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1) Blood memory
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal's deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William's gradual realization that if he wants to make a home...
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Silver Hills trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Angel Rogers is alone in the world. With both her mother and father gone, the fiery young woman is left to run Rogers Ranch on her own. Not an easy taks for anyone in 1894, especially in the midst of a drought that has nearby ranchers desperate for the water on her land. So it is that rancher Jeremy Johnson comes to call upon Angel, hoping to strike a bargain that will allow his cattle to graze on the fertile Rogers land and drink from its sparkling...
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English
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"One hundred years ago, American patriots picked up rifles and fought against British tyranny. That was Boston. There the enemy was King George III and his British troops. Now, In Last Chance, Texas, in the Big Bend River country, it's Abraham Hacker, a ruthless cattle baron who will slaughter anyone who tries to lay claim to the fertile land and everything on it. For Last Chance, freedom is under siege one violent act at a time. Until wounded Texas...
8) Ranchero
Author
Series
Stanton saga volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Spencer Stanton's word was law. He had killed many to win his vast cattle spread, and would do anything fair or foul to keep it. Every ranchhand, every neighboring landowner, every roaming Indian tribe knew better than to cross this man's power, this man's pride. But some hadn't gotten the message: a trio of vicious gunmen who murdered and raped as naturally as they drew breath, a giant bull-like cattle baron who lusted after Stanton's prime beef,...
9) Yanqui
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the high country of New Mexico, the land made the men, and Spencer Stanton wanted a hunk of it for his empire. But there were those who were bent on giving him a rough ride. Some were bunched up against him--the Yanqui-hating Mexicans to the south and the blood-hungry Utes to the north. Some were strung out alone--land-grabbing drifters with steel in their hearts and in their holsters, men like Hagen, a wagon boss turned-killer who still carried...
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English
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FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory.
This assignment takes them to upstate New York where Brenda Two Kettles, an elder of the Oneida tribe, was found dead in a cornfield, every major bone in her body shattered. She seems to have fallen from the sky, like
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Djunawunya, Arnhem Land, east of the town of Maningrida, July 1978. Frank Gurrmanamana is responsible for preparing the final mortuary ceremonies for his brother who had died six years before. The brother had been buried in Maningrida, but now his remains are being brought back to his home country. Central to the ceremonies is Harry Diama, the senior blood-relative of the deceased man, but Harry lives in Maningrida and is pre-occupied with a pending...
13) Gut shot
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at $2.00 an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour.So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping people...
14) Four souls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge is...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal people and their land, Walya Ngamardiki was inspired by Silas Roberts' submission to the 1976 Australian Government inquiry on uranium mining. Silas, whose tribal name is Ngourladi, is an elder of the Allawa clan and was the first chairman of the Northern Land Council, established to assist Aboriginal people make land claims based on traditional ownership. The film, which moves from Arnhem Land in the...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In the most explosive season of Yellowstone yet, John Dutton and his family must protect their land from new and old enemies, led by Wall Street maverick Roarke. Threatened by betrayals, bad blood, and lucrative business deals, the Duttons form unexpected alliances and confront dangerous measures to safeguard their legacy. This season includes extended content and bonus features, making-of featurettes, behind the scenes clips, never-before-seen interviews...
17) Yorky Billy
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At Ngurgdu (Spring Peak) in the Northern Territory, an area soon to be irrevocably disturbed by uranium mining, 80-year-old William Alderson (known as “Yorky Billy”) reflects on his life in the outback. His father was an Englishman from Yorkshire (hence Yorky’s nickname) who spent 45 years in Australia and “tried everything” – working as a prospector, a railway worker, drover and buffalo hunter. After only 3 years of school, his only son,...
18) Ningla ANa
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A rare additon to the study of Australian History. Made in 1972, this documentary records the events surrounding the establishment of the Aboriginal tent embassy on the lawns of Parliament House. It incorporates interviews with black activists, the work of the National Black Theatre, Aboriginal Legal Service and Aboriginal Medical Service, plus footage from the demonstrations and arrests at the embassy. This is the only film to focus on the tent...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"The big range kings didn't want Donal Cameron and his small, tough Circle C outfit anywhere near them. But Donal was stubborn and Scotch and had his own ideas about what he would and would not do, and he didn't propose to give up his cattle or his men or his kind of life without a struggle. A showdown was inevitable, and though the odds were nearly insurmountable against them -- Donal, a handful of his men, a trader and an Apache boy -- the Circle...
20) Ambush range
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Say you're me -- Jim Bannister. You scrape a cattle herd together and move it onto free grass. But the land-hungry Crescent spread tells you to get out. You tell them you're staying, come hell or high water. Then they gun-whip you, rustle your cows and frame you for a drygulch killing you never committed. I don't know about you -- but me, I'm going after Crescent with guns smoking. Ambush Range tells the violent-paced story of Jim Bannister, who...
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