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Hawkeye, the colonial scout, and Chingachkook, the Mohican warrior are brought together by their love of the New World forests and their desire for peace between their races. Set against the exciting days of the French and Indian War, their story--heroically risking their lives to guide two English sisters through hostile territory, battling the evil Le Renard Subtil--is a story of how trust and understanding can develop between people of two cultures....
3) Brimstone
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Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
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Little house volume Book 5
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In 1879, young Laura Ingalls travels with her mother and her sisters Carrie, Grace, and Mary to the Dakota Territory to meet Pa and start a new chapter in their lives.
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Sacketts volume 8
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In The Lonely Men, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap—only to discover that his greatest enemy might be very close to home.
Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and managed to take something of value from his battles: a deep and abiding respect. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap his nephew, forcing Tell to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the
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No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley, she was still a Sackett. Sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge. A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless killers who's stop at nothing to cheat her out of her inheritance....
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 2
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A rash of deadly train robberies has the chief investor of Dover Station feeling itchier than a quick draw without a target. And he wants Sheriff Aaron Mackey to scratch that itch with every bullet his battered badge authorizes him to shoot. When Mackey and his backup gun down four kill-crazy bandits, they uncover a plot cooked up by respected citizens of Dover Station.
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The Sacketts volume 2
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Barnabas Sackett was leaving England forever to find his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a warrant from Queen Elizabeth had been sworn against him -- and that men were searching for him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackett had found and sold -- coins believed to be part of a great treasure lost by King John years before. Believing that Sackett possesses the rest of the treasure, the Queen...
10) Mojave crossing
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Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...
11) In places hidden
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1905. Caleb Coulter, a lawyer, went missing three months ago. His sister, Camriann, heads to San Francisco to find him. She meets Judith and Kenzie, who also have mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. Camri's search leads her deep into the political corruption of the city-- and into the acquaintance of Patrick Murdock, an Irishman who Caleb saved from a false murder charge. Together they see the truth, will Patrick be able to protect...
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Publisher Annotation: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save.
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Sarah plain and tall volume 1
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Unabridged ed.
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"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall," Sarah writes Papa. And so begins the journey for Sarah, Papa, Anna and Caleb in Sarah, Plain and Tall. In Skylark, a drought turns the land dry and brown and Sarah takes Anna and Caleb back to the city as Papa stays behind. Will the family ever be reunited? Caleb's Story continues the saga of Sarah and her family on the prairie, this time narrated by Caleb, offering a new perspective....
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