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Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 45
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Smoke Jensen sees a gang of outlaws holding up a stagecoach, he storms in with guns blazing, killing one of the gunmen. The dead man is the brother of the notorious outlaw Gabe Briggs and Briggs will want revenge. Tired of the savagery of the lawless countryside, Smoke's wife Sally heads back east for a spell, only to find the big city choking in filth, violence and corruption. Before Sally can head back home, though, she's snatched right off...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Marty and Clark Davis arrive home from a visit out west with daughter Missie knowing there are changes ahead for them. But are they prepared for the changes that have taken place while they were gone? Clare and Kate are eagerly awaiting their new baby, but what lies ahead will test their fate in unimagined ways. Luke wants to become a doctor, but his studies will take him far from home. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but is there...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
Author
Series
Golgotha novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books, St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets. 1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes,...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Formerly an Indian captive named Burning-Sky, Willa Obenchain unexpectedly returns to her family's New York homestead after her twelve-year absence. With faith in God and the skills to survive on the frontier, Willa must decide if love is possible as she faces the challenges brought on by her dual identities and an unforgiving land"--
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books
Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades...
Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades...
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A Christmas they never forgot (from season 8): A snowstorm traps the Ingalls family including Mary and Laura's husbands inside the little house on Christmas Eve. Stories are exchanged about their favorite Christmases of the past.
Christmas at Plum Creek (from season 1): The Ingalls family works to make their first Christmas in Plum Creek memorable. Laura sells her prized horse, to purchase a stove for Ma, but her sacrifice is made bittersweet when...
93) The Lawless
Author
Series
Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 7
Publisher
Signet/New American Library/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Post-Civil War prosperity has transformed the nation as well and the Kents.
94) Frontier
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The epic saga of the heroic pioneers who struggled and fought, lived and died, to stake their claim on the untamed American frontier. . . Western Missouri. Former army scout Jack Gregory returns from battle to a homestead in ruins. A wanted man with no place to go, he chooses an even deadlier career--as a scout for General George Armstrong Custer. Under a new name, Jack serves bravely in the Seventh Cavalry. But when Custer's disastrous leadership...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories which describe the experiences of a pioneer girl and her family as they celebrate various Christmases In the Big Woods in Wisconsin, on the prairie in Indian Territory, and on the banks of Plum Creek.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for...
99) A bride for Noah
Author
Series
Seattle brides volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Penniless and desperate for an adventure, Evie Lawrence moves to the Oregon Territory in 1851, intending to build a restaurant in one of the new settlements there.
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