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"Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. 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...
2) Somerset
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A headstrong woman goes against her wealthy family’s wishes in this stunning prequel to Roses, perfect for fans of Gone with the Wind.
Born into the most influential family in 1830s South Carolina, Jessica Wyndham is expected to look appealing, act with decorum, and marry well. However, her abolitionist opinions and unflagging sense of justice clash with her slave-owning father. Jessica's...
Born into the most influential family in 1830s South Carolina, Jessica Wyndham is expected to look appealing, act with decorum, and marry well. However, her abolitionist opinions and unflagging sense of justice clash with her slave-owning father. Jessica's...
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Lone Star Ridge volume 4
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As a kid, Hayes Dalton took a back seat to his sisters' reality show, Little Cowgirls, but to deputy Cait Jameson, her childhood crush was always the main attraction. Now a Hollywood star in his own right, Hayes is back in Lone Star Ridge to attend his sisters' weddings, and Cait struggles to reconcile the boy she knew with this new celebrity bad boy. For Hayes, getting to know Cait again is the best part about coming home, especially after a personal...
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It's near the end of 1965 and Constable Cody Parker of Center Springs, Texas, has a frightening sense of gathering storm clouds. His dreams prove accurate when he is ambushed and nearly killed on a lonely country road during an unusually heavy snowfall. The attack leads locals to worry that a terrifying killer known as "The Skinner" has returned. As his nephew, Cody, recovers, Constable Ned Parker struggles to connect a seemingly unrelated series...
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Honey Creek volume 4
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"The legendary New York Times and USA Today bestselling author brings a sense of nostalgia to the town in this delightful journey of second chances. Jessica Ann McKenzie--"Jam" to everyone in Honey Creek--has fulfilled her dream of owning the best restaurant for miles around. Serving candlelit dinners to every couple in town on Valentine's Day is a reminder of another dream, one she's just about given up on. Until, that very night, Sergeant Tucson...
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Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas-a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained...
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Moses Lake volume 2
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Heather Hampton returns to Moses Lake to help sell the family farm but finds herself on an unexpected journey into the area's history, hope, and heart.
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Lonestar (Colleen Coble) volume 2
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Returning to the southwest Texas community of her youth, Shannon Astor runs into a man who once devastated her life and is astonished to see his daughter's uncanny resemblance to Shannon's believed-dead daughter
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Mesquite Springs volume 1
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"When a fire destroys the orphanage where she worked, Evelyn Radcliffe flees to the Texas Hill Country with an orphan in tow and a killer in pursuit. Will a rugged horse rancher hold the key to her future-and her past?"--
1850s. Ten years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless: the orphanage where she worked has burned to the ground. Only she and a young orphan girl escaped. They flee to Mesquite Springs in the Texas...
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 2
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The best gifts last a lifetime . . .
Veterinarian J.T. "Rush" Rushford isn't looking forward to Christmas. It'll be his first without his beloved four-year-old daughter, Claire. A year ago, Rush's wife divorced him for another man—then broke his heart further by revealing that Claire was her lover's child. The final blow was Rush losing all parental rights. Now he's in Branding Iron, Texas, with his mobile vet practice, just...
Veterinarian J.T. "Rush" Rushford isn't looking forward to Christmas. It'll be his first without his beloved four-year-old daughter, Claire. A year ago, Rush's wife divorced him for another man—then broke his heart further by revealing that Claire was her lover's child. The final blow was Rush losing all parental rights. Now he's in Branding Iron, Texas, with his mobile vet practice, just...
12) Old Yeller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children's books ever written, Old Yeller is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend.
When his father sets out on a cattle drive toward Kansas for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis Coates is left to take care of his family and their farm. Living in Texas Hill Country during
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When, while organizing the living Nativity, best friends Joel and Jana find a baby in the manger, they decide to take the child home, and as they begin to fall in love with the precious bundle, they realize that their relationship goes far deeper than friendship
17) Cut and Run
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Whit Mosley volume 3
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Plunge into the "sleazy, seductive world of crime in Houston" as Judge Whit Mosely schemes to save him mother from a gang of sophisticated killers from the New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Abbott (Publishers Weekly).
She's a liar.
She's a thief.
She's a killer.
She's his mother. And he'll take on the world to save her.
With his father near death, Judge Whit Mosley launches...
She's a liar.
She's a thief.
She's a killer.
She's his mother. And he'll take on the world to save her.
With his father near death, Judge Whit Mosley launches...
18) No other will do
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Emma Chandler founded the Harper's Station woman's colony with the credo men are optional. But when the town is threatened, Emma has to admit they might need a man after all--one who can fight. The only man she trusts enough to ask is Malachi Shaw, whose life she once saved. As Mal returns the favor, danger mounts--and so does the attraction between them.
19) Ryan's hand
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A mysterious inheritance takes lovely Cara Martin from Boston to a ranch in West Texas, where she encounters its forceful owner, Jeth Langston.
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Crooked Creek Ranch volume 1
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A girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Tara Jean Sweet knows that opportunity will never knock; she'll have to seize it. Elderly Texas rancher Lyle Baker has a dying request: He will give Tara Jean a stake in his leather business in exchange for a little family subterfuge. All Tara Jean has to do is play the part of a gold-digging fiancée to lure Lyle's estranged children home. The mission is soon accomplished. Now Lyle's gone - and his ridiculously...
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