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Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
December 21, 2012: The fabled Feathered Serpent begins his relentless ascent out of the bowels of the earth, escaping thousands of years of torturous confinement. Controversial astrobiologist and archaeologist Caden Montez-who believes Teotihuacan is the best site on earth to find alien life forms, such as the Serpent-is on his trail. While exploring this so-called "City of the Gods"-a place so eerie it terrified even the most ferocious Aztecs-she...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's -- his 'last case, ' unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just...
Author
Series
Desert roses volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a Harvey tour guide, Rainy Gordon spends her days in the magnificent landscape of New Mexico. Having already fled a tainted past, Rainy is alarmed when she becomes a suspect in an investigation of stolen Hopi Indian artifacts. The man she loves has been secretly asked to assist the law enforcement groups in finding the thief. When all evidence points in her direction, will the truth be revealed in time?
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
New York debutante Madeline Hammond has a lot to learn about running a ranch in frontier New Mexico, but there is no question in her mind that she has to intervene when Gene Stewart, a cowhand who risked his life to save her honor, is scheduled to be hanged.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing had seemed complicated about the old "Golden Calf" case. A con game had gone sour. Wealthy old Wiley Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed, and done his short prison time. No mystery there, except why did the rich man's bride vanish? And now, papers found by Sergeant Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito in a new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine.
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a post-apocalypse tale, a long-missing moon rock, a killing in a New Mexico canyon, a murderously ambitious scientist, and other factors contribute to the world's greatest scientific discovery.
9) Aztec autumn
Author
Series
Aztec historical novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This sequel to Aztec returns to the Mexico of the conquistador. The young Aztec leader, Tenamáxtli, courageously refuses to bow to his foreign rulers, vowing revenge on the Spaniards who have conquered and destroyed his society. Driven to rebuild the Aztec Empire, Tenamáxtli secretly recruits an army to fight the seemingly invincible Spanish forces. His quest takes us through high adventure, passionate women, unlikely allies, bright hope, and bitter...
10) Standoff
Author
Language
English
Description
While following a story TV reporter Tiel McCoy learns why two young runaways fear a wealthy father more than the FBI, and why she must defend them at all costs.
11) Aztec
Author
Series
Aztec historical novels volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was just one of those Malibu nights, dark as a velvet shroud, creamy waves crashing onto the shore, breeze soft as a kitten's breath...
But, when Private Investigator to the stars, Mac Reilly, hears the sound of a woman's scream over the crashing waves, his low-key beach-bum lifestyle is changed forever. A beautiful, distraught woman wearing only a black lace negligee stands in the doorway of a fabulous beach house. In her hand, a gun, and it's...
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Language
English
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Description
Early in Louis L'Amour's career, he wrote a number of novel-length stories for "pulp" Western magazines. "I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print," he said. "I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did." So he revised and expanded these magazine works to be published again as full-length...
14) The sea of grass
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1937.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1936, this novel presents in epic scope the conflicts in the settling of the American Southwest. Set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, The Sea of Grass concerns the often violent clashes between the pioneering ranchers, whose cattle range freely through the vast sea of grass, and the farmers, or "nesters," who build fences and turn the sod. Against this background is set the triangle of rancher Colonel Jim Brewton, his unstable...
15) And then you die
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Iris Johansen captivates readers with her spectacular plots, chilling suspense, and lifelike characters. With And Then You Die, she spins a nerve-shattering story of global terror so realistic it could be taken straight from today's headlines. In her assignments, seasoned photojournalist Bess Grady has witnessed firsthand the horrors and heartbreak of wartorn Croatia. But nothing she has seen prepares her for a travel magazine...
20) Hot rain
Author
Language
English
Description
"An unwilling passenger on a boat carrying deadly cargo and dangerous men, Allie's only hope is mysterious Jake Dawson, who warns her that she must play the role of his woman ... if she wants to stay alive. Under any other circumstances, she'd welcome the attentions of a man with Jake's powerful body and piercing dark eyes. But as Allie is forced to place her trust in the hands of a total stranger, she wonders if this desperate gamble will be her...
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