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1) Fever
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lisa Johansen, world traveler, had tasted the exotic and seen the extraordinary. But when a rancher called Rye came into her life, he ignited a feverish desire foreign to her mind, her body, her soul... Rye was certain Lisa was like the gold-digging women in his past. He'd been burned before, and he vowed he would make no more mistakes. Still, he found it hard to resist her. Before he knew it, he'd gotten dangerously close to the flame. But it was...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Takes an up-close look at the devastation wrought by religious fanaticism and set against the backdrop of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. As a wagon train of westward-bound settlers makes its way across southern Utah, a confrontation with a congregation of Mormons soon leads to deadly consequences for all involved. Centered on the massacre, which continues to stir controversy over a century and a half after the fact.
3) Utah
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of southern Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts...
7) Bone hunter
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Professional geologist Emily Hansen must turn sleuth to clear her own name when she travels to Utah for a paleontology conference and becomes a suspect in the brutal murder of her host, dinosaur expert George Dishey.
9) Utah
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn facts about the state of Utah.
13) Heartbreaker
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Lynn Nelson, a thirty-five-year-old single mother, agrees to chaperone twenty teenage girls, including her daughter Rory, on a wilderness trip, and finds herself and her child separated from the group, with only macho outfitter Jess Feldman for protection in the face of a menacing evil.
16) Winter fire
Author
Language
English
Description
Sarah Kennedy, a widow at sixteen finds herself with no one to depend on but herself, until she discovers a gunfighter near death in the mountains near her home. While nursing him back to health they develop a strong emotional and passionate bond.
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey's most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man's quest to experience nature in its purest form. Through prose that is by turns passionate and poetic, Abbey reflects on the condition of our remaining wilderness...
18) Happy Valley
Publisher
Forever Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
'Happy Valley' in Utah boasts a low crime rate, high literacy rate, and even the most jello eaten. What they don't advertise is the high drug abuse rate and rate of teen deaths due to drugs. Here is a look at several families affected by addiction.
19) In a holidaze
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Love Actually meets Groundhog Day in the quintessential holiday romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Honey-Don't List"--
Maelyn Jones is living with her parents, hates her job, and just messed up her love life. She is dreading the family's last Christmas at their Utah cabin, but one random wish and she may just get a do-over.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
Journalists Tom Smart, uncle of Elizabeth Smart, and Lee Benson chronicle the investigation of Elizabeth's 2002 kidnapping, tracing the movements of her abductors and the mistakes made by police and others during her nine months of captivity, and discuss the positive and negative actions of the media throughout her and her family's ordeal.
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