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22) Blue kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Carrick Dunmore is capable, but lazy. He prefers to spend his time drinking, juggling knives, and generally having a good time. However, when his friends encourage him to ride a wild bronco in the local rodeo, he ends up with the horse, the prize money, and his life forever changed.
24) The Bad Lands
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Description
Leaving New York for the Bad Lands of Dakota Territory, Scottish emigre Lord Machray earns himself the respect of the frontier guides with his marksmanship and true grit, but his eastern accent and wealth brand him an outsider. When he stakes a homestead claim on land another man wants, he walks into a crossfire of greed and hate. The tale of a man forced to fight for his life in a country so dangerous and untamed its very name is legend.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Scottish dialect. Jeremiah Brown, the 32-year-old Scottish narrator, has lived in the United States for more than 12 years, acquiring an ex-girlfriend, a daughter, and a string of dead-end jobs. The novel is a chatty record of his last night in the country, before he returns to Glasgow.
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 7
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But fighting for the eventual winner is no guarantee of safety. And worse still, the possibility of pointing a weapon at his own son--a young officer in the British army--haunts Jamie's every thought.
27) Gunns & Roses
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
While looking for a basket in the attic of Grey Gables, the Victorian home she inherited from her grandmother, Annie discovers a Celtic sporran containing several ferrules, the silver fittings of a set of bagpipes. Annie knows her lineage hailed from Scotland, but neither of her grandparents had told her about the sporan or the ferrules. Annie takes her latest mystery to the Hook and Needle Club, the needlework group that has helped her many times...
Author
Series
Stewart sisters trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Description
The story starts when ornery Scotsman Duncan MacDougall sends his grandson, Ian, to America to reclaim the Brooch of Lorn, a historic jewel that the feuding Stewart and MacDougall clans have been stealing from each other for centuries. Genius filmmaker Ian masks this surreptitious mission by pretending he's making a film about the annual Highland Games that the Stewart family sponsors in their small Tennessee community. Then he meets and falls in...
Author
Series
Bride trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Lovely widow Alexandra Warren and her young daughter are sailing from Australia to the haven of her family in London when pirates attack their ship and they are captured, separated, and Alex is sold into slavery. Six months later, Captain Gavin Elliott drops anchor at the island of Maduri and is shocked to find a European woman being auctioned in the slave market. Alex clings to hope when the handsome sea captain offers to buy her, but the ruling...
30) Overkilt
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Liss MacCrimmon's meddlesome mother is back in Moosetookalook, Maine, to serve a hefty portion of trouble in time for Thanksgiving. But when a scandalous murder case threatens to leave Liss alone at the table, family drama takes on a terrifying new meaning . . . While Liss preps the Scottish Emporium for November's inevitable shopping rush, other local businesses aren't half as lucky. Year after year, her father-in-law's rustic hotel can barely...
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie's wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny,...
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