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21) Olympus, Texas
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms, and is no stranger to infidelity herself; she's tired of being the long-suffering wife thanks to her husband's many affairs. Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of allies...
23) Twisted Creek
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
454 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Allie has always thought that only bad luck came her way. When she inherits the Twisted Creek caf�e, at first she is waiting for the next calamity to occur, but gradually she meets the local people and realizes that she has finally found a safe haven.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to...
26) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1994] ,c1993
Physical Desc
677 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julie is a third-grade teacher in a small Texas town and is a pillar of the community. Putting her past behind her, she is determined that nothing will shatter the perfect life she has fashioned.
28) Indigo dying
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Berkley hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 304 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The tiny town of Indigo, Texas, is the perfect setting for China Bayles to teach a “Colors to Dye For” workshop. With artists flocking to the countryside in growing numbers, Indigo is coming back to life. Only one person stands in the way of the town’s revival: longtime resident Casey Ford, who has decided to sell his profitable mining rights. Once the deal is done, Indigo will be dead and buried. But when Ford winds up dead himself—from a...
Author
Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
423 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Faith Bass Darling, the richest woman in Bass, Texas, and a twenty-year recluse, holds a garage sale on the last day of the millennium, sparking curiosity and protectiveness throughout her Texas community.
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Columbia space shuttle and its contents rain down on the people of Kiser, Texas, in Kathryn Schwille's imaginative debut novel set six weeks before the invasion of Iraq. What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle's break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness after...
32) The investigator
Author
Series
Letty Davenport novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but her skills have impressed Colles, and he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Black History Month
JTL BHM Children
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
JTL BHM Children
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Author
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"2018 - Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban legend, La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas. In 1950s south Texas a farmworker- Milagros from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not the Aztec goddess of death, Mictecacíhuatl. The goddess hears the dying cries of Milagros and creates a plan for both to be physically...
35) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's impossible! Naomi Luther was standing face-to-face with the man she'd dreamed about over a year ago. Was it the magic of kismet Christmas cookies that brought him to her? Or is there an even greater force at work? All Naomi knows is she is falling, hard and fast, for the one man all good sense says she should not have."--Back cover.
38) Glass houses
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 1
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers, who has had enough of her current dorm situation, moves off campus and discovers that her new roommates are vampires.
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
40) The bodyguard
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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