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1) 96 miles
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"During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water to cross the desert for help"--OCLC.
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Life in a Nevada mining town in 1905 is not easy for 13-year-old Kit Donovan, who is trying to do right by her deceased mother and become a proper lady. When Kit discovers Papa's boss at the gold mine is profiting from unsafe working conditions, she realises being a lady is tougher than it looks. With a man's hat and a printing press, Kit puts her big mouth and all the life skills she's learned from reading 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' to...
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In sixteenth century Venice, the famed makers of Venetian glass faced death if they tried to leave the island... but one man schemes to outwit the enforcers of the edict. In 1958 Venice Beach, California, and in today's Venetian casino in Las Vegas, other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret. As the three stories weave together through time and space, the reader is drawn into a world of violence, and obsession.
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Jack Bruno is a Las Vegas cab driver. Scientist Dr. Alex Friedman is one of his passengers. She is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space. The next day Jack notices Sara and Seth sitting in the back seat of his cab. He takes them to a run down house in the middle of nowhere, where they must obtain an object. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke is searching for information pertaining to two aliens that landed days earlier....
6) Immoral
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Jonathan Stride novels volume 1
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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2005
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The disappearance of a beautiful teenage girl from the streets of Duluth, Minnesota, the second in a year, draws Lieutenant Jonathan Stride into a dark and dangerous conflict with the heart of evil as his search for a serial killer captures him in a web of secrets, lies, obsession, illicit desire, and death that will transform his life.
7) Bonanza
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Ben Cartwright and his sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, run their ranch, the Ponderosa, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and contribute to taming the wild West.