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New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller captures the passionate heart of America in this powerful contemporary novel set in a small Western town. Seeking shelter from the storms of life, a woman who is down on her luck finds an unexpected refuge at The Last Chance Cafe. With acres of land and a house that have been in his family for generations, rancher Chance Qualtrough has deep roots in Primrose Creek. Now, at the local diner, he is...
3) Boulder Dam
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Gangsters threaten to blow up the dam, and Lynn Weston must stop them.
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1875. Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper-- and finds herself...
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Saucer novels volume 3
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The long awaited sequel to master storyteller Stephen Coonts's Saucer brings back the characters, action, and exhilaration that made the original a smash. After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers...
6) Nevada
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Alone again! Just like his orphaned boyhood. Those are Nevada's thoughts as he turns from the only home and happiness he has ever known. But it had all been a lie, at least on his part. He had been hiding his true identity from his best friend, Ben, and the woman he loved, Hettie. They knew him as Nevada, a man they care for and respected, when in truth he was a wandering fugitive gunman, notorious from Nevada clear to Tombstone, Arizona. And now...
8) To the nines
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 9
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Pursuing a skip, Stephanie travels to Las Vegas, where she meets up with Sally Sweet, Joe Morelli, and Ranger, and works to outmaneuver a trio of mobsters who are determined to prevent Stephanie's return home.
11) Ocean's thirteen
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to finding amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Banks and what he's done to a friend. Uniting...
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Three lone wagons on the California Trail become trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a sudden snowstorm. Stuck in tight quarters with others makes Cynthia Cooper reevaluate her reasons for being engaged to fellow-traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she has to reconsider here dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother....
15) Kilrone
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A Bantam book volume Q2483
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While in the army in Paris, Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone fought over women, but now they fight a common enemy as Paddock tries to kill the Bannock war party before they get to Kilrone and the fort full of women and children Kilrone is protecting.
17) Range of light
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Zoland Books
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1998
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A class reunion 25 years later, in the form of a week-long hike through the High Sierras of California, attracts only two women. The novel describes their tense adjustment to each other, one a mother and successful historian, the other a failure and a lesbian.
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Saga of the Sierras volume 2
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
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English