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Great brain volume 1
Language
English
Description
The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.
Author
Series
Great brain volume 2
Language
English
Description
Tom Jenkins, alias the Great Brain, is up to his old tricks until someone in town robs a bank and he must use his talents to solve the crime.
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Series
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English
Description
In 1879 a stalwart group of Mormon pioneers are called to create a settlement that will serve as a buffer between the established communities of Utah and the lawless frontier of the Four Corners area. Their challenges will be enormous--but the biggest part of their mission may well be getting there in the first place!
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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.
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Series
Noel collection volume 2
Language
English
Description
Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Maggie climb out of her hole and embrace the season to get her out of her funk, Maggie decides to put up a Christmas tree and heads off to buy one--albeit reluctantly. She is immediately taken by Andrew, the kind, handsome...
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
When helicopter pilot, private investigator, and war veteran Major Daniel Corbin Daniels discovers the body of a prominent Moab citizen during a routine flight over the desert, he teams up with Sheriff Lisette Statton to solve the case.
9) Noel Street
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her...
10) In a holidaze
Author
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.
11) Rocky road
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Series
Culinary mystery volume 10
Language
English
Description
Sadie Hoffmiller expects the weekend in St. George, Utah, to be uneventful, but when a local doctor disappears she becomes involved in a murder investigation.
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Series
Linda Wallheim mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a Mormon bishop. As bishop, Kurt Wallheim is the ward's designated spiritual father, and that makes Linda the ward's unofficial mother, and her days are filled with comfort visits, community service, and informal counseling. But Linda is increasingly troubled by the church's patriarchal...
13) Summerlost
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English
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"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief."--
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English
Description
Brad Armstrong has just completed his first semester of college. The eighteen-year-old is looking forward to spending the holidays with his family. But as he enters his parents' home something doesn't feel right. A devastating tragedy quickly turns into a nightmare when police detectives find it impossible to come to any other conclusion--except that Brad is a cold-blooded murderer.
15) Rock with wings
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English
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Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
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English
Description
Norma Hayes has always tried to make Christmas special for her family, but Christmas 1944 is especially difficult with her soldier son Glen away in Europe, and rationing and lack of money don't help. Teenage Dennis tries to buy his mother a special gift for Christmas as a symbol of times gone by and hope for the future, while Glen is reminded of home by the scent of lavendar on a battlefield.
17) The shadow falls
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Series
Fire and steel volume 3
Language
English
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Description
In the difficult years following World War I, the Elkhardt family in Bavaria experiences increasing turmoil in their lives as they try to move forward in a nation deeply divided. Suffering the devastating impact of defeat in the Great War, the people of Germany must find a solution to dire economic conditions -- particularly skyrocketing inflation -- resulting from the country's staggering war reparation dictated by the Treaty of Versailles. Conditions...
18) One last joyride
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English
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Earl Evans is living out the end of his life in a memory care unit when he befriends a new patient named Teller. Together, they make a plan to escape and take one last joyride.
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Language
English
Description
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination "both physical and emotional" of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view "the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp;...
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English
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"An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America's first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century. As a young girl traveling to Utah by wagon in 1861, Martha, or Mattie as she was called, was deeply influenced by the early struggles her family endured as frontier pioneers, including the premature...
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