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Geraldine Bonner
In'The Pioneer: A Tale Of Two States,'Geraldine Bonner crafts an enthralling narrative that spans the rugged landscapes of California and Nevada, weaving together the lives of ambitious settlers, resilient pioneers, and the ever-changing frontier. As
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Geraldine Bonner
Molly is the local switchboard girl, and has a bad habit of listening in to people's phone calls -- especially those involving Jack Reddy, upon whom Molly has a distinct crush. But Jack has eyes only for the flighty, flirtatious heiress Sylvia Hesket
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Geraldine Bonner
Excerpt:'I had been in Lady Castlecourt's service two years when the Castlecourt diamonds were stolen. I am not going to give an account of how I was suspected and cleared. That's not the part of the story I'm here to set down. It's about the disappe
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Geraldine Bonner
When Hollings Harland, a hot shot corporate lawyer from New York, plummets eighteen stories from a hall window of the Black Eagle Building onto Broadway below, suicide is the verdict. Part of an illegal cartel about to be exposed for trying to corner
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Geraldine Bonner
Excerpt:'The cold of foot-hill California in the month of January held the night. The occupants of the surrey were too cramped and stiffened by it, and too uncomfortably enwrapped against it, to speak. Silence as complete as that which lay like a spe
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Geraldine Bonner
Excerpt:'Dinner was coming to an end. The Chinaman, soft-footed in his immaculate white, had just finished his circuit of the table, leaving a tiny gold-rimmed coffee-cup at each of the four plates. Into hers Letitia was lowering a lump of sugar, whe
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Geraldine Bonner
This book describes the cross country trek of a group of people in the year just before the Gold Rush started. Gold has been discovered in California, but the news hasn't managed to get back East yet. So the majority of the people along the emigrant
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Geraldine Bonner
Excerpt:'The vast, grey expanse of the desert lay still as a picture in the heat of the early afternoon. The silence of waste places held it. It was gaunt and sterile, clad with a drab growth of sage, flat as a table, and with the white scurf of the
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Geraldine Bonner
Excerpt:'The time was late August some eleven years ago. The place that part of central California where, on one side, the plain unrolls in golden levels, and on the other swells upward toward the rounded undulations of the foothills. It was very hot
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Geraldine Bonner
The Janney family is a wealthy one - the older couple are discreet and polite. Their daughter is arrogant and shallow. The daughter's marriage has broken up and it is an unpleasant scene when Chapman Price leaves. The story builds up with threatening