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2022.
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English
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"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
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Ben Jones novels volume 1
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English
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Ben Jones is an honorable but down-on-his luck truck driver on a lonely Utah highway. When he stumbles across a beautiful woman named Claire playing a cello in an abandoned housing development, he can tell that she's fleeing something in her past, but despite his better judgment he is inexorably drawn to her. Dangerous men come looking for her, and as they turn Route 117 upside down in their search, the long-buried secrets of those who've laid claim...
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"Love Actually meets Groundhog Day in the quintessential holiday romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Honey-Don't List"--
Maelyn Jones is living with her parents, hates her job, and just messed up her love life. She is dreading the family's last Christmas at their Utah cabin, but one random wish and she may just get a do-over.
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"Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she unexpectedly crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a collector of Native American artifacts, but instead of delivering as promised, the brothers are out to strike it rich. But their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence--and...
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In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.
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Jane Withersteen is etermined to defend her Utah ranch. She stands alone against the villains who rustle and stampede her cattle - until a stranger rides into the territory. Notorious as the scourge of Mormon transgressors, the stranger stays on to assist in the inevitable showdown, and romance blooms amid the canyons and cottonwoods. --from Amazon.
After inheriting a southern Utah estate from her Mormon father, Jane Withersteen becomes the victim...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020],
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English
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"An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America's first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century. As a young girl traveling to Utah by wagon in 1861, Martha, or Mattie as she was called, was deeply influenced by the early struggles her family endured as frontier pioneers, including the premature...
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"Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City--a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. But earning that kind of money is a pipe dream, until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric. Once a powerful...
12) The great brain
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Series
Great Brain books volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.
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Series
Great Brain books volume 8
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Although bedazzled by pretty Polly Reagan, thirteen-year-old Tom Fitzgerald's great brain and money-loving ways haven't changed a bit.
14) Timepiece
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Series
Christmas box trilogy volume Prequel
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
Description
In 1910s Salt Lake City, Mary Ann Chandler, an Englishwoman, is hired by a millionaire collector of clocks as his secretary and eventually he marries her. The novel traces their bitter-sweet romance. A prequel to The Christmas Box.
15) On location
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2021.
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English
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"Nothing like a rocky start between enemy coworkers stuck together on location to prove that love isn't just a ploy for ratings--it's a force of nature. Alia Dunn has finally gotten her big break. After years of working her way up at TV's top outdoor travel channel, she gets the green light from network executives to bring her dream project to life: produce a series about Utah's national parks. It's a touching tribute to her late apong, who sparked...
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2010.
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English
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On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds...
18) Lemon Drop Falls
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Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Thirteen-year-old Morgan struggles with the death of her mother"--
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Linda Wallheim mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
©2014.
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English
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"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets...Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward's designated spiritual father, and that makes Linda the ward's unofficial mother, and her days are filled with comfort visits, community service, and informal counseling. But Linda is increasingly troubled by the church's patriarchal...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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"Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow are two young people in love. Michael attends college and works at the Arcadia nursing home while Faye prepares for medical school in Baltimore. The future seems rife with possibilities -- and a hasty marriage before Faye's departure would seem to seal their bond and protect them forever. But they will discover that even the deepest love must weather life's demands. And that forgiveness and faith must be at the...
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