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“A literary tour de force . . . [David] Ebershoff intertwines a modern-day murder mystery with a sweeping historical saga.”—People (4 out of 4 stars)
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family’s...
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family’s...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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No writer today illuminates the struggles of families–and the crises that can tear them apart–better than #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard. "A first-rate storyteller" (Newsweek) who "renders her characters flawlessly, endowing them with a humanity that is both accessibly grounded and astonishingly deep" (Bookslist), the author of The Deep End of the Ocean, Twelve...
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Skye Fargo takes on a circus swindler in the greatest showdown on earth…
When a giant beast tramples a homestead and injures some settlers, Skye Fargo sets out to track the animal. But neither Skye nor the wilds of Utah could prepare for what they discover…an elephant! There’s only one explanation: Thaddeus Thimbletree and his traveling circus is in town.
Skye returns the elephant, but his work is far...
When a giant beast tramples a homestead and injures some settlers, Skye Fargo sets out to track the animal. But neither Skye nor the wilds of Utah could prepare for what they discover…an elephant! There’s only one explanation: Thaddeus Thimbletree and his traveling circus is in town.
Skye returns the elephant, but his work is far...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
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"Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them--one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley. Chee follows a series of seemingly random and cryptic clues that lead to a missing woman, a coldblooded thug, and a mysterious mound of...
7) The maze
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild
8) Noel Street
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Noel collection volume 3
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"The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her...
9) Heartbreaker
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1997
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An accident separates Lynn Nelson and her nineteen-year-old daughter Rory from the rest of the group while on a wilderness adventure, and they have only the handsome but macho outfitter Jess Feldman to protect them from an unknown evil.
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Beyond the circle volume 2
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English
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Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are all wrong. Rachelle Matthews, who grew up in the small town of Eden, Utah, discovered just how wrong when she dreamed and awoke in another world. There she learned that she was the 49th Mystic, the prophesied one, tasked with finding five ancient...
11) Thunderhead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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Archeologist Nora Kelly leads an expedition to Utah in search of Quivira, the fabled Indian City of Gold. With the aid of satellite photos the group retraces her missing father's footsteps and runs into monsters.
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2010
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Jack Hare is an Easterner who has come west for his health. In Salt Lake City he is mistaken by Dene's outlaw gang for a spy and must flee the town to escape them. He is found suffering from exhaustion and exposure in rough country by the wealthy Mormon rancher August Naab. As he is nursed back to health at Naab's ranch, Hare becomes aware that Naab's holdings are being threatened by both Dene's rustlers and an unscrupulous Gentile land-grabber named...
13) The 49th mystic
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Beyond the circle volume 1
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English
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"Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah, a blind girl named Rachelle Matthews is about to find out just how wrong. When a procedure meant to restore Rachelle's sight goes awry, she begins to dream of another world so real that she wonders if...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion, but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: there are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives: the demands of family, friends, work, and social obligation. And there are times that the pull of those threads becomes greater than the strength of the relationship. In these times,...
15) True sisters
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2012
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1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel in the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way
16) The deer stalker
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Originally published in 1925, in THE DEER STALKER, Zane Grey readers will find all they have come to expect from their favorite Western author-swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the added valiant effort of a ranger's struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on the Buckskin range. Zane Grey makes the reader see this colorful Arizona country, makes him feel something of the awe that is the inevitable reaction...
17) Something wilder
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"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession...or much money in the bank. But Lily is resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely...
18) Wind River
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Dorchester Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between a decent man and an outlaw was often too thinly drawn, two extraordinary sisters struggled to survive and fought for their freedom. Rebecca, as beautiful and untamable as the mountains of Utah, was forced to marry a brutal polygamist, but she refused to surrender her dream. And Katie risked her life so Rebecca might have a chance for freedom. And she risked everything else...
19) In a holidaze
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"It's the most wonderful time of the year...but not for Maelyn Jones. She's living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions. But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world--the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives...
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"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward's designated spiritual father, and that...
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