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KGI novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Former KGI sharpshooter P.J., who is bent on revenge after a mission that went terribly wrong, finds an unexpected ally in former teammate and lover Cole, who is determined to help her, no matter what the cost.
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling novel by the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Author of 2016, published in 15 countries!
Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three....
Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
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In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daughter who left home years earlier, stands by helplessly and wonders if he has failed his child again....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Their friendship started with a schoolyard tussle. Now, the need for revenge is what binds Luke Croft and Red Connover together. When Luke taught himself how to fire a Colt, he never imagined he'd turn into a gunman. But when his stepfather's dodgy business dealings turn his life upside down, Luke asks Red to help him destroy the man who murdered his kin. The road to vengeance is long and hard, and the two friends who are barely out of boyhood will...
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 40
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk--from way back East. What is he doing out here? The Mountain Man's former neighbour, Humbolt Puddle, has died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir, just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron is circling the Humbolt ranch like a ravenous vulture. Poor, unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap. Smoke is the not the pitying kind. But any enemy of Smoke's neighbour is...
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Series
The loner volume 6
Language
English
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Description
Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then his wife was murdered and that young man was gone forever -- replaced by a man they call the Loner. Now the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan is a current occupant of a cell in Hell Gate prison. The Loner's crime? He had the bad fortune of looking too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. The Loner has a plan: he'll team up with a fellow inmate and escape. He...
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Series
Language
English
Description
1901. A sharpshooter in the Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, Mary Reichert's skills are on display in every performance. But unless the man responsible for her brother's death is brought to justice, Mary's fame and accomplishments seem hollow. The only bright spot in her days is Christopher Williams, a journalist who has been assigned to follow the show and write a series of magazine articles. Both are keeping secrets. Can they learn to trust in...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 17
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Annie Oakley has always suspected there is something "uncanny" about herself, but has never been able to put a name to it. But when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes on tour through Germany, Bill temporarily hires a new sharpshooter to be part of his "World Wide Congress of Rough Riders." As they travel and perform, Annie must use her newfound knowledge and rare skill to combat creatures of the night scattered across the countryside, who threaten...
10) My Calamity Jane
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there're hunters: the one and...
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Series
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Lizzy Brookstone, the star trick rider of the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, loses interest in performing. What she longs for is a life with the Brookstone ranch foreman, Wesley DeShazer, the man who once broke her heart. Meanwhile, Jason Adler, son of the show's new financial partner, comes to help with the show, and Lizzy soon finds him vying for her affection. Ella Fleming is fleeing a forced engagement...
12) The legend
Author
Series
Sons of Texas (Donna Grant) volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Callie Reed doesn't need a man to protect her. An expert sharpshooter and renegade hacker, this Texas-born spitfire's got the skills and the courage to stand up to any danger--no matter how deadly. But when she becomes the target of a shadowy organization known as the Saints, Callie is forced to team up with the one man she can't outshoot: the gorgeous and infuriating Lone Star legend named Wyatt Loughman"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Outside Reading
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Zachary Knox, a sharpshooter known as "the Bull's-Eye Telepath," heads north in search of gold. On his way he meets Sephy, a magnetic woman on the trail of her lost brother. But on arrival, they find the mining camp is home to a cult. The mine boss, Trevillian, rules the camp like a despotic priest, and at the center of his faith is hope, an elusive goddess for whom the miners toil, enduring increasingly perilous trials as they pursue her into the...
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and the Demdji powers she's struggling to control, Amani must rally a crew of rebels to take on the bloodthirsty sultan of Miraji and free the imprisoned prince Ahmed.
17) Crossfire
Author
Series
The loner volume 11
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A Father. A Fighter. A Final Showdown{u2026} The Loner has searched the frontier for his missing children and their vengeful, runaway mother. Now, in fog-shrouded San Francisco, his search ends{u2014}and the fight begins... Hell On Frisco Bay Conrad Browning is The Loner, a man on a mission, crossing the country{u2014}and crossing a lot of bad men{u2014}to rescue his kidnapped young twins. The trail has led him all the way to San Francisco{u2019}s...
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Series
Language
English
Description
1902. Ella Fleming is on the run from her past and the secrets that could tear her family apart. As a member of the Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, a wild west show comprised of all-female performers, her uncanny talent for trick riding impresses the viewers. Only while performing can she forget the truth about who she really is - the daughter of a murderer. Phillip DeShazer blames himself for his father's death and has done his best to bury his...
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Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the W. E. B. Griffin novels comes a rollicking story of love, war, and adventure. As the author of the electrifying W. E. B. Griffin novels of the military, police, spies, and counterspies, William E. Butterworth III has been delighting readers for decades-but he has a special treat for them now. At the tender age of sixteen, Philip W. Williams III is expelled from boarding school for committing a...
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