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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Dinosaurs is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil's unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins-what one person can do in a world beset...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they hide secrets of their own. Humming with the energy of...
3) Stargirl
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Series
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English
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Series
Joanna Brady volume 3
Language
English
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"A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell, accused of brutally slaying his estranged wife. No one believes the man is innocent, except the new female sheriff of Cochise County, in town for a crash course in police training. Joanna Brady is out of her jurisdiction--and possibly out of her league. For a human monster is on the prowl, hiding the grisly evidence of his horrific crimes in the vast emptiness of the Arizona desert. And an impromptu investigation,...
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Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Nancy arrives in Phoenix, Arizona, eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled vacation at Shadow Ranch but finds herself embroiled in a baffling mystery involving a phantom horse and buried treasure.
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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"With grit, courage and dogged determination, Joanna challenged the status quo -- and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the prejudice and hostility of a mistrustful, male-dominated police force -- and solve a grisly double homicide that threatens to tear the sleepy desert community to pieces. For the two bodies baking in the harsh Southwestern sun are connected by sinister threads that reach back generations...
7) Quicksilver
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English
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"Quinn Quicksilver had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run, fleeing for his life. During a shoot-out at a dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past. Barreling...
9) Hombre
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 24
Publisher
Armchair Detective Library
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Set in Arizona mining country, Hombre is the tale of a white man raised by Indians, who must come to the aid of people who hate him when their stagecoach is attacked by outlaws. --from Amazon.
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Series
Walker family volume 1
Language
English
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Six years after her husband killed himself after being accused of murdering an Indian girl, Diana Ladd relies on a Native American wise woman and a local police detective to protect her and her son from her late husband's partner, recently released from prison.
The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture-murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'odham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd-a teacher on...
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Series
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
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Series
Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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Lance Tucker, an incarcerated juvenile offender doing time for hacking into the San Leandro School District's computer system, is set on fire one night and severely burned while hanging Christmas decorations in a lockup rec room. The police say that he did it to himself, but B. Simpson, Ali Reynolds's fiancé and the man who helped put Lance in jail, feels obligated to investigate. Lance is famous for developing software that allows users to surf...
13) White lies
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Series
Arcane Society novels volume 2
Language
English
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Level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster has resigned herself to the fact that she may never find a suitable mate. A human lie detector, any falsehood-no matter how subtle-sets her blood racing. And most people, to one degree or another, hide behind a façade. Including her business titan father's new "consultant," Jake Salter. His careful conversation walks a delicate line between truth and deception, revealing and resisting. But it is with his help...
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