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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. 1978Wives at war
By Jessica Stirling, St. Martin`s Press. 2005
War affects the Conway sisters in different ways. While working at the Ministry of Labour, Babs meets an American photographer…
who may be more than he purports. Rosie's marriage is on the rocks. Polly becomes entangled in intrigues. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2003Dust of dreams: Book Nine of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (Malazan Book of the Fallen Ser. #9)
By Steven Erikson, Tom Doherty Associates. 2010
Adjunct Tavore, from Toll the Hounds (DB 70385), leads the Malazan army into the wastelands to fight for an unknown…
cause. Meanwhile, other clans converge there to confront their own destinies. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2009The coming of Cassidy: a Hopalong Cassidy novel (Bar-20 Ser. #6)
By 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 CassidyRed berries, white clouds, blue sky
By Sandra Dallas. 2014
After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to…
leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado. For grades 3-6Citizens Creek: A Novel
By 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? UnratedThe revenant: A Novel of Revenge
By 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. 2002Mine work: a novel
By 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. 1999Sun Mountain: a Comstock memoir
By 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. 1999The smiling country (Hewey Calloway Ser.)
By 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 girlfriendThe Pecos River (Rivers West Ser. #Bk. 13)
By 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 sexSons of fire (Double D western)
By 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 violenceSong of the rock (A Double D western)
By 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)The undying West: a chronicle of Montana's Camas Prairie
By Carlene Cross. 1999
No-no boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
By John Okada. 1981
A 25-year-old man returns home to Seattle after spending two years in an internment camp for being Japanese-American, and another…
two years in prison for refusing to join the United States Army during World War II. 1976Farewell to Manzanar: and related readings (Literature connections)
By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. 1998
Sunrise over Fallujah
By Walter Dean Myers. 2008
Iraq, 2003. Robin "Birdy" Perry joins the army after high school and becomes involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Birdy writes…
about his experiences to his uncle Richie, a Vietnam War veteran, from Fallen Angels (RC 29775, BR 17796). Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2008The Wednesday wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By Gary D. Schmidt. 2007
Long Island, 1967. Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood knows that Mrs. Baker "hates his guts" because she would have Wednesday afternoons free…
if he went to catechism or Hebrew school like his classmates. Mrs. Baker worries about her husband in Vietnam and introduces a reluctant Holling to Shakespeare. For grades 5-8. Newbery Honor. 2007A troubled peace (Under A War-Torn Sky #2)
By Laura Elliott. 2009
1945. World War II pilot Henry Forester from Under a War-Torn Sky (DB 68311), returns home to Virginia and struggles…
with nightmares. Henry ventures to France to find a boy who saved his life and is shocked at the lingering devastation. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2009Marcelo in the real world
By 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. 2009