Central Kansas Library System

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together...

"Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player--and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes"--

When Val Champion returns to the family ranch, she's ready to put her past behind her. Her dreams of a Hollywood acting career have become a nightmare of fear. But once she sees rodeo man Casey Bozeman facing down a bull in the arena, she knows she's no safer at home. Face to face with her first and only true love, Val can't deny her still powerful feelings for Casey. Val's the one who got away, the woman who broke his heart so hard he still feels...

When Frank McCoy brings a new herd of cattle to Ute Peak country, tensions mount when he grazes them on the land used by Hyatt Tolman's cows.

"When hotshot reporter Max Malone gets a rare shot of Buckmaster Hamilton with a blonde woman near Beartooth, Montana, he chases down one of the senator's daughters to verify that the woman is his supposedly long-dead first wife. But Kat Hamitlon won't give him the time of day, let alone any information about her mother." -- Back cover.

Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse -- until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?

Big Sky Secrets: "Self-made millionaire Landry Sutton heads to Hangman Bend Ranch with a plan to sell his land to his brother, Zane. Though he's got cowboy in his blood, Landry intends to return to city life before the dust even settles on his boots. Of course, he didn't count on falling for Big Sky Country...or for Ria Manning. Ria is starting to settle into country life herself...until she has a close encounter of the terrifying kind with a buffalo....

"Posing as an outlaw who stole the Tahzo sheriff's horse, Red Clark goes to the outlaw town of Lelargo to bring back the man who had killed the daughter of a local rancher. But the town is suspicious of newcomers and will try to protect their own."--

While spending their summer vacation with Uncle Frank and Uncle Bill, two city children discover and begin to explore what seems to be an old gold mine shaft, but find that it is guarded by mountain lions.