Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee
Navajo mysteries volume 20
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
More Series...
Leaphorn and Chee
Navajo mysteries volume 20
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
More Series...
Formats
Description
Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them?one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley. Chee follows a series of seemingly random and cryptic clues that lead to a missing woman, a coldblooded thug, and a mysterious mound of dirt...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
Author
Formats
Description
From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: The mystery and insurmountable nature of Wild Horse Mesa had usurped many a thoughtful hour of Chane Weymer's lonely desert life in Utah. Every wandering rider had a strange story to tell about this vast tableland. But Chane had never before seen it from so lofty and commanding a height as this to which Toddy Nokin, the Piute, had led him; nor had there ever...
Author
Formats
Description
Originally published in 1925, in THE DEER STALKER, Zane Grey readers will find all they have come to expect from their favorite Western author - swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the added valiant effort of a ranger's struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on the Buckskin range.Zane Grey makes the reader see this colorful Arizona country, makes him feel something of the awe that is the inevitable reaction...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When a southern Utah community torn apart by environmentalists, landowners, and businessmen becomes divided even further by the death of a local environmental group leader, the local sheriff turns to a newly-appointed Bureau of Land Management ranger for help.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
New York playwright Lori Scott feels like a failure when her producer boyfriend calls it quits on both their relationship and her first play. On a dare, she throws a dart at a map and ends up moving to Brigham City, Utah, where she writes "The Garden Guru" column for the local paper and ends up falling in love with local firefighter John Wayne Walker.
Author
Formats
Description
Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox are the only passengers aboard a small plane they chartered in a snowstorm to get them home. The plane crashes in the Utah mountains unbeknownst to anyone. Ben and Ashley survive, but the pilot is killed. Although injured, they realize that their only hope for rescue is to make it down the mountain to help.
11) The Locket
Author
Series
Formats
Description
After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love. Michael faces his own challenges when he loses his greatest love, Faye. When Michael is falsely accused of abusing one of the Arcadia's residents, he learns important lessons about faith and forgiveness from Ester -- and her gift to him of...
13) The carousel
Author
Series
Formats
Description
This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: There are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives, the demands of family, of friends, of work, and social obligation.
14) Girls don't fly
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Myra, a high school senior, will do almost anything to win a contest and earn money for a study trip to the Galapagos Islands, which would mean getting away from her demanding family life in Utah and ex-boyfriend Erik, but Erik is set on winning the same contest.
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 1
Formats
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Author
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.
18) Robbers' roost
Author
Series
Formats
Description
A rancher having 6000 head of cattle to get to market hires two gangs that hate each other. He figures each gang will not let the other rustle the cattle. Tex arrives looking for the man that killed his wife and took his horses. Finding his horses he joins the gang that are now riding them.
Author
Formats
Description
"Jacqueline Rivers manages a Pony Express station in 1860 Utah territory after her father's death. There are daily stresses placed on her in this unconventional role--and now a government official is asking her to sniff out counterfeiters. When Elijah Johnson passes through on the stage while on an exhausting quest to find his boss's heir, he doesn't want to leave the beguiling station manager. In fact, he may never leave when caught in the crossfire...
20) Utah!
Author
Series
Wagons West. Main series volume 12
Description
Brawny work gangs and rugged engineers blast out tunnels and lay countless miles of rails to link a vast continent from coast to coast. Indians and unscruplous ranchers try to stop them while Toby Holt tries to keep order in the land.