Bandon Public Library

Benni Harper is the spunky and spirited star of Earlene Fowler's LA Times best-selling mystery series. Harper is helping out a friend on a dude ranch by teaching quilting classes and lending a hand wherever needed. Things are finally coming together, that is until a dead body and Harper's nemesis Detective Ford "Hud" Hudson show up. Harper has to keep the dude ranch running, keep the guests safe, and solve the case so she can get rid of old Hud before...

Sheriff Boone Taylor has his job, friends, a run-down but decent ranch, two faithful dogs and a good horse. He doesn't want romance--the widowed Montanan has loved and lost enough for a lifetime. But when a city woman buys the spread next door, Boone's peace and quiet are in serious jeopardy. With a marriage and a career painfully behind her, Tara Kendall is determined to start over in Parable. Reinventing herself and living a girlhood dream is worth...

"Angel's View Ranch has always been special to Annelise McCade. Once upon a time, it was her family's land, until her grandfather sold it to billionaire Wallace Sheridan. Now employed as the live-in caretaker, Annie is just trying to make it through the holidays with both her sanity and her niece's and nephew's faith in the magic of Christmas intact. The six-year-old twins recently lost their mother, so Annie tells herself it wouldn't be a problem...

"Branding Iron, Texas, is Travis Morgan's last resort, and the abandoned ranch he inherited isn't much more welcoming than the prison where he spent the last three years doing time for a tragic accident. Travis finds celebrating Christmas is the last thing on his mind until he meets the town's sweetly stubborn mayor, Maggie Delaney"-- Travis Morgan isn't interested in returning to Branding Iron, Texas, or the abandoned Christmas tree ranch he inherited....

"With their acclaimed novels of the Jensen family, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone have captured the pioneering spirit of America itself. Now a new generation of Jensens prepares to take the reins-and live the dream their ancestors fought for . . . There's nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And there's no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedown-even if it turns into a gun-blazing...

There was gold buried somewhere on the Davidge spread. No one knew exactly where but plenty of people were ready to die for it. Peg Cullane, cold as a Texas blizzard, didn't care what her hired guns had to do to get it. Greedy Judge Niland would double-deal to get his hands on it. But all Fan Davidge wanted was her ranch back. That's when Rubie Noon vowed she'd get it all.

"New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton...

"When her father's debts, brought on by heavy drinking, threaten Leah Carlson's family ranch, she fights to save it. When handsome banker Steven Harding must decline her loan request, he determines to do what he can to help. Just as he arrives to serve as a much-needed ranch hand, Leah's family secrets and the pain of her past come to a head. They could destroy everything she's fought for--and they could keep her from ever opening her heart again"--Amazon.com....

"Frank Morgan has one son he knows of - and Kid Morgan has become famous in his own right. But in Montana, Frank comes face-to-face with a young man with a deadly swagger and a stunning claim: that he's Frank's son, too. And he's here to gun his old man down. For Frank, the first thing to do is find out if Brady Morgan is truly his own flesh and blood. That means tracking down a woman he once loved, and then untangling her lies, lust and a scheme...

Not so long ago, Reese Lockhart was commanding a company of Marines. Now his life is spiraling out of control. The Bar C ranch outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming may be his last chance to save himself... Shaylene Crawford, an Afghanistan veteran herself, knows all too well the demons of PTSD--that&#x;s why she's determined to turn her family&#x;s cattle ranch into a place where wounded warriors can work, find a home, and rebuild their souls. Her embittered...