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41) Heidi
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must make a difficult decision.
45) Chill factor
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes a suspense novel about a woman trapped in a remote cabin with a man who may be a serial killer. Five women are missing from the sleepy mountain town of Cleary, North Carolina, and a blue ribbon has been left near where each woman was last seen. Lilly Martin has returned to Cleary to close the sale of her cabin. But when her car skids and strikes a stranger, Ben Tierney, as he emerges...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chad, an orphan from the little town of Kingdom Come in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, finds his way into an affluent, slave-owning bluegrass community with his dog Jack just before the Civil War breaks out. Befriended by the aristocratic Major Calvin Buford, he begins a new life as "Chadwick Buford, Gentleman.".
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Preacher is no hired killer. When a wagon train is brutally ambushed on the Sante Fe Trail though, he can't say no to the St. Louis businessman willing to pay him for justice. It's not the stolen gold that's convinced Preacher to take the job. And it's not the missing body of one of the wagon train's crew, a prime suspect who may have plotted the ambush and taken off with the gold. No, it's the suspect's lovely fiancée, Alita Montez. She believes...
Author
Series
Tree of life (Olivia Newport) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meri's family has been producing doctors for so many generations that no one remembers why, so when she flunks out of medical school, she runs as far from her parents as she can get. In the small mountain town of Canyon Mines, Colorado, she takes a job at the Inn at Hidden Run B&B. And waits. It's only a matter of time. What she doesn't count on is genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy and her father, Nolan, having her back when it takes everything she...
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 28
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a rival tribe attacks his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village, taking woman and children as prisoners, Preacher teams up with old friend Lorenzo and half-breed Tail Dog to get the prisoners back-and get revenge.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
54) Heidi
Series
Shirley temple volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather, who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her grandfather again.
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 28
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When an old friends family is massacred, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen hits the vengeance trail. He's soon riding into a bloody Colorado war that has militia cavalry volunteers and Kiowa warriors stalking each other across the territory - matching kill for kill, outrage for outrage. Defying both sides, Smoke uncovers a sinister conspiracy to set ranchers and Kiowas at each other's throats. It turns out that the war's been cooked up by renegade...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A century after a woman was hanged for killing her husband, a Tennessee sheriff reopens her case. Spencer Arrowood always thought she was innocent, but now that he has been summoned to witness an execution he needs to know.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother and her recently divorced mother. But when Trisha briefly wanders off by herself, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand...
59) Heidi
Author
Publisher
Noisy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss Alps with her grumpy grandpa, the village takes pity on her. But Heidi's sweet and inquisitive nature quickly softens Grandpa's scowl and his heart. Heidi loves her new life in the mountains shepherding goats, gathering flowers, and playing with her best friend, Peter . . . until she is forced to move away to the soot and smoke of Frankfurt to be the companion of a young girl. Will Heidi ever return to Grandpa...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her mountain community during the Great Depression. Even the rough people-like ornery Perdita Sweet-have their charms. But can love bloom in such rocky soil?"--
Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. When a charming writer...
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