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Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While traveling down an overgrown track, Thomas finds an abandoned town and Sir Topham Hatt asks him and the other engines to fix it up, but Thomas runs into trouble and only Stanley can help him out.
2) Domino
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1979
Description
When Laurie Morgan returns to the town she had fled decades earlier, she must face the secrets of her past and the dangerous reality of the present.
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Formats
Description
Historical and modern romance stories intertwined to tell the story of Kenworthy, California -- once a Gold Rush town and now a ghost town.
1902. Arriving at Kenworthy, California, mail-order-bride Juniper Cohen was met by the pounding of the gold mine, the rowdiness of its prospectors, and her greatest surprise of all: the love of the kind man who awaited her. When the mine proves empty of profit Juniper's husband vanishes, and the pioneers flee...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin, and Stony Brooke had ridden into Prospect looking to buy some bulls from Marty Barrett when Tucson saw a pretty girl lose a piece of paper from her pocket. He rushed to pick it up to return it to her, but when Gus Brown tried to fight him for it, he determined to learn the story behind it and help the girl, Sabina Thornton, in any way he could. Marty told Tucson that 20 years ago, the Prospect Bank, owned by Jim Thornton,...
5) Gunsmoke men
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Here are the men who ran the West and rode the outlaw trail. Tough, daring, unbeatable, they lived by the law of the gun and, if necessary, they were ready to die . . . by the law of the gun. Roud Vaughn: A gunslinger who wants to put the past behind him inherits a small ranch and big trouble. Two powerful warring neighbors control his assets. One holds his cattle, the other his money in "Gunslingers of the Cibola." Joe Sanders: He tries to tame...
6) Ghost town
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Love, hate, family, forgiveness, redemption, and sacrifice rock this small Western town. Family honor is defended while the gold rush surges forward.
7) Wild West
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West.
Jack and Annie learn more about the Wild West, including what a ghost town is, who Billy the Kid is, and why we call the Old West wild.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"Caleb York has a tin star, a blazing gun, and plenty of courage. All he needs is a little luck to deliver big justice ... On a lively night at the Victory saloon in Trinidad, New Mexico, Sheriff Caleb York interrupts his poker game to settle a minor dust-up that raises the stakes into major trouble. The wounded miscreant he ushers to the hoosegow spills the secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a certain stage coach. Bound for Denver, the...
9) Abandon
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Description
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town will disappear, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone will be found -- not even the gold that was rumored to have been the pride of this town. One hundred and thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a leading history professor and his journalist daughter to lead them into the abandoned mining town so they can...
12) The silver flame
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Gambler, gunman, knight errant, Rogue Bishop again faces his old foe, Don Ricardo de Risa, the shrewd, ruthless Mexican bandit king. When Rogue Bishop and Michael McLean wandered into the deserted mining town in Arizona, they were looking for only one thing-silver. Rogue had rescued McLean in the desert; in gratitude, Mike had told Bishop about a cache of hidden coins in an old ghost town. What they found instead was an over-the-border horse-stealing...
Author
Series
Whistle Stop AL volume 2
Description
"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"When Cricket's Aunt Belinda accidentally forgets her in the grocery store, Cricket decides to run away once and for all. But Cricket has to stay close by because even though her mama hasn't been in touch since she disappeared, she'll surely come back. And Cricket has to be there when she does. Because she needs answers"--
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"An Old Order Mennonite couple's vows and beliefs are challenged in this stirring contemporary novel for fans of Cindy Woodsmall or Shelley Shepherd Gray"--
Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. They have grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty's childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, resurfaces with the wild idea of rebuilding a Kansas ghost town into a resort...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Kissin' cousins: An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin. Live a little, love a little: Greg Nolan meets Bernice, and loses both his job and his apartment. However, Bernice manages to get him a new apartment, but it is so expensive that he has to get two full-time jobs. Girl happy: A Chicago mobster...
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