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61) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hellhole like Bitter Seeps or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
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In the long-awaited sequel to Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry spins an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal, young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena -- once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. Their long chase leads them...
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Like most families, the Jensens gather together to celebrate the holidays. This year, since half the clan is scattered across the American West, they've decided to split the difference and meet up in Tucson. Matt and Luke will be there, for sure, and maybe Ace and Chance, too. That leaves Sally, Preacher, and Smoke Jensen, who've reserved three seats on a westbound stage to make sure they don't miss out on the festivities. What could possibly go wrong?Mother...
64) Rivers west
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Talon and Chantry volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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He came from a family of pirates and seafarers from Quebec. His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman's search for her missing brother anda ruthless band of rengades.
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After his partner is killed during a card game, Linc Bradway goes to South Pass, Wyoming, to find the killer. But South Pass is overrun with gamblers and gunslingers, and Bradway's search leads him straight into the bloody action where he finds he's going to need much more than a gun to stay alive.
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Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest's inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rich off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and blood. Fighting the Comanches and Kiowas, some unscrupulous white hunters, and his own conscience, he ages fast - all the faster in facing obstacles to love's consummation with Milly. She, like Tom, is in...
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This is the story of a young fellow who grows up poor and lonely, and loses his mother at a young age. He and his hard-luck dad find a carefully built deserted cabin and they move in and start ranching. Trouble soon finds them, but so too does a mysterious stranger. Up high in the surrounding dry hills there is another finely built cabin, built by the same long gone and mysterious man, a man who supposedly had stashed a big cache of gold before he...
68) Sunset pass
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Six years ago, Trueman Rock killed a man in Wagontongue. Now he returns to find trouble again, but this time his trouble is caused by love. Rock has fallen in love with Ash Preston's woman, Thiry, and no man in the valley will let him get away with this. But Rock has faced harder men for lesser prizes, and he is willing to pay any price to win Thiry's love.
69) Silver canyon
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Only moments after arriving, Matt Brennan was warned to leave Hattan's Point. But Matt wasn't going anywhere. Not until he found out why everyone wanted him out of the way. And not until he got to know Moira Maclaren. Moira was the daughter of one of the most powerful men in Hattan's Point. And she didn't believe Matt when he said he'd come to stay - and survive. Especially when Matt decided to take on both sides in the fierce conflict over a key...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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"There was gold buried somewhere on the Davidge spread. No one knew where for sure, but a whole lot of people were ready to kill for it. Peg Cullane was as cold as a Texas blizzard. She wanted the gold and she didn't care what her hired guns had to do to get it...Judge Niland was a greedy double-dealer. He had plenty of money. He knew how to get it and how to keep it. But he wanted more...All Fan Davidge wanted was her ranch back, and Ruble Noon vowed...
71) Utah Blaine
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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They said his hands moved like the raw edge of lightning. Utah Blaine was a big man, a fighting man, fast with a gun. Very fast. He had to be to face the vigilante terror of the greedy ranchers of Red Creek who were willing to destroy anyone or anything to get at the rich range land of his friend. There were already a lot of stories about Utah Blaine and his guns. After Red Creek they would have to write some new ones - or his epitaph.
73) Lonigan
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Men like Lonigan, whose quick draw and hard fists were as respected as his reputation for doing right by the people who did right by him. Lonigan didn't just ride herd for Tom Gurney's Circle G, he loved it as if it were his own. But now that Tom was dead his daughter Ruth was braving the hard cattledrive into Dodge, and it didn't look like she would make it thanks to the conniving outlaw band who thought she was easy pickins'. But they hadn't counted...
74) Chancy
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, nineteen-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He guns down a man who'd been using a sheriff's badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him, he will find himself stalked by...
75) The Californios
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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The only hope that Eileen Mulkerin and her sons have of saving their ranch lies in finding a hidden cache of gold whose location was known only to her dead husband.
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The Rainbow Trail is a tale of survival, rescue, and revenge, all steeped in the atmosphere of the Wild West. Twenty years ago, Jane Withersteen and her adopted daughter Fay Larkin were trapped in a remote canyon by evil men, and have not been heard from since. John Shefford, a preacher from Illinois, is determined to find out what happened to Jane and Fay. But will he be able to overcome all of the obstacles in his way including a harsh landscape,...
77) Comstock lode
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 20
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The world's greatest silver strike brings together a loner named Val and Grita, a beautiful actress.
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Return to the Canadian West volume 3
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When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
80) "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....