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"In high desert plains, adobe villages, and farmsteads nestled in the folds of pinon-green mountains - even in centuries-old cities sprawling into modern shopping mall culture - time can seem to stand still. Step into another way of understanding place and time in these seven new short stories from award-winning author Martha Egan. They may be set in New Mexico but they resonate with basic human truths that trenscend the limits of regionalism."--BOOK...
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Portraits of the heart volume 2
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2010
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Jessie Ann Gaebele pursues her dream of owning her own photographic studio as she tries to put the shadow of a forbidden love behind her.
4) Silver lies
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When the body of Joe Rose, a precious-metals assayer, turns up trampled behind her saloon, Inez Stannert is asked by the victim's widow to help settle his affairs, a job that leads Inez into a web of skewed assays, counterfeit money, blackmail, and murder.
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John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries volume 8
Wind River Reservation Mystery volume 8
Wind River Reservation volume 008
Father John O'Malley volume 008
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Wind River Reservation Mystery volume 8
Wind River Reservation volume 008
Father John O'Malley volume 008
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James "Orlando" Sherwood has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion having his followers dance for days at a time for the promise of an Indian paradise. For Orlando and his followers, nothing must delay the coming of the New World--not even the investigation of Ben Holden's death. It has been four months since lawyer Vicky Holden left her high-powered job in a legal firm to return to her home on the Wind River Reservation. She agreed to meet her...
6) Winter dance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A fox wonders how he should prepare for the coming winter, but what other animals advise will not work for him until another fox comes to his aid.
7) Leaden skies
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Silver rush mysteries volume 3
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It is 1880 and the railroad is coming to town. Former President Ulysses S. Grant arrives along with the train to celebrate the event and look into possible investments. Inez is dealing with the problem of her missing husband while trying to maintain ownership of the saloon. She makes a backroom deal with the local madam, Frisco Flo, hoping to gain some money of her own. When the body of one of Flo?s girls turns up, mud starts flying, accompanied in...
8) Iron ties
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In the sequel to Silver Lies, Inez Stannert struggles to deal with her shaky partnership in Leadville's Silver Queen saloon, a missing husband, and a child still back East. President Ulysses S. Grant prepares to make an appearance to celebrate the coming of the railroad, but old enemies, general lawlessness, and ruthless competitors could ruin everything.
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Kinship and courage series volume 2
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[2001]
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Suzanne felt the tears press at her eyes as the dream-state drifted away taking with it the sight of the man she loved. Awake, she blinked back the tears. This was her life now. The sounds of the women and oxen, those were real. And the darkness, her darkness. She lay inside it, resigned. She was not a wife reaching out for her husband but a widow, a blind widow, wistful and full of desire.
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Kinship and courage series volume 1
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2000.
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Based on an incident on the Oregon Trail recorded by pioneer Ezra Meeker: "the meeting of eleven wagons returning and not a man left in the entire train; all had died, and been buried on the way, and the women returning alone." The novel explores the possible fate of these women, bonded by loss, growing in faith and fighting for survival.
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Tender ties historical series volume 1
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c2002
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A Name of Her Own is a fictionalized account of the life of Marie Dorion. With 2 young sons to raise, Marie refuses to stay in St. Louis when her husband heads West with the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition of 1811, making her the first mother to cross the Rockies and stay in the Northwest. On the trip, Marie meets the famous Lewis and Clark interpreter, Sacagawea. Both are pregnant Indian women married to mixed-blood men of French Canadian and Indian...
12) Mercury's rise
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2011.
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While traveling to see her son who is cared for by her sister, Inez Stannert travels with East Coast businesman, Edward Pace. But Pace takes some medicine and dies. Pace's wife claims her husband did not die of a weak heart. Can Inez solve the crime and visit her son?
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A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500-mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save...
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"Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue and often doesn't even try to do so, fueling...
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[2003]
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""I am the daugher of my father's fourth plural wife, twenty-eighth of forty-eight children - a middle kid, you might say." So begins this memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred. Since polygamy was abolished by manifesto in 1890, this is a story of secrecy and lies, of poverty and imprisonment and government raids. When raids threatened, the families were forced to scatter from their pastoral...
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Joshua Ryder is an orphaned young man raised by an old ex-cowboy. After his guardian's death, Josh is hired to help drive a herd of longhorms form Texas to the cattle markets in Kansas. Along the way he falls in love with a ranchers daughter, but feels he must leave to bring his mother's murderer to justice. who would lay bets on an eighteen-year-old going up against a seasoned, ruthless killer?