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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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Eisenhower Public Library Staff Picks: Westerns
Notable Novels: 1980s
Pulitzer Prize Fiction
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Notable Novels: 1980s
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"The Pulitzer Prizewinning American classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written,...
2) Sleepytime
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"It's sleepytime at the Heeler house! Bingo wants to do a Big Girl sleep. As she drifts away into a dreamy adventure with Flopsy, will Bingo make it through the night and wake up in her own bed?"--
5) Open range
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Four men who are trying to escape their pasts drive cattle and live off the land on the open range. When a ruthless rancher tries to run them out of town, they must fight for their very existence, justice and a dissappearing way of life.
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The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
7) Texas free
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Tylers of Texas volume 5
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Rose Landro is on the run. Seeking refuge at the Rimrock Ranch, she is finally ready to claim the land her granddaddy left her and make a fresh start. But her return is rife with controversy when cattle begin disappearing - and a handsome menace named Tanner McCade starts watching Rose a little too closely. Could the new cowhand be connected to the men she's hiding from? Or is there another reason the rugged stranger is shadowing her every move?
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The Virginian is a 1902 debut novel set in the Wild West by the American novelist Owen Wister. Describing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, it helped establish the western novel as a literary genre. The unnamed protagonist in The Virginian, who courts a local schoolteacher and defers personal revenge while meting out justice to a cattle thief, set the tone for the rough but civilized cowboy, a prototype for scores of ensuing books,...
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Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
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All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? --Publisher.
11) Bluey: The creek
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"Dad takes Bluey, Bingo, and Mackenzie to the creek after they grow tired of playing at the playground. But Bluey doesn't like the thorns, or the spiders, or the pointy rocks, or . . . the leeches! She struggles to find the fun. Can Bluey learn to step out of her comfort zone and try new things?"--Amazon.com.
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Texas Cattleman's Club Rule #3: Do the Right Thing
With no warning, Mitch Hayward's superefficient, self-effacing assistant has done a complete 180—becoming captivating before his very eyes. And on one very special night, the interim club president gives in to this brand-new temptation. Instinct takes control.
But protecting Jenny Watson's heart from his own bachelor ways is the only right thing to do. If he has to, he'll even set up the...
With no warning, Mitch Hayward's superefficient, self-effacing assistant has done a complete 180—becoming captivating before his very eyes. And on one very special night, the interim club president gives in to this brand-new temptation. Instinct takes control.
But protecting Jenny Watson's heart from his own bachelor ways is the only right thing to do. If he has to, he'll even set up the...
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Meet Bluey! This lovable and imaginative Blue Heeler puppy is ready for her next adventure. Based on the on the TV series, Bluey, as seen on Disney+. Learn all about Bluey Heeler in this fun shaped board book! Bluey loves to play, explore, and use her imagination to turn everyday life into an amazing adventure. Now Bluey fans can meet her family and her friends, learn about her favorite games and adventures, and even learn her favorite part about...
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A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, long considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail.
16) Timbuktu
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A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
18) Let's mooove!
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Magic on the map volume 1
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On the last day of second grade, twins Finn and Molly discover a magical camper in their driveway that takes them from Ohio to Colorado, where they must save a famous cow.
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"The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan was no exception. Logan faced starvation or a hanging if Tell couldn't drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett's every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies....
20) Six bits a day
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Calloway series volume 3
Thorndike Press large print Western
Hewey Calloway novels volume 3
Movie in your mind volume 3
Thorndike Press large print Western
Hewey Calloway novels volume 3
Movie in your mind volume 3
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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