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Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continuing the enchanting chronicles of the fabulous Nuala Anne McGrail and her spear-carrying husband Dermot, bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley takes them once again to Ireland for another thrill-packed adventure.
Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone is out to get them. They find themselves dodging multiple explosions, and someone starts shooting at Nuala while she is water-skiing in the cold Atlantic....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
5) Irish gilt
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Phil Knight teams up with his brother, Notre Dame professor Roger Knight, to investigate the theft of some valuable artifacts and the killing of a researcher, crimes that may be linked to a nineteenth-century theologian.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The tale of Buck, abducted and mistreated and his gradual adaptation to the wild is a much heralded celebration of the power of instinct and the natural world. This edition includes four short stories: 'The Son of the Wolf', 'To the Man on the Trail', 'The Wisdom of the Trail' and 'An Odyssey of the North'."--Amazon.com.
7) The colour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
382 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series. After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of town, sending Appaloosa buzzing with excitement. ...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an abandoned pickup truck complete with suicide note leads a search party to find human remains that have clearly served as a snack for a bear, case closed--suicide by Alaska. But things get complicated when the dead man stumbles out of the wilderness and onto Kate's homestead weeks later. Kate and Trooper Jim Chopin must unravel the story of the man and the body, whoever he is, which is wrapped up in the politics of the Suulutaq Mine, a gold...
11) Fool's gold
Author
Series
The Skinners of Goldfield volume 1
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) Glorious
Author
Series
Cash McLendon novels volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rising to a life of influence and wealth after a hard-luck youth in late nineteenth-century Arizona Territory, Cash McLendon flees in the wake of a tragedy and tries to win back the heart of a woman from his past only to be targeted by his former father-in-law.
14) Foxfire
Author
Publisher
Sears Readers Club
Pub. Date
c1950
Edition
[Book club ed.]
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
15) Lazlo's strike
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
179 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Months of hard work and loneliness are rewarded when a young Hungarian immigrant finds a rich gold strike--but bringing his treasure to civilization proves to be a difficult and dangerous task.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Zaffre Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
533 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Into the wilds of Natal in the 1870s are born Sean and Garrick Courtney, twin brothers who could not be more different. Fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is promise.
Author
Publisher
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her whole family dies in a fire, young Simone Jules flees her grief and travels west to reinvent herself in burgeoning San Francisco. Down to her last dollar and facing some unsavory options, Simone quick-wits her way to a gambling table where she begins to deal vingt-et-un - modern-day blackjack. Word travels fast among of this French-speaking, card-playing novelty, and she begins to build a new life for herself.
18) Skeleton lode
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 6
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Updated edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 311 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck - until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine - and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages : genealogical table, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
406 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her harrowing journey west to California, Lee Westfall has finally found a new home, one rich in gold, thanks to her magical power, a power that seems to be changing every day. But this home is rich in other ways, too: with friends who are searching for a place to be themselves, just as she is, and with love. Jefferson, her longtime best friend, hasn't stopped trying to win her heart. And Lee is more and more tempted to say yes. But her uncle...
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