Dust Devil

Dust Devil

Author: Anne Isaacs

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 0375982698

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Here is the thrilling, thigh-slapping companion to Swamp Angel, the beloved Caldecott Honor–winning picture book. Swamp Angel has a reputation as the greatest woodswoman and wildest wildcat in all of Tennessee. But when she grows too big for that state, she moves to Montana, a place so sizeable, even Angel can fit in. It’s there that she wrestles a raging storm to the ground and, at its center, finds herself a sidekick—a horse she names Dust Devil. And when Backward Bart, the orneriest, ugliest outlaw ever known, starts terrorizing the prairie, seems like Angel and Dust Devil may be the only ones strong enough to stop him. Dust Devil received four starred reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Children's Book of the Year and an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Winner. Children will be captivated by the beauty and exaggerated humor of Paul Zelinsky’s American primitive–style paintings and the wit and energy of Anne Isaacs’s unparalleled storytelling. Here is an original folktale starring an extraordinary gal who is as feisty as she is funny and as courageous as she is kind.


Planetary Vistas

Planetary Vistas

Author: Paul Murdin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 3319152424

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The word “landscape” can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and this book collects some of the greatest views and vistas of Mars, Venus’s Titan, Io and more in their full glory, with background information to put into context the foreign landforms of our Solar System. Here, literally, are 'other-worldly' visions of strange new scenes, all captured by the latest technology by landing and roving vehicles or by very low-flying spacecraft. There is more than scientific interest in these views. They are also aesthetically beautiful and intriguing, and Dr. Murdin in a final chapter compares them to terrestrial landscapes in fine art. Planetary Vistas is a science book and a travel book across the planets and moons of the Solar System for armchair space explorers who want to be amazed and informed. This book shows what future space explorers will experience, because these are the landscapes that astronauts and space tourists will see.


Dust Devil

Dust Devil

Author: Kenn Sherwood Roe

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780449147788

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Marshall Dick Landry (from Moon Blood) sets out into Nevada's burning desert to search for a missing prospector and instead finds notorious killer Rattlesnake Morton and his gang of sharpshooters. Outnumbered, with no horse or water, Landry staggers across the searing sand to stumble upon a fabled cache of gold. Originally scheduled for November 1991.


Ghost Fire

Ghost Fire

Author: DeWitt A. Herd

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1469143534

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The thoughts of the Cavalry and Indians still fi ghting even after death. I believe that when the body dies, what happens to the energy? It has to go somewhere. Now, picture this: the human brain is powered by electrical energy, the body itself generates natural energy such as heat. Does this create the soul or trap spirits that is between realities? A battle in the 1800s came to an end as they were overwhelmed by a dust devil, only to continue their fight in the present as a ghostly form.


Separated by The War

Separated by The War

Author: Richard D. Arnold

Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1945960108

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In my first book, Separated by the War: The Cave, ten year old brothers are separated during a battle between Yankee and Rebel forces on their isolated farm. The boys are rescued and raised on distant homes. They are reunited ten years later during a conflict with The Flower Society. In the second book, Separated by the War: Steamboats, the twins twelve year old sister also survives that tragic battle on their farm. Believing that she is the sole survivor, she enlist the aid of friendly Indian traders to help her on the farm and to escape the renegades that raided the war-torn land during the war between the states as she tries to find her father’s brother oldest brother in the Big Bend of Texas. In this, the third book in this series, Separated by the War: Wagontrains, the survivors are united during their struggles with the Bosses and Drones of The Flower Society. Traveling by wagontrain, steamboat, sailing ship, and horseback they cross the American continent and Atlantic Ocean in pursuit of their lives and dreams. They encounter the efforts of the war torn nation to rise from the ashes of the Civil War during the post reconstruction era and delayed advances of the industrial revolution. The fourth book, Separated by the War: Pirates, is a prequel of the first three and details the Riley family coming to American and their initial conflict with The Flower Society.


The Shimmer

The Shimmer

Author: David Morrell

Publisher: David Morrell

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1937760006

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Since 1889, mysterious lights have appeared outside Rostov, a remote Texas town. Ranchers believed them to be the campfires of rustlers, but campfires don’t rise and fall, merge, and change colors. In World War I, the locals believed that the lights came from German forces massing on the Mexican border. In the Second World War, the US military built an airfield there and used planes to try to discover the secret of the lights. In 1980, the entire town set out on a “Ghost Light Hunt.” For more than a century, each attempt to get close to the lights met with horrifying results. Now police officer Dan Page follows the trail of his missing wife from New Mexico to Texas and discovers that she and hundreds of spectators have become enraptured by the lights. After a crazed gunman fires obsessively into the crowd, the stage is set for more death. To save his wife, Page must confront the mystery of the lights. His desperate search reveals a government conspiracy that dates back to World War II. The abandoned airfield is more than what it seems. So is a nearby observatory, with a purpose even more mysterious and lethal than the lights themselves. Drawing his inspiration from the real-life Marfa lights, critically acclaimed Morrell packs The Shimmer with his trademark blend of action and terror.


THE MARRIAGE STAMPEDE

THE MARRIAGE STAMPEDE

Author: Julianna Morris

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2011-07-15

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1459259548

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WRANGLERS & Lace READY…SET…MARRIAGE! It seemed everyone wanted to marry handsome, wealthy Logan Kincaid. Everyone except Merrie Foster, his make-believe bride-to-be. Well, that was fine by Logan. Playing the enamored groom to Merrie's blushing bride was only a means of avoiding the stampede of would-be wives. Because the last thing Logan wanted was marriage. Or so he thought. Suddenly spending all his days—and his nights—with pretty Merrie on her family's Montana ranch was way too appealing. Heck, if this confirmed bachelor didn't watch out, he would be making a mad dash to the altar himself—with a certain spitfire redhead who'd wound her way around his heart…. Hard to tame—impossible to resist—these cowboys meet their perfect match!


Red Rover

Red Rover

Author: Deirdre McNamer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780670063505

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A new work by the author of Rima in the Weeds follows the adventures of Aiden and Neil Terney, whose childhood dreams are shattered by the devastating realities of World War II and their interactions with Aidan's colleague in the FBI.


The Lost Story

The Lost Story

Author: Meg Shaffer

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2024-07-16

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0593598881

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game. “This is the book you’ve been waiting for.”—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Rafe is a reclusive artist who still bears scars inside and out but has no memory of what happened during those months. Meanwhile, Jeremy has become a famed missing persons’ investigator. With his uncanny abilities, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her sister, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy. Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth about the disappearances, for while the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. He believes it is there that they will find Emilie’s sister. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end as the quest for Emilie’s sister begins. The former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they called home for six months—for only then can they get back everything and everyone they’ve lost.