David Strathairn
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of the Sackett family across the Dakota Plains and into the gold fields of Western Canada.
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 6
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against blood-hungry warriors. The choice is simple: risk the hangman's...
Author
Series
Great Decisions in Foreign Policy volume 3
Language
English
Description
African economies are booming like never before, thanks in large part to China. The global giant is investing in infrastructure projects to help it tap into the continent's resources: oil, minerals, and its huge agricultural potential.
Author
Language
English
Description
When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn (Strathairn) is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy democracy. Inspired by true events of the 20's the film sets the stage for a timely thriller with resoundingly similar parallels to the...
Author
Series
Great Decisions in Foreign Policy volume 6
Language
English
Description
Shifting away from the revolutionary leftist economic policies, Latin American countries (now a majority constitutional democracies) are combining left-leaning social agendas with more pragmatic governance.
Author
Series
Great Decisions in Foreign Policy volume 2
Language
English
Description
What is ISIS, and what danger does it pose to American interests?
10) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Treasure Mountain, Louis L’Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fate of their missing father—and finding themselves in a struggle just to stay alive.
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest...
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest...
13) Sackett
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett’s destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he’d...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.
16) Mojave crossing
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Louis L’Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles.
Tell Sackett was no ladies’ man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time—even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles,...
Tell Sackett was no ladies’ man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time—even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles,...
18) Mystic River
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened—something
...20) O pioneers!
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1992
Edition
Gold crown collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, an immigrant's daughter inherits her family's Nebraska farm and her father's fierce love for the land. Fifteen years later she has made the family a fortune through her canny management of the farm, but has never forgotten the young man who left the prairie to seek his fortune.
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