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14361) Satanta's woman
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"It is 1864. The frontier cavalry has been withdrawn for the War Between the States, and the able men have enlisted, leaving the white and free black families in the valley of the Brazos River very much on their own. The Comanches and Kiowas decide to take the opportunity to rid the land forever of these invaders. Adrianne Chastain, a widow and grandmother in her mid-thirties, has been spotted by the Kiowa war chief Satanta. Most of her family is...
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Ruby and Maude adventures volume 2
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2014.
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Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maudeś legs and Rubyś heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town. Can...
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2020.
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"The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features sixteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature pioneering women of the West who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to...
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Bregdan Chronicles volume 20
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As the country continues to change and shift, everyone must decide if they will continue to walk toward the freedom they long for.
As the country changes and shifts, everyone is challenged to do what it takes to walk toward freedom.
Carrie and Janie battle fear and worry as Anthony and Matthew deal with the horror of a brutal massacre in Colfax, Louisiana.
Moses takes Felicia and Frances to San Francisco, where Felicia makes a decision that will...
14367) The cage-maker: a novel
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[2017]
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"Author's Note Dear Reader, I, too, love a good story, which is why I got hooked on this one. When researching my own family history in New Orleans, I ran across a great-grandfather who was a birdcage maker at 47 St. Ann Street and another great-granduncle who married a young heiress named Carmelite. She died only nine months later, and I found I could not stop digging until I knew the truth of her demise. Was her husband, my ancestor, Ferdinand,...
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Season of darkness trilogy volume 3
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It's summer, 1943, and after a tough couple of years, Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is making a fresh start in Ludlow, Shropshire. On the outskirts of town, St. Anne's Convalescent Hospital, staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns, has been established in an old manor house to help victims of the war to recover. After a horrifying double murder is discovered on the grounds, Tyler must figure out how the crime could have occurred in such a...
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[2023]
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Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) stars as headstrong Eliza Scarlet, the first-ever female detective in Victorian London, who won’t let naysayers stop her from keeping her father’s business running. She consistently spars (and sparks) with her handsome childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington (Stuart Martin), a.k.a., The Duke. The series delivers on the kind of historical...
14370) News of the world
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2016
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agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
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2016.
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"For children, reading level and experience level are not always the same. Eager readers are often interested in ideas and topics that seem advanced, but situations and subjects that sixth graders can handle with aplomb may be emotionally confusing for a younger child. Early and eager readers deserve stories they can get into, information that's challenging and up-to-date, and ideas that are new and stimulating, all while remaining age appropriate....
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2016.
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"Érase una vez una niña judía inteligente y hermosa que vivía en la ciudad de Lwov con sus padres. Se llamaba Nusia y sus días transcurrían felices-- Así podría empezar una historia si fuera una fábula, pero la peripecia de Nusia Stier de Gotlib es real: en 1939 el ejército ruso invade la ciudad donde elle vive, tras los rusos llegan los alemanes y luego el infierno del gueto"--Page [4] of dust jacket cover.
"Para salvarse y salvar a los...
14373) The vigilante's bride
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2011.
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Robbing a stagecoach on Christmas Eve and kidnapping a woman is the last thing Luke Sullivan expects to do. He wanted to reclaim the money stolen from him, but wound up with a feisty copper-haired orphan thrown over his shoulder who was on his way to marry Luke's bitter enemy. Emily McCarthy is out of options. Still she trusts God can turn any situation to good - especially when it seems Luke Sullivan may just be the man of her dreams.
14376) Spring Creek bride
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2010.
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Can't Ida Mueller walk to town without being harangued by rowdy railroad men? The formerly lovely town of Spring Creek, Texas, has been overtaken by saloons and disorderly conduct. So when a handsome stranger arrives with plans to open a gambling hall next to her family's mercantile store, Ida makes plans of her own: to foil his! Someone has to save Spring Creek. And since Ida's convinced marriage isn't in her future the Lord's work will be!
14377) Friends call me bat
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2019.
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"Known for his historical fiction and Great Western Detective League series, Colt (Sycamore Promises, 2018) uses an inventive narrative format to deftly weave adventure, nostalgia, American history, and biography together. Colt imagines real-life friends Damon Runyon (famed journalist and short story author) and Bartholemew William Barclay ""Bat"" Masterson (larger-than-life buffalo hunter, lawman, professional gambler, and boxing aficionado) reminiscing...
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2009.
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Stubborn seclusion is just one of the obstacles in the way of this British couple. That's not even counting the pressures they are about to face when society gets wind of their unconventional romance....Lord Nicholas Kenswick wants no more of the world. So God brings the world to him. Christina Wakelin, the vicar's daughter, literally falls into his arms, just before his late brother's baby is sent to him to raise. But is love enough for a nobleman...
14379) Carousel dreams
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Salt Lake dreams volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
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Ellie Weathers is a pioneer in her chosen profession, finding life in nineteenth-century Utah filled with romance and fraught with danger, intrigue and mystery. Resort owner Ellie Weathers is furious when she discovers her late grandfather spent his entire life savings to purchase a carousel for their Salt Lake resort. ... Bascom Anthony hasn't built a carousel since his wife and son died in a fire two years ago. Now it looks like the arsonist has...
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[2018]
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
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"This historical fiction novel is inspired by real people and events that were shaped by the land, animals, and plants of the Central Plains and by the long sweep of Indigenous history in the grasslands. Major events are presented from a Pawnee perspective to capture the outlook of the Echo-Hawk ancestors. The oral tradition from ten generations of Echo-Hawk's family tell the stories of the spiritual side of Native life, and give voice to the rich...