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In a small Ozark community the Matthews family live in the shadow of tragedy. Their only daughter had died in childbirth, after the man she loved had betrayed and deserted her. Young Matt had lived his life under the shadow of a curse ; the promise to kill the man who abandoned his mother. A stranger arrives in the mountains and becomes known as "the Shepherd" because of his kindness to the people of the mountains.
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Allison felt like she'd stepped into a fairy tale when she married widower Burke Caldwell. But after less than a year of marriage, he's become removed and distant. His friends see Allison as little more than a trophy wife, his only daughter regards her as the enemy. With everyone so devoted to the memory of Burke's first wife, Kate, how can Allison possibly compete? Then a harrowing car crash leaves Burke badly injured. But it becomes achingly clear...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs ... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found ... An exciting tale of love and adventure...
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Cheney faces two enemies-superstition and greed...
Cheney Duvall has proven herself as a true doctor to those 200 brides with whom she traveled to the West. But arrival in Seattle with a string of medical successes during the voyage does not open any doors for her in this frontier town-she's "just a woman." Returning east, she finds an invitation to a remote spot in the Ozark mountains where there are no doctors at all. But she runs into walls of...
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Cold River novels volume 1
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English
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Returning to her small, intrusive Ozark Mountain community, Caroline O'Conner cares for her Alzheimer's patient mother while navigating the challenges of her doctor father's frustrations, her brazen cousin's marital disasters, her deaf dog, a moonshining relative and a troubled ex-veteran.
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Ozark Mountain trilogy volume 1
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David C Cook
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Her Sister Couldn't Be Alive… Could She? It had to be Riley Jo. She was certain…wasn't she? But when Abby Cummings tells her mother she thought she saw her sister at the store, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. After all, Riley Jo and their father had been missing for years. Presumably dead. Yet Abby cannot ignore her intuition. Telling her friend J. D., they investigate. But J. D. may know more about the disappearance than he's telling,...
8) Zeke and Ned
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Simon & Schuster
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[1997]
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English
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In Zeke and Ned, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have created an American masterpiece: funny, exuberant, compelling, violent, and tragic. Set in the Cherokee Nation not Jong after the Civil War, Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors, living men whose story is not merely legend, but history -- their fates a consequence of the brutal policies which produced the Trail of Tears. As a child, Zeke Proctor...
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A kiss can be life-changing. When Keara and Elam Jensen share their first kisson their wedding day, a marriage of convenience becomes much less convenient! It also becomes more than they expected when God shows them what He really has in store for their lives. Will their mysteriously injured visitor ruin their future, or will her influence and her personal battle draw them into deadly danger? Visit Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in 1901, and discover for...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2006.
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English
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Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree...
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Ozark Mountain trilogy volume 2
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David C Cook
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Is Liam Berne a loving son-or a murderer? The second book in the Ozark Mountain Trilogy, Only by Death is a thought-provoking suspense story of a man who loses everything and learns he must die to find life. After much agonizing, Liam Berne takes his mother, who has Alzheimer's, to the Sure Foot River and drowns her. A mercy killing, he tells himself, to spare her years in a nursing home . And getting his inheritance early isn't a bad thing either....
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Tending roses volume 3
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English
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After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
13) Grave sight
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Harper Connelly mysteries volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
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English
15) A painted house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Inspired by the author's own childhood in rural Arkansas, the story is narrated by a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted.
18) The flaming trap
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American adventures (Lee Roddy) volume 5
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Returning to the Ozark Mountains to visit their grandmothers, Hildy and Ruby encounter old mountain hatreds, danger, and God's marvelous forgiveness.
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