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41) The Thames
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
An overview of England's famous river, describing its physical features, history, agriculture, industry, transportation, towns, pollution, and future.
43) Confessions
Author
Series
Men of Whiskey River volume 1
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Whiskey River sheriff Trace Callahan finds his investigation into the high-profile murder of a charismatic senator's wife complicated when the victim's sister, Mariah Swan, insists on being fully involved.
47) The pecos river
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 13
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Buck Wallace, a lone white man in the land of the Kwahadie Comanche, was determined to make his home by the Pecos River. He vowed to live alongside the Kwahadies and carve his own private paradise out of the wilderness. But the trail to peace was long, hard and stained with the blood of the few who went before him. He would have to brave the challenge of the legendary warrior Goyah...learn the perils and pleasures of love from the beautiful Kiowa...
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 14
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Haunting, majestic, powerful, the Columbia River flowed down from the rugged Rockies, through the deep, forbidden forests, and across the open plain. Along its banks, bold, strong men of ambition and enterprise sought their fortune. It was a time and a place where the fur trade could make you wealthy...or get you killed. The race to riches along the Columbia rapids was cutthroat, and for every trader and trapper, there was a hired gun or assassin....
49) Dreamers
Author
Series
Legacies of the ancient river volume 1
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Tuya is a slave in the house of Potiphar. She and another slave, Joseph, become close and dream of a better life and of love, until they are torn apart when Joseph is thrown in prison.
50) The ghost walker
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Series
Formats
Description
Father O'Malley investigates when a body goes missing and the Arapaho sense a ghost nearby.
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 15
Pub. Date
1996
Description
For many bold pioneers headed west, the sweetest sight of all was the Humboldt River, a crooked ribbon of silver snaking through Nevada into California. But to Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster. Stranded with her young daughter, Libby found herself surrounded by hostile renegades and an unforgiving wilderness. Then she stumbled upon a father and his two sons in search of a dream valley where they could settle and prosper....
52) A new day rising
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
In the Dakota Territory of 1883 Ingeborg Bjorklund's husband disappears in a winter storm. In the spring her late husband's brother and cousin arrive to help her, and Ingeborg finds love again.
Author
Series
Red River of the north volume 2
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In the Dakota Territory of 1883 Ingeborg Bjorklund's husband disappears in a winter storm. In the spring her late husband's brother and cousin arrive to help her, and Ingeborg finds love again.
54) The Red River
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 17
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Buck Wallace, a lone white man in the land of the Kwahadie Comanche, was determined to make his home by the Pecos River. He vowed to live alongside the Kwahadies and carve his own private paradise out of the wilderness. But the trail to peace was long, hard and stained with the blood of the few who went before him. He would have to brave the challenge of the legendary warrior Goyah...learn the perils and pleasures of love from the beautiful Kiowa...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
The Spirit of the Border is an historical novel written by Zane Grey, first published in 1906. The novel is based on events occurring in the Ohio River Valley in the late eighteenth century. It features the exploits of Lewis Wetzel, a historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans and to the protection of nascent white settlements in that region. The story deals with the attempt by Moravian Church missionaries...
56) An Untamed Land
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 1
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway in 1880."-Cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Formats
Description
Ingeborg, her husband Roald, and their son immigrate to America with high hopes in 1880. When New York doesn't measure up to their expectations, they continue westward until reaching the Dakota territory. The family must struggle to achieve their dream.
58) Brothers
Author
Series
Legacies of the ancient river volume 2
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Twenty-two years have passed since Joseph last set sight on the ten sons of Israel. He is overwhelmed by the memory of their treachery when they sold him into slavery. As his brothers journey to Egypt to buy grain, Joseph detains them. Joseph decrees that Simeon must remain under house arrest. Simeon is angry at his confinement. Mandisa, the widowed handmaid of Joseph's wife is assigned to serve the angry Simeon. Their love grows but Simeon must come...
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"The Wind River Reservation has agreed to use their land for a nuclear waste storage site. And why wouldn't they, when they've already been promised so much - millions in revenue, new jobs, and a better way of life. But Vicky Holden knows better. Building this facility isn't about helping the Arapahos. It is about power and greed. And she is ready to do whatever she can to protect the land and her people." "But someone involved wants to keep Vicky...
60) Purgatory River
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 16
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Amid the magnificent desolation of the American Southwest ran a river of hope, bringing life to the desert, and pioneers to a forbidding land. They gathered on the banks of the Purgatory...wandering souls on the run from the past...or in search of the future: Hernan Eduardo and his sister Elena, posing as husband and wife to hide her shame; Aaron, who has fled from danger his whole life, and who now would have to summon the courage to stand up for...