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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...
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Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive--until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda's return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history. And just when they thought it couldn't get more...
3) Walk me home
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Series
Silverlake Ranch novel volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A feel-good, funny second chance romance proves it's never too late for love in the small Texas ranch town of Silverlake. Firefighter Jake Braddock is used to fixing things, and he's never met a problem he couldn't solve--except for his sweet ex-girlfriend Charlotte Nash. Charlie Nash has been a big-city girl ever since her family made a clean break from their small town, after the tragedy that drove a wedge between Jake and her wealthy parents....
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Series
Garrett family novels volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rancher Cade Garrett's sister and her husband are killed in a plane crash, and Cade is determined to make a home for his young niece and nephew. City girl Jennifer Lachance, the children's aunt, is devastated by the death of her big brother and is determined to bring the children back home to Dallas and raise them as her brother would have wanted. She flies to the small Texas town of Langston and learns that she has also inherited her brother's home...
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Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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 he is disinvited to his family reunion. A closeted father facing a divorce that will leave his gifted boy adrift retrieves an astronaut's remains. An engineer who dreams of...
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