroot River, a trenchant reminder of the bitterest, bloodiest moments in the country's history. And the secrets. The shameful, stifling secrets that have kept her away for so long. A frantic...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.
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Frank Morgan, a greatly feared and greatly admired gunslinger, is headed to Oklahoma, a brutally lawless territory. He travels with only his dog, his horse Stormy, and his fierce reputation. During his journey he comes across a group of women and children being led west by a suspicious character. He decides to try and help them, but will he be able to find any sidekicks to fight with him in this seemingly God-forsaken land?
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Author Beatrix Potter purchases Hill Top Farm in the Lake District hamlet of Near Sawrey in 1905 where she plans to recover from the death of her fiance and work on her books for children, but she and her many animal friends soon become caught up in the domestic joys and mysteries of the small town.
10) APACHE SHADOW
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NOT ALL WARS ARE CIVIL…In a desert outpost north of Tucson, an encampment of peaceful Apaches is slaughtered by a bloodthirsty band of white vigilantes. Now the brilliant and ruthless war chief Cochise gathers his renegades and prepares for payback. Savage war is about to break out. But there are some on both sides who strive to keep the peace.
11) Bead on trouble
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Retired Texas stateswoman Kitzi Camden and her friend Beth attend a Craft Retreat where formerly happy crafters are now fighting and hiding work from each other because a big-name contractor is looking for new talent. May Feather, a renowned beader, ends up dead.
12) Dakota
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HE CAME WEST HAUNTED BY DEATH AND GRIEF...a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory. Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood...
13) Dead man's bones
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"Former attorney-turned-herbalist China Bayles finds her busy life further complicated when her teenage son discovers the skeletal remains of the victim of a not-so-accidental death during a dig in a cave and a local gathering is interrupted by murder."--from NoveList.
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When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches back fifty years into the mysterious woman's past. Her connections to Wyoming's Basque community, the lucrative coal-bed methane industry, and the personal life of the previous sheriff, Lucian Conally, lead to a complex web of half-truths and assumed alliances. Aided by his friend Henry Standing Bear, Deupty Victoria...
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William W. Johnstone's Mountain Man series towers above the landscape of Western fiction, taking readers into the heart and soul of a man who once lived on the wrong side of the law--and now is willing to die for justice.
Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good. Or so he thought. . .
When A War...
Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good. Or so he thought. . .
When A War...
16) Distant land
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THREE MEN CONQUERED THE FRONTIER
Three Brannock brothers once came West. Now, one of them survives, and Clint Brannock feels the weight of responsibility as he does his job as a U.S. deputy marshal. Hunting down an outlaw in the Indian territories, Clint meets up with two of his nephews-one destined to live or die by the gun, the other to live or die in his shadow. And in southern New Mexico, a beautiful sister-in-law, Elizabeth, presides over 100,000...
17) Flat crazy
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A chupacabra--a wild, possibly mythical beast with potentially vampiric qualities--is loose in Texas. As hunters plot the demise of this mysterious creature, tabloid reporters descend on Blanco County. Only level-headed game warden John Marlin can makes sense of the mayhem.
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Popular chronicler of the American West, William W. Johnstone returns with a stirring tale of legendary shootist Frank Morgan. With his Winchester blazing, Morgan races to rescue Cecil and Ben Tolliver from 20 thundering banditos. When his rifle runs dry, Morgan draws his trusty Colt and drops enough desperados to scatter the rest. Does Don Felipe Almanzar lead these marauding vaqueros, as rancher Tolliver believes? Or do they follow the terrifying...
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Sheriff Cray Dawson's quick-draw reputation keeps most criminals away from his Texas town of Somos Santos. But it doesn't keep the motley Walker Gang away for long. Although they temporarily divert their bankrobbing plans to a neighboring town, they soon stumble on a way to weaken him. But will a strategic kidnapping and an unexpected ally undermine Dawson's resolve to do what he must?
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In Big Lizard Bottoms to recover stolen fossilized dinosaur tracks, Lindsey Attwood, a paleontologist who has sworn off romance, poses as a horse psychology student, only to find herself coping with a therapy horse that hates her, a huge stray dog with a bad reputation that has adopted her, and a gorgeous local rancher.
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