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1) Desert Guns
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Pub. Date
1998
Description
After finding gold in a river bed, a prospector crossed miles of blistering sand to hide his fortune, killed four of the five men who had trailed him, survived torture by enemies and desertion by friends. Now, safe in his wind-carved dunes, he is not yet out of danger.
3) Kid Rodelo
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Harbin was the gunslinger. All he wanted was the gold. Badger was just a little weasel, waiting to see where the chips fell before he made his move. Nora was an orphan, searching for news of her lost parents. But Kid Rodelo? He was the man of mystery. Who was he? What did he want? Ahead of them was fifty miles of desert hell. Behind them was a band of savage, bounty-hunting Yaquis. Only Rodelo could save them. But would he?
4) Cari Mora
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"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Young Tom Shanaghy left New York City after he made one too many enemies. He landed in a small Kansas town that had big dreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Now all he could do was hope that his years on the Bowery had left him with the smarts he needed to keep himself alive.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter - until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party - gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldn't trust for a minute. At first...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The Byrnes family has fought fiercely for its ranching empire, and taken their fair share of hurt fighting outlaws too deadly and powerful for the law. When a stage is robbed of a fortune in gold, the Byrnes boys set off on a wild race through the wilderness. But who are they are chasing? And where have they stashed the gold?
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (originally titled Der Schatz der Sierra Madre) is a 1927 adventure novel by German author B. Traven, whose identity remains unknown. In the book, two destitute American men in Mexico of the 1920s join an older American prospector in a search for gold. John Huston adapted the book as a 1948 film of the same name.
The novel is set in the decade following the global upheavals of the First World War and social revolutions...
11) Deadly grace
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
While fast on the trail of Jillian Meade, who is suspected of brutally murdering three veterans of the anti-Nazi underground, federal agent Alex Cruz uncovers an extraordinary tale of a wartime heist of Nazi gold and a terrifying account of personal betrayal.
12) The hunter
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Cal Hooper volume Bk. 2
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There...
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Gold seer trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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After her harrowing journey west to California, Lee Westfall has finally found a new home-one rich in gold, thanks to her magical power, a power that seems to be changing every day. But this home is rich in other ways, too: with friends who are searching for a place to be themselves, just as she is, and with love. Jefferson-her longtime best friend-hasnt stopped trying to win her heart. And Lee is more and more tempted to say yes. But her uncle Hiram...
15) Gold!
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Instead of making friends, seven-year-old Max Midas decides to make millions and spend it on what he loves best, gold, but one day things get lonely inside his shiny castle and Max finally learns that gold is not worth anything without friends and family by your side.
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My weirder school volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After budget cuts threaten the art and music programs at Ella Mentry School, as well as some services, groundskeeper Burke finds gold and "gilver" on the playground, causing a modern-day gold rush.
17) The romantics
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Pub. Date
2001
Description
A treasure hunt for lost Spanish gold in the American Southwest leads to danger and heroism, greed and jealousy, love and honor. The daughter of a Hispanic landowner, Marina Clark has been given a map that purports to lead the way to a hidden cache of Spanish gold. To her husband, Adrian, his beautiful wife and her map are the keys to restoring his family's fortunes and honor, both lost during the Civil War.
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Sisters of Mercy Flats volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The three wily and beautiful McDougal sisters can swindle a man faster than it takes to lasso a calf. But their luck is running out, and they're about to be hauled off to jail. When the wagon carrying them falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Anne-Marie, the middle sister, is saved by Creed Walker, a Crow warrior. It's loathing at first sight, but with bandits on their tail and a cache of gold to hide, Creed and Anne-Marie...
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Edilean series volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
After a failed attempt to reclaim Edilean Talbot's family gold, Angus McTern is accused of kidnapping and theft and must flee 1766 Scotland with Edilean and find refuge in the growing American colonies.
20) Widowmaker Jones
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"With a bag full of gold dust, Newt "Widowmaker" Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger--Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan "Red" Cortina--is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for the...