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Trilogy describing the author's journey to Canada from Wyoming with a dream of owning a cattle ranch. In Grass beyond…
the Mountains, Richmond and his companions conquer the tortuous miles and carve out a space for themselves. Also includes Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife. Strong language and some violence. 1978By Clarence Edward Mulford, Clarence E. Mulford, Tom Doherty Associates. 1992
Buck Peters put everything he owned into the Bar-20 and thought he could make a go of it. It looked…
pretty good too, until he fell in with that gang of renegade buffalo hunters. They were after his spread, his cattle, his life. And they swore to let nothing stand in their way. Nothing. And then they met a cowhand named CassidyBy Lalita Tademy. 2014
Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian chief before his tenth birthday,…
possessed an extraordinary ability to master languages. As the new country developed westward, he became a key translator for his Creek master and was hired out to US military generals. His talent made him indispensable, but what would become of him and his family with the coming of the Civil War? UnratedBy Robin Lee Hatcher, Robin Hatcher. 2009
Who says a woman can't do a man's job? Put up or shut up! Complaining about Bethlehem Springs' dissolute mayoral…
candidate, Gwen Arlington is challenged to take on the role herself. For seven years, she's carved out an independent life in the bustling mountain town of Bethlehem Springs, Idaho teaching piano and writing for the local newspaper. But now she's a single woman running for mayor--and in 1915 this decision is bound to stir up troubleBy Michael Punke, Perseus. 2002
Missouri River tributaries, 1823. When a trapper is mauled by a grizzly, he is left behind with two volunteers who…
soon abandon him. Deserted, defenseless, and enraged, he vows to survive--and exact his revenge. Based on the real life of fur trapper Hugh Glass. Some violence and some strong language. 2002By Jim Davidson, Barre Toelken. 1999
After his brother's suicide, Markus Cottin sets out to uncover the family's past, trekking to visit his father, now a…
hermit living in a mountain shack. Later, at his grandfather's place in Colorado, Markus learns about past involvement with Navajo neighbors. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. Spur Award. 1999By Bea Carlton. 1991
The Windthorn family travels to Arizona to stay with friends. Once there nine-year-old Terry and his younger stepsister, Mitzie, discover…
smugglers who deal in illegal aliens and drugs and make satanic sacrifices. It takes all their faith in God to survive. Sequel to Touch of the Black Widow (DB 40222). 1991By Richard S Wheeler, Tom Doherty Associates, Richard S. Wheeler. 1999
On January 1, 1900, journalist Henry Jackson Stoddard, age sixty-one, begins his recollections of people encountered and events witnessed in…
Virginia City and the Comstock Lode since his arrival there in 1861. Among his acquaintances was Samuel Clemens when he was a young reporter, and a mining town was the place to be. 1999By Elmer Kelton, Tom Doherty Associates. 1998
Texas, 1910. In this sequel to The Good Old Boys (DB 48505), Hewey Calloway settles down and, with his nephew…
Tommy, runs the Circle W ranch. Hewey is seriously injured trying to prove he can still break a horse. The mishap has one benefit, though; he gets reacquainted with an old girlfriendBy Frederic Bean. 1995
Weary of the sea and ill with a lung disease, Buck Wallace sets out to spend the rest of his…
life trapping along the Pecos River. Despite stories he hears of savage Comanches there, he does not fear death and wants to live in peace among the Indians. The brutality of life he finds is tempered by his unexpected love of Asa, a beautiful Kiowa woman. Violence and some descriptions of sexBy Max McCoy. 1993
The slavery issue first divides the Missouri Fenn family when they must decide whether or not to aid an injured…
fugitive slave. When the war breaks out, one brother immediately joins the Union army. But when Union violence is directed towards the remaining, neutral Fenns, each rebels in his or her own way--resulting in imprisonment, dismemberment, and even death for some family members before the war is over. Some strong language and violenceBy Don Coldsmith. 1989
Trade with the Spanish has stopped, and the Elk-dog People have returned to their traditional ways. White Fox journeys to…
