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Two Yankee cowboys sign on to drive a huge herd of cattle 3000 miles across Australian bush country. They know they're in for a hard time, because no one has ever done it before. But they don't count on hostile aborigines who know the strangest ways to kill a man.
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In later years people often asked Hugh Hitchcock about the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883. Wagon boss Hugh Hitchcock knows the cowboy life better than most: In 1883 if you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow and you are stigmatized as a drunk. Worse, you are exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who fence the range, replace traditions and trust with written rules of employment, refuse to pay a livable wage and change things that ought to be left...
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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570L
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Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse -- until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?
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[2011]
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The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel...
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The historic Don Carlos Rancho stood at the gateway of the pass through which the Old Santa Fe Trail wound off to the Great Plains. Col. Ripple had married the glamorous Spanish daughter of the proprietor. As the years went by, their beautiful daughter, Holly Ripple, grew up, sheltered far away in a boarding school in the East. At her father's death, Holly was plunged onto the throne of this cattle empire, a bewildered girl who knew nothing about...
7) Chancy
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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880L
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Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, ninteen-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He guns down a man who'd been using a sheriff's badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him, he will find himself stalked by...
8) Texas born
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"Texas Born by Diana Palmer: Ever since Gabriel Brandon rescued her from a dark future, Michelle Godrey looked up to the rancher as her personal hero. Protecting her all her life, Gabriel served as Michelle's guardian angel--saving her from a broken family, supporting her and encouraging Michelle to go to college. Even as Michelle felt herself start to fall for her protector, both of them could agree the timing wasn't right. But four years later,...
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Spikes and spurs volume 3
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2011.
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Raylen O'Donnell is one smokin' cowboy. He could have any woman he wants, but he's never been able to forget a certain dark-haired girl who disappeard from his life. So when she suddenly returns to the ranch next door, Raylen's not fixing to let her get away again.
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Gold Valley novels volume 6
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"Jamie Dodge is confident she knows everything there is to know about cowboys. She grew up surrounded by them, after all. But somehow her new boss, champion saddle bronc rider Gabe Dalton, and his brand of cowboy charm have her interested in all kinds of things she never has been before. There are a million reasons Gabe should ignore his attraction to Jamie. He needs her horse-training skills on his family's ranch...and the Dodge brothers would happily...
11) Wild cowboy ways
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Lucky Penny Ranch novels volume 1
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Allie Logan isn't the type to land a hot hunk of cowboy. Truth is, she's given up on dating since shedding her no-good ex. But the new owner of the most ramshackle ranch in Texas might just change her mind about that. He's six-foot-plus of tall, dark, and charming-the kind of guy who could make a girl throw caution to the wind . . . or the kind of guy who could break her heart. Blake Dawson hopes he can make Lucky Penny Ranch finally live up to its...
12) Kiss me
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After being suspended from her job, Phoebe's friend begs for help on the family ranch in Fool's Gold. She accepts, even though what she knows about ranching wouldn't fill a hat. And when Zane Nicholson is roped into taking tourists on a cattle drive he find Phoebe so captivating that she is exactly the kind of woman a single-minded loner needs to avoid. We'll see.
13) The Wyoming kid
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Rancher Lonny Ellison has never known a woman like Joy Fuller. For one thing, she doesn't seem very interested in him, and as a former rodeo cowboy, Lonny's not used to that. Women mobbed the Wyoming Kid during his rodeo days! And another thing. He and Joy--who's a schoolteacher and his sister Letty's best friend--seem to argue constantly.But it doesn't matter, does it? Because he's not interested in Joy, either.Wait a minute. Maybe he is. At least,...
14) Cowboy & Octopus
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[2007]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Cowboy and Octopus maintain their friendship despite different opinions about things like beans and knock-knock jokes.
15) Leaving Cheyenne
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Larry McMurtry's Cheyenne is not a place on the map it's a part of life the best part ... Leaving Cheyenne tells of a love triangle unlike any other: Gideon Fry, heir to Texas ranch; Johnny McCloud his cowboy friend; and Molly, whom they both love and who bears each of them a son. Gid, Molly, and Johnny take turns narrating a deeply human story that spans forty years the story of how finally they all left Cheyenne.
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Big sky romances volume 2
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"Two high-school sweethearts, a wedding reenactment, and one absent-minded preacher. Is it a recipe for disaster or a chance for a new beginning? Shay Brandenberger is a survivor. She's lived through a crazy childhood, a failed marriage, and single parenthood-with her confidence intact. But not for long. Because when Shay participates in her town's Founder's Day wedding reenactment, she finds herself face-to-face with the one man who takes her breath...
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It's Christmas in Gold Valley, and this wounded widower is about to get another shot at love . . . Grant Dodge didn't expect to find a woman sleeping in an abandoned cabin on his family ranch. Or to find her so intriguing . . . McKenna Tate doesn't know Grant's a widower ... A no-strings fling for Christmas might be the kind of holiday cheer Grant needs . . . With only a suitcase to her name, McKenna came to Gold Valley to confront her birth father....
18) Rising fire
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Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 3
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"When the Jensen family sends a new generation out into the world, they always keep the homefires burning - and rifles loaded - just in case they bring trouble back with them. Smoke Jensen's daughter Denny can outride, outrope, and outshoot any man who gets in her way. But being a pretty woman, Denny sometimes attracts the attention of unsavory suitors. Like the lecherous Count Malatesta. Denny met the seductive Sicilian on her trip to Europe - and...
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From the moment Roan Taggart picked up the pretty redhead at the Jackson Hole airport, his training and experience told him she was spooked. She's left New York City to visit the Wind River Ranch, where Roan is a wrangler, and just as he can pick up a horse's mood, he can feel the tension coming off her body. And that vulnerability is triggering all his protective instincts. . . Shiloh Gallagher likes the gray-eyed cowboy's dry humor-and the Special...
20) Lonesome land
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Lonesome Land (1912) delicately balances an idealistic, romantic view of the American West with its hard, gritty reality. Although focused on the West's often lonesome and open lifestyle, scenes of true Western-genre suspense appear in this critical yet beautiful imaging of the land and its pioneers.
Valeria Peyson has spent her life on the East Coast and, therefore, holds a beautifully serene vision of the West in her mind.
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