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"Addie Sullivan leads a quiet life in a northern California lighthouse. She mourns the death of her father and endures her mother's bitterness, until the night a storm brings an injured stranger and a dark secret to her home. The man insists she is not who she thinks she is, but rather "Julia Eaton" -- the child long lost and feared dead by her wealthy family. Seizing the chance to be reunited with the Eatons, Addie leaves her lighthouse home but...
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Mercy Falls novels volume 3
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When her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, New York socialite Olivia Stewart travels to California to discover the details of her sister's death. Olivia suspects her sister's fiance, Harrison Bennett, may have had a hand in her sister's death. Even as Olivia finds herself drawn to him despite her misgivings, several attempts are made on her life and Harrison may be the only person she can trust with her life.
3) The Chase
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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April 1950: A rusting steam locomotive rises from a Montana lake. Inside are the remains of three men who died forty-four years before. 1906: For two years, the West has suffered a string of bank robberies by a man who then murders any witnesses and vanishes. Fed up with the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in Isaac Bell. From Arizona to Colorado to San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what quickly becomes...
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Mercy Falls novels volume 2
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c2010
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Katie Russell loves working as a telephone operator in Mercy Falls, California. But since childhood she has been expected to marry well. Her family presses for an engagement to wealthy bachelor Bartholomew Foster and though he doesn't stir her heart, their engagement promises a secure financial future.Working the phone lines one evening, Katie overhears a chilling exchange between her friend Eliza and a familiar male voice. Katie soon learns that...
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Californians volume 1
Pub. Date
c1992
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Twenty-year-old Kaitlin Donovan is forced to move to turn-of-the-century San Francisco to find her family's fortune after her mother dies.
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Wells Fargo Trail volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Zac Cobb, sent to California by Wells Fargo to investigate stolen gold shipments, encounters vigilantes and a corrupt federal judge who was formerly commander of the Union prison where Zac's brothers were held during the Civil War.
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c1989
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One man's ambitious journey into the heart of California's gold country becomes a pursuit for limitless wealth in the face of devastating ruin At the height of California's Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance to the western frontier. A wanderer and a nobody, James is drawn to California by the dream...
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[2022]
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Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to cheat death.
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2001
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
11) Sean Donovan
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Californians volume 3
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Caught in his first bank robbery, Sean Donovan is sentenced to hang. But Charlotte Cooper, who needs a blacksmith for her livery, has other ideas. By law, a woman of good standing in the community can save a man from the gallows by marrying him. Humbled by the dramatic rescue and renewed in his faith, Sean's heart goes out to his new bride, a woman whose past has prompted her to guard her heart. Yet could the talk around town be true? Is the fiercely...
12) As time goes by
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Californians volume 2
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For five years handsome Jeff Taylor had wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford in person. But she had left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic and never returned. Jeff was older now. He had grown in his faith and as a man. Still the news that Bobbie was returning to Santa Rosa while considering Cleve Ramsey's proposal of marriage came as a shock. Will their friendship be restored after heartbreaking betrayal?
13) In America
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2000
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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 23
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Story of the renowed Polish actress Maryna Zalenska and her search for self-tranformation the fate of idealism, and the old and new worlds on the cusp of modernity.
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2010.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
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Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 2
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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After Corrie's mother's death, her father finds a new wife through a mail-order-bride agency.
16) Penny
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Horse diaries volume 16
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[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Penny, a blue-eyed palomino paint mare, narrates her experiences with her owner, Buckeye Jack, and Jack's grandson, Jesse, during the 1850s Northern California gold rush.
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"Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and the US mail but never robbing a passenger. Such behavior earned him the title of a true 'gentleman bandit.' His real name was Charles E. Boles, and in the public eye, Charles...
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[2024]
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February 19, 1942. George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares anyone of Japanese descent an enemy of the United States. George and his family were American in every way. They had done nothing wrong. But because of their Japanese ancestry, they were removed from their home in California and forced into camps with thousands of other families who...
19) After the bloom
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[2017]
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"Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father."--
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Saga of the Sierras volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Tom Dawson finds happiness and peace at his brother's California ranch during the Civil War until his past comes back to haunt him following a violent stagecoach robbery.