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1) The outsider
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation...An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson...
3) The hot kid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Hot Kid takes listeners back to the 1930s, when everyone dreamed of being a larger-than-life hero--or villain. Ultra-cool U.S. Marshal Carl Webster thrives on taking down notorious crooks. His latest adversary is the wicked Jack Belmont, renegade son of an oil tycoon. Each time Carl and Jack meet, the tommy guns blaze--and their legend grows.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover a body in a remote area of Oklahoma, and set out to investigate her murder and recreate her last days. Maytubby and Bond crisscross Oklahoma, meeting a myriad of characters and suspects. Maytubby travels to Louisiana, and uncovers a potential conspiracy. He and Bond eventually reunite in the Chickasaw Nation for a final face-off at Nail's Crossing.
Author
Series
Spikes and spurs volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Austin Lanier inherits a watermelon farm, all she wants to do is get rid of it and get back to city life. But rancher Rye O'Donnell has other ideas, for both the farm and Austin.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a driving sleet storm, a farmer has discovered a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond realizes it's her elderly friend, Alice. Meanwhile, at the Golden Play Casino, robbers posing as armored-car guards kill a local stickball hero and friend of Chickasaw Lighthorse Police detective Bill Maytubby. The trail leads through the quarry-scarred Oklahoma badlands to a remote airstrip and a planeload...
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 88
Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children's Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate. The detectives are baffled at the lack of fingerprints, footprints, or any obvious means to enter the locked building. The only initial clues are owl feathers found scattered in the basement. While perusing old archival records,...
Author
Series
Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond novels volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On Oklahoma's Big Rock Prairie, a deaf boy finds a body in Pennington Creek. Johnston County Deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse Police Sergeant Bill Maytubby find a crime scene where nothing seems to fit--from the dead angler's oversize waders to the kind of fish in his creel. They scour the creekside brush, then hit the road for Texas in a widening search for the killer. On the Big Rock, a towering bearded man is building a limestone replica...
12) Courting Emily
Author
Series
Wells Landing volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bishop's daughter, Emily Ebersol, longing to marry a faithful Amish man and live out her days within the community, finds herself torn between two very different men--Luke Lambright, her childhood sweetheart who has returned to Wells Landing, and Elam Rhiel, a loyal, steady man.
13) Don't let go
Author
Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Brady Conners is hardly the settling type, but when tragedy strikes in his family, he has no choice but to return home to Hope, Oklahoma. Setting up shop to work on custom motorcycles and pass the time, Brady has no intention of letting anyone get close--until he meets Megan. Pastry shop owner Megan Lee is drawn to quiet, brooding Brady. Their connection is undeniable, and it quickly develops from physical attraction into something much stronger....
15) Sacred ground
Author
Publisher
Tor Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jennie Talldeer investigates an explosion on a construction site which was an Indian burial ground. Indian activists are suspected, but in fact the culprits are evil spirits. Talldeer, an Osage Indian, has to resort to her training as a shaman.
16) Love me again
Author
Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the man she left behind to marry someone else starts renovating the building next to her new bookstore, Loretta Simmons, with her young daughter in tow, must make amends with Deacon Fox, who refuses to let her break his heart twice.
17) Fields of gold
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fields of gold" tells the story of Evangeline Glennon, a young woman who is certain her future in Dillon, Oklahoma will be as predictable and flat as the miles of wheat that stretch from her front door to the edge of horizon. She is wrong.
Author
Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Molly Burnett dreads returning to her hometown of Hope for her sister's wedding, especially knowing she'll have to endure a weekend with the one man she never wants to see again. It's only a couple of days, so Molly will try to forget her painful past with her high school sweetheart Carter Richards. Because despite the bitter memories, she still can't forget what they once meant to each other. But when Molly is forced to extend her stay, Carter sees...
19) To trust
Author
Series
Broken roads romances volume 1
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...
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