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3) True grit
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Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
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Series
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English
Description
The former Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis has been disbanded. Charley Castillo and his colleagues have retired, and the sudden death of the President has brought an adversarial Commander-in-Chief into the Oval Office...
But just because Castillo is out of the government doesn’t mean he’s out of business. He still has the skills and the manpower to do what others can’t or won’t...
But just because Castillo is out of the government doesn’t mean he’s out of business. He still has the skills and the manpower to do what others can’t or won’t...
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Series
Outlaw saints volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
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Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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Series
Language
English
Description
On the lawless frontiers of the American West, there is one rule every outlaw should remember: Never cross a mountain man like Matt Jensen. Not if you want to keep breathing. No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: No idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That's the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to--dazed and confused--until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last...
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Series
Vengeance road volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a brazen escape from his sentence to be hanged, infamous outlaw Jack Barnett cons a crooked judge, local saloon gal, and old partner into partaking in the heist of a lifetime. Havoc breaks loose when a small-town sheriff stands for justice.
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Series
Mysteries of Cove volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Even though technology and inventions have been outlawed in the mountain city of Cove, in order to save the city Trenton and Kallista must follow a set of mysterious blueprints to build a creature to protect them from the dragons outside their door.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to...
12) Colter's journey
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Series
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English
Description
1845, in the untamed Oregon Territory. Tim Colder escapes when his family is ambushed by a gang of cutthroats; his parents butchered, his sisters missing. Luckily he finds a friend in Jed Reno, a one-eyed trapper who's lived in the Rockies since the 20's-- and is looking for the same gang that attacked Tim's family. Colter has no choice but to grow up fast, face his fears, and fight back with everything he's got.
Author
Series
Jeremiah Halstead volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead keeps the peace in the mining town of Silver Cloud, Montana. But an old enemy has declared war against him. Ruthless and clever, Ed Zimmerman would have become the leader of one of the west's deadliest and hell-bent outlaw gangs. Zimmerman has offered a generous bounty to every desperado willing to put a bullet through the U.S. Deputy Marshal's heart. A death sentence won't stop Halstead from enforcing the law....
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In a twist of fate, Slash and Pecos are riding hard for the law, dispensing justice as they see fit, and determined to watch their final sunset as heroes ... not outlaws ... His wicked ways mostly behind him, reformed bank robber Jimmy 'Slash' Braddock is getting hitched to his sweetheart. But before the honeymoon, Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. 'Bleed-Em-So' Bledsoe needs Slash and his former partner-in-crime, Melvin 'Pecos Kid' Baker, to don a couple...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Language
English
Description
This live-action docu-drama separates fact from fiction as it brings to rousing life the golden age of pirates! Hear the legends and discover the theatrical lore of such feared men and women as Blackbeard, who mixed gunpowder with his rum.
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Language
English
Description
A western hero whose adventures embody the spirit of the American frontier, Smoke Jensen is bestselling author William W. Johnstone's most beloved creation. In his powerful new novel, Johnston chronicles Smoke's early years. Before he went off in search of his father, long before he become a legend, Kirby Jensen was a young man trying to make a living with the gifts God gave him--courage, cunning, and lightning with a gun.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones...
18) Winter moon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"U.S. Marshal John Galloway has been tracking the four members of the Streeter gang for some time from Texas to the Pacific Northwest to Montana and into northern Wyoming heading towards a showdown in the town of Brigham"--
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English
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The Scottish Highlands, 1885. Two men, brandishing knives, attack a young woman outside a pub. Duff MacCallister steps in and saves her - killing one of the assailants. Big mistake. The attacker was the sheriff's son, and now MacCallister is marked for death. His only hope: America, where Duff hopes to start a new life with his American cousins. Unfortunately, the sheriff's deputies are tracking him down with nine of the deadliest cutthroats money...
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Series
Texas John Slaughter volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tombstone, Arizona is still being terrorized by rustlers and outlaws barely a decade after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral until legendary sheriff Texas John Slaughter takes over the job and brings peace to the famous town.
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