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Kincaid brides volume 3
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Seth Kincaid survived a fire in a cave, and was never the same. Then he ran off to fight in the Civil War and returned crazier than ever. But after the war, nearly dead from his injuries, it appears Seth got married. Callie has searched, prayed, and worried. Now she's come to the Kincaid family's ranch in Colorado to find her lost husband. Seth is willing to make amends. Callie is more interested in shooting him. Can they rekindle their love?
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
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"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 demise. Laurel has been trying to run her two hundred acre...
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"Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John's beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man John...
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"Soldier, sniper, Secret Service agent, regulator. Murphy answers only to the President. His latest assignment comes from President Garfield and is classified Top Secret. A serial killer is murdering railroad workers and settlers in the western states and territories. With nothing but his skill as a hunter and his knowledge of the budding science of forensics, Murphy begins a quest that takes him through a thousand miles of the west as he searches...
7) Murphy's law
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"Murphy's plans for semi-retirement with his newfound love are put on hold with one call from his boss, William Burke, special assistant to the president. Counterfeit money turning up in banks all across the west could threaten the American economy. Leaving Sally at his Washington home, Murphy sets out to pick up the trail of his quarry."-- Provided by publisher.
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2017.
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294 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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For three years, Richter and his three buddies had counted themselves among the lucky, for they had been among the few men from the Confederate Army who had been able to rebuild their lives disrupted by the war. In a remote mountain valley in the barren Southwest, they had discovered an area rich in potential for raising cattle. Richter and his companions had worked hard to build their small spread into what could easily become a big cattle ranch....
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2017.
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167 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Luke Riatt had grown up in a world ended forever by the War Between the States. He had been eighteen when Lee surrendered; and defeat had left a bitter taste in his mouth. His marriage had ended abruptly when cholera killed his wife and child. Since then he had drifted, a lonely man with lonely assignments. But now, after fifteen years of solitude, he is teaming up with another Ranger to ride into Crown Basin to keep the peace along the Texas-Mexico...
10) Top soldier
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2016.
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287 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Pierce Braden was six when his father left Texas to fight for the Confederacy. When his father returns after the war refusing to talk about it, Pierce thinks he must be a coward until he learns the truth during an Indian raid"--
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2017.
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Ranchers across the west are reporting large numbers of cattle stolen and refusing to drive their herds to market. If the cattle industry fails, the market will collapse. Their plea for help falls on the shoulders of William Burke, Special Assistant to the President, who calls Murphy, the Regulator, back into action to save the country from plummeting into a recession.
12) The loyal heart
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"Robert came to Galveston to fulfill his promise to a dying man and look after his widow. He didn't expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places. Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his comrade Phillip Markham. If anything happened to Phillip, Robert would look after his beloved wife, Miranda. She was his life, his world, his everything. After the war, Robert is left to pick up the...
13) Fort Misery
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Fort Misery volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"The baddest men in the West battle for their lives against a relentless band of bloodthirsty prairie rats in Fort Misery - first in an electrifying new Western series. Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman was once a promising career soldier who'd proven his mettle in battle time and again. Now he's fighting a battle with a whiskey bottle. He's also in charge of Fort Benjamin Grierson, located west of hell, deep in Arizona Territory's Mohawk Valley on the...
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"No one is more surprised than Sunny Licht when Noah Whitmore proposes. She's a scarlet woman and an unwed mother--an outcast even in her small Quaker community. But she can't resist Noah's offer of a fresh start in a place where her scandalous past is unknown.In Sunny, the former Union soldier sees a woman whose loneliness matches his own . When they arrive in Wisconsin, he'll see that she and her baby daughter want for nothing ... except the love...
15) Fighting men
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Civil War veteran and former schoolmaster Sherman Dahl rides the Southwest as a gun for hire. Known to the law and the lawless as "the Teacher," Dahl sells his services to those seeking justice. Chester "Big Chicago" Goines and his band of outlaws have been raising hell across Arizona, thieving and killing everything in their path. When he learns that Dahl is on his trail, Goines welcomes the opportunity to settle an old score.
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""Death Rides This Trail!" is the story of Jake and Emma Breslin, who had spent their early life together on a farm in settled country. That was before they packed up the covered wagon and headed West to find a new life. On the way they faced many hardships, beset by both brutal weather and violent humans. When Jake was shot and killed, everything changed for the Breslin family, except the determination to continue the journey. "Tower of Rocks" is...
18) Just imagine
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After the Civil War, Kit Weston heads to New York City disguised as a boy, determined to kill Baron Cain, a Yankee war hero who stands between her and her South Carolina home, but she soons finds her masquerade threatened by passion.
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This stunning Civil War novel from best-selling author Dennis McFarland brings us the journey of a nineteen-year-old private, abandoned by his comrades in the Wilderness, who is struggling to regain his voice, his identity, and his place in a world utterly changed by what he has experienced on the battlefield.
In the winter of 1864, Summerfield Hayes, a pitcher for the famous Eckford Club, enlists in the Union army, leaving his sister,
20) The covenant
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McCain chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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295 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army -- where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...
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