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1) The Gift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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Evans (The Christmas Box) returns with narrator Nathan Hurst, a frequently traveling, Tourette's-suffering security chief for a retail chain. When Nathan gets snowed in at the Denver airport at Thanksgiving, he offers half his hotel suite to a stranded needy family: recently divorced single mom Addison (a massage therapist), and her two children, Lizzy and Collin. Collin, who has leukemia, cures Nathan's Tourette's with his gift of healing touch....
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Pub. Date
2008
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Bob Stark returns to Denver after 18 years in SE Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he left is dead again. At her new funeral, he sees... himself. Is the other self a hoaxer? A doppelganger? Or is something more sinister going on? Even worse, two men appear to be government agents are hunting him for no reason he can fathom. With the help of Kerry Casillas, a baffling young woman Bob meets in a coffee shop, he uncovers the unimainable...
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents --- grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born --- she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead. Along the way she accumulates a crew of feisty octogenarians --- former gangsters and friends of her grandfather. She meets and falls in love with Tim Olson, whose grandfather shared a deadly...
4) Die-hard
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His family was robbed and tortured by a gang of outlaws, and now Vance Belford would devise a plan to track down his father's murderers and kill them, one by one.
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The bull by the horns : Dan Thornton's rise to the heights of the Hereford world / Rodney Preston -- Hell with the lid off : a survey of the coking industry in Colorado / Glen Weaver -- Reforging the golden spike : the U.S. gold mining industry during World War II / Matt Mayberry -- A few stops along the way : Colorado's early stagecoach stations / Heather King Peterson.
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"Colfax Avenue: Main Street Colorado" is the story of the longest commercial thoroughfare in America. As both neighborhood main street and transcontinental highway, Colfax Avenue provides a telling reflection of the people and events that shaped metropolitan Denver. Along the banks of this concrete river, the link between history and destiny can be discovered. -- container
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
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One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings,...
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"The spark for Buried by the Roan is a dead hunter on the shore of Oyster Lake, deep in the Flat Tops Wilderness. Josh Keatings demise could be a case of a hunter drinking too much and stumbling late at night. Or it could be something much worse. Plenty of other strange things are going on to make hunting guide Allison Coil think the death is no accident. Someone is lurking around, leaving odd notes and maps. Hunters and guides are turning up violently...
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Series
Allison Coil mysteries volume 2
An allison coil mystery volume Second
An Allison Coil Mystery volume 2
An allison coil mystery volume Second
An Allison Coil Mystery volume 2
Description
Fracking ruptures more than the earth. The spark for Buried by the Roan, the second novel in the Allison Coil Mystery Series, is a dead hunter on the shore of Oyster Lake, deep in the Flat Tops Wilderness. Josh Keating's demise could be a case of a hunter drinking too much and stumbling late at night. Or it could be something much worse. Plenty of other strange things are going on to make hunting guide Allison Coil think the death is no accident....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Henry Price wants to start a new life. He gets a new apartment and a new telephone number only to find the first message is for the woman who had the number before him. It seems that Lilly is in some serious trouble, and Price is drawn into her web.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.
Pub. Date
c2007
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Explores the five distinct regions of Colorado separated by geography, culture, history and economy: Southern Colorado (including the San Luis Valley and the plains south of the Arkansas River), Western Colorado, eastern plains (north of the Arkansas River), Front Range, and Denver metropolitan region.
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