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The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Cowgirls as a matter of fact. The FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess liberally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me, Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you to know you're a great man. I now walk into the wild. --Alex. (Postcard received by Wayne...
3) On the road
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Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy
4) Echo burning
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Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to kill her abusive husband. Sloop Greer is getting out of prison in a few...
5) Tell Tale
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2017.
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English
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Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs...
7) Fay: a novel
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English
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"[Larry Brown was] gifted with brilliant descriptive ability, a perfect ear for dialogue, and an unflinching eye . . . stark, often funny . . . with a core as dark as a Delta midnight." -Entertainment Weekly
She's had no education, hardly any shelter, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her since she grew up "love." So, at the ripe age of seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home.
She lights out alone, wearing her only dress and...
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Artisan Home Entertainment
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English
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Alan is a young college student who is trying to get home to see his mother. She has just had a stroke and is in the hospital, and Alan has this underlying fear that he needs to get to her in case she passes away. So, Alan embarks on a 100 mile hitchhike. Along the way, he must confront his many demons - both living and dead - and in the end Alan must make the ultimate choice that will mean life or death for him and his mother.
10) The collection
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Signet
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English
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Thirty-two stories of hot blood and frigid terror that could have come only from the mind of Bentley Little. And that's a scary place to be.
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows than better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When Patrick--author of books on the supernatural--brings him the case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting a ride from a businessman, Gabriel knows the Cainsville elder is just trying to wheedle into his good graces. But Gabriel is a man in need of...
12) Curve
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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A young bride-to-be deliberately crashes her car off a deserted highway in an attempt to escape from a charming, predatory hitchhiker. When the plan backfires, trapping her in an overturned vehicle, she defends herself against a terrorizing psychopath, only to uncover a shocking truth that fuels her fight for survival.
13) The hitch-hiker
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Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Two middle-aged Americans on a fishing trip in Mexico have their car and their lives commandeered by a psychopathic hitch-hiker.
14) A Wanted Man
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Jack Reacher novels volume 17
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English
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Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional,...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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"Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman - a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain." "One morning Fox is observed by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life...
16) The Hitcher
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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A deranged hitchhiker murders his drivers, and only one young man knows who he is and tries to stop him.
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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It's 1939 and Patsy Schwartz has bigger problems to deal with than the Great Depression, the raging Dust Bowl, or another looming world war. Forced to disappear from Baywater, Minnesota to avoid an arranged marriage to the local sheriff's son, Patsy hits the open road with her best friend, Virginia Burg. The pair of young women make their way west, running from conniving parents, the mob, and corrupt local law enforcement. Woven together are the adventures...
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Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Still haunted by the frightening events of his past, Jim Halsey, along with his girlfriend Maggie, go back to West Texas to confront his demons. The two find themselves traveling down the same desolate stretch of road where the original nightmare began.
20) Death mountain
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Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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A day trip to a mountain lake turns to disaster when lightning strikes a pack mule, a mud slide kills a horse, and hikers scatter, seeking shelter. Erin, 14, leaves her new friend Levi with the injured hikers to search for his sister, Mae, who has run off-trail in the confusion.