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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
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English
Description
"A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event. Lonesome Dove embraces all of the American West -- adventures, legends and facts, heroes and outlaws, Indian and settlers of the late 19th century"--
2) Never never
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
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English
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Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an isolated mine deep inside the desolate Australian outback...
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Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred. The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's unshakeable resolve to stalk and kill the infamous panther, rumored across the Rio...
4) Dry bones
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It's a sixty-five million year old cold case that's heating up fast.... The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sheriff Walt Longmire's jurisdiction, and it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum. Then Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead. With millions of dollars at stake, the skeleton is claimed by Danny's family, the tribe, and the federal...
5) Texas Ranger
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English
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"Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement skills have carried him far--from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. A tough case in Waco has jeopardized Yates's chances at promotion, and he decides to take time off to recharge with his family in their small-town hometown, Redbud. He arrives and finds a horrifying crime scene--and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect...
6) Jessie
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Abandoned by her husband, Seth, before their second child was born, Jessie, as a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When Seth returns to town, Jessie is reluctant to trust him or God with her family's future.
7) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land (not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made) comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make...
8) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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O Pioneers by Willa Cather is story of a family of Swedish immigrants who settle in a fictional town in Nebraska. When her father dies, Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm and is determined to see it succeed, even at a time when many immigrant families are leaving the prairie.
9) Old Yeller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"Travis was only fourteen, but he was proud of his new role as man of the family and determined to live up to his responsibility. It was hard work, too, plowing until his legs ached, chopping wood until his hands were raw and his head was spinning, weeding the garden in the hot sun, toting the heavy buckets tip from the spring, and trying to keep his mischievous little brother in line. But there were pleasant moments, too: his Ma treating him like...
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Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family, while exposing their damning secrets. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken...
11) Wait for Signs
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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A New York Times–bestselling collection of Longmire adventures
Craig Johnson's The Highwayman and An Obvious Fact are now available from Viking.
Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award–winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on...
Craig Johnson's The Highwayman and An Obvious Fact are now available from Viking.
Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award–winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on...
12) The highwayman
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English
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"Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series--the basis for the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix. When Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, an area the troopers refer to as no-man's-land because of the lack of radio communication, she starts...
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Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED “Those indulgent, comfort food-esque dishes (Tieghan is) known for aren’t going anywhere. . . . You’ll be hard-pressed to decide which one to make first.”—Food & Wine We all want to make and serve our loved ones beautiful food—but we shouldn’t have to work so hard to do it. With Half Baked Harvest Super Simple, On her blog and in her debut cookbook, Tieghan is beloved...
15) An obvious fact
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In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming - the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower - to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; a military-grade vehicle donated...
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DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Join Spirit, a young wild mustang, as he sets out against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. On his courageous journey across the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a Lakota brave, outwits a squadron of soldiers, and falls for a paint mare named Rain.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Traces the life of U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. Details how he learned to hunt and care for himself after running from the law and hiding out in Indian territory. Discusses the myths about heroes Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Wild Bill Hickock. Explains how Bass became a marshal who brought in hundreds of criminals without drawing his gun first.
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