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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
2) The wrecker
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
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Detective Isaac Bell travels early-20th-century America pursuing thieves and killers. When train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line, Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur is at work.
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The Sacketts volume 6
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Orrin and Tyrel Sackett are forced to leave their home in the Tennessee mountains when Tyrel shoots Long Higgins, after he accidentally shoots Orrin's bride-to-be. Higgins is the last of a family with which the Sacketts have been feuding. To keep from getting into a situation with the local sheriff, a distant cousin of the Sacketts, the two strike out for the western lands. With Cap Roundtree and Tom Sunday, the brothers settle in the town of Mora,...
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Buck's epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way--in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century--tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
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℗2009.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs...
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Journey of the heart volume 2
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When her father succumbs to a long illness, Sarah Montgomery is freed to join the love of her life, Rand Campbell, out west in Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Sarah and her younger brother Joel make the arduous journey, but their reception isn't what Sarah had hoped for. Her friend Amelia is thrilled to have her, but Rand seems to be in the clutches of Jessica DuBois, the scheming daughter of the post commander. And things will get tougher before they get...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 61
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"Everyone knows that bears live in the mountains-- and there are no mountains in the Texas Panhandle. So, when Slim claims to have seen a bear cross the road, no one knows what to believe. It must have been a burro. That's it, it was a donkey. But then, Deputy Kile reports that there really is a bear on the loose in Ochiltree County! With news like this, the ranch's Security Force goes on Red Alert. Will Hank be able to defend the ranch from a raging,...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 63
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When a turkey debacle endangers his relationship with Sally May and a case of poisoning almost kills him, Hank must figure out who might be his mortal enemy.
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