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1) Heidi
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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John Fox (1862-1919) was an American novelist, journalist and short story writer. Influenced by his childhood in the Kentucky's Bluegrass Region and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Fox's novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region. "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" (1903) is arguably one of his most well known and successful works. It entered the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 33
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In the bush country of South Texas, Captain Richard King built a sprawling ranch called Santa Gertrudis. But at the end of the Civil War, while king was in Mexico, his ranch was raided by Union troops led by a sadistic killer who burned Santa Gertrudis to the ground--and slaughtered everyone on it. Thirty years later, King's land is about to run with blood once more. Former Union Captain Jack Brant has gotten out of prison and is raring to pick up...
6) Chill factor
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Magazine editor Lilly Martin, packing up the vacation cabin she and her ex-husband owned in Cleary, North Carolina, where he now works as chief of police, becomes trapped in a snowstorm with Ben Tierney, who she struck with her car while trying to drive down the mountain, and the situation becomes critical when she uncovers evidence that Tierney may be the serial killer who has been operating in the area for over two years.
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A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick
Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.
But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 3
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In this western by the bestselling author of Return of the Mountain Man, legendary gunslingers unite to save a beleaguered mining town.
When gold is discovered near the little town of No-Name, Colorado, the citizens are overjoyed at their good fortune . . . until trouble gallops down Maine Street on a horse straight out of Hell. For gold's closest companions are greed and murder, and every two-bit gunslick from the Atlantic
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First mountain man series volume 21
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On the rolling Missouri River a riverboat of fur traders, a U.S. Senator and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Two beautiful women make a play for Preacher. So does a killer. So does a band of river pirates. No sooner does Preacher beat back these threats than the riverboat lands in the middle of a...
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Big Stone Gap novels volume 4
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Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home to Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding close her tight circle of family and friends. But with her daughter Etta, having flown the nest to Italy, Ave Maria has...
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Blackbird Mountain novels volume 1
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"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart"--
When Aven Norgaard leaves Norway to serve as housekeeper to her late husband's cousins in Appalachia, she expects lads in need of care, not three grown men, each in need of a wife and bound by a powerful brotherhood. As the...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 31
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Somewhere in his past, Smoke Jensen crossed paths with a lowlife who has now built himself a little kingdom as a frontier sheriff. When Smoke trusts his gravely injured comrade to the care of the town's doctor, the last thing he expects is an act of betrayal--and a call for revenge. Reissue.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 10
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Publishers Weekly declares that the "leaves of autumn are in full splendor, and so is Maron's talent in her 10th Deborah Knott adventure." Judge Knott is finally ready to marry her long-time friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant and settle down-or is she? She jumps at a chance to fill in for a judge in the high country of North Carolina. But ugly murder haunts the beauty of the Smoky Mountains.
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Last Mountain Man series volume 11
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Gold Rush
The gold-mining town of Red Light, Montana is the kind of backwater hole less famous for the folks that live there than the ones who die there. Like Janey Jensen, Smoke Jensen's sister. Smoke never would have come back if it hadn't been for her estate. But that isn't the only thing the Last Mountain Man's got to settle. . .
Blood Rush
There's also the score between him and Major Cosgrove. The man who owns Red Light-lock, stock and barrel-is...
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Big Stone Gap novels volume 1
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The warm and very funny story of a small town is told by Ave Maria Mulligan, a 35-year-old self-proclaimed spinster, whose comfortable routine is about to be disrupted forever. "Funny, charming, and original".--Fannie Flagg.
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Last Mountain Man series volume 37
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Smoke Jensen has gotten on the wrong side of Pogue Quentin in Santa Clara, Colorado. Then Smoke's friend, Pearlie drifts to Santa Clara and runs afoul of Quentin. Now Smoke is headed back to Santa Clara to face a man who already wants him dead - but Pogue Quentin never met anything like the fire of a mountain man.
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Last Mountain Man series volume 2
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From the USA Today–bestselling author of The Last Mountain Man, an Old West gunfighter closes in on the men who killed his family.
William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a...19) Milk glass moon
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Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney has never been a devotee of tarot cards or crystal balls. But when the fortune-teller at the county fair suggests that she "redream" her life, Ave Maria figures a little redirection is in order. Ave Maria's world will never be quite the same again...especially now that there's a teenager smack-dab in the middle of it.
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Six-Gun Justice. . .
Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man and the quickest draw in the West. But he was tired of fighting every punk who wanted to make a reputation for himself, so he hung up his .45s.
It Didn't Last Long. . .
Like Jensen, the two Mexican gunfighters known as Carbone and Martine had put away their six-guns, married and turned to ranching down in Durango. Then they came up against an army of outlaws under a warlord who called...