Blaze dreams of being a great hunter and warrior but his people of the Great Cliff are a peaceful farming tribe and do not believe in learning the skills of war. Blaze discovers the Hohokam people, who respect fighters above all others and he must decide where his true spirit lies.

From the author of Pond Puckster and Baseball Sleuth! More than anything, eight-year-old Jimmy Jarvis wants a baseball autographed by his favorite major league player, and he is willing to do almost anything to get it. Jimmy has another wish, too. After living in six different foster homes in six years, Jimmy wants a family that will be his forever. But will he risk a chance at a real home for the ball of his dreams?

They’re in love…and in danger. Donny Steel lives a charmed life. He’s a successful attorney, in love with the woman of his dreams, and a member of the Steel family. But while Snow Creek’s golden family seems perfect on the outside, how many skeletons lurk in the Steel closet? Each day, Donny finds more and more evidence of foul play while dredging up his own past—something better left forgotten. Callie Pike never imagined Donny Steel could fall in love with her, and she desperately wants to revel in their blazing passion. If only her own past hadn’t returned to torment her. Why now? What does it all mean? Is it somehow related to the attempt on Talon Steel’s life? Or the fire that destroyed her family’s livelihood? As scattered pieces of evidence crop up in unlikely places, Donny and Callie work to find the common thread to pull everything together. But someone clearly wants to destroy them, and laws, ethics, and locked doors don’t seem to be standing in the way.

By the author of Pond Puckster! Making diving headers on the soccer field or climbing the toughest walls of rock, Mardi Slote lives life to the fullest. Like her father, she fearlessly "pushes the envelope" in all she does. But when her father announces that he is going to climb the world's tallest mountain, a mountain that has already claimed more than a hundred lives, Mardi is afraid. The Call of Sagarmatha follows David Slote's battle for survival against the elements on Mount Everest, or Sagarmatha, as the native people of Nepal refer to it. Meanwhile, Mardi must come to grips with her anger over that climb, an anger which threatens to destroy her zest for life, and tear her family apart. In a novel which captures the drama of climbing, from the rocky cliffs of New Hampshire to the slopes of Mount Everest, the greatest struggle is in the soul of a twelve year-old girl.

Due to financial difficulties, ten-year-old Jason Quinn and his mother move to rural Maine, where he learns more about his Acadian roots, life, and hockey than he had ever dreamed.

“Vivid and thrilling, unforgettable.”—The New York Times on The U.P. Trail From the legendary writer of the west: two complete novels in one low-priced edition. The U.P. Trail In The U.P. Trail, a railroad man and a cowboy rescue a young woman left for dead in an Indian attack. The engineer, Warren Neale, and Allie Lee swiftly fall in love and are as switfly parted when the men return to the task of forcing the Union Pacific rail line through the mountains of the West. Little do they know that greedy, bloodthirsty bandits stalk them all. The Call of the Canyon With his health and spirit shattered by the Civil War, Glenn Kilbourne heeds The Call of the Canyon and flees New York City for rough, unspoiled Arizona sheep country. When a year passes with no word, Carley Burch, Kilbourne’s fiance, tracks him down, determined to lure him back to the bright lights of the big city. Will the raw beauty of the canyon change her into a fit mate for the heroic man Kilbourne has become? Other Zane Grey doubles Wildfire and The Heritage of the Desert The Spirit of the Border and The Last Trail The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider The Last of the Plainsmen and Last of the Great Scouts Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail Betty Zane and To the Last Man At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

All Ben Allison wants in El Paso is to buy a horse. But after the sale falls through, he runs into an old acquaintance and agrees to escort her son home to his father. But Ben is late and misses the stagecoach, and when it's attacked by Apaches, the boy is kidnapped because Ben wasn't there to protect him. Will he be able to fix the mess he never intended to be a part of in the first place?

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