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Montana wilderness guide Angie Powell wants nothing to do with ex-soldier Dare Callahan, especially as she blames him for her failing business. But she has to put her feelings to one side when they are suddenly thrust together to stop an animal with a thirst for blood--of a human variety.
2) White heat
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Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from her community's Council of Elders. While Edie is leading two tourists on a hunting expedition, one of them is shot and killed. The Council wants to call it an accident, but Edie and police sergeant Derek Palliser suspect otherwise. When the other tourist disappears, Edie sets off into the far reaches of the...
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"Steve Hamilton is one of crime fiction’s rising stars. His first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, won the Edgar Award, and each successive novel has met with widespread critical acclaim. Now Hamilton raises the stakes dramatically in his most accomplished work to date. Reluctant investigator Alex McKnight finds himself drawn by friendship into a long drive north. The brother of Alex’s longtime Ojibwa friend Vinnie LeBlanc works as a hunting guide,...
5) Assegai
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Courtney novels volume 12
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Leon Courtney, ladies' man and former lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and high-profile safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. On the eve of war, Leon is recruited by his uncle, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto's mistress, Eva, who has...
6) War cry
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Courtney novels volume 14
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Leon Courtney attempts to navigate the murky political waters of 1920s Africa, while his daughter Saffron grows into a headstrong woman headed to Oxford University. In the pre-World War II decades, father and daughter must survive adventurers, spies and traitors.
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Allison Coil mystery volume 4
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A giant wildfire is roaring through Colorado's Flat Tops Wilderness. The massive blaze is wiping out Allison Coil's precious hunting grounds, and the flames have set their sights on the beautiful ranch owned by her boyfriend's family.
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A chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison's instincts tell her otherwise. Miles away in down-town Glenwood Springs, a controversial candidate for U.S. Senate is shot during a campaign stop as news-paper reporter Duncan Bloom watches, dodging the long-range gunfire.Trapline follows Coil and Bloom...
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Wild about you novels volume 5
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Discovering a strong mutual attraction while observing each other from respective lakeside homes, reclusive artist Rachel and wilderness guide Jake embark on a forbidden relationship when Jake is forced to reveal his werewolf identity to save Rachel from a bear attack.
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King Solomon's mines : Allan Quatermain relates the events of his safari into the interior of South Africa in search of the legendary lost treasure mines of King Solomon.
Allan Quartermain : Describes Quatermain's discovery of vast wealth, his discontent with a life of ease, and his fatal return to Africa following the death of his son Harry.
12) Łzy wojny
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Leon Courtney attempts to navigate the murky political waters of 1920s Africa, while his daughter Saffron grows into a headstrong woman headed to Oxford University. In the pre-World War II decades, father and daughter must survive adventurers, spies and traitors.
13) White heat
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Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk is only half Inuit, so she has never commanded the full respect of the elders on Ellesmere Island. However, when a tourist is killed under her watch and the police get involved, Edie decides to begin her own investigation. But when a close friend suddenly commits suicide, Edie becomes convinced the tragedy is somehow related to the murder.
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Allan Quatermain, a professional big game hunter, is approached by English aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend, Captain John Good, late of the Royal Navy. They need his help finding Sir Henry's brother, who was last seen traveling north into the unexplored interior in search of the fabled King Solomon's Mines.
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Nighttime is my time: Something is rotten at the Stonecroft Academy twentieth reunion. Of seven girlfriends who once shared a lunch table, five have died over the past two decades.
Blood is the sky: Ex-Detroit cop Alex McKnight has traded in the noise of the city for the quiet of building a log cabin on Lake Superior with his Ojibwa friend, Vinnie LeBlanc. But the quiet ends when Vinnie's brother, Tom, fails to return from a hunting trip.
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