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Three wise men (Novels for adult learners)
Par Kate Ferris. 1997
The mailbox (Novels for adult learners)
Par Kate Ferris. 1997
Helen Turner is a young and beautiful woman, married to a much older man. With one letter to a stranger,…
a bush pilot, she is about to begin a crisis in her life, forcing her to choose between the man she married and the man she loves.Gunsmoke (Gunsmoke Western Ser. #Vol. 1)
Par Gary McCarthy. 1998
When Doc suffers a mild heart attack, Dr. Jerome Gentry, a young frontier doctor, comes to help the aging man…
with his workload. He quickly becomes popular with the townspeople, and a little too popular with the ladies, single and otherwise. When a gang of outlaws rob the local bank, leaving wounded behind, Dr. Gentry is nowhere to be found. Was he in on their plot, or is he in a whole lot of trouble? 1998.The rainbow quilt (Livewire youth fiction)
Par Iris Howden. 2003
Amy and Aneeta are best friends in their Design course. When they are asked to sew squares for a quilt…
to hang in the town hall, they think it will be boring. But after local riots break out, the quilt takes on a new meaning. This book is part of the Livewire youth fiction series. Livewire youth fiction is a series of exciting stories about the issues, dramas and challenges of being young. They provide teenagers/adult interest level fiction and non-fiction for those with reading ages below 10, or adult students learning English as a second language. This is a high interest, low reading age book for reluctant readers with a reading age of 7+ and interest age of 11+. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2003.Cities of the plain (Border trilogy. #3.)
Par Cormac McCarthy. 1999
In this final part of "The border trilogy", two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, in the stillpoint…
between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition. Some strong language and some violence. 1999. (The border trilogy ; 3)The long trail
Par Alan Irwin. 1996
Former lawman Dan Murdoch finds that his twin sister, Mary, and her husband have been brutally murdered on their homestead.…
He sets out on a trail of vengeance after the gang of outlaws who killed them, and especially their leader, the notorious Hennessey. Dan catches up with the killers in the Indian Territory and, with the help of a courageous half-breed Indian woman, metes out his own brand of justice.St. Agnes' stand
Par Tom Eidson. 1995
In New Mexico territory, Nat Swanson encounters survivors of an Apache ambush -- three nuns and seven orphans saved from…
Mexican slave traders. The survivors are led by Sister St. Agnes who is convinced that Nat was sent by God. But Nat is not a man of faith, and he knows the Apaches will return.God damn the union!
Par Cole Rickard. 1995
When Captain Corman returns from the Civil War to find his hometown Raftville in flames and his wife kidnapped, there…
is nothing for it but to posse up and fight back.Way home
Par Elizabeth Hathorn. 1996
Montana hit
Par Charles Langley Hayes. 1996
Unknown to each other, two hardcases were heading for the isolated settlement of Judgement Creek, one of them on the…
run, the other on the prod for vengeance. Their trails cross in a twisting drama of love, hate, double-crossing, cowardice and murder, played out against the wilderness of nineteenth-century Montana territory. At the centre is the long-standing, respected sheriff - a lawman who is, as yet, untested.God's gunslinger
Par Dave Armstrong. 1992
Mexican raiders are riding rampant across the south-west in a savage campaign to win back former Mexican territory ceded to…
the United States. Hezekiah Horn, sheriff of Eden county, Arizona, has both this and a bank robbery to worry about. A former saddle-mate of Hezekiah's, Apache Joe, wants to help by combining his forces with those of the sheriff, but they have a task ahead of them that will test to the limit both their friendship and their fighting powers. Some violence.Trigger trail to Boothill
Par Ross Harlan. 1993
Clay Dexter and his brother Johnny were busy running their small spread when trouble struck. Bandits held up a stagecoach…
and Johnny was unjustly charged. Then Clay learned that Johnny had been involved with the daughter of cattle baron Jason Morrisey, which would anger Morrisey enough to frame Johnny. So Clay was faced with clearing his brother's name and fighting off Morrisey's gun wolves at the same time.Killer's greed
Par John Blaze. 1996
Bertram Wast was a powerful cattleman - so why did he covet Ern Spiceland's poor ranch land, and instigate murder…
and arson in an effort to get it? Once Jack Griffin was voted in as lawman, he took on the fight right up to the unscrupulous Wast. What was the secret behind this greed for Ern's land?The trouble hunter
Par Alan Irwin. 1994
Until Brett Mallory met Mary Carson of the Box C Ranch, he had been a drifter with a taste for…
trouble. Then, suddenly, all he wanted was a quiet life with Mary - but it wasn't that easy. Before they could settle down, he had to outwit a gang of cattle rustlers, help a couple who were threatened by escaped prisoners and thwart a gang of bank and train robbers.Showdown at crazy man creek
Par Elliot Long. 1996
Eskiminzin's Aravaipa tribe had been brutally attacked by white men, and the reprisals were inevitable. Scout, Linus Buckthorn, was sent…
from Camp Sweeton to warn the settlers. But he found Alvaro Galvo's family already slaughtered, Lady Amanda Fairfax wandering alone, and three-year-old Lucy Marsden in the ruins of her family's homestead. So Buckthorn is left with his charges awaiting the attack of Broken Nose, the Aravaipa sub-chief.Rage of McAllister
Par Matt Chisholm. 1961
Golden god
Par Jeanne DuPrau, Ken Hamilton. 1981
Just as rebels take over the government, archaeologists find a golden statue. They must carry the statue across the desert…
to safety. High interest, low vocabulary book. For junior and senior high readers. (Talespinners I)Karen Kain: born to dance
Par Anne Monaghan. 1986
After seeing a performance of "Giselle", Karen Kain decided to be a ballerina. She began to study ballet at the…
age of 9 and became a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada. (Operation literacy series II ; reading level B)Born to the badge / (Wyatt Earp, an American odyssey #book 2)
Par Mark Warren. 2019
Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In…
Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed - Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life. As marshal in Dodge, Wyatt establishes a reputation as a peace officer, but he knows that police work will never deliver what he wants. After joining the Black Hills gold rush and then serving a stint as railroad detective in Texas, he returns to Kansas, only to pin on the badge again and inadvertently forge his path into history. 2019.Ridgerunner
Par Gil Adamson. 2020
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner is the follow-up to Gil Adamson’s award-winning and critically acclaimed novel The…
Outlander. November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future.Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family’s cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back — at any cost.Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world. Bestseller. Winner of the 2020 Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.