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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
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California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
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Book 1 of Heirs of Montana from bestselling author Tracie Peterson. Adventurers, families, outlaws...all driven west in the 1860s by a longing for endless blue sky along with wild and wide-open spaces. Tracie Peterson, from her own Montana home, paints an unforgettable portrait of this rich, rugged landscape, populated by strong and spirited characters. When Dianne Chadwick urges her family to move west to her uncles ranch in the Montana Territory,...
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[c200?]
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Elam Harnish has more money than he would ever need. As he accumulates wealth as a successful entrepreneur in the Alaskan Gold Rush, Harnish must face the challenges of the Yukon Territory. After he makes a fortune, Harnish finds himself still unsatisfied. In efforts to find a new challenge and make more money, Harnish decides to move down to the mainland of America, settling in California. However, after a group of money kings threaten to take his...
4) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother along to a new zest for life. Years of privation are rewarded on the farm. But when Alexandra falls in love with Carl Linstrum, and her family objects because he is poor, he leaves to seek a different career. After Alexandra's younger...
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A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children. By the author of The Persian Pickle Club.
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Love comes softly series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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"She ventured west with the man she loved, but in one day her whole world had crumbled around her& Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her grief and heartache is the grim reality that there is no way to return home. Clark Davis and his little...
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History is thick with secrets in THE SUGAR CAMP QUILT, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, friends and neighbors are set against one another and an extraordinary young heroine passes from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery.
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when easterner Madeline Hammond gets off the train near midnight and things begin to happen right away. Gene Stewart, the other half of the romance is a man's man with the traditional western values but who has at first kind of lost his way because of drinking too much.
10) Hondo: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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While on his way to deliver information about an imminent Apache raid, Honda Lane comes upon an isolated ranch occupied by Angie Lowe. Together, they must protecting themselves against an uprising led by the Apache warrior, Vittoro.
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As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt him down.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated because of the Indian women's fear to even communicate with her. They thought they had already faced the most crushing disappointment of their lives when they saw little Sammy disappear from view in the arms of his father. Would they be able to survive the challenges ahead?...
13) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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"Elizabeth and Wynn find that their commitment to God and to each other gives their life meaning. Can their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter, loneliness, and rigors of life without any of the conveniences they're used to?"--Provided by publisher.
15) Betty Zane
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Betty Zane is the heroine of the battle between British-controlled Detroit and the small, wood-palisaded Ford Henry on the western frontier.
17) Rivers of gold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Miranda Colton, presumed dead, finds herself under the care of a native Alaskan and a studious botanist from England, Teddy Davenport. Miranda only longs to find her friends and and continue north. She fears that her chances are diminishing with each passing day. Teddy is deeply committed to his research of the unique landscape of the rugged Alaskan frontier. But despite his intentions, Miranda's presence awakens a deep tenderness in his character....
18) Patience
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Patience is abducted in a case of mistaken identity. But everything changes when she escapes her kidnapper and stumbles onto a gold mine. Can Patience make her fortune without losing her heart to Sheriff Jay Longer? -- publisher description
19) The last trail
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Jonathan Zane seeks revenge against the man who abducted his sweetheart and controls a gang of marauding outlaws and Indians.
20) Ruth
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Brides of the West volume 5
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Seeking help from U.S. Marshall Dylan McCall, who is trying to get to Wyoming before winter sets in, Ruth throws caution to the wind and heads for freedom when she is faced with a proposal from an eighty-year-old suitor.