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Haywire brides volume 2
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English
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"Haywire, Texas, 1886. Chase McKnight will do anything to secure his family's ranch-but marriage to a complete stranger? That's a hard pill to swallow. Yet the will is clear: Chase needs a wife by his side if he wants to keep his home, so he meets his veiled lady at the courthouse steps and reluctantly says I do. Too bad he married the wrong bride. When Boston runaway Emily Fields agreed to marry a Texas stranger to escape her family's scandal, she...
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China Bayles mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 2
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English
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When Reagan Truman's life is put in jeopardy, the whole town of Harmony, Texas, comes together to save her.
45) Track of the cat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Anna Pigeon has fled New York and her memories to find work as a ranger in the country's national parks. In the remote backcountry of West Texas, however, she discovers murder and violence. Fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed, presumably by a mountain lion. But the deep claw marks Anna finds across Drury's throat and the paw prints surrounding the body are too perfect to be real.
46) Bleeding hearts
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Facing foreclosure on her California home, widowed Kylie Wayne is grateful to accept her aging aunt Muriel's offer to come back to small-town Branding Iron, Texas, and help out on the ranch. But when an early storm rolls in, Kylie's dream of a perfect Christmas for her kids is blown away with the unexpected snow. Comfort and joy seem unlikely, unless a certain long, tall Texan with a bad boy's charm can rope some holiday cheer."--jkt.
49) Shadow fall
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Series
Tracers volume 9
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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While tracking a serial killer who is meticulously erasing all traces of evidence, FBI Special Agent Tara Rushing is drawn to security expert Liam Wolfe, who is helping her with the case, but fears that he may be her target.
51) Devil red
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.
If there’s one thing Hap Collins and Leonard Pine like, it’s trouble—and they especially like getting paid to find it. So when their friend and sometime boss Marvin Harmon asks the boys to look into a cold-case double homicide, they’re happy to oblige. It turns out that both victims were set to inherit some
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 3
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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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English
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At the reception of Jordan Buchanan's brother and best friend, Kate MacKenna they have a wedding crasher. He claims that there's bad blood between the Buchanan and MacKenna clans that goes back to ancient Scotland, involving the Buchanan theft of a coveted MacKenna treasure.
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Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 7
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney have spent their entire lives on Rainbow Lane but they dream of something bigger. So when a poker tournament comes to town, Dusti is determined to win enough money to leave. Enlisting expert Kieron O'Brian to teach her the game, sparks begin to fly as they play their hands. But Kieron refuses to stand in the way of her dream, even if it means losing her forever.
57) Pumpkin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.
58) Borderline
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English
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Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.
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Ladies of Harper's Station volume 1
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English
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Men are optional. That was the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts taught her and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive the women out, Emma is forced to admit they might need a man after all. One who can fight. And there is only one she trusts enough to ask. Malachi Shaw has finally earned the respect he's always craved by becoming an explosives expert for...
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