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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Language
English
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Former Texas Rangers leave their unsuccessful cattle business when they hear of good opportunities in newly opened territory.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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The lives of 91-year-old Ira Levinson, young cowboy Luke, and Wake Forest College senior Sophia Danko converge in an extraordinary and unexpected way as Ira clings to his wife Ruth's words and his memories and Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans.
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Big sky romances volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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After she leaves her high-pressure job to live with her aunt on a Montana ranch, Abigail Jones, working as a nanny for Wade Ryan, the ranch's owner, begins a relationship with him, but Wade's first priority is to protect his daughter and keep his past a secret.
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Conner Branch hasn't stopped thinking about the sultry singer he spotted on stage during last year's Cowboy Christmas Ball. Imagine his surprise when he meets Megan Carson, a demure kindergarten teacher home in Branding Iron, Texas, for the holidays. With Christmas in the air, it's a little too easy for her to imagine spending the holidays in Conner's arms. But her hopes for a career lie in Nashville, and doesn't plan to let a holiday romance get...
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit, and on one condition.
In the second novel in the New York Times bestselling McKettrick Cowboys trilogy, Kade McKettrick is determined not to lose to his brother in the marriage race—but he hadn't counted on falling in love.
Kade McKettrick's got five mail order brides-to-be at the local hotel, and they're all more than eager to brave the frontier and...
In the second novel in the New York Times bestselling McKettrick Cowboys trilogy, Kade McKettrick is determined not to lose to his brother in the marriage race—but he hadn't counted on falling in love.
Kade McKettrick's got five mail order brides-to-be at the local hotel, and they're all more than eager to brave the frontier and...
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Series
Amish of Apple Grove volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
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Jesse Montgomery is beginning to feel restless. Though he's grateful to his friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again after a few bad choices and some hard living, surely the Lord doesn't want him to stay in Apple Grove forever. Doesn't the Almighty have plans for this reformed rowdy cowboy to build a life of his own? When an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, Jesse intervenes and is wounded. Lovely Katie Miller,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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" In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist...
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Old cowboys never die volume 1
Language
English
Description
When two cattlemen who are near retirement attempt to deliver their last two thousand cows in hopes of one final payday, they must stop their boss's lawyer who is plotting to steal the workers' cash.
13) Red rabbit
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit. On the road to Burden County, they're joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure - but no sense of purpose - and a recently widowed school teacher with nothing left to lose. As their posse grows, so too does the danger. Racing...
14) Kiss me
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English
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After Phoebe Kitzke's kind heart gets her suspended from her job in LA, she swears off doing favors-- until her best friend begs for help on the family ranch in Fool's Gold, California. Unfortunately, sexy cowboy Zane Nicholson isn't exactly thrilled by the city girl's arrival. Thanks to his brother's latest scheme, Zane has been roped into taking tourists on a cattle drive. What Phoebe knows about ranching wouldn't fill his hat, but her laughter...
15) Of mice and men
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English
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...
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English
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"After traversing California from one end to the other, and finding nothing much to his liking, Mac Mackenzie is heeding his heart's call to return to Texas. Lucky for him, a group of cowboys heading for the Lone Star state need someone who knows their way around a chuckwagon. Their previous cook's temper boiled over during a saloon brawl and ended up in jail. With no love for the cook-or his food-the cowboys just want to head home peaceably, share...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realities with cunning, compassion, and wit. In "Acknowledgments," a male novelist reminisces bitterly on the woman who inspired his first novel, attempting to make peace with his humiliations before the book...
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Texas dreams volume 2
Language
English
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An enticing tale of drama and love with authentic Texas Hill Country flavor set in the 1850s.
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Time warp trio series volume 3
Language
English
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The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and Indians.
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English
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Confronted by the changes of the modern era, Hewey, an open range cowboy, had made decisions he felt would best suit the new world of the early twentieth century, yet four years later, he remains haunted by his choices and struggles to make things right once more.
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