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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cobble Court Quilts character Mary Dell Templeton and her twin sister Lydia Dale were children, their Aunt Velvet warned them away from local boys. This is the story of Mary Dell and her journey from a Texas ranch to becoming a wife, mother, and celebrated quilter.
22) Heartwood
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 291 p. 25 cm. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland takes on the defense of a young man accused of stealing more than three hundred thousand dollars from the town's richest man.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
24) Blind tiger
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"First in a new trilogy from Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale-populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that's how the locals prefer it. Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It's a pretty standard dried-up western town. There's...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Following the discovery, she hears a woman humming an old Scottish ballad and smells the delicate scent of lavender. Soon strange things start occuring. Could the building be haunted?
29) After America
Author
Series
Without warning volume 2
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
460 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
The cowboy and his baby: A year and a half ago, a tragic mistake cost single mother Melissa Horton her one true love, and a father for her baby girl. Now Texas rancher Cody Adams is back, shocked to discover he is a parent and determined to make Melissa his wife. But with newfound independence, Melissa has surprised herself, and him, by being unwilling to settle for a marriage of convenience.
The rancher and his unexpected daughter: Widower Harlan...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
32) Storm cycle
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
455 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Kirby, a computer genius, receives a mysterious email as archeologist John Tanek sits trapped, along with a functional laptop, inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb that may contain a secret that could help cure Rachel's sister of her chronic illness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
238 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman, and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband or income, until Clay McKettrick comes to town. When they say "I do" to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman's wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife.
34) Widow's tears
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After losing her husband, five children, housekeeper, and beautiful home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her home, and later died there, having been driven mad with grief. In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel’s caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it’s haunted, so she calls in her friend Ruby—who has the gift of extrasensory...
35) 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...
36) 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...
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
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