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Author
Series
Clasicos volume 111
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Edition
1a ed. en U.S.A.
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
Español
82) Gateway weddings
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Books
Pub. Date
2009, 2011
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three Missouri women enter the gateway to life, love, and longing. Valerie Bishop, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, is afraid to leave her home. Can ex-con Healy Ferguson show her the path to freedom? Sailor Kern is enamored of romance author Chandler Michaels. Will she fall for his lines or find a real hero in Parker Travis? Jilly Gardner has reluctantly agreed to help out her estranged foster parents. Will Cam Lane help the family...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While preparing their students for the Southern Missouri Showdown, Betts and Gram, the owners of Gram's Country Cooking School, stumble upon the dead body of a local theater owner in their supply room and must serve up a killer before they take the fall for the crime.
87) A rambling man
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press,a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and almost 1,500 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which has a capacity of just under 400 passengers. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home...
89) Cheyenne raiders
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First Forge edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas McCabe, an agent with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is sent to live with a tribe in Missouri in 1837. He falls in love with a woman, but must prove himself to the tribe before they can marry.
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family's land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then came a decade as a Texas Ranger. Now, after ten blood-soaked years, he is finally coming home and finally using his real name and finally getting revenge against the cold-hearted devils who destroyed his family and...
91) James: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Publisher
Nhà xuất bản Văn học
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
"...Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Sawyer...về thực chất, đó là cuộc đấu tranh dai dẳng, kiên trì để thoát ra khỏi mọi ước lệ xã hội cùng những thói tục cổ hữu đang đè nặng trên vai người nông dân Mỹ thế kỷ XIX...Qua câu chuyện, nhà văn cũng chỉ trích...
Author
Series
Country cooking school mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betts Winston has inherited more than her cooking skills from her grandmother, she can also see and talk to ghosts of people that once roamed the streets of Broken Rope, Missouri, in the days of the Old West. With Gram's Country Cooking School on spring break, Betts and Gram are taking part in this year's cowboy poetry convention, offering lessons on frying catfish over an open campfire. But when a staged gunfight ends in real death and her brother...
94) The renegades
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The trilogy of the warring Hartman family comes to a dramatic conclusion."--cover.
95) Note of peril
Author
Series
Hideaway series (Hannah Alexander) volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Gram's Country Cooking School, Isabelle "Betts" Winston and her grandmother share their home-style culinary secrets. But what they keep to themselves are the secrets of Broken Rope, a quiet little Missouri town, that isn't nearly as quiet as it seems. A fresh school year begins as Gram and Betts anxiously await the arrival of their new crop of students. But their enthusiasm is thwarted when a stranger named Freddie O'Bannon arrives and claims to...
98) The exiles
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Kansas and Missouri clash in fierce battle over slavery, the Hartmans learn that blood is not thicker than water. They are compelled to choose sides in a conflict so overwhelming it threatens to unravel their family ties. Before the war ends, family members will die, others will vow revenge, traitors will reveal themselves--and one Hartman will decide whether to expose a plot which could tip the balance of the war. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
viii, 551 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains the complete text of "Huckleberry Finn" and eighteen essays that address three major controversies that surround the novel, including sexual orientation, Mark Twain's ending, and racism.
Author
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (7 hr.) digital 3 3/8 x 2 1/8"
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.
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