B. J. Sedlock
High Country Justice (Caleb Marlowe Series, 1)
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Caleb Marlowe lives alone on a ranch near Elkton, Colorado in 1878. In chapter one, he kills several men trying to rustle his cattle, ...Read Review
If It Rains
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Two sisters narrate this novel in alternate chapters, set in the 1930s Dust Bowl. Kathryn, 14, is hampered by a club foot. Sister Melissa ...Read Review
Absaroka War Chief
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James Beckwourth’s name was in the news in 2021, when a wildfire sprang up near the California town named for him. I hadn’...Read Review
The Ack-Ack Girl (Love and War)
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Ava Armstrong is staying with friends in London in October 1940 when the house is destroyed in the Blitz. She normally works in a ...Read Review
Heart of the Frontier: A Western Romance Collection
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In “The Gamble” by Brittany Larsen, Thomas Clayborne, younger son of an English baron, travels West as part of a business venture investing ...Read Review
Bones of a Saint
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RJ Armante, 15, lives in a rundown trailer park in 1978 California, oldest child of a single working mother. It’s summer, and while his ...Read Review
Annie Laura’s Gift
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The preface says that the mostly fictional story is based on Jay’s great-grandmother. It’s set in 1890s Florida, with flashbacks to ...Read Review
Back Home (Secondhand Summer)
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A sequel to Secondhand Summer, the title refers to 15-year-old Sam Barger’s brother returning to Alaska from fighting in Vietnam in 1968. Sam ...Read Review
The Pulse of His Soul
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Genealogist Smith novelizes the life of John Lothropp, a Separatist minister who broke with the Anglican Church and became a forgotten Founding Father: ...Read Review
A Proper Scoundrel
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During the 19th-century British railroad boom, Everton, Lord Bryant, is propositioned on his doorstep by Diana Barton. She hopes his scandalous reputation will ...Read Review