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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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From the award-winning author of "Where the Heart Is" comes the story of a down-and-out cafe owner, Caney, who opens his restaurant after returning from Vietnam in a wheelchair. Then one day Vena Takes Horse, a vibrant young women, enters the cafe, changes the lives of the regulars forever, and, eventually, captures Caney's heart.
62) Divine by blood
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Pub. Date
[2009], c2007
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Conceived in a lie and trapped in a tree throughout her gestation, Morrigan's birth was truly magical. After that start, she spent the next eighteen years raised as a normal girl in Oklahoma. Upon discovering the truth of her heritage, her rage and grief take on a power of their own, carrying her back to the world of Partholon. Yet, instead of being respected as the daughter of the goddess Incarnate, Morrigan feels like a shunned outsider. In her...
63) Coyote autumn
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After moving to the country, thirteen-year-old Brad, who has always wanted a dog, adopts a motherless coyote.
64) Believe In Me
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In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
66) Just plain Sadie
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Series
Wells Landing volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Amish of Wells Landing, Oklahoma, treasure their close-knit community, and the promise of their growing families. But one young woman is struggling to choose a future that is true to both her heart and her faith…
Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry--despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, it is more as a friend than a husband. Yet at twenty-two, the plainest girl in her...
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Pub. Date
c2009, 2010
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"An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game."-Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son. "The reigning King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey's Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon...
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From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mothers hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, shes got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic...
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Miriam Yoder has a secret. Her compassionate care for Amos Bland during his last days brought her a large inheritance. So when Ivan Mast indicates his intentions at romance, Miriam suspects he's discovered her hidden wealth. Seeking a fresh start where no one knows her, Miriam accepts a teaching position in faraway Oklahoma. There she meets Wayne Yutzy, whose interest in her seems genuine. Happiness surely awaits the couple . . . or does it?
70) Mother Road
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Series
Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In 1932 Route 66 through Sayre, Oklahoma, saw a steady stream of dust bowl refugees, and many stopped at the garage owned by one-legged Andy Connors for fuel, repairs, a drink of water, or to rest in his campground. Big, brawny, and relatively well-off, H. L. Yates has come to Sayre to pay an old debt to Andy and finds the perfect way to do it when Andy is bitten by a rabid skunk. After taking him to the hospital, Yates takes over running the garage...
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In Oklahoma, a woman scientist on the verge of a medical breakthrough in genetics becomes the target of a hired assassin. She is Kate Denby, a single mother in her thirties, and the incident leads to her becoming involved romantically with two men. One is a fellow scientist who spirits her away where she can continue her research, the other is the mercenary protecting them.
73) Hereafter
Author
Series
Hereafter trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
74) Lorie's heart
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Series
Wells Landing volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Lorie Kauffman is grief-stricken when her father passes away unexpectedly. But her heartache quickly turns to bewilderment when she discovers that he had been leading two lives - one of simplicity and hard work in Wells Landing, and one fraught with painful ordeals in Tulsa. As she starts digging into her family's past, Lorie finds that she's no longer certain where she belongs. Lorie knows that if she leaves Wells Landing, she may never be able...
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Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
78) Letter from home
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In small-town Oklahoma in the summer of 1944, a young reporter investigates the murder of her acquaintance.
79) Johnny Osage
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Pub. Date
c1960
Description
Set against a background of the Osage-Cherokee wars this is the story of Johnny Fowler...[who] runs a trading post and feels a sympathetic understanding for the Osage. His love for a young teacher is jeopardized when he avenges a Cherokee attack on an Osage village, determined to wipe out a force which has inflicted unspeakable violence on the Indians he knows and appreciates.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"With her family's legacy on the line, a woman with everything to lose must rely on a man hiding from his past... Oklahoma, 1890 Frontier women don't ride off alone to track an outlaw--not even women as capable as tomboy spinster Willa Malone. But Willa desperately needs the bounty money offered for her father's killer if she's to keep their homestead and take care of her sisters. That means she needs an expert tracker's help. Gideon Hartley has the...