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Border trilogy volume 1
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English
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
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Determined to prove his worth, a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who was abandoned by his parents leaves his aging guardians to become a champion boxer before matches organized in Mexico and Las Vegas lead to his realization that he cannot change his identity or outrun his destiny.
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Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 2
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English
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Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing-- and the challenge-- she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals-- and...
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Slater Carson might be a filmmaker by trade, but he's still a cowboy at heart--and he knows the value of a hard day's work under the hot Wyoming sun. So when he sees troubled teen Ryder heading down a dangerous path, he offers the boy a job on the ranch he shares with his two younger brothers. And since Ryder's guardian is the gorgeous new Mustang Creek resort manager, Grace Emery, Slater figures it can't hurt to keep a closer eye on her, as well...
6) Texas tough
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Tylers of Texas volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"He's everything she doesn't need. The quiet horse whisperer whose touch still ignites her dreams--and is everything wealthy Lauren Prescott is not. She can think of a million reasons why she should never ever fall into Sky Fletcher's sure embrace again. Until she clashes head-on with the dangerous complications of her privileged life and needs his protection like air to breathe... She's more than he can resist. The heiress Sky can't get out of his...
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Heirs of Montana volume 1
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English
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Book 1 of Heirs of Montana from bestselling author Tracie Peterson. Adventurers, families, outlaws...all driven west in the 1860s by a longing for endless blue sky along with wild and wide-open spaces. Tracie Peterson, from her own Montana home, paints an unforgettable portrait of this rich, rugged landscape, populated by strong and spirited characters. When Dianne Chadwick urges her family to move west to her uncle's ranch in the Montana Territory,...
8) The red pony
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English
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The classic story of a boy's journey to manhood under the joys and hardships of ranch life, focused around the life and death of his red pony.
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English
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From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row. During a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars. The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search...
10) Giant
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English
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Saga of a woman who leaves her home in Virginia to live with her new husband in Texas at the time of the great petroleum discoveries.
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Border trilogy volume 3
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English
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It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever. The change comes when John Grady falls in love with a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute and...
12) My friend Flicka
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More than anything in the world, Ken McLaughlin wants a horse to call his own. When Ken's father finally tells him that he can choose a colt, he firmly decides upon a beautiful young filly. But Flicka, one of the wildest, most unmanageable horses on the ranch, has a questionable bloodline and Ken's father quietly disapproves of his choice. As the boy and horse forge a lasting bond, Ken senses the changes in himself, a young man taking his first steps...
13) Lawman
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HQN
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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When San Antonio FBI agent Garon Grier buys a ranch in Jacobsville, Texas, the strong, silent loner is hoping to mend some broken family fences. He's not looking for love. Grace Carver grew up in this quiet Texas town, but because of her troubled youth, she's never married-hadn't even thought about it...until Garon. These unlikely allies are brought together by the most difficult case of Garon's career: hunting an escaped child predator whose former...
14) Sunrise Canyon
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Before he left for Afghanistan, Jake O'Reilly had everything--a beautiful wife, a baby on the way, a wonderful life. Three years later, his wife is dead and he is so haunted by his memories of war that he can't bring himself to go home. But when his wife's grandfather tracks him down and persuades him to come work on his ranch, where Jake's daughter is living, he agrees--even though he is reluctant to expose his little girl to the man he's become....
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1987
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211 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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The year Carly turns eleven, 1907, is filled with playing detective, watching condors, observing a fierce feud involving her family's Southern California ranch, and coping with unexpected tragedies.
16) The fire pony
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Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1996
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175 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Roy lets himself find a loving family and a new home on the horse ranch which he and his older half-brother happen to come upon.
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English
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Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that...
18) Honor's price
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Rocky Mountain legacy volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
The exciting continuation of the Rocky Mountain Legacy series focuses on trusting in the Lord. After a vicious fire brings injury and devastation to Monte Farrell's western home, he feels fearful and protective. The dreams he shares with his betrothed, Abbie Martin, are going up in smoke. When the fire proves to be intentional, and the sabotage against the property escalates, Monte desperately wrestles with his need for revenge and his sense of honor....
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Back Bay Books
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English
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"Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The power of the dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers--one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet--and of the woman and boy, a mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers' ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the...
20) Country strong
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Painted Pony Creek volume 1
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English
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Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart--a woman he hasn't seen in years--and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...
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