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81) Vengeance road
Author
Language
English
Description
"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
82) Dominion Creek
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As they work the silver mines of Montana, the ambitious Connolly brothers dream of riches and adventure. Seduced by rumors of a greater prize to the north, they embark on a dangerous journey to the heart of the Yukon in this epic tale of greed, love, betrayal, and gold. As they become increasingly corrupted by the lust for power and wealth, the Connollys must stick together if they are to survive the harsh realities of the Yukon.
Author
Series
East of the sun volume 2
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
He fought to seek his fortune. Would he lose a greater treasure: the love he left behind? As the son of the squire of Grimston Way, aristocrat Rogan Chantry has fought hard to win his independence from Sir Julien Bley and the British South Africa Company. Now, his pursuit of a mysterious deposit of gold, marked on a map willed to him by his murdered uncle, Henry Chantry, is challenged by a new complication: the impending British colonization of South...
85) Vengeance Valley
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Conned out of his money and land, Hard Luck Yancey stumbles upon black Telluride gold beneath a Sisters of Charity miners' hospital, a discovery that pits him against ruthless mining barons and greedy outlaws.
Author
Series
Secret agents Jack and Max Stalwart volume 2
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jack and Max Stalwart, Code Names: Courage and Wisdom. Jack and Max are ordinary kids who become secret agents by night, thwarting evil and saving priceless treasures as they solve mysteries around the world. Destination: Brazil. Secret agents Jack and Max Stalwart are sent to the Amazon jungle to investigate the disappearance of an important Global Protection Force scientist. Soon, they discover that the scientist's disappearance is no accident....
87) Kedamono no ken
Series
Criterion collection volume 311
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
"Chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun's gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor"--Container....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hoping to strike it rich, eleven-year-old Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush"--
Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush, desperate to get away from their drunkard of a father. Onboard a ship, Jasper overhears a rumor about One-Eyed Riley, an old coot who's long since gone, but is said to have left clues to...
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up, almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then, on a secret trip to an abandoned gold mine, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure. Julie is desperate to find it, before danger closes in on Gold Moon Ranch.
91) The hanging tree
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Skull Creek, a 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail (Gary Cooper) arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just plain decent folks. As skilled with a six-gun as with a scalpel, Frail will need both. His life will become intertwined with a young Swiss immigrant (Maria Schell), a man he saves from a mob (Ben Piazza), a shifty-eyed miner (Karl...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
93) Irish love
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A novel of modern Ireland explores a prosperous country that is sometimes plagued by violence as Nuala Ann McGrail and her husband, Dermot, embark on a search for a long-lost treasure, a quest that could threaten their very lives.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
In her will, a dead dance hall girl promises her son $20,000 if he will kill his father, the man who abandoned her. The son is Nathan Blaylock, 16, of Denver and his father is the legendary lawman, Marshall Wyatt Earp. The novel describes Nathan's adventures en route to kill his father and the showdown.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
An in-depth look at the impact of a multinational gold mining industry on the economy, environment and traditions of a local community in Guinea. End of the Rainbow provides a concise, in-depth look at the impact of global extractive industries on local populations, their economy, their traditions and their environment. It depicts in striking details the confrontation of two cultures, one indigenous the other a unique reflection of the age of globalization....
99) The wild
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.
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