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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
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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.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
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In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the ranch foreman known only as the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just, nonetheless he brooks nonsense from no man. Once wronged, he is a judge with a gavel forged of cold steel. Frontier justice...
3) Whirlwind
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"At the Alamo Canyon Ranch, set amid the desert foothills of Southern Arizona, the Champion women carry on the family legacy of breeding bucking bulls for the rodeo. In a world where bloodline is everything, love is the only risk worth taking ... Everyone's talking about Whirlwind at this year's Professional Bull Rider's Competition. But the promising young bull is the last thing on Shane Tully's mind once he lays eyes on the lady responsible for...
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 5
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[2015]
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Honey is busy doing the cowboy thing - breeding and branding cattle, horse training, and taking care of the dudes ... that is, the ranch guests. Sally and Honey take over management of the ranch due to Buds worsening condition and do a good job of booking guests for the summer and keeping the ranch running smoothly. Honey is growing up fast ... and Sally has a big surprise for him.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
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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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Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"-bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
8) "Nevada"
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He was called Nevada, a name he took to lose his past. As a boy he had been thrown among brutal and evil men. He had worked himself above their influence time and again, only to be thrown back, by his own desire for justice or vengeance, into the midst of strife. With a new identity he made a new reputation, but old troubles and old enemies haunted him wherever he went. Nevada was the quiet type who would rather work hard and plan for better days....
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 7
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[2016]
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The Wilson Ranch continues to be a successful working ranch and guest ranch, and all hands keep busy with the cows, horses and "dudes." Thoughts of building a house in town so Ginny can go to school and another cabin for guests are being considered. --back cover
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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing - and that every choice he makes requires a sacrifice. --
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 6
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[2016]
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Honey meets his brand new daughter for the first time! Enjoy the antics at the ranch while everyone settles in with the new baby, including Grandpa Bud getting a baby carrier for his four-wheeler, and Honey's sister, Betty, becoming a nanny for the little one. --back cover
12) Kiowa trail
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed.nbsp;nbsp;The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down.nbsp;nbsp;But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan.nbsp;nbsp;Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had...
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It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway is old enough and smart enough to know that his freewheeling cowboy life is coming to an end, that the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, where he works for Morgan Jenkins's J Bar outfit. He has never sought or wanted responsibility. He is wary of having to look after his nephew Tommy, a boy intent on following the cowboy life. Hewey even turns down an opportunity to become...
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 4
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[2015]
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"Ranching is hard work, and it gets harder for Honey as he becomes foreman. There are cows and horses to feed and calves to be taken care of -- especially during the hard winter. And with Bud's illness everyone has to take on more work. From horse thieves to bears to poachers -- Honey has his hands full. But he keeps in mind the old saying ... things always work out the way they're supposed to. Not to mention the big day -- he and Sally get married!"--...
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Big sky romances volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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Shay Brandenberger is raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana, on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. Despite the hard work, she can't seem to keep her head above water-and now the bank is threatening to foreclose. She prays for a miracle, but the answer she receives is anything but expected. Having agreed to play the bride in the Founders' Day wedding reenactment, Shay is mortified to be greeted at the end of the aisle...
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"Many men had set out to capture a magnificent stallion named Parade but none had yet triumphed through the hardships to gain the ultimate prize. Silvertip was a dangerous cowboy who could rip out the heart of a mountain lion with his bare hands and when he hunted Parade, he took only a rope and raw courage. But trailing him, guns at their sides, were two killers who wanted the cowboy as badly as they wanted the horse!"--
20) Matagorda
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Tap Duvarney fought in the War Between the States, then signed on as an Indian fighter with the frontier army. Now he's settled in Texas, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery -- and in the middle of a blood feud between Kittery and the vicious Munson clan. Around Matagorda, most folks are either on the side of the Munsons -- or laying low. With Kittery and the Munsons out to spill each other's blood, and Kittery's woman stirring...