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2) Golden lasso
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When she inherits a ranch in Arizona, Jan Warren puts all her money and dreams into making a success of it. But she soon finds that with Rancho Arroyo comes a heap of problems - problems not helped by the commanding presence of Derek Bannon, owner of the Golden Lasso, the neighboring ranch and vacation hotspot. Derek is determined to buy Jan out, but as the battle becomes increasingly personal, Jan realizes that it's not just her business that's at...
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With his wild heart, Sawyer McKettrick is not ready to settle down on the Triple M family ranch in Arizona. So he heads to Blue River, Texas, to seek a job as marshal. But in a blinding snowstorm he is injured, and collapses into the arms of a prim and proper lady in calico. The shirtless, bandaged stranger recuperating in teacher Piper St. James room behind the schoolhouse says he is a McKettrick, but he looks like an outlaw. As they wait out the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth...
Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with...
5) Whirlwind
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"At the Alamo Canyon Ranch, set amid the desert foothills of Southern Arizona, the Champion women carry on the family legacy of breeding bucking bulls for the rodeo. In a world where bloodline is everything, love is the only risk worth taking ... Everyone's talking about Whirlwind at this year's Professional Bull Rider's Competition. But the promising young bull is the last thing on Shane Tully's mind once he lays eyes on the lady responsible for...
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Eugenia Potter mysteries volume 5
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[1998]
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PI Eugenia Potter, the 60-something Arizona rancher, signs up for an archeological hike in Colorado and becomes involved in the hunt for a killer. She suspects it is one of the hikers. Lots of Indian lore.
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 6
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Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates a series of deaths in Cochise County, Arizona, where the victims were shot and scalped. Suspicion centers on a nearby ranch where European tourists come to play at Indians.
9) Fire brand
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[1989]
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"Gaby Cane was always afraid of her attraction to Bowie McCayde. Even when Bowie's family took her in, she sensed his simmering resentment. Years later, she's an aspiring journalist who can hold her own with any man professionally, but when Bowie strides back into her life, the pull of loyalty is too strong to ignore. When Bowie asks Gaby to help save his family's ranch, he never expects her to have transformed into a stunning woman, and her innocence...
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Deep in the untamed Southern Arizona Territory, the United States Army embarks on a final campaign to rid the area of the remaining Apache warriors and capture and kill their famed war chief Geronimo. Caught between the Army and the Apache are Jacob Cox, a rancher trying to bring peace to his hard patch of land and a new life to his sister Martha. Martha is a woman perfectly suited to her wild new home, able to shoot down an Indian and match wits...
13) Exit Wounds
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
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The intense desert heat has brought a nightmare to a small corner of the Southwest. A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in conception and execution-a horror strangely connected to a grisly slaughter in a neighboring state, where the corpses of two women are found gruesomely posed on a rancher's land. A day that started out hot has already turned blistering for Joanna Brady, the sheriff...
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2006.
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For Ned Giles, a 17-year-old amateur photographer, a nightmare of harrowing misadventures begins the day he signs on to the 'Great Apache Expedition'. He is one of dozens of men hoping to free the son of a wealthy Mexican rancher kidnapped by a chillingly ferocious band of Apaches. A huntsman has captured one of their number, a wild young Apache girl, and they plan to use her as ransom. Like an animal, she bites and spits at anyone who comes near...