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Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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"For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared...and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose...
2) True sisters
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Language
English
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Description
1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel in the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way.
Author
Language
English
Description
John Hare is dying in the desert until he is discovered and saved by the generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare gets back to health on Naab's ranch, he's irresistibly attracted to Naab's adopted daughter, Mescal. But Mescal is being pursued by Holderness, a man who is not to be trusted. Hare is soon drawn into a web of adventure and intrigue over land, water and the heart of a beautiful woman.
4) Wildfire
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of a legendary stallion who could run like the wind, but also hurt those who love him the most.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 380 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
2012 Christy Award finalist, Historical category. Camilla Fox is alive. The last thing she remembers is being lost in the snow after leaving her home to escape the Mormon faith she no longer calls her own. She's been taken in by the 5th Infantry Regiment of the US Army and given over to the personal care of Captain Charles Brandon. As she regains her strength, memories of her two children she had to leave behind come flooding back, threatening to...
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Language
English
Description
From the wilds of Arizona comes this stirring tale of one man's fight for the deer of Buckskin Mountain.
Thad Eburne is a ranger of the grand Buckskin Forest, a hard-working protector of nature and its wildlife. That is, until other men's bitterness, greed, and power over Thad turn him into a deer stalker- a man who will be forever haunted by the job he must do- and by the woman who changes everything.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Utah Territory, winter of 1888. Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, who is weeks overdue from his travels as a wheelwright. Junction is a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and Deborah earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves. Isolated by the red-rock cliffs that surround the town, the townspeople are regarded with suspicion by the Mormon faithful who question the depth of their belief....
Author
Series
Maximilian P. Mouse time traveler volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maximilian finds himself in a wagon traveling west with a prairie dog named Madeline, and witnessing the driving of the "golden spike" and the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869--and incidentally preventing a pair of thieves from making off with a nice couple's wagon and supplies.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Norma Hayes has always tried to make Christmas special for her family, but Christmas 1944 is especially difficult with her soldier son Glen away in Europe, and rationing and lack of money don't help. Teenage Dennis tries to buy his mother a special gift for Christmas as a symbol of times gone by and hope for the future, while Glen is reminded of home by the scent of lavender on a battlefield." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dishartened Utah mother travels an evocative route through the sites of her arid Western ancestry. Along the way, the dead speak their stories: a ragged Mormon boy, a hoarder's queer son, descendents of British squatters. Together, these voices create the landscape of a family--uncensored, rocky, and unsettlingly beautiful" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
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Language
English
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"1857. Three women--once strangers--come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a promise for the future, she abides an unexpected surprise: Thomas...
13) Reckless love
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013, c1990.
Edition
New edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two strangers and a wild stallion must join forces to escape a band of renegade warriors in the Utah Territory.
Author
Series
National park mystery volume 4
Publisher
Aaron Johnson
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While camping in Zion National Park, Jake Evans and his friends uncover a new set of cryptic clues hidden in his grandfather's scrapbook. Battling unpredictable weather, unforeseen challenges, and an elusive adversary, the three friends are forced to rely on their problem-solving skills, the power of their growing friendship, and the courage to do the right thing."--Publisher's description.
15) The wheat doll
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
On the nineteenth-century Utah frontier, Mary Ann is heartbroken when her doll Betty is lost during a fierce storm and her sadness lasts all winter long, until spring brings a wonderful surprise.
16) Palace beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her move in 1985 to Salt Lake City, thirteen-year-old Sadie finds a journal in a hidey-hole in the attic, and along with her sister and new friend she reads about the influenza epidemic of 1918.
17) I am Nuchu
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Upon his parents' 1981 divorce, Cal Burton goes from being a popular, comfortable Spokane basketball all-star to a resident of a Ute Indian reservation in Utah, where apathy, poor living conditions, racism, and bitterness over a decades-old family tragedy change his life.