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41) Sun going down
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Paint family novels volume 1
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English
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Mavis Gallant Award-winning author Jack Todd-an American expat living in Canada-pens an epic work of historical fiction based partly on his own relatives. Spanning the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, Sun Going Down details three generations of the Paint family as they work to find their places on the untamed American frontier.
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Tucket adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
43) Saving Sweetness
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The sheriff of a dusty western town rescues Sweetness, an unusually resourceful orphan, from nasty old Mrs. Sump and her terrible orphanage.
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As an orphaned child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one day take over his empire of crime. Today that day has come. As Mike prepares for his first criminal job, a gold-train robbery, he must decide whether to follow the path set before him or carve out a destiny of his own.
45) Hard twisted
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In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer's captive on a crime spree-culminating in the notorious Greenville,...
46) Inland: a novel
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"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Ben Knight takes off his badge and rides into Gunsight seeking vengeance for his kid brother's hanging. But the town marshal was killed during the lynching and the townspeople want Ben to take his place. Ben must choose between his trail of vengeance or protecting the town against the Diamond H Ranch"--
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"Preacher and Jamie MacCallister search for a hidden fortune that might be just a legend-but the bandits, bullets, and bloodshed they find are all too real ... Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo-especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver...
50) Hired guns
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"It's the kind of job Luke Jensen hates. A millionaire mine owner is willing to pay $5,000 to the man who captures the half-breed outlaw Tom Eagle. Normally, Luke would turn down an offer like this--it smacks too much of being a hired gun. But when the millionaire tells him that Eagle is responsible for killing his son, Luke agrees to take on the job. Which means he'll have to take the road to hell itself--aka Hard Rock, Montana . . . Hard Rock is...
51) Too soon to die
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"With their acclaimed novels of the Jensen family, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone have captured the pioneering spirit of America itself. Now a new generation of Jensens prepares to take the reins-and live the dream their ancestors fought for . . . There's nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And there's no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedown-even if it turns into a gun-blazing...
52) Big Lonesome
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"An inventive, ranging debut story collection from a writer hailed by Claire Vaye Watkins as "Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest." Reinventing a great American tradition through an absurdist, discerning eye, Joseph Scapellato uses these twenty-five stories to conjure worlds, themes, and characters who are at once unquestionably familiar and undeniably strange. Big Lonesome navigates through...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Hank the Cowdog is supervising Little Alfred's fishing trip, but what started as a routine expedition turns into a crisis when a fishhook finds its way into Hank's stomach.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 44
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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It's Hank's job to clear the ranch of all intruders--and that includes gophers. But when Hank's efforts causes a stampede in the middle of the cattle roundup, Loper decides that he wants Hank to learn some manners, so he's sending him to--gulp!--Obedience School. To Hank, this sounds like torture, complete with dank dungeons, torches burning on the walls, and menacing instructors who wield the rules of etiquette like weapons. Will he survive?
58) The high graders
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The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the quiet ranching community has become a booming mining town. Newfound wealth has not made Rafter a peaceful place, however, and the smell of fear and greed is thick in the air. As Mike Shevlin tries...
60) The vow
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After twelve years, the headstrong Annabel McKeige is back in the frontier town of Parable, Nevada. Back to face the husband she left behind ... the son she never saw grow to manhood ... and the home where her heart broke when she lost a beloved daughter. But her intentions regarding their marriage are soon clear --- even if her motives are not.
Gabe McKeige loved Annabel too fiercely to let a chance like this slip away. But the iron-willed rancher...