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In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, her husband, a newspaperman, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around...
2) Dead wrong
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As if juggling a family, including the impending birth of a second child, a career and a staff shortage at the Sheriff's office aren't enough, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to deal with two serious crimes. The first is the dead body of an ex-con who was found in the desert with all his fingers severed. The second is the brutal attack of one of her officers while on unauthorized stakeout. Being a sheriff is what she is and Joanna will stop at nothing to...
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Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 15
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Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 15
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Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 15
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"Years after her son's fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church's most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they're not credible. So he turns to his friends,...
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When a rich stockbroker is found dead, the police deem it a suicide. Until suspicious facts start to come up and point the finger at three women: his personal chef, his housekeeper, and his ex-wife. But all women have gone missing. Is it because they're all guilty? Or is the truth even more shocking? When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection...
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Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully. When Bo tries to force Gus to eat a dangerously spiny cactus, Rossi Scott, one of the best racers in Nowhere, comes to his rescue--but in return she has to give Bo her prized dirt bike. Determined to buy it back, Gus agrees...
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Excerpt: "[Lumbermen] are in such a hurry to get rich that they'll leave their grandchildren a desert. They cut and slash in every direction, and then fires come and the country is ruined. Our rivers depend upon the forests for water. The trees draw the rain; the leaves break it up and let it fall in mists and drippings; it seeps into the ground, and is held by roots. If the trees are destroyed the rain rushes off on the surface and floods the rivers....
7) FIRE AND ICE
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Big-city homicide detective J. P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
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In this skillfully told novel by the author of The Bean Trees, a young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself. As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering...
9) Breathless
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"A strong-willed beauty finds herself in the arms of the handsome drifter from her past and finds the courage to pursue her dreams"--
As manager of one of the finest hotels in Arizona Territory, Portia Carmichael has respect and stability, and refuses to jeopardize that by hitching herself to the wrong man. Kent Randolph nicknamed Portia "Duchess" when she was a young girl. Now she's a stunning, intelligent woman. After drifting through the West,...
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Ali Reynolds' personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene - a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence. According to the courts, Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of B. Simpson, murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose. Mateo gets a job working for B. once again, and just as he starts his new job, chaos breaks...
11) Damage control
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 13
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Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record and the deaths of an elderly couple who were presumably consenting partners in a suicide pact.
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"One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot stranded after a plane crash in this gripping story of survival, friendship, and rescue from a bestselling and award-winning author. Twelve-year-old Jolene spends every day she can at the library watching her favorite livestream: The Desert Aviator, where twelve-year-old "Addie Earhart" shares her adventures flying an ultralight plane over the desert. While...
13) White lies
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"A woman with a psychic talent for perceiving deception meets a man who overwhelms her senses with premonitions of danger-- and desire"
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
15) Come and get us
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What is her husband's secret? Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: "Be careful who you trust." BookShots LIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON Novels you can devour in a few hours Impossible to stop reading All original content from James Patterson
16) Going wild
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Going wild volume 1
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Discovering a mysterious bracelet after moving to Arizona, Charlie Wilde finds that she has developed superhuman abilities and speed and teams up with new friends to discover what is happening to her and how to control her powers.
17) The search
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Eve Duncan novels volume 3
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 2
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Eve Duncan forensics thriller) volume 3
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 2
Wheeler large print book
Eve Duncan forensics thriller) volume 3
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • He strikes without warning. He kills without mercy. He's only just begun.
As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others. This time Sarah is being forced to take part in a deadly mission . . . by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation.
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As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others. This time Sarah is being forced to take part in a deadly mission . . . by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation.
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18) Arizona
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"From the stunning Grand Canyon to La Fiesta de Tumacacori, there's lots to see and do in Arizona! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Arizona special"--Publisher's website.
19) Tricked
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Iron druid chronicles volume 4
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Druid Atticus O'Sullivan has battled vengeful Norse thunder gods before, and with a little help from a Navajo trickster god Coyote, he dupes them into thinking they chopped him up in the Arizona dessert. The Navajo Coyote is not above his own mischief and Atticus is battling for survival from an unlikely source.
20) Vanishing acts
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Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
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