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Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community,...
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2010
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On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and the identity of a really cold corpse.
3) Autumn lover
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Returning to her scavenger-devastated Wyoming ranch after the Civil War, Elyssa Sutton vows that she will never again abandon her home and hires mysterious stranger Hunter Maxwell to be her companion before learning about his private agenda for revenge.
5) Desperation
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An evil force invades a mining town in Nevada. It takes control of the body of a highway patrolman and proceeds to kill people. The evil force meets its match in the person of David Carver, 11, who is guided by God himself.
7) Prey
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Deep in the Nevada desert, surrounded by nothing but cactus and coyotes, a swarm of molecules -- self-replicating, fast-evolving, and very predatory -- threatens life itself.
8) The wild one
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Phantom stallion volume 1
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English
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After recovering from a near-fatal accident, Sam must return to the ranch and have the courage to ride again on a wild horse.
10) As you wish
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Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In Madison, a small town in the Mojave Desert, everyone gets one wish that will come true on his or her eighteenth birthday, and Eldon takes his very seriously.
11) Perfect
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
12) Nightwalker
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P.I. Dillon Wolf is fascinated by gambler Jessy Spearhawk and by the single word a dying man spoke: Indigo. From the glitz of the Vegas strip to a desert ghost town, the unlikely pair forge ahead with an investigation that will risk both their lives.
13) Montana dawn
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When the remnants of a ruthless outlaw gang invade the peaceful desert setting Montana Dawn shares with her gentleman husband, little does the girl suspect that her long-dormant spirit for a life far removed from her domestic existence will be passionately re-ignited and that circumstances will soon brand her as the most wanted female criminal in the Southwest. With a bounty on their head and a determined posse hot in pursuit, Montana Dawn and her...
14) The chase
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When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this is his chance to prove his innocence, twenty-six years after the murder of his wife and child. He just needs to stay one step ahead of the law enforcement officers he knows will be chasing down the escapees. Death Row Supervisor turned fugitive-hunter Celine Osbourne...
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Bantam Books
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2010, c1981
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"They came to the Comstock Lode drawn by the promise instant wealth. It was the richest deposit of silver the world had known, and drifters and dreamers, builders and thieves, fought, worked, schemed, and died to extract it from the earth--or to profit from those who did. For Val Trevallion, a Cornish miner with trouble in his past, it was a chance to build a lasting future--and settle an old score. For Grita Redaway, a beautiful actress, it was a...
16) Burned
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Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
17) Murder unleashed
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Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The...