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House of Winslow volume 15
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House of Winslow Book 15- Betsy Winslow had always thought that she never measured up to her beautiful older sister, Lanie. So Betsy was deeply flattered when a handsome stranger began showering her with attention-for once she felt beautiful and desirable. Foolishly deciding to elope, Betsy and Vic leave for Indian Territory. Envisioning a life of grandeur as a rancher's wife, she is sorely disappointed when all her dreams come crashing down. When...
3) The hot kid
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Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man - a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid of the U.S. Marshals Service, one of the elite man hunters currently chasing the likes of Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd across America's Depression-ravaged heartland. Carl wants to...
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
6) Kind of kin
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Your Grandpa is a felon and a Christian.
He says he's a felon because he's a Christian. So says Aunt Sweet to her nephew Dustin, when her father, who has been raising Dustin, is arrested for hiding migrant workers.
The law that makes harbouring 'illegals' an offence is the brainchild of the ferociously ambitious Oklahoma politician Monica Moorehouse.
Aunt Sweet takes Dustin in, but Dustin is bullied by her son Carl Albert, and goes on the run, aided...
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When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.
8) Paradise
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This story set in Ruby, Oklahoma is about an African American community.
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For a gambler locked in a claims war, the stakes are life or death! A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town -- and the black gold beneath it. And Fat Man is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. The pair will have to work hard and work together to force-feed...
14) Helltown
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Lawman westerns volume 3
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Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
2008
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English
16) Oklahoma!
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A ruthless group of men are doing everything possible to declare war in the Oklahoma Territory and it will take all of Toby Holt's energy to quell the warring factions.
17) The breathtaker
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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In the aftermath of a deadly twister, police chief Charlie Grover suspects that the members of the Pepper family died at the hands of a killer rather than the storm, and investigates with the assistance of weather expert Willa Bellman.
18) Slade's law
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Berkley Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Slade's arrival in Serenity is not welcome-especially by the shady mayor, a corrupt marshal, and a wealthy landowner. When Slade demands that the corpse be exhumed, he doesn't dig up any answers-just more trouble.
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Set in turn-of-the-century Texas, King Calhoun is a wildcatter with big dreams. His daughter, Princess, is just ordinary; not pretty, not smart, she's just a good-hearted woman with a whole lot of spunk. Quite a romantic, Princess falls in love at first sight with Tom Walker, a handsome roughrider. Tom dreams of wealth. If he can't earn it, he's not averse to marrying for it. He poses as a wealthy easterner to woo Princess, but finds--to his dismay--that...
20) The lawman
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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After Jack Slade's twin brother is murdered by a ruthless cattle baron, he becomes a U.S. Marshall in order to bring the killer to justice. But Jack's thirst for revenge may take precedence over the law.