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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
"A world-class whodunit."
—Stephen King
"An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills."
—Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty..."
—Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling
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Series
A Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk novel volume 12
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jim Blawcyzk gets handed three serious cases within twenty-four hours, and that's a lot for even the most veteran Ranger to handle. First, an apparent murder-suicide at the McDonald Observatory turns out to be a double homicide. By the time he's through with that crime scene, it's mid-morning. He's on his way home to get some much-needed rest before completing his reports and continuing his investigations when another call comes in. A bank robbery...
Author
Publisher
Children's Books Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Western
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Range detective Rance Dehner arrives in Conrad, Texas for a few days of fishing, and finds himself in the midst of trouble. Akando, who heads a band of Indian renegades, has demanded that the town bans Indian children from attending its school. He threatens that if his orders are defied, Conrad will be attacked by Coyote, a mythical creature of Indian lore. Schoolmarm Angie Knowland is determined to keep the school open to all children, and is supported...
6) Divine wind
Author
Series
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Western
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Robert Brodie was a practical man. It helped him survive as a Texan Confederate, as a miner in Death Valley, and now as a muleskinner hauling borax across one of the most inhospitable places on the earth's surface. So when an old Indian bestowed the Divine Wind upon him from Tanka the Great Spirit, it was accepted with both bewilderment and scepticism. Especially as Brodie was trapped under a four-ton borax wagon at the time, and expecting to die...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Slow heat in heaven: The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in Heaven, Louisiana, returns home for a family crisis, and finds herself attracted to a dangerous man.
Mirror image: After plastic surgery following a jet crash, television reporter Avery Daniels is mistaken for rich Texas senator Tate Rutledge's wife and finds herself keeping the false identity in order to save her "husband" from an assassination plot.
Author
Series
True calling volume Book 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After years of jumping through other people's hoops to be all they thought she should be, and enduring a tragedy no mother should, self-described "newbie Christian," Harper Townsend, has finally found her true calling . . . and her true love. Until it appears that to follow one may mean leaving the other behind. Adolescent psychologist Wyatt McCowan is beyond delighted to have the girl that got away back in his life, and his heart. But even as they...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers/Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates.
Author
Series
Alex Troutt thriller volume Book 4
Publisher
Sugar Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Alex Troutt returns in a twisting, heart-pounding thriller. Three flashes of light illuminate a dark sky. An unspeakable evil devours its prey. The shimmering view of the sun-drenched ocean can often be nothing more than a mirage. For Alex Troutt, a trip back home for a much-needed summer vacation proves only one thing: greed rules. But how it takes root could destroy her world. Fueled by the lust of power and money, the shadow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Headless Ranger: that was the finish the outlaws planned for Slade -- blow his head off with a fiendishly clever booby trap. Then they could go back to their profitable campaign of terror, murder and theft, bleeding the border country dry. But Slade dodged the trap -- and the bandits started dropping under the blazing guns as the hard-eyed Ranger shot his way closer and closer to the hidden mastermind -- and to the final deadly shootout in a...
12) Home to Texas
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the time she crossed the Rio Grande, it was plain that Ann Royer was going to cause some changes in Del Rio, Texas. Bringing the news of her parents' murder and the destruction of their ranch in Mexico, she had ridden alone all the way to Texas to lay claim to the giant Twin R ranch ostensibly belonging to her uncle Phil. Ann wasn't alone in wanting the Twin R. Old man Pease, owner of the neighboring Lazy P, was anxious to double the size of...