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"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 9
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It's Halloween, and strange things are happening on the ranch. When darkness falls, Drover reports that he has seen a witch, a ghost, a pirate, and two skeletons on Slim's front porch . . . and, these terrifying creatures were saying something about "Tricker Trees." Can Hank and Drover solve the mystery--before they get too spooked?
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 10
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Hank the cowdog gets into more and more trouble before he is able to find a happy solution to this problems.
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Louis L'Amour's short stories are the bedrock of his enduring popularity. It was with this quintessentially American form that he first found success as a writer, and the great themes that would infuse all of his work first surfaced in unforgettable tales like these - legends of honor and betrayal, greed and sacrifice, cowardice and courage. These stories bring us face-to-face with heroism in unexpected places: in the form of a single mother facing...
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Crow Feather series volume 2
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In 1874 Jeff Layne, a Confederate veteran and reformed hide hunter sick of killing both men and buffalo, is on his way back to Texas to revive the family ranch, which fell into carpetbagger hands. Sequel to: Slaughter.
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Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasn't buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron. (Amazon).
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A cowboy struggles to adapt to the modern world in 1910s Texas. Hewey Calloway finds it difficult to accept fences, cars and, worst of all--sheep. Also, he is advancing in years, though here there is a consolation, he is teaching the trade to his nephew.
9) The son
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Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
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Love comes softly series volume 1
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Love Comes Softly introduced the characters of Marty and Clark Davis, whose tragic circumstances brought them to a "marriage of convenience" on the frontier prairies during the mid 1800s. The story of how Clark's patient, caring love mirrored that of the heavenly Father, drawing Marty to faith and to love, has captured the hearts and imaginations of over one million readers on Book One alone!
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Hank the Cowdog volume 18
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Unsupervised for the day, Hank the cowdog and his human friends, Little Alfred and Slim Chance, mind the ranch with humorous results.
12) Calder promise
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Calder saga volume 8
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Laura Calder, a sophisticated young woman of the world, finds her plans to remained unattached thwarted by two men--Boone Rutledge, the son of a Texas billionaire, and Sebastian Dunshill, the Earl of Crawford--who vie for her affection, while an enemy from her past prepares to destroy the Calder name.
13) Calder storm
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Calder saga volume 10
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In order to protect his family, Quint Echohawk is prepared to take a stand against a ruthless cattle baron who is more determined than anyone knows and more dangerous than the Calders could possibly imagine...
14) Hondo
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Hondo Lane was a big, strong man, a tough man, unstoppable in a fight, but he was not a cruel man. Now, with the Apaches on the warpath, he finds a young woman and her son living in a ranch that is slowly going to pieces. Her husband is a degenerate who spends much of his time at the local fort cheating at cards and rustling cattle. Hondo must deal with the Indians, good and bad, in an effort to save the young woman from their depredations - half-Apache...
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Alton Burwick was itching to make a big land grab at Yellow Butte. But first, he had to drive the tough band of squatters from the range. So he rounded up a bunch of killers for the job, and hired Tom Kendrick to ramrod the crew, never mentioning that they would be fighting innocent men and women. Suddenly Kedrick realized he would have to do something fast--before Burwick's mob turned Yellow Butte into a wasteland.
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The harrowing story of the revolution is seen through the eyes of the Lewis brothers and their wives and kin: the battles of Gonzales, Bexar, Goliad, and the bloody siege of the Alamo, where the Lewises join forces with such Texas immortals as Juan Sequin, James Butler Bonham, William Barret Travis, James Bowie, and David Crockett.
18) A moment in time
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Lone star brides volume 2
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"With so many obstacles in her path, will Alice Chesterfield find sanctuary in her new life on the 1890s Texas frontier--and a chance at love?"--
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
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When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown, it's a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her station, May's only hope of freedom is a secret government program sending "civilized" women to become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. This is the story of May's breathtaking adventures caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 23
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Slim rescues an orphan raccoon, and much to Hank's dismay, everyone on the ranch is enchanted with the "cute" baby coon with the beady little eyes and amazing little hands. Yet, little do they know that every time midnight rolls around, Eddy the Rac is seized with uncontrollable fits and it's Hank's responsibility to guard the crafty masked bandit every moment! Soon Hank finds himself teaming up with Eddy to liberate the poor "singing" cookies.
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