Dailey, Janet
Summary: "Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas' most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in--and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy's body in their prize stallion's box stall.Roper's rodeo career was cut short by an injury....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFriend, Catherine.
Summary: What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, CATHERINE FRIKalman, Bobbie
Summary: Introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.31 KALLobdell, Scott.
Summary: The Hardy Boys investigate a ranch that serves as an alternative facility for troubled teenagers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LOBSteel, Danielle
Summary: Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to California to start a new life. With almost no money, a will of iron, and hard work, he eventually built the biggest ranch in California. But when he dies suddenly at the age of sixty-four, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters--each of them finding it impossible to believe that this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEBell, Laura
Summary: In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, LAURA BELKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "As a girl Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe, Joanna is compelled to return to Montana, and to a strange childhood companion she had long forgotten. On the outskirts of Rustling Willows, a madman lurks with a vision to save the future. Mass murder is the only way to see his frightening manifesto come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Keira's home is Black Pearl Ranch, where she helps train problem ponies - and lives the dream ... Reed Walters' new pony, Wildflower, is beautiful but untrained. Keira warns Reed not to push her too hard, but he insists on showing her off at the local rodeo. Disaster strikes: Wildflower bolts from the arena. Keira and her sister head off into a snowstorm to find her, forgetting the one golden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder Children's 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OLDWolfman, Judy.
Summary: Explains the activities that take place on a working sheep farm, from the perspective of a child who lives there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.31 WOLVaughan, Robert
Summary: "When Turquoise Ranch hand Curly Stevens goes into Flagstaff to meet a new employee arriving on the train, his first impression of Rob Barringer is how big and strong the tenderfoot is. Rob's eagerness to learn and his willingness to take on the most difficult jobs wins everyone over, including ranch foreman Jake Dunford, and Melanie Dunford, his beautiful daughter. Rob is well-educated, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: Describes the various breeds of dogs used to guard and herd sheep, explains how they work, and discusses the importance of these dogs to the sheep industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1985
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636.7 ANCThompson-Hernández, Walter
Summary: In Compton, California, ten black riders on horseback cut an unusual profile, their cowboy hats tilted against the hot Los Angeles sun. They are the Compton Cowboys, their small ranch one of the very last in a formerly semirural area of the city that has been home to African-American horse riders for decades. To most people, Compton is known only as the home of rap greats NWA and Kendrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4004 THOKalman, Bobbie.
Summary: This book introduces the life and times of the people from the Old West describing their homes, jobs, tools, clothes, and travel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2008
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Summary: "Something fishy is going on with the beef at Circle P. After a quick-and-dirty shootout with a small band of rustlers, Ty Brannigan and his son Matt do another count of their cattle -- and find they have over one hundred head more than before. Seems the rustlers were hiding stolen cows from other ranches among the Brannigan herd. And that's just the tip of the cowpie. In jail, the rustlers rat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "Benjamin Banneker is known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy. He was born free at a time in America, 1731, when most African Americans were slaves. At the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANGray, W. M. (William Melville)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boston Mills Press 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.8 GRAJolie, Raechel Anne
Summary: "Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOLIE, RAECHEL ANNE JOLHanson, Anders
Summary: Provides basic information about a wrench, including its history and four popular variants of the tool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 621.972 HANSummary: "This collection of yummy recipes contains cool ideas for every day of the week - whether you need grab-and-go meals for busy mornings, want to surprise someone you love with a beautiful breakfast tray, or can't wait to host your friends for a superstar brunch party on the weekend."--Page 2 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2017
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Summary: Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MIN, ANCHEE MINWeiner, Jonathan.
Summary: Following in Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos were Peter and Rosemary Grant, who studied the features of the beaks of various species of finches and confirmed Darwin's theory of natural selection. On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.883 WEIStarr, Lara
Summary: Awaken your inner Force with 29 intergalactic breakfast recipes. Fuel up with Hans Soloatmeal, battle hunger with Admiral Ackbars, and so much more! These easy-to-make, mouthwatering recipes feature characters and scenes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well as from the upcoming film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. And photographs featuring Star Wars figurines re-creating epic moments from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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Summary: "Deep, deep down, at the very bottom of the ocean, lies a secret world. Through lyrical narration, this spare-text STEM picture book takes readers on a journey to a place very few humans have ever been-the Mariana Trench. The imagined voyage debunks scary myths about this mysterious place with surprising and beautiful truths about life at Earth's deepest point. Deep, Deep Down shows a vibrant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: Nate Adams was your regular, everyday kid, until he received the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai that are normally invisible to the naked eye!
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018