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The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Invited to stay at the Carson ranch while she researches how wild horses interact with ranch animals and ranchers, Luce Hale finds herself at odds with Drake Carson, who is wary and unwelcoming, but comes to her aid when he believes she is in danger.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Language
English
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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B. M. Bowers first story, Chip of the Flying U, lays out a ranch in Montana and introduces the Happy Family, the bunkhouse gang that reappears in her later books. Chip is the typical woman-shy cowboy, but he is also a gifted artist (reputedly, Bower based the character on Charles M. Russell, who illustrated Chip). Della, a doctor, is the young woman who disrupts his solitary life. The result as a quality ranch romance. Chip of the Flying U was a great...
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New Americana volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Though hesitant to expose his daughter to the man war turned him into, Jake O'Reilly agrees to work on the ranch where his daughter is living. There he meets, Kira, his late wife's cousin, who runs a horse therapy program for troubled teens. Though Jake doesn't want any complications in his life, he finds himself drawn to the tough Kira and begins to feel his wounds finally start to heal.
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Publisher
Books in Motion
Language
English
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Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw...
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But her love for Forster is so strong, she turns away from her literary education and embraces the life of the ranch, succumbing to its intoxicating rhythms and bounty until her love of the land becomes a part of her. Not even the tragic, senseless death of her son...
8) Rock star
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Charlie the basset hound has difficulty adjusting to life as a rich and famous rock musician.
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Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during...
11) The lost man
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
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Heartland volume 4
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In season four, people drift back to Heartland, craving the familiarity of home and family only to discover that everything seems to have changed. After the blush of first love in season three, Ty and Amy's relationship may blossom and mature, but only if they face up to a misunderstanding about what happened while they were apart.
13) Wyoming Winter
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Series
Wyoming men volume 7
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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There's something about those Wyoming men... New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer returns to the Cowboy State with a breathtaking tale of desire and deception
All security expert J.C. Calhoun wants is to work his vast Wyoming ranch. His land is the only thing the betrayed rancher can trust after discovering his fiancée was pregnant with another man's child. But all J.C. holds...
All security expert J.C. Calhoun wants is to work his vast Wyoming ranch. His land is the only thing the betrayed rancher can trust after discovering his fiancée was pregnant with another man's child. But all J.C. holds...
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Winnie the early years volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Eight-year-old Winnie is determined to become a horse gentler like her mother, both to prove herself to Austin, a big-talking classmate who owns a thoroughbred, and to save the ranch.
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: He prefers a long trail ride even when a train ticket can get him where he's going in one-tenth the time. So when it's Old Red who insists on guarding the Pacific Express, despite a generations-old family distrust of the farm stealin', cattle-killin', money-grubbing' railroads, Big Red is flummoxed. But as usual, he'll follow his ornery brother just about anywhere. Trapped on a thousand...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A stand alone edition of Annie Proulx's beloved story "Brokeback Mountain" (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
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...
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...
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Kerney Family trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.