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A note from Aunt Jeanne on the Fourth of July leads Tommy on a voyage of discovery across America, as he finds a series of notes that are clues to a puzzle meant to be solved by Tommy and the reader.

2) The Battle For Las Vegas

Author

Griffin, Dennis N

Language

English

Description

In the 1970s and thru the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit was the dominant organized crime family in Las Vegas, with business interests in several casinos. During those years the Outfit and its colleagues in Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Cleveland were using Sin City as a cash cow. Commonly referred to as the “skim,” unreported revenue from Outfit-controlled casinos was making its way out of Vegas by the bag full and ending up in the coffers of the...

3) The Witchcraft of Salem Village

Author

Jackson, Shirley

Language

English

Description

A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written by the author of “The Lottery”Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused...

4) Trusty town hall: a community helpers book

Author

Ward, Lindsay

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

[2023]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

"Welcome to Trusty Town Hall! Everyone here helps keep the town of Honey Hill running smoothly. Marco’s father is running for mayor. Sadie and her grandma are collecting materials from the recycling center to create an art installation. Chloe’s visiting her mom, the fire chief. What will they experience on their visit to town hall? This interactive book is perfect for kids to learn about the different jobs in their local government. Includes a...

5) The Lone Star Ranger

Author

World Classics
Pan Handle Smith Trilogy

Series

Language

English

Formats

Description

An outlaw redeems himself helping Texas Rangers fight cattle rustlers in this action-packed classic Western written by an American icon.
The premier chronicler of the American West, legendary storyteller Zane Grey has captivated millions of readers with his timeless adventures of life, death, gunfire, and justice. This is the Old West in all its glory and grandeur. Forged in blood. Enflamed by passion. Emblazoned with bullets...

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6) Curious George: farm to table

Author

Fenner, Julie M

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

[2016]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Language

English

Description

Helping his friend Marco make delicious tortillas for a family member's birthday, George accidentally knocks over a bag of masa before learning about how the ingredient is made.

7) Board stiff: a dead-end job mystery

Author

Viets, Elaine

Series

Dead-end job mystery volume 12

Publisher

Obsidian Mystery

Pub. Date

2013

Physical Desc

ix, 272 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

There's a dark cloud over Sunny Jim's Safety First Parasailing and Stand-Up Paddleboarding business on Florida's Riggs Beach--especially after one of his clients is killed in a tragic paddleboarding mishap. Sunny Jim is sure it was no accident, and he hires Helen and Phil to find the murderer. Between cutthroat competitors poaching his territory, the city threatening to revoke his license, a restaurant owner wanting his beach spot for a parking lot,...

8) Wildfire

Author

Series

World Classics

Language

English

Formats

Description

In a land of red cliffs and towering stone monuments, with the brooding Colorado River running through it, the unmatched Zane Gray sets his classic novel about a rancher, a blood feud, and a horse named. . .
Wildfire
Bostic, a powerful rancher with a strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, has lost track of Lucy's wanderings. Caught up in a feud with two families, running his empire with an iron fist, Bostic does not know that Lucy has met...

9) The Casual Vacancy

Publisher

Warner Bros

Pub. Date

2015

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

Pagford is a seemingly idyllic English village with a cobbled market square and ancient abbey. Behind the pretty facade, however, is a town at war: rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils. Pagford is not what it first seems.

10) A windowless room: excursions into horror

Author

Asbury, Bryan

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Pub. Date

[2022]

Physical Desc

1 volume (pages unnumbered) ; 23 cm

Language

English

11) The Spirit of the Border

Author

The Ohio River Trilogy
Ohio River Valley

Series

Language

English

Formats

Description

Two brothers choose different paths in the Ohio wilderness in this epic, classic Western inspired by history and written by an American icon.
They Came From A Settled Land—To A Place Of Beauty, Blood And War...
Jim and Joe Downs came from Virginia—one led by the call of God, the other by a thirst for adventure. In the Ohio River Valley, the handsome young preacher and his rogue and charming brother entered a storm

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12) The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel

Author

Language

English

Formats

Description

Zane Grey, who is best known for his novel "Riders of the Purple Sage," helped to define the popular image of the Old West through his popular adventure novels. First published in 1910, "The Heritage of the Desert" is set in the American southwest where John Hare is found dying in the desert and consequently nursed back to health by the rancher August Naab. John soon finds himself caught between his indebtedness to the generous rancher, whose daughter...

13) The Desert of Wheat

Author

Language

English

Formats

Description

A classic portrait of America during World War I, from American author Zane Grey, famously known for his romanticized stories about the old West.'The Desert of Wheat' (1919) sets the tone for a nation's anxiety at the brink of a century of change. It is a 20th century tale of romance and sabotage, describing the effect war has on a country and its people. Grey has written a classic Western with a patriotic and anti-union propaganda twist, recounting...

14) Betty Zane

Author

Series

The Ohio River Trilogy

Language

English

Formats

Description

The legendary western author’s debut novel based on the real-life adventures of his own ancestor, an American frontier heroine of the Revolutionary War.

In the late eighteenth century, Wheeling, West Virginia, was the western frontier of colonial America. And when the young nation fought for its independence, Wheeling was the site of the American Revolution’s last battle: the Siege of Fort Henry. A vivid work of historical

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15) The pecking order

Author

Phelps, Jim

Publisher

The National Writers Press

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

363 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

16) The Rustlers of Pecos County

Author

Language

English

Formats

Description

"The Rustlers of Pecos County" is another fantastic example of Western fiction by the master of the genre, American Author Zane Grey. This book is highly recommended for all lovers of Western fiction and constitutes a must-read for fans of Grey's seminal work. Contents include: "Vaughn Steele And Russ Sittell", "A Kiss And An Arrest", "Sounding The Timber", "Steele Breaks Up The Part", "Cleaning Out Linrock", "Enter Jack Blome", "Diane And Vaughn",...

17) The Light of Western Stars

Author

Light of the Western Stars
Light of Western Stars

Series

Language

English

Formats

Description

This 1914 novel of frontier romance by “the greatest Western writer of all time” was the basis for the classic film starring Victor Jory (Jackson Cain, author of Hellbreak Country).

Feeling constrained by her high-society life back east, Madeline Hammond decides to join her brother Alfred at his cattle ranch in El Cajon, New Mexico. But she gets a rude introduction to frontier living when she encounters a drunken

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18) The Aspern Papers

Author

James, Henry

Series

World Classics

Language

English

Formats

Description

The Aspern Papers Henry James - The Aspern Papers is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James' best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, who saved them until she died. Set in Venice, The Aspern Papers demonstrates James'...

19) The Call of the Canyon

Author

World Classics
Serapis Classics

Series

Language

English

Formats

Description

Glenn Kilbourne is a sick and injured man who returns to New York to his fiancée Carley Burch, after fighting in France in World War I. He decides to move to Arizona in order to recover his health and there he meets Flo Hutter, the daughter in the family he is staying with. Glenn decides to stay in Arizona and become a hog farmer but his fiancée, who cannot lead such life, breaks the engagement. After returning to New York Carley feels empty and...

20) Dawg

Author

Hill, Gladys

Language

English

Description