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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Description
Angeline Reddy turns to friends for help when her father, the best lawyer in their California gold mining town, disappears, but her efforts are complicated by her mother's sudden illness, her uncle's arrest for the murder of her father, the appearance of a mysterious ghost, and a dangerous gang of vigilantes.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Description
Discusses the early history of California, focusing especially on the gold rush period including the discovery of gold, the arrival of prospectors hoping to strike it rich, and the effects on the people and environment of the region.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Formats
Description
Francine Rivers is one of America's favorite romance writers and a bestselling inspirational author. Her many heartfelt novels have won awards and the adoration of fans across the country. In Redeeming Love, she retells the Biblical story of Hosea, setting it in the 1850s amidst California's gold country.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
294 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Two western stories: 'Silver Shells for General Kearney' takes place early in the Mexican War when a hunter bringing his furs to Santa Fe is mistaken for a courier transporting silver. Building a bridge over 'Satan's Keyhole' is Glenn Anders' opportunity to restore his reputation during the California Gold Rush, but the project seems doomed to fail"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; cm
Description
"1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of...
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1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn...
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