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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This engaging volume takes a close look at the legend of Joaquin Murrieta, the man who came to be known as the Robin Hood of Eldorado. Dynamic text tells the story of Murrieta, with plenty of exciting age-appropriate details, but also examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction in legends such as his. Interesting and informative historical background on the California Gold Rush and the role of Mexicans and Californians in the area at...
1102) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
The Caden chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When fourteen-year-old Nick Caden vacations at Deadwood Canyon Ghost Town, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery involving ghosts of infamous dead outlaws, disappearing dead bodies, and murders.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 77
Pub. Date
c1983
Description
The Hardy brothers travel to an Arizona ranch and eventually, Thailand in pursuit of jewel thieves who have stolen a priceless ruby.
1104) Ghostman
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Series
Formats
Description
"When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who's occasionally called Jack. While it's doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if he's still alive, he's in his mid-thirties and lives completely off the grid, a criminal's criminal who does entirely as he pleases and is almost impossible to get in touch with....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won't let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he'll have to become someone else entirely. A brief, fateful encounter with the celebrated singer Jane Touissant on the eve of his escape offers a glimpse of what might have been, but Butch disappears, leaving her behind, until their paths unexpectedly converge again in...
1107) Rules for thieves
Author
Series
Rules for Thieves volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Twelve-year-old Alli Rosco escapes her orphanage, only to be hit with a deadly curse by a magic-wielding, law-enforcing Protector, and with nowhere else to turn and days to live, Alli learns to steal from a street thief named Beck and follows him back to the legendary Thieves Guild, where she hopes to find a home and the means to save herself.
1110) The man in the Rockefeller suit: the astonishing rise and spectacular fall of a serial imposter
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious impostor, Christian Gerheitsreiter, and his "talented Mr. Ripley" story as Clark Rockefeller.
The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was obsessed with getting...
1111) Sheep Pen Cañon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Lee Sowell tells us about the Pard Newman battles--which nearly cost him his life--in this sequel to The Ox That Gored. It takes three battles, one in the Long Branch Saloon of Dodge City, one in Texas, and one in the Territory of New Mexico to finally subdue the Newman gang. The journey back to Sheep Pen Cañon is interrupted by a fight in the infamous Kansas City Bottoms of Joplin, Missouri and by the county seat war of Gray County, Kansas. Tex...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Jeston Nash fled a New Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. He'd won it from Quinton Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garret's promise rand in Nash's ears . . . somewhere, someday, they would meet again. Jeston catches up with Billy the Kid and they ride for New Mexico. For the Kid, freedom lies just beyond the border. For Nash, it's the chance...
1117) Breaking even
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Seth and his partner Joaqun̕ drift apart after their feud leads to violence, but after many years their paths cross again when Seth and his smuggling partners ask Joaquin to help them deliver an illegal shipment of guns to a group of outlaws.
1119) Law along the border
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Two special agents for the Southwest Sate Company are sent to Timoratio, New Mexico, on the south desert to watch for Mexican border-jumpers. What they find are both Mexicans and Americans smuggling guns below the border to supply a rebel Mexican army.