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3) Old bones
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Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
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The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing...
8) 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...
9) Untamed
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"Samantha discovers a plot to wipe out the wild horses near her family's ranch, but she can't convince anyone else that the Phantom's herd needs help"--Page 4 of cover.
10) Comstock Lode
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It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway,...
11) Prey
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles--micro-robots--has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
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"Luke Lessing was told his career at the Pinkerton Agency was assured thanks to his skill with pistols and rifles. But after he and his partner got ambushed, Luke was widely blamed. Discouraged with Pinkerton politics, he moved on to a job as the lawman in a 'sleepy' little town in Colorado, only to barely escape with his life. So Luke happily traded wearing a badge for cooking at the Comstock Cafe in Virginia City, hub of the fabled Comstock Lode....
14) Moon shadow
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Thirteen-year-old Callie is determined to save and raise a beautiful but sickly mustang foal after the filly is orphaned in a Nevada desert round-up.
15) Our wild hearts
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Wealthy teenage Willow falls in love with the father she's never known and a wild stallion in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
17) Today you die
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A high-tech thief's latest job goes wrong and he finds himself behind bars. While there, he has a supernatural experience that changes his life forever.
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"In the depths of a cruel High Lonesome winter comes a cryptic message for Smoke Jensen. The letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Smoke knows only one person in San Francisco, Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure palaces. Smoke once rescued her from raiding Cheyenne, but now Madame Francie is mysteriously dead ... and Smoke's arrival in San Francisco is less than...
19) Death mountain
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While traveling to visit the mother she has not heard from in almost a year, Erin and another teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and must struggle for six days to survive.
20) The last son
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Set in the Sierra Nevada in the late nineteenth century, tells the story of an outlaw who was prophesied to die at the hands of one of his children, so he sets out to hunt down each one of them to ensure the prophecy does not come true.
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