L'Amour, Louis
Summary: As far as the eye can see is a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale has finally accepted that her husband won't be coming home. To make ends meet she runs a temporary stage station. But though she is diligent and careful, Evie must prepare for the day when the passengers no longer come and she must protect her children in an untamed country where's it's far easier to die than to live. Miles away,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD WESTERN L'AMSummary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERDeacon, John
Summary: "Justice is a drifter with no fear and no memory, trailed by a violent past. Nora is a beautiful widow bravely raising her young son on an isolated New Mexican ranch. When a ruthless cattle baron pushes longhorns into the valley, Justice vows to protect Nora and her boy. But how can he succeed against thirty hired guns... including the four outlaws who left him for dead?"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Deacon 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEAGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of running a ranch on her own, Laurel Tracey decides to hire a convict--a man who's just scary enough to take care of squatters and just desperate enough to agree to a one year post. The years following the war have been hard on Laurel Tracey. Both her brother and her father died in battle, and her mother passed away shortly after receiving word of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRARyan, Jennifer
Summary: After serving time for a crime she didn't commit, Evangeline returns home to a cold welcome. Her mother blames her for her father's death, and her brothers want her out of their way. When Evangeline learns she's solely responsible for their failing ranch, putting her family's future squarely on her shoulders, she'll have to find a creative way to save their home before they lose it all. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ryan 2019Hasselstrom, Linda M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 HasseBlunt, Judy.
Summary: An astonishing literary debut: the true story of a remarkable woman's life in the contemporary American West, where the lessons she learned carried her through blizzards, devastating prairie fires, and extreme isolation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Large Print 2002
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Summary: "Her father has died unexpectedly, leaving her burdened with a heavily motgaged horse ranch. Marrying one of the towns all-to-willing bachelors would offer an easy solution, but Alex has no interest in marriage. Instead, she dons men's trousers and rides the range, determined to make the ranch a success on her own. But despite Alex's best efforts, everything seems to go wrong: ranch hands quit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summerside Press 2008
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Summary: Denver Daily Chronicle reporter Bob Norberg is sent to Smith's Cove, Colorado, to write a story about Susie Bowman, a woman who had been tried for rustling and because of a hung jury was to be tried again in late summer. His editor thought Susie was being framed and wanted Norberg to clear here name, but Bob didn't expect what he found. Susie Bowman was quite a character. To the small ranchers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Overholser 2019Snelling, Lauraine.
Summary: "Desiring a home, Cassie's promised herself to a rancher already living on the land she inherited, but is her heart leading her toward another?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2013
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Summary: "When her mother's death leaves Charlotte Simpson bereft, she hopes the Robinson clan will accept her as one of their own and help fill the void. But a startling discovery dashes her hopes and leaves her wondering if she will ever know the father she's always longed for. Horse trainer Gunner Dawson has experienced profound loss and intends to avoid it. So he lives on the move without forming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Laura Calder, a sophisticated young woman of the world, finds her plans to remained unattached thwarted by two men--Boone Rutledge, the son of a Texas billionaire, and Sebastian Dunshill, the Earl of Crawford--who vie for her affection, while an enemy from her past prepares to destroy the Calder name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAIDailey, Janet.
Summary: Pursued by two men, each with a hold upon her heart, Laura Calder leaves the nightclubs of Rome and returns to Montana and the Triple C Ranch; nothing in her privileged background has prepared her for the danger she encounters when she is thrown into the path of a man who threatens her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAIHatcher, Robin Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HATBaker, Shannon
Summary: A cattle rancher investigates the murder of another, copes with her husband's infidelity, and searches for her missing niece--heiress to a ranch that is a source of friction among locals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKGreiman, Lois.
Summary: Welcome to the Lazy Windmill, where guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, and family is determined by far more than DNA. Casie Carmichael's accidental dude ranch is well on its way, but the residents of her Hope Springs haven are running wild. With an unwed mother-to-be, a turbulent teen romance, and a bronc-riding grandmother to contend with, the last thing Casie has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHatcher, Robin Lee.
Summary: Cleo dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving, and can ride, rope and wrangle as well as any man. In 1916 Idaho, those aren't talents most women aspire to. Cleo believes God's plan for her does include a husband-- but it couldn't possibly be Sherwood Stanton, could it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HATHouston, Pam
Summary: "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HoustonL'Amour, Louis
Summary: A drifter, reckless and hard, has vengeance on his mind. Some citizens from the last town had attempted to hang him, but he escaped and intends to return to that town to make them sorry they didn't finish the job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WESTERN LAMJenkins, Beverly
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Spring Lee, running her own ranch in Paradise, Wyoming, second guesses her resolve to avoid men when a reporter arrives to interview her brother and becomes enamored with her instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENL'Amour, Louis
Summary: It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMMorgan, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: F.H. Revell 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORPeterson, Tracie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PeterPronzini, Bill.
Summary: While trying to uncover the facts concerning the suicide of a mysterious woman, Jim Messenger solves a murder, brings a town together and becomes a hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1995