Medicine Rock, a sacred place, to seek the wisdom of the ancients through a vision-quest. On his way back, he comes upon the body of a dead warrior and is furiously attacked by--to his surprise--a woman. She continues to haunt him. Sequel to Trail from Taos (DB 31392). Prequel to Fort De Chastaigne (DB 32345)By Doris Mortman. 1989
Gaby Cocroft, just divorced, moves to New York to start a new life. She becomes known as Gabrielle Didier--a wealthy…
French widow--and enters the world of antiques. Her past may be the creation of her imagination, but her knowledge of antiques is real and she soon becomes a force to reckon with. Descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Carlene Cross. 1999
By Victoria Aveyard. 2015
Seventeen-year-old Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with…
superhuman abilities. Mare, a Red, scrapes by until she publicly discovers she has a deadly ability of her own. For senior high and older readers. 2015By Melissa Marr. 2009
Summer Queen Aislinn and her mortal boyfriend Seth, from Wicked Lovely (BR 17597), struggle with their relationship since she's immortal--and…
the Summer King's partner. Seth must find a way to keep Aislinn for himself. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2009By Melissa Marr. 2008
Mortal teenager Leslie, Aislinn's friend from Wicked Lovely (BR 17597), endures an abusive home life. But when Leslie gets a…
tattoo, its image draws her into the Dark Court of evil faeries, where King Irial falls in love with her. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2008By Melissa Marr. 2007
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn and her grandmother are fey--they can see faeries, who are nasty folk. Keenan, the Summer King, wants Aislinn…
to be his queen and takes human form to woo her. But Aislinn prefers fellow student Seth and resists joining Keenan. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2007By Francisco X. Stork. 2009
Seventeen-year-old Marcelo Sandoval, who has autism, gets a summer job working in the mail room of his father's law firm.…
Exposed to real-world situations, Marcelo has encounters with his boss Jasmine that bring romance and a myriad of emotions to the surface. For junior and senior high readers. Schneider Family Book Award. 2009By Steven L. Peck. 2011
What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout, and a poet abducted by aliens come together in 1970's…
Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab, a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries in the shadow of the hoary La Sal Mountains.Young Hyrum Thayne, an unrefined geological surveyor, steals a massive dictionary out of the Grand County library in a midnight raid, startling the good people of Moab into believing a nefarious band of Book of Mormon thugs, the Gadianton Robbers, has arisen again. To make matters worse, Hyrum's illicit affair with Dora Tanner, a local poet thought to be mad, results in the delivery of a bouncing baby boy who vanishes the night of his birth. Righteous Moabites accuse Dora of the murder, but who really killed their child? Did a coyote dingo the baby? Was it an alien abduction as Dora claims? Was it Hyrum? Or could it have been the only witness to the crime, one of a pair of Oxford-educated conjoined twins who cowboy in the La Sals on sabbatical?Take a blazing ride with Hyrum LeRoy Thayne, the Lord's Chosen Servant and Defender of Moab. His short rich life spans the borderlands of magical realism where geology, ecology philosophy, and consciousness collide, in Steven L. Peck's rip-snorting tale The Scholar of Moab.Steven L. Peck knows Moab, inside out. An evolutionary ecologist at Brigham Young University, Peck teaches the philosophy of biology. His scientific work has appeared in American Naturalist, Newsweek, Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Biological Theory, Agriculture and Human Values, Biology & Philosophy. Steven also co-edited a volume on environmental stewardship. His creative works include a novel, The Gift of the King's Jeweler (2003 Covenant Communications). His poetry has appeared in Dialogue, Bellowing Ark, Irreantum, Red Rock Review and other magazines. Peck was nominated for the 2011 Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award. Other awards include the Meyhew Short Story Contest, First Place at Warp and Weave, Honorable Mention in the 2011 Brookie and D.K. Brown Fiction Contest, and Second Place in the Eugene England Memorial Essay Contest.The Scholar of Moab was award the best novel of 2011 by the Association of Mormon Letters, and was selected as a finalist for the Montaigne Medal (a national award for the most thought-provoking books being considered for the Eric Hoffer Award).