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1) Maisie Dobbs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"She started as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, Lady Rowan Compton, a suffragette, took the remarkably bright youngster under her wing and became her patron, aided by Maurice Blanche, a friend often retained as an investigator by the elite of Europe. It was he who first recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her to earn admission to prestigious Girton College at Cambridge where Maisie planned...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldier Cleveland Trewe has seen more than enough carnage for one lifetime. Now that the war is over he's found work as a peacekeeper and prospector--the perfect set of survival skills for a town like Axle Bust, Nevada, a place seething with danger. Cleve's uncle staked a claim in Axle Bust only to lose it to a murderous con-man partnered with Duncan Conroy, owner of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A treacherous journey… Joel McAllister is a lieutenant in the Confederate Army-or at least he was, until Lee surrendered. Now he's determined to get as far away from war as possible, somewhere beyond North and South … and maybe somewhere with some gold: Idaho Territory. Accompanied by his steadfast sergeant, Riley, the two former soldiers travel westward from Texas. But the trail to Silver City is littered with peril-including a band of notoriously...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Examples of two of five stories about cattle ranchers, mining, railroading, and lumber: In "Whiskey Creek Stampeders," Glenn Carnagey returns to Oregon's rough-and-tumble Rouge River mining country, where he is determined to break the stranglehold Charlie Hammaker has on the area by competing against his overland freight line. Set in the years shortly after the Civil War, "Dakota Man" concerns an ex-Union soldier's purchase of land with a guaranteed...
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