Jason Culp
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions...
3) Conagher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Conagher, a drifter who is waging a personal war against a murderous band of rustlers, is forced to look for help from Evie Teale, a lone woman who is fighting her own battle with the elements, the Indians, and the thieves.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross races against time as a series of crimes stuns Washington, D. C.—and he might be facing his most brilliant enemy yet.
In a series of terrifying crimes, bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building-and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary...
In a series of terrifying crimes, bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building-and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
7) Radigan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Radigan must defend his ranch from a beautiful woman who arrives from Texas with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of gunhands, and an old Spanish grant to Radigan's land.
8) Taggart
Author
Language
English
Description
Taggart was running from a bounty hunter when he meets a girl with a packtrain of gold being chased by Apaches. He decides to stay and help her.
Author
Language
English
Description
It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn’t the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too. And when the Apaches found them, they began a siege as relentless and unforgiving as the barren land…and just as inescapable.
The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible...
The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible...
10) Fallon
Author
Language
English
Description
A gambler of the Old West turns his back on saloons and dance halls when he falls in love.
11) Trouble
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, Henry sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but on their trek they encounter the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"After being injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. But Gerry is also beginning to question his own competency. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent...
13) Bitter Trail
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Finding unexpected love and purpose in a marriage of state to King Cayleb that united their kingdoms against a corrupt Church, Empress Sharleyan finds her efforts compromised by secrets that her husband has reluctantly kept.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A terrible storm is raging, and Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It's the story of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee working as an Agent of Change - trading coins for teeth - and learns of a dutiful...
17) Passin' through
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A drifter, reckless and hard, had vengeance on his mind. Some citizens from the last town had left him twisting slowly from an unjust noose. He had escaped and was returning to that town to make them sorry they hadn't finished the job.
19) Yondering
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of more than fifteen stories about the men and women of the American frontier.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"--