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Canadian West series volume 2
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English
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"Elizabeth and Wynn find that their commitment to God and to each other gives their life meaning. Can their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter, loneliness, and rigors of life without any of the conveniences they're used to?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Rebel Blue Ranch volume 3
Language
English
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"Teddy Andersen doesn't have a plan. She's never needed one before. She's always been more of a go with the flow type of girl, but for some reason, the flow doesn't seem to be going her way this time. Her favorite vintage suede jacket has a hole in it, her sewing machine is broken, and her best friend just got engaged. Suddenly, everything feels like it's starting to change. Teddy's used to being a leader, but now she feels like she's getting left...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Art historian Sir Kenneth Clark presents an epic examination of Western European culture, defining what he considers to be the crucial phases of its development. This lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was broadcast in 1969.
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Language
English
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Edward Dugan left his home in Boston with a bequest from his father--mining certificates giving him ownership of the Christabel mine. Although they have a face value of 250,000 dollars, the mine has been declared worthless. However, Henry Christian, the man who originally sold the mining stock to Dugan's father, has offered to buy back the stock certificates for 1,500 dollars. Since he has no money, Dugan decides to walk the 3,000 miles to Potts Valley...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher is a young teacher accustomed to high society, so she experiences culture shock when she gets her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley. Life in the small mining town is filled with challenges. A recent explosion has killed more than a dozen of the town's miners, compelling the widows of those men to work in the mines to earn money.
7) Texas Ranger
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement skills have carried him far--from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. A tough case in Waco has jeopardized Yates's chances at promotion, and he decides to take time off to recharge with his family in their small-town hometown, Redbud. He arrives and finds a horrifying crime scene--and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect...
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 1
Language
English
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Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care. She's just as determined not to give her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Until...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The legend of Robert Fernald is narrated here in three related short novels. Fernald had been raised from childhood by his uncle with endless tales about the great days of the Wild West and the escapades of his father and Wild Bill - with a certain vagueness about which side of the law Fernald's father was on. Now Robert is back in the West with no ambition but to pursue exploits like those he grew up hearing about.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A short, provocative book on religion from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In his new book, acclaimed scholar Jack Miles poses a question: How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity-a religion inextricably bound to Western thought-Miles reveals how we in the West have come to isolate religion as an object of study,...
11) The aspen grove
Author
Publisher
Jane A. Fulkerson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Aspen Grove is a story about a third generation Irish immigrant family living in Colorado in 1883. Daniel O'Neal, his wife Johanna, their daughter Sarah and their hired hands live a frugal but rewarding life raising cattle. A catastrophic event changes all of their lives forever and their friends and neighbors must come to their aid. Sheriff Nathan Westphal and his Deputy Wilf Bennington, two men who served on opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon...
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Go West, it's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The big store, the brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.
13) Coffin road
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, while homicide detective George Gunn makes the ocean crossing to a remote lighthouse on a rock in the North Atlantic to investigate a brutal murder.
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there. At a remote, sea-battered lighthouse on a rock in the northern...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2019, Maggie visits a remote island in Scotland's Outer Hebrides to prove that a man was murdered there twenty-five years before. Maggie's motives are as dark as they are surprising. But she isn't prepared for the dangerous secrets and lies that are hiding at the heart of Kilmeray's isolated community. Or within herself. Robert Reid moved his family to Kilmeray in the early 1990s, driven both by hope and a terrible secret that he kept hidden for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"A killer blizzard sweeping across the Southwest threatens the livelihoods of everyone in the town of Trinidad. But it's two gunshots that fell Sheriff Caleb York's unlucky deputy. As sure as the blood pooling in the snow, York knows it was a case of mistaken identity. The bullets were meant for him. It's the first nasty step in a plan rustled up by former Quantrill's Raider Luke "Burn 'Em" Burnham-eliminate the law, corral a team to rob a bank in...
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Series
Penguin history of Europe volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This latest addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it. From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of this era. Martin Luther's challenge to church authority forced Christians...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley....
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Series
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English
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"Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo--especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver and gold. Jamie never believed the story. Countless treasure hunters had scoured the area and come up empty-handed. But his friend's granddaughter is convinced...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Roy Blanton has raised his four boys in the family business since they were half-pints - and they've gotten away with murder. That is, until U .S. Deputy Marshal Casey Dixon had hot-headed Billy, the youngest, hanged for shooting a policeman. Now the Blantons have vengeance on their minds. Old Buck Avery, Dixon's partner, had been thinking of turning in his badge. And taking down the Blanton name sounds like a fine way to leave the law on a high note....
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