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A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces--and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Cassie Barrett, world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a Los Angeles graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for answers and is stunned to discover that she is the wife of Hollywood leading man Alex Rivers. A picture-perfect romance that deteriorates into wife beating. By the author of Harvesting the Heart.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Chidlren/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
6th-grader Rachel Johnson lives on a remote prairie farm with no phone. So Cresband school to her means connection to the other students and the town. But a winter storm strands Rachel on the farm. She is surprised when her dad agrees to fly his three eldest daughters to town so they can continue the school year. But the 4 must board in a hotel with no parents, no rules and no chores. Wil Rachel ever be able to return to farm life after this?...
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English
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Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander...
11) The grass dancer
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Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic romance of Ghost Horse, a sacred clown, and Red Dress, a woman warrior, whose spirits seek desperately to be reunited.
13) The long winter
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
"The town of De Smet is hit with terrible, howling blizzards and Laura and her family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train doesn't arrive, Almanzo Widler and his brother realize something must be done. They begin an impossible journey in search of provisions, before it's too late."--Back cover.
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Publisher
NoguerCaralt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
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"Laura y Almanzo Wilder se acaban de casar! Comienzan su nueva vida juntos en su pequeña hacienda de la pradera con grandes esperanzas, pero año tras año son asaltados por distintas catástrofes: tormentas, enfermedades, incendios y deudas impagadas"--Cover.
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
16) Legacy: a novel
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a...
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
First in a new series featuring FBI agent Manny Tanno- a Native American returning to the reservation home he thought he left behind. The body of local Native American land developer Jason Red Cloud is found on the site for his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A war club is lodged in his skull-appearing as if someone may have performed a ritual at the crime scene. FBI Special Agent Manny Tanno arrives in Pine Ridge to find that not everything...
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005, ©2004
Language
English
Description
Carson Fielding, a loner known for his horse-training skills reluctantly agrees to work for Magnus Yarborough, a greedy landowner who suspects Carson of having an affair with his wife and plots to take revenge on the young man.
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011, ©2008
Language
English
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It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
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