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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Two Colorado authors, one on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, the other on the western, begin writing letters to one another at the beginning of Colorado's shelter-in-place orders. Their friendship forms and blooms amidst discussions of COVID-19, nature, politics, and daily life.
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 4
Language
English
Description
After surviving a hostage situation, lawyer Sophie Bellamy returns home to the peaceful Catskills village of Avalon where she, while repairing the bonds with her family, falls in love with the local veterinarian.
43) The edge
Author
Series
Peak volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
44) River of blood
Author
Series
Frontiersman series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Breck Wallace was tuning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two such...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ree Dolly's father, an addict facing a drug charge who has put their house up as bond, has gone missing and Ree, who is caring for her two younger brothers and a mentally-ill mother, knows she must find him to save her family.
46) Princess Academy
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In 1873, when Boston native Miranda Wimplegate mistakenly auctions off a prized portrait, her grandfather purchases the entire Missouri Ozarks auction house where it was sent. After traveling to the Ozarks to recover it, they make surprising discoveries about their new business"--
49) Fractured truth
Author
Series
Bone Gap travellers volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A body in an Appalachian cave leads a sheriff's deputy down a twisted path: "Brynn and her war-injured dog are characters readers will root for" (Suzanne Chazin, author of the Georgia Skeehan series).
Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's Department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a cross-country skier stumbles across the...
Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's Department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a cross-country skier stumbles across the...
Author
Series
Bone Gap travellers volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A marvelous suspense novel [and] a fascinating look at the secretive Irish Traveller culture" (Harry Hunsicker, author of The Contractors).
Named one of the Top 25 Mysteries of 2017 by Strand Magazine
After an abrupt end to her tour of duty, former marine MP Brynn Callahan and her canine partner, Wilco, arrive stateside—both bearing the scars of battle. With a mix of affection and misgivings, Brynn...
Named one of the Top 25 Mysteries of 2017 by Strand Magazine
After an abrupt end to her tour of duty, former marine MP Brynn Callahan and her canine partner, Wilco, arrive stateside—both bearing the scars of battle. With a mix of affection and misgivings, Brynn...
51) Hike
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A father and child take a hike through the mountains, where they experience the joys of nature, overcome challenges together, and play a small role in the survival of the forest.
52) Preacher's rage
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Series
Language
English
Description
"For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns spitting fire. They drive the trappers off, only to find that she's not Crow, but white. Caroline has been...
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain memories volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Description
Who is this woman? McKay Harrington wondered. After chasing and killing an outlaw in the Boulder foothills, Harrington finds himself critically wounded and dependent upon a mysterious woman named Callie. When Harrington returns to his job at the Treasury Department, an unexpected encounter reveals a dangerous masquerade... Can McKay Harrington penetrate the wall of secrecy surrounding Callie's true identity to share the saving love of Jesus Christ?
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English
Description
It's the most important night of the year for costume designer Charlotte Fairfax and the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company-the annual fund raising performance at the country estate of the wealthy widow Paula Van Dusen. This year, the company will give a moonlight performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the wedding celebrations for Paula's daughter, Belinda, and her fiancé Adrian. But then Hugh Hedley, family friend of the Van Dusens...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident-unsettling and unexplained causes of death, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and signs of radioactivity-have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. This gripping work of literary nonfiction delves into the mystery through unprecedented access...
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Language
English
Description
"Jenny Milchman's Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard. Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong. When her fog of sleep clears, she finds her world is suddenly, irretrievably shattered: Her husband, Brendan, has committed suicide. The first...
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English
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Tailored after the actual "Crow Killer" John Johnson, Sam Minard is a mountain man who seeks the freedom that the Rocky Mountains offers trappers. After his beloved Indian wife is murdered, Sam Minard becomes obsessed with vengeance, and his fortunes become intertwined with those of Kate Bowden, a widow who faces madness. This remarkable frontier fiction captures that brief season when the romantic myth of the far West became a fact.
Author
Language
English
Description
Costume designer Charlotte Fairfax has another murder on her hands as she prepares for the latest performance of the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company, Much Ado About Nothing. The company's steady growth enables them to cast star British actress Audrey Ashley, who arrives on scene to play the lead role of Beatrice. But things immediately get more complicated when Audrey insists the company replace the current director with new, up and coming British...
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Language
English
Description
First published in 1907, "The Shepherd of the Hills" is Harold Bell Wright's mostly fictional tale of people living in the foothills of the Ozarks. The story is principally concerned with the relationship of Grant Matthews, Sr., affectionately known in his community as "Old Matt", and "The Shepherd of the Hills", a wise old man who has chosen the peace of the backwoods over the hustle and bustle of the city. The Shepherd is a quiet and mysterious...
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Language
English
Description
"Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that...
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