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1) Kept Animals
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A bold, riveting debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a horse ranch, and the tragic accident that changes everything.
Rory Ramos works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, California, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. While Rory may have unwittingly drawn the interest of out-and-proud...
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Painted Pony Creek volume 1
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Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart--a woman he hasn't seen in years--and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...
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The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 2
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Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing -- and the challenge -- she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals --...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression, in a deluxe centennial edition. Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America's most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living...
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Heirs of Montana volume 1
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Book 1 of Heirs of Montana from bestselling author Tracie Peterson. Adventurers, families, outlaws...all driven west in the 1860s by a longing for endless blue sky along with wild and wide-open spaces. Tracie Peterson, from her own Montana home, paints an unforgettable portrait of this rich, rugged landscape, populated by strong and spirited characters. When Dianne Chadwick urges her family to move west to her uncle's ranch in the Montana Territory,...
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Rush of wings novels volume 1
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Running from terrors both recent and remembered, Noelle flees her New York mansion for the Rocky Mountains, seeking a hiding place from the men who betrayed her. Her sanctuary is a horse ranch, where she discovers solace in the breathtaking scenery she paints. As the attentions of two brothers slowly soften the wall she hides behind, the past she yearns to escape becomes a menacing threat she cannot deny.
7) Texas tough
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Tylers of Texas volume 2
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"He's everything she doesn't need. The quiet horse whisperer whose touch still ignites her dreams--and is everything wealthy Lauren Prescott is not. She can think of a million reasons why she should never ever fall into Sky Fletcher's sure embrace again. Until she clashes head-on with the dangerous complications of her privileged life and needs his protection like air to breathe... She's more than he can resist. The heiress Sky can't get out of his...
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Heirs of Montana volume 4
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In 1886, Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down. Cole takes her and the children to Kansas to care for his dying father. After the funeral, Cole's mother insists he stay and take over his inheritance. Unable to deal with her mother-in-law's cruel treatment, Dianne takes the children back to Montana alone. There, blizzards devastate the area, trapping a now pregnant Dianne at the ranch.
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Charley Sunday's Texas outfit volume 1
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Charley Sunday, four leathery cowboys, one insightful Indian, two strong-willed women, a two-gun oddball, a dog and Charley's only grandson make an unlikely team as they concoct a thousand-mile longhorn cattle drive from Colorado to Texas.
10) Calder Brand
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Calder brand volume 1
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A first installment in a Calder series spin-off is set in the late 1800s and follows the experiences of a vengeful cowboy and an aspiring doctor whose respective ambitions are complicated by past demons and an illegitimate child. The Calder family patriarch is known throughout Montana as a formidable adversary--a force no one in his right mind would cross. But sometimes love can make a man do crazy things... Ambition drove Joe Dollarhide across the...
11) The loner
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"Tanner Everett spends most of his time jet-setting around the world. But that hasn't stopped innocent Stasia Bolton, the daughter of a neighboring rancher, from falling head-over-heels for the jet-setting playboy. Unbeknownst to Stasia, her father makes it a condition of his will that the ranch will go to her upon his death only if she and Tanner marry, linking the two properties in matrimony. If they don't marry, her ranch will be sold to someone...
12) To dream anew
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Heirs of Montana volume 3
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Heirs of Montana book 3. Though the Diamond V ranch is nourishing and their own family growing, Dianne and Cole Selby find their hard-earned success threatened as a band of Indians on the warpath inch closer to the valley they call home. When a new family settles in the area with ambitions to establish an empire in Montana, it quickly becomes apparent that they will stop at nothing to uproot Dianne's family from the land they've nourished and come...
13) Something more
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When he stumbles upon the key to solving an old mystery involving a stolen fortune in gold, rancher Luke McCallister decides to help the great-granddaughter of one of the bandits find the treasure, which leads them both on a powerful journey of danger, faith, trust, and love.
15) No one but you
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Silver Springs (Brenda Novak) volume 2
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"Struggling to make ends meet after a messy divorce, Sadie Harris is at the end of her tether. Her waitressing gig isn't enough to pay the bills let alone secure primary custody of her son, Jayden, a battle she refuses to lose. Desperate, she accepts a position assisting Dawson Reed--the same Dawson Reed who recently stood trial for the murder of his adoptive parents. Joining him at his isolated farm seems risky, but Sadie is out of options. Dawson...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 18
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Unsupervised for the day, Hank the cowdog and his human friends, Little Alfred and Slim Chance, mind the ranch with humorous results.
19) Little Ree
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Little Ree volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Little Ree is excited about her move from the big city to her grandparent's ranch, and even though she finds that life on a ranch can be tough, it also has its good points.
20) Desert dancer
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Phantom stallion volume 7
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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The Phantom's lead mare is missing and when Sam finds the mare in government custody she is desperate to set her free. But the mare is badly injured and could put the herd at risk. How far should Sam go to help the horses she loves?
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