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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...
Author
Series
Shotgun Johnny volume 1
Language
English
Description
It takes a brave man to ride shotgun for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It takes an even braver man to try to rob a coach of bullion when the shotgun rider is Johnny Greenway. Armed with his weapons of choice, Shotgun Johnny ain't stopping for no one ...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which she heads up. Out in the backcountry there's no time for hesitation when lives are on the line. Vienna prides herself on being tough and decisive. She's not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy, especially one who left her high...
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Language
English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan reaches new heights of passion and suspense in this thrilling novel that takes readers deep into the California backcountry, where a woman is tormented by visions of a killer. It starts in her dreams.Hideous flashes from a nightmare only she can stop. Images of a murderer stalking the ones she cares about most... Stella Harrison thought she had gotten away from the traumas of her past. Running...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Tom Dawson finds happiness and peace at his brother's California ranch during the Civil War until his past comes back to haunt him following a violent stagecoach robbery.
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Born of missionary parents in Hawaii, David has a variety of adventures that take him from a job on a whaling ship to the California gold mines.
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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