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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel-a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia-reminiscent of Philipp Meyer's The Son and the novels of Cormac McCarthy. An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and Thieves is a gripping and utterly transporting debut, bringing to vivid life a colonial Australia that...
44) Tried and true
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"--
45) Love begins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"After their father's passing, Ellen Barlow and her sister Cassie struggle to maintain the family farm in Anderson's Corner. When Clark Davis finds trouble in town on his way to California, Ellen agrees to hire him at the farm to work off his debts. Before long, Clark and Ellen unexpectedly develop feelings for each other. Ultimately, a turn of events inspires the pair to begin a legacy of love and faith together."
46) Homestead
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE and FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD WINNER Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders "Moustakis has OCEANS OF TALENT." --Pam Houston "A writer who TRULY HAS EVERYTHING." --Jaimy Gordon Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This is a story about one man's passion for the wide-open spaces and freedom of the Canadian North. Frank is from Germany and knew nothing about Yukon when he decided to give up his job and become a trapper. He chose a rough life of fishing and hunting over material comforts and the responsibilities of raising a family. The call of the wild was too strong to resist.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.
Author
Series
Slash and Pecos volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They've managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer-Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'m-So" Bledsoe-recruits them for a job only fools would take. Marshal Bledsoe wants...
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