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1) True grit
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Language
English
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Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
When Jack Kells kidnaps the beautiful Joan Randle, he takes her to an isolated canyon where his legion are plotting to acquire a gold fortune. The woman becomes an unexpected accomplice to an intricate robbery. Jack Kells is the cold-hearted leader of a group of mountain bandits. Despite his rough exterior, he develops a soft spot for their latest victim-Miss Joan Randle. She was captured by the men and taken to their hideout where she encounters...
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English
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Description
Enger tells the story of eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and its remarkable conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies,...
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Series
Song of ice and fire volume 4
Language
English
Description
The uneasy peace that exists following the death of Robb Stark is threatened by new plots, intrigues, and alliances that once again will plunge the Seven Kingdoms back into all-out war for control of the Iron Throne.
"It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears... With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
349 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt only the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they find protection from a gang of Venetian street children and their leader, the Thief Lord.
7) Dark life
Author
Series
Dark life novels (Kat Falls) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
9) The thief
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Frank and Joe solve a dangerous mystery involving a payroll robbery, a mine cave-in, a piano-playing ghost and a booby-trapped helicopter.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 11
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
174 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Frank and Joe investigate threatening notes and a secret room in an old mansion, robbery and mistaken identity complicate matters.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 24
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink attend a concert during which someone steals the star's diamond pendant, and they are soon on the trail of the thief.
14) Thieves' gambit
Author
Series
Thieves' Gambit volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.
15) Inland: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor.Set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water region of Exmoor in Devon and Somerset, England. John Ridd is the son of...
18) The ninth nugget
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
86 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit a dude ranch in Montana, they find themselves with another mystery to solve, this one involving the theft of money from the ranch's safe and of a large gold nugget that Josh had found.
Author
Series
The keepers trilogy (Lian Tanner) volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Goldie, an impulsive and bold twelve-year-old, escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains for their protection, and finds refuge in the extraordinary Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she discovers a useful talent for thievery and mysterious secrets that threaten her city and everyone she loves.
20) The whipping boy
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
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