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The captain's wife: a novel
Par Douglas Kelley. 2001
In 1856, the captain of the clipper ship Neptune's Car falls ill at sea, leaving his pregnant young wife to…
command the vessel and its mutinous crew as they round treacherous Cape Horn. Kelley's novel is based on the true story of Joshua and Mary Patten. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2001The big sky: a novel
Par A. B Guthrie. 2002
1830s. Seventeen-year-old Boone Caudill leaves Kentucky and heads west after trying to kill his strict father. Traveling the Missouri River…
to the Rockies, Boone joins other mountain men, takes a native wife, and becomes as harsh as the wilderness. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Some violence and some strong language. 1947The year of the hangman
Par Gary L Blackwood. 2002
Unruly fifteen-year-old Creighton Brown, banished from England in 1777, goes to live with his uncle in the American colonies, then…
nearly defeated by British forces. Abducted by patriot rebels en route to Florida, Creighton is taken to New Orleans, where he soon has to choose sides. For junior and senior high readers. 2002Tigers at twilight
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 1999
Ghost town at sundown
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 1997
When Jack and Annie explore the Wild West to solve another riddle, cowboy Slim Cooley mistakes them for horse thieves.…
They ride horses and face mustang rustlers and a ghost before leaving. For grades 2-4. 1997The ice limit
Par Douglas J Preston. 2000
Billionaire Palmer Lloyd wants to own the largest meteorite in the world. It's buried on a remote island in an…
icy region off the southern coast of Chile. To retrieve it, he hires the engineering firm of Eli Glinn and controversial scientist Sam McFarlane. Some violence and some strong language. 2000The fall of light
Par Niall Williams. 2001
Saga of the Foley family in nineteenth-century Ireland. Francis and his four sons, their mother gone, flee from their tenant…
farm after Francis steals a telescope. When their father is presumed drowned, the four brothers eventually separate and find their own destinies at home and abroad. 2001The Big Burn
Par Jeanette Ingold. 2002
In the summer of 1910, drought in Idaho and Montana has led to forest fires. On August 20, three teens--homesteader…
Lizbeth, fire fighter Jarrett, and buffalo soldier Seth--are caught in a blaze and face the choice of fleeing or staying to confront the conflagration. For junior and senior high readers. 2002Horse thief: a novel
Par Robert Newton Peck. 2002
Chickalookee, Florida; 1938. First, rodeo worker and seventeen-year-old orphan Tullis Yoder loses two fingers on his first bull ride. Then,…
when he learns that his only family--the thirteen horses he cares for--are going to be sold for dog food, he steals them--with help, of course. For junior and senior high readers. 2002The other side of dawn
Par John Marsden. 2002
The war to defeat Australia's invaders is drawing to a close. Ellie and her guerilla band of teenagers assist the…
liberators from New Zealand in a final assault. But peacetime resettlement isn't easy. Sequel to The Night Is for Hunting (BR 13778). Some violence. For junior and senior high readers. 1999Icebones
Par Stephen Baxter. 2002
When Silverhair's daughter, Icebones, awakens from a thousand year sleep, she finds the world changed and the Fireheads gone. Now…
the mammoths must once again survive on their own. It is up to Icebones, and her accumulated knowledge of their history, to lead them. Sequel to Longtusk (BR 14632). 2001Longtusk
Par Stephen Baxter. 2001
As a twelve-year-old renegade calf in his own clan, Longtusk senses his destiny to become a hero. Setting out on…
his own, he is captured by the Fireheads. Yet even in captivity Longtusk gathers the knowledge that will help him escape and return to his old clan. Sequel to Silverhair (BR 14631). 1999Moby-Dick
Par Herman Melville. 1991
The sailor Ishmael tells the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the white whale in this novel which includes…
chapters on the natural history of the whale, the whole making an allegory of human potential and limitations. 1851Silverhair
Par Stephen Baxter. 1999
The mammoths have survived many springs, but their numbers are dwindling. Only one family remains, and Silverhair, soon to become…
a mother, looks to the future. But first, the mammoths must face the two-legged menace Silverhair calls the Lost. Prequel to Longtusk (BR 14632). 1999Have space suit-- will travel
Par Robert A Heinlein. 1958
High school senior Kip Russell longs to go to the moon but is kidnapped by space pirates. He meets other…
prisoners on a flying saucer--an eleven-year-old girl named Peewee and a strange creature they call the Mother Thing. For junior and senior high readers. 1958Captain Blood
Par Rafael Sabatini. 2003
Great Britain, 1685. When physician Peter Blood is accused of treason against King James II for treating a wounded rebel,…
he is sentenced to slavery in Barbados. Once on the island he escapes to become a buccaneer--and eventually governor of Jamaica. 2003 introduction by Gary Hoppenstand. 1922Shadow of a dead man (Shotgun Johnny #2)
Par William W Johnstone. 2023
The top dogs of bestselling western action thrillers hit the bullseye once again in the latest in a new series…
in which a disgraced lawman's quest for vengeance becomes a legendary fight for justice. HE WHO LIVES BY THE GUN . . . Shotgun Johnny Greenway thought he'd hit rock bottom when he lost his wife and son, hung up his badge, and hit the bottle. But a pretty young woman gave him a second chance. Offered him a job riding shotgun for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine. Gave him a reason to live. But even she can't save him when the Starrett gang tries to rob the gold-and Johnny kills their leader . . . . . . DIES BY THE GUN When the dust clears, Shotgun Johnny is wanted for murder. The dead man's father has powerful friends, including a town marshal who's Johnny's personal enemy. One wants the gold. The other wants the girl. Both want Johnny dead. With a $1000 bounty on his head-and half the county trying to kill him-Johnny's got to prove his innocence. Not in a court of law. In a trial by shotgunShooting iron (Devil's Gulch #2)
Par William W Johnstone. 2023
The thundering new adventure starring traveling gunslinger John Holt, a lawman-for-hire on a mission to serve justice across the untamed…
Colorado territories-one bullet at a time. One of the deadliest, crime-infested towns in Colorado Territory, Devil's Gulch needed more than a sheriff. They needed a gunslinger. So they pinned a badge on hardcase lawman John Holt. And the rest is history. As the town's new sheriff, John Holt achieved the impossible: He drove the devil out of Devil's Gulch. Corrupt, cutthroat rancher Joe Mullen-who ruled the land with an iron fist-is finally behind bars, thanks to Sheriff Holt. But the tables are turned when Mullen manages to overturn his prison wagon and make his escape-with an army of prisoners, outlaws, and lowlifes to do his bidding. It doesn't take long for the streets of Devil's Gulch to run red with blood. Again. Or for Holt to be marked for death. Again. But this time, the sheriff's up against more than a hundred men-all of them gunning for him-and his only allies are an all-too-young deputy, an all-too-angry farmer, and a wayward wagon cook. With odds this bad, Holt is sure of only one thing: when you shoot at the devil, it's best not to missThe secret (Jack Reacher #28)
Par Lee Child. 2023
The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child A…
string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy. But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?Terry and the pirates
Par Julian Thompson. 2000
Sixteen-year-old Terry stows away on a yacht that was stolen by young Mick and is sailing south. Mick is washed…
overboard during a tropical storm. Terry is rescued and held for ransom by an eccentric pirate family that is looking for buried treasure. For senior high readers. 2000