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1) Dakota
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English
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Young Andi Oliver is an amnesiac and drifter who awoke in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast with a man's belongings tossed about the room. Adopting a name from the initials on her backpack, Andi moves from one waitress job to the next, from Idaho to North Dakota, until she takes a job at Klavan's, a massive pig farming facility that specializes in the dark art of modern livestock management. As Andi begins to uncover the truth about Klavan's and a slaughterhouse...
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When his adopted daughter's friend reports that someone has been killing off a circle of nomadic panhandlers, Lucas travels to North Dakota, where he encounters a dangerously violent subculture.
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move....
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"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
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After years of drifting from one small Florida town to another, Allison Marshall believes she's found the ideal place to settle down on Palmetto Island, but soon discovers that the locals have a dark secret, and she must either stay and join them or risk escaping.
Alison Marshall has drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. When she reaches Palmetto Island, she thinks...
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Holland family saga volume 4
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver,...
7) Factotum
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English
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An aspiring writer who has become an outcast, loner, and hopeless drunk drifts around America, moving from job-to-job to support his favorite pastimes--women, drinking, and gambling
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Sidewinders volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
In the west, there's always work for the kind of men willing to get their hands dirty - from rounding stray cattle to stringng barbed wire. Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are just such men. Now they've been hired for the one job they've never tried: wearing badges - in a little stain of a town called Whiskey Flats.
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Have brides, will travel volume 1
Have brides will travel volume 1
Have brides will travel western volume 1
Wheeler large print western
Have brides will travel volume 1
Have brides will travel western volume 1
Wheeler large print western
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton aren't the settling down types. They're lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the tigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus Keegan--the owner of a matrimonial agency--they receive an unexpected proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail order brides to a mining town in New Mexico...
10) Till death
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"If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, its Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, they'll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold mining town in Alaska. The brides-to-be include a dangerously attractive widow, her sweet-hearted niece, and two of their friends. The roadblocks to the altar include a lecherous saloon owner, a lovesick sailor, and a gang of hired guns. And...
11) Sutter's Cross
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Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
When a disheveled outcast wearing stolen clothes shows up at the church's annual spring picnic, the comfortable citizens of a southern Appalachian resort town find their placid, predictable existences challenged.
12) Sidewinders
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Series
Sidewinders volume 1
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English
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Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, two old friends and drifters, wander into Arizona territory and get involved with a beautiful widow who is the owner of a stagecoach line that is in the middle of a territorial skirmish.
13) Never say never
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Kai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots in any one place--and she doesn't plan to. But when a chaotic hurricane evacuation lands her in Daily, Texas, she begins to think twice about her wayfaring existence. And when she meets hometown-boy Kemp Eldridge, she can almost picture settling down in Daily--until she discovers he may be promised to someone else
14) Deadwood Gulch
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Series
Sidewinders volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When they take a job guarding gold shipments from the mining camps--shipments that keep getting hijacked by a gang called the Devils of Deadwood--Scratch Morton and Bo Creel have to go after missing gold and the Devils.
15) Mustang man
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The Sacketts volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Nolan Sackett's attempts to elude a posse hunting him for murder are complicated when he stops to rescue two women who appear to be in trouble.
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Sidewinders volume 4
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English
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Sometimes when a man's luck turns, it turns hard. Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are experienced drifters, but now the two trail pards are down to their last dime. So they accept the best job they can get, serving as deputies in a boomtown called Mankiller. Their boss is a drunken sheriff named Biscuits O'Brien, who would rather drink, than work. Their tin stars are mighty pretty, but the job starts to get serious quickly, and soon the newly-minted lawmen...
17) One wish
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Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller gave readers "a gift to treasure" (Romantic Times) with her acclaimed Springwater Seasons novels. Now, once again capturing the spirit of early America, she delivers a marvelous tale of love, family loyalty, and passionate desire on the Western frontier -- where fairy tales sometimes do come true. She was the only child of a rich and powerful rancher. He was the son of a drunken ne'er-do-well. But...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Rides a stranger : Coffin Flats, NM is a nothing town in the middle of nowhere. Jim Glass is hired by Marshal Chalk Bronson because he's good with his fists and his gun but a hothead named Johnny Waco is threatening to burn Coffin Flats down if his runaway wife isn't returned to him.
A bullet for Billy : Captain Gus Rodgers of the Texas Rangers is dying but before he goes, he needs Jim Glass's help to free his grandson from a Mexican prison.
20) Scarecrow
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Two very different men hitchhike across country and form a unique friendship.
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