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Location	Oakland
Status	Checked Out
Call No	W CRO
Title	The Madstone / Elixabeth Crook
Author	Crook, Elizabeth.
Barcode	529336
Collection	Large Print Western
Summary	Texas, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach—and a mysterious fortune left aboard—he is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined. The missing coach has a surprise in store: its other passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her four-year-old son, Tot, who are on the run from Nell’s brutal husband and his murderous brothers. After learning of their plight, Benjamin offers Nell and Tot passage to the distant Gulf of Mexico, where they can escape to safety. This chivalrous act will prove more dangerous than he could have expected, as buried secrets—including a cursed necklace—reveal themselves. Even as Benjamin falls in love with Nell and imagines life as Tot’s father, vengeful pursuers are on their trail. With its vivid characters and expansive canvas, The Madstone calls to mind Larry McMurtry’s American epics. The novel is full of eccentric action, unrelenting peril, and droll humor—a thrilling and beautifully rendered story of three people sharing a hazardous and defining journey that will forever bind them together.

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Copies

Location	Status	Barcode	Call No	Collection	Shelf Loc	Circ Status
Oakland	Checked Out	529336	W CRO	Large Print Western	New Shelf	Due on 11/4/2024

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number	1420516981
International Standard Book Number	9781420516982
Dewey Decimal Classification Number	813
Personal Name	Crook, Elizabeth.
Title Statement	The Madstone / Elixabeth Crook
Edition Statement	Large Print edition
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice	Thorndike Pr 2024.
Physical Description	389 p. (lg. print) Softcover 22 cm.
Summary, Etc.	Texas, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach—and a mysterious fortune left aboard—he is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined. The missing coach has a surprise in store: its other passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her four-year-old son, Tot, who are on the run from Nell’s brutal husband and his murderous brothers. After learning of their plight, Benjamin offers Nell and Tot passage to the distant Gulf of Mexico, where they can escape to safety. This chivalrous act will prove more dangerous than he could have expected, as buried secrets—including a cursed necklace—reveal themselves. Even as Benjamin falls in love with Nell and imagines life as Tot’s father, vengeful pursuers are on their trail. With its vivid characters and expansive canvas, The Madstone calls to mind Larry McMurtry’s American epics. The novel is full of eccentric action, unrelenting peril, and droll humor—a thrilling and beautifully rendered story of three people sharing a hazardous and defining journey that will forever bind them together.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	Westerns. Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	Large type book
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	Action & Adventure. Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction