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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull, a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding her...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As early as the eighteenth century, Spanish explorers left place-names, lost mines, and legends scattered throughout Colorado's San Juan Mountains. In the late 1800s the legends lured hopeful prospectors to the area, ushering in its greatest mining era and transforming it into one of the country's most celebrated mining districts.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In this book, Stensland uses his breadth of knowledge to assist you translating the stunning views before you into the best photos possible, all while putting the well-being of nature first. This guidebook is filled with his own color photos, easy-to-read maps, descriptions of when and where you should be for different subjects. These are accompanied by tips and insights only a local would know. The Photographer's Guide to Rocky Mountain National...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"What should by now be a familiar, if always disturbing event in American history--the internment of Japanese American citizens and aliens during World War II--is given an original treatment in this creative memoir. Lily Havey was ten years old when her family of four was uprooted and sent first to Santa Anita Assembly Center in southern California and subsequently for the duration of the war to the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in southeastern...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
THE COWBOY TAKES A WIFE: Desiree Parrish has two weeks to find a man to protect her from her abusive ex-husband. She's never forgotten Carter Prescott's kindness to her, but can she trust him to keep her and her daughter safe now? Though she's offering him a marriage in name only, Carter has one nonnegotiable condition-Desiree will have to share his name and his bed!
6194) The runaway windmill
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"When an enemy spy (in a chicken suit!) sneaks on the ranch, it's going to be a wild day for Hank. Will Hank be able to protect the ranch and some newfound valuables of his? But Hank's biggest challenge will be whether he (and Drover) can lead a rescue to save Slim from his ride on a runaway windmill"--Container insert.
6195) The Trail of Tears, 1838
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses events leading up to the removal of the Cherokee from their homelands, hardships faced on the Trail of Tears, challenges of the new territory in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee nation today.
6196) The Chuckwagon Trail
Author
Series
Chuckwagon trail novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Macs never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west-as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold.
6198) The rise of Aurora West
Author
Series
Battling boy volume First prequel
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Aurora West has her hands full trying to fit in martial arts lessons between chemistry and math classes, helping her father on his missions, and unraveling the mystery surrounding her mother's death. The answer, she discovers, may be as close as her own childhood memories -- if she can only survive the monster Sadisto and his murderous clan long enough to piece it together.
Author
Series
Warrior Queen volume V. 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Malika, queen and commander of the fifteenth-century West-African empire Azzaz, has been flung into the year 2025! After years of moving in the shadows, Malika is forced out of hiding by the Olon Jin--ancient sorcerers imprisoned for centuries because of their obsession with dark magic. In their sights is the Fire and Frost stone, a relic that holds the combined power of two legendary dragons. On her journey to Egypt to retrieve the stone, Malika...