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Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls · 313 pages

It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decay

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Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain · 124 pages

From the book:DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us w

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What the River Knows

Isabel Ibañez · 404 pages

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Flyaway

Desmond Bagley · 300 pages

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Guardian of the Horizon

Elizabeth Peters · 434 pages

A hitherto lost journal of the indomitable Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the "missing years" -- 1907-1908 -- shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family . . . and an unexpected terror.Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at hom

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Whirlwind

James Clavell · 1,248 pages

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The Flight of the Phoenix

Elleston Trevor · 320 pages

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Five Weeks in a Balloon

Jules Verne

Two men race across uncharted African territory in a unicorn-shaped balloon, accompanied by a playboy American reporter.

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Golden Urchin

Madeleine Brent · 508 pages

In the scorching Australian desert, a wild, beautiful woman rescues a man from death. And discovers a stunning new life. He is a handsome English aristocrat, sprawled in the dunes, dying of thirst. She was a white-skinned savage, fleeing the aborigine tribe that found her and raised her but still shunned the fiery-haired outcast. Suddenly Meg is able to escape her primitive life as Luke introduces

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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry · 945 pages

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A Gown of Spanish Lace

Janette Oke · 309 pages

When a young woman is faced with being kidnapped, she is forced to resort to her only hope--God. A young woman among many burly robbers, Ariana is unsure of who to trust, but she must make risks if she ever wishes to leave and go back to the family she dearly loved. This book was one of my top favorites of Janette Oke, it not only showed Ariana's apparent Spiritual strength, but also contained

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Circling the Sun

Paula McLain · 366 pages

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The Flight of the Phoenix

R.L. LaFevers · 137 pages

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Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey · 294 pages

Riders of the Purple Sage is a novel that tells the story of a woman by the name of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her, but she has evaded him for years. Things get complicated when Bern Venters and Lassiter, a famous gunman and killer of Mormons help her look aft

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The Big Balloon Race

Eleanor Coerr

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The Other Guy's Bride

Connie Brockway

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The Dream Hunter

Laura Kinsale · 348 pages

Searching for a legendary mare known as String of Pearls, restless wanderer Lord Winter discovers the disguised Zenia Stanhope, the daughter of the Queen of the Desert, who longs to reach the bloodless lands in England.

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Vengeance Road

Erin Bowman · 330 pages

When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen year-old Kate Thompson d9Yisguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice.

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Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead · 608 pages

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The Pearl Sister

Lucinda Riley · 510 pages

"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt b

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O Jerusalem

Laurie R. King · 367 pages

Mary Russell once again teams up with Sherlock Holmes as they are pursued by murderous strangers through the bazaars of 1918 Jerusalem.

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The Darkest Hour

Barbara Erskine · 552 pages

"From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. Love is as uncertain and as untameable as war ... In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as an artist ahead of

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A.D. 30

Ted Dekker · 432 pages

"A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. Step back in time to the year of our Lord...A.D. 30. The outcast daughter of one of the most powerful Bedouin sheikhs in Arabia, Maviah is called on to protect the very people who rejected her. When t

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Sheik

Connie Mason · 448 pages

Princess Zara, 20, had been raised a warrior, always at her father's side in battle against the Arabs who had stolen their land. So when she was taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal abd Thabit during a raid, she was determined not to succumb to his wishes. She thought it would be easy, for rather than take her as his concubine then and there, Jamal struck a deal--if he was unable to seduce her within fou

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