Scott Sowers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Anticipating a relaxing retirement, Father Tim returns to his hometown for the first time in decades when he receives an anonymous summons, an event that leads to his discovery of long-buried secrets and new people.
Author
Language
English
Description
A nameless sniper is targeting participants in popular Civil War battle reenactments, and Minnesota reenactor Paul Edin is killed at the mock Battle of Kirby Creek, near Corinth, Mississippi. His death is ruled an accident, but Paul's widow, Jenny, discovers that the sniper's bullet was meant for the man standing next to Paul, a cop named Kenny Beeman. To penetrate the Mississippi smokescreen, Jenny enlists the aid of her former lover, news photographer...
Author
Series
The Trail Drive volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperback
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
366 p.
Language
English
Description
Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm-the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman-arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates.
Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team...
Author
Series
Moses Lake volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Henderson, who moves home to Moses Lake to recover her shattered faith, and game warden Mart McClendon, who is trying to forget a tragedy, are drawn together when a mysterious girl is seen with the town recluse.
Author
Series
Daily Texas volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Daily, Texas, to help her father with a misbehaving horse that's supposed to be the star of a new Hollywood movie, Lauren Eldridge soon finds more than she bargained for when the movie's screenwriter turns out to be leading-man handsome.
Author
Series
The Trail Drive volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
368 p.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad…THE WESTERN TRAIL Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst...
Author
Series
The Trail Drive volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
351 p.
Language
English
Description
The only riches Texans has left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives. Set on rescuing their old friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war-torn Mexico, Gill and Van Austin, nephews of Texas founder Stephen Austin,...
Author
Series
The Trail Drive volume 5
Publisher
1994
Physical Desc
370 p.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. Across the Pecos, the Rio Colorado and La Panza mountains, the Texans and their longhorns kept charging-all the way to California gold! Between The Bandera Range And California, They Faced All The Challenges Of Man And God, But Nothing Could Ever Make Them Quit. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million...
Author
Series
The Trail Drive volume 1
Physical Desc
368 p.
Language
English
Description
Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive...
12) Twisted Creek
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allie has always thought that only bad luck came her way. When she inherits the Twisted Creek cafe, at first she is waiting for the next calamity to occur, but gradually she meets the local people and realizes that she has finally found a safe haven.