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1) Desert gold
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A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2021.
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English
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The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year oldAda's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are...
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A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure—rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat
In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely portrayed as predators. They’re the prey. This...
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A century ago, when Indians and alligators roamed frontier Miami, the legendary John Ashley was accused of murder and sentenced to hang. He went on the run with his sweetheart, Laura. Their crime spree lasted years longer and became far more deadly than the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde a decade later. This is their true story of prison breaks, bootlegging, bank robberies, and piracy on the high seas. Their saga of love, passion, and violence is juxtaposed...
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"Falcon MacCallister is heir to a proud Scottish tradition, a man who has built a legend of courage on the wild American frontier. Boyd Ackerman is no ordinary criminal. Trained by the U.S Army, commanding his band of killers with military efficiency, Ackerman has outsmarted and outfought every lawman who has tried to stop him. But he's never faced MacCallister before. Falcon MacCallister wasn't looking for a fight. Then Ackerman's Raiders kill his...
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John Wayne returns for his latest adventure in, the Lawless Frontier! Notorious outlaw Pandro Zanti has met his match in John Tobin! After murdering Tobin's parents Zanti attempts to kill a local man and kidnap his daughter. Fueled by the desire of revenge and affections for the young lady, Tobin saddles up, and prepares for the fight of his life as the two square off in an confrontation the likes of which Texas has never seen!
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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Captain Call is hired to track down and kill the young Mexican bandit Joey Garza.
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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A new action-packed film filled with criminals and greed, paying homage to the classic spaghetti Westerns! Hobbs, a notorious wanted bandit, gets caught up in a violently competitive hunt for stolen cash when he finds out outlaws have robbed the local bank. While trying to get back what's his, he must saddle up to stop these outlaws, leaving whoever stands in his way dead!
12) Valley of fire
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Micah Bishop is busted out of jail by a gun-toting nun, who wants him to travel with her into the most lawless part of New Mexico Territory, in order to give some of her fellow nuns a proper burial--and find the gold that they share the ground with.
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Black Cat Bookstore volume 2
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Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Cobweb the cat and her best friends, who are mice, save the spooky Black Cat Bookstore from a burglar who says he doesn't believe in ghosts.
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"Though Pennsylvania is known for its bucolic landscapes and the City of Brotherly love, the Keystone State has a darker side, including an extensive history of crimes and misdemeanors. The Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania is the ultimate guidebook to the criminal and seedy history of the state. With photographs, maps, directions, and precise GPS coordinates, this collection of outlaw tales serves as both a travel guide and an entertaining...
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Worthy Publishing
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[2014]
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker who makes a living by cracking the firewalls of the world's largest corporations. But when the biggest job of her life goes wrong, she's plunged into a desperate situation with only one way out: one last hack that will either save her or kill her.
17) Saddle the wind
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Warner Home Video
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[2008]
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English
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Tony Sinclair rides back to the ranch he runs with his ex-gunfighter brother, Steve. Tony's spoiling for a fight. And he finds it when a stranger shows up aiming to settle an old score with Steve.
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A street thief and a princess discover they are twins separated at birth-and must switch places to find an all-powerful stone and prevent a deadly war from taking place--
Princess Rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. Ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. When their collide, everything turns on its head: Ria and Rani, orphan and royal, are unmistakably identical. A deal is struck to switch places,...
19) Death & Texas
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The great state of Texas is a land of opportunity. For outlaws. And horse thieves. And cattle rustlers. Not to mention bank robbers, train robbers, and anything-that-ain't-nailed-down robbers. The state's governor, Richard B. Hubbard, is at the end of his rope. He wants to clean up Texas once and for all--and he's desperate enough to try something crazy: hire a man who can do what the Texas Rangers can't. A man not tied down by wife or children. Or...
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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 trigger, 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...
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