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1) Dust Devil
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“Dust Devil” is, as the name implies, a variation on the theme of Faust in which an individual with an overwhelming need makes an agreement with the devil. In this case, the agreement was tacit.
The protagonist Albert Petersen, is a young Kansas corn farmer who is obsessed with photography. When his grandfather dies and he inherits the farm, he becomes depressingly ambivalent about whether to sell the farm and become a professional photographer,...
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What Doesn't Destroy Us: When Dani shows up with her provocative temper and innocent charm, Shadow begins to question his violent lifestyle. But can he trust her with his demons?
The Scars That Define Us: Not knowing who he can trust or who he can forgive has left Shadow feeling alone. As he is lying behind his rifle, he wonders if he can pull the trigger to eliminate the threat.
The Fear That Divides Us: Jessica is the only female who has Bobby...
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Road Captain of the Devil's Dust Motorcycle Club, Bobby has the scars to prove just how dangerous his life is. He gives the world he knows hell and loves every moment of it. Wearing a panty-dropping grin along the way, his fierce life has never been a problem for him, until her. Jessica is the only female who has him distracted in his game. After taking him to bed, she's the only woman to tell him to take a hike. Waking with her gone, he can't resist...
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The Devil's Dust MC has a list of new threats to the club's lifestyle. Dani, to prove her loyalty, is trying to embrace a part of herself that she never knew existed until now. A sinful beast lurking beneath her surface has been awakened and is ready to eliminate anyone that stands in its way. Looking at her stained hands, she rinses the blood from them. She resigns herself to innocence lost and welcomes her thirst for more blood.After a breathtaking...
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Brotherhood is what Bull bleeds and all that he knows. Being the king of the Devil's Dust and surrounded by easy women was his every day . . . until having his heart broken rooted him to the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Heartbroken and drowning in lost memories, he's unsure of the direction of his life, when the answer-consisting of a terrified Mexican girl-nearly knocks him off his feet. He sees Anahi, and he wants her. But she may come with more...
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Cherry's life growing up was nothing short of a nightmare. Having an abusive father forced her to fend for herself from an early age. Bruised and emotionally broken, she finally escaped, running straight into the comfort that Lip's arms brought. In the beginning, everything seemed to fall into place perfectly. He made her forget the messed-up ways of her life. But secrets can't stay neglected. They have a habit of revealing themselves regardless of...
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When Dani's sheltered life is turned upside down by her mother's secrets, she finds protection with her estranged outlaw father. Against all warnings, she falls for bad boy biker, Shadow. He is beast and beauty sealed in a leather cut with a gun holster. Can Dani learn to live within the Club rules? Is she more like her father than she could imagine? Shadow has grown up among drug addicts, whores and murderers. The only family he's ever trusted has...
8) Dust devil
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.
9) Dust Devils
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When traveling actors recruited his wife for a plum role, Cody Wilson had no idea they would murder her. Twelve-year-old Willet Black was just as devastated the night the fiends slaughtered everyone he loved. Now Cody and Willet are bent on revenge, but neither of them suspects what they're really up against. For the actors are vampires. Their thirst for human blood is insatiable. Even if word of their atrocities were to spread, it would take an army...
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I have a job to do: watch the club princess, don't touch her, then report back to the president of the Devil's Dust MC. But I have to step out of my place as a prospect to save the spoiled brat. She thinks she's cute, trying to tempt me to break her dad's one rule. What she doesn't know is that I'll throw her over my knee and spank the daddy issues from her until she's looking nowhere but at me. That's the plan, until secrets emerge from our pasts...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Tornado or Dust Devil? Young readers will learn all about the differences between this weather like where they form, when they happen, and what causes them. Easy-to-read text is enhanced with stunning color photos. A Soapy Spinner funnel activity at the end of the book helps kids put their newfound knowledge to use! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of...
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Getty Culligan is a typical thirteen-year-old trying to fit in, unlike his little sister Tegan who claims to possess magical powers. Getty will admit Tegan knows some tricks, but he knows there is really nothing magical about her. But when a monster-sized dust devil pops up on their way to school one day and carries Tegan away, Getty begins to understand that something extraordinary is afoot. With the help of his Great-Aunt Esmeralda, Getty discovers...
15) The devil's dust
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Charlie McKelvey goes to his northern hometown to find that the big city isn't the only place with big problems. Retired Toronto detective Charlie McKelvey runs from a cancer diagnosis and the violent memories of the big city and retreats to his hometown. A small declining mining centre, Ste. Bernadette offers McKelvey a chance to resolve old family issues, including his father's involvement in a deadly wildcat strike in the late 1950s. When the...
16) Dust devils
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Point Blank
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2007
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"An isolated farm, a lonely woman, and a young man who may not be what he seems... But when the wind whips up dust devils on the Texas plains, nothing is what is seems. Toby McCoy is full of questions when he is shoved headfirst into a mix of robbers, murderers, betrayals and death. Toby has his own share of dark secrets that will have to come out before any answers are found"--P. [4] of cover.
17) The Devil's Dust
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It is 1884, and when a fellow landlady finds her lodger poisoned, Mrs Hudson turns to Sherlock Holmes.
The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a civil servant recently returned from India, was living in almost complete seclusion, and that his last act was to scrawl a mysterious message on a scrap of paper. The riddles pile up as aged...
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Rob Vagle brings you six gritty short stories in the genre of crime fiction.Phoenix private detective Guillermo Tavarez seeks not just justice, but also revenge in "A Vulture Waits."In the story, "Fleeing," a mother denies the crimes of her dead son while blind to her own rage at losing control.In "Confessional," a ghost yearns to confess his crime to a listenting ear in a bathroom stall.In a dark, harsh place, "Cat Noir" offers you a cat never found...
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Father Brown volume 7
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Father Brown joins the search when a girl who is believed to be radioactive goes missing overnight. But just who is responsible for her disappearance?
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The history of modern-day old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy. Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old rags and leftover fabric clippings were ground to bits by a machine known as "the devil" and then re-used. Usually undisclosed, shoddy—also known as reworked wool—became suit jackets, army blankets, mattress...