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Series
Rivalries volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Frank Culhane, the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas's most prestigious families, is murdered, Detective Sam Rafferty, a city outsider, is propelled into a tangle of simmering rivalries and forbidden attractions as Frank's second wife and his scorned first wife hold the future of his ranching dynasty in their hands.
3) The loner
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Tanner Everett spends most of his time jet-setting around the world. But that hasn't stopped innocent Stasia Bolton, the daughter of a neighboring rancher, from falling head-over-heels for the jet-setting playboy. Unbeknownst to Stasia, her father makes it a condition of his will that the ranch will go to her upon his death only if she and Tanner marry, linking the two properties in matrimony. If they don't marry, her ranch will be sold to someone...
Author
Series
Garrett Kohl novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Embarking on an off-the-books mission to stop Iranian operatives from blackmailing nuclear weapons facility employees in an attempt to sabotage and destroy, DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl and his CIA team call on a ragtag crew of outcasts and outlaws to dismantle their operation.
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Language
English
Description
"She's back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother's death hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind--even if it kills her... After her troublemaker mother's mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy's vow renewal party. Though she is reluctant to go, there are things calling her back... like...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Samuel Craddock is perplexed by a series of troubling events at Granger's Store where the shop owner's son, Mark Granger, is subject to threatening phone calls, an assault and the shop is set on fire. When a body of an outsider is found in the scorched shop, Craddock's investigation takes a deadly turn...
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Series
Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Doctor-in-training Louisa Vaughn has no intention of remaining in Sweetwater Crossing. She's just there for a few days to help a friend. But she can't abandon the injured man she finds at the side of the road. Until his broken leg heals, she'll serve as the town's doctor and midwife. She may not be fully qualified yet, but surely she's better than nothing. Josh Porter's plans to win his grandfather's challenge and fulfill his father's final wish...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in Alula Lake, Texas. She is sure her life is doomed. Even worse, the ghosts of her beloved grandmother-- a strong swimmer who tragically drowned in the lake-- is everywhere. The only perk: reconnecting with her childhood friend, Jalen. Her friendship with his older sister, chaotic, disorderly and rebellious Lena, leads to some disastrous choices. - adapted from...
9) Hard rain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver. When Annie's search turns up a different victim--shot...
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Language
English
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After a freak lightning storm which interrupts her first one-night stand, shy librarian Alexis Stone is thrust into the spotlight when photographers catch her in the arms of the hotshot candidate running for governor of Texas who, to squelch rumors, demands she pretends to be his girlfriend until election day.
When shy school librarian Alexis Stone is dumped for being too meek- in bed!- she decides to kick-start a more adventurous life with her first...
11) Mr. Texas
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbors farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: Not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm and heroically saves the family's daughter and her horse, riding the animal out of their burning barn....
12) My week with him
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Language
English
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Description
"Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career... After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He believes that over the course of a week, he can convince...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
507 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the Civil War, rancher and muleskinner Dudford Washburn returns to San Antonio to find that his wife has unexpectedly divorced him. Determined to make enough money to win her back, he comes up with a scheme to herd longhorns across the wilds of West Texas in order to sell them to the army posts in New Mexico for a huge profit. It's so dangerous, the only cowhands he can find are green-under-the-collar boys who don't know any better. To round...
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Series
Christmas Tree Ranch volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"After her divorce, Ruth McCoy is eager to trade her children's painful memories for new holiday traditions. But Ruth has a whole new set of distractions when fate brings the man she once loved together with the son he never knew he had... Life has thrown Judd Rankin some tough turns, and he's startled by the feelings he still has for Ruth. Though the successful rancher knows better than to chase old dreams, he doesn't mind lending the struggling...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
16) Strawberry Lane
Author
Series
Someday Valley volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starri Knight is a big believer in fate. When she pulls Rusty O'Sullivan out of a wrecked car on the very same road where her parents died twenty years earlier, she feels a compelling connection to the stranger. She works at convincing Rusty he has something to live for. When lawyer Jackson Landry turns up with an inheritance from the father Rusty never knew, it holds a promise of the family he'd never had. As a the hard-bitten loner heads to Honey...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. As their friendship grows, Corky finds out America's hidden...
Author
Series
Love inspired volume 1480
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Under witness protection, widower Greyson McKinsey is determined to build a safe future for his twin girls while keeping their identities hidden. But when the struggling dad mistakes Savannah Espinoza for the new nanny, he can't help but encourage his daughters' instant connection with the pretty carpenter. Savannah might be just what his family needs ... yet exposing the truth could be dangerous to their lives and their hearts."--Page 4 of cover....
19) Lone Star legacy
Author
Series
Forever Texas volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
499 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1854 South Texas, Regis Royle, while trying to turn 18,000 acres of raw prairie land into the greatest cattle ranch in the world, must fight for his dream when the powerful Valdez family claims rights to his land and will kill to get their greedy hands on it.
20) Rimrock Raiders
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
""It'll be a powerful big chore for one man to clean out that nest of cutthroat rattlesnakes!" Jim McNelty, Captain of the Rangers, was sure that if any man could rid Texas of the vicious Rimrock Raiders, it was his ace lieutenant, Walt Slade. Little did he know, when he gave his orders, that he was sending Slade on his most perilous mission -- to slip the loop on the leader of the outlaws, a man whose blur-fast draw and sharp wits had never been...
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