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1) Echo burning
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Jack Reacher novels volume 5
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English
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Jack Reacher finds trouble in Texas in the fifth novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is Carmen Greer. For Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen’s got a wild story to tell—all...
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is Carmen Greer. For Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen’s got a wild story to tell—all...
2) Starfish
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English
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Told in verse, Ellie lives by Fat Girl Rules to avoid being bullied, but with the support of her dad, her therapist and her neighbor Catalina, can Ellie set aside these rules and just be herself?
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Katie Nash novels volume 1
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English
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On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or...
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Escape again into one more Orchard Valley love story! Enjoy this classic romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
When Sherry Waterman leaves Orchard Valley, Oregon, for Pepper, Texas, she's definitely not in the mood to be "courted." But if anyone could change her mind, it's the hardworking, good-looking Cody Bailman. But Cody's got neither the time nor the patience for pursuing a woman. Fortunately, his twelve year old...
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It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil...
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China Bayles mysteries volume 7
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Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Hank the Cowdog volume 56
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English
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When Hank the Cowdog hears reports that coyotes are planning to go after the chickens, he manages to resist the temptation to join them and instead thwarts their attack, earning Sally May's forgiveness, and persuading Loper to stop feeding him Cheapo brand dog food.
9) Roses
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Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families"--Provided by publisher.
10) Somerset
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Follows the lives of two antebellum southerners, Silas Toliver and his best friend Jeremy Warwick, as they head into a new territory known as Texas in search of black gold.
11) Dangerous
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Tall, lean and headstrong, FBI agent Kilraven lives by his own rules. And one of those rules is keeping his hands off Jacobsville's resident sweetheart, Winnie Sinclair, no matter the temptation. Shy and innocent, Winnie couldn't handle a man like him--a merciless man with a haunted past. And this small Texas town may hold not only the woman he fights to resist, but the answers to a cold case that is very personal to Kilraven.
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The Virgin Groom--He was every kid's idol, every man's envy, every woman's fantasy. And then Mac Macready's fiancée dumped him, and his future was looking mighty uncertain. The most shocking thing of all was that the only woman who could save him was notorious Jewel Whitelaw....
The Substitute Groom--He'd taught his best friend's girl how to kiss--and had never forgotten the touch of Jennifer Wright's lips. And now that Huck couldn't
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Last picture show volume 3
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English
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Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of town. But his attempts to go off the grid are far from successful, and he struggles with increasing depression....
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A National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
Set in the Texas/Mexico border country in the years from 1944 to the present, The River Beyond the World is the story of two women on the edge of sexual, moral, political, and spiritual divides. Luisa Cantú is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient origin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie...
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Interviewing an alcoholic Native American who witnessed a murder along the Texas-Mexico border, Sheriff Hack Holland and his deputy, Sam Tibbs, recognize the work of serial killer Preacher Jack Collins in an investigation that is assisted by the enigmatic Anton Ling.
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In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farm boys, almost more trouble than they were worth.
When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But, Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.
And, when luck finally sets...
18) Heartless
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English
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Jason and Gracie have been inseparably good friends until a moment of sudden passion pulls them asunder, and Gracie comes to realize that Jason will never see her as anything more than a younger step-sibling. It takes Gracie being kidnapped, Jason saving her, an interferring other woman and Jason almost dying before the two lovers conquer their fears of intimacy and admit their total love for each other.
20) Stormy weather
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Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Witnessing the rise and loss of her family's oil business in the wake of her father's gambling problems, proud young Jeanine accompanies the other women in her family to an abandoned farm when her father dies under dubious circumstances.
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