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"A string of staged deaths forces Texas Ranger Emily O'Connell on a covert mission to investigate a governor's connection to the deceased women. She doesn't trust anyone--including crime scene cleaner Stone Spencer. But when Emily's questioning makes her the serial killer's next target, she must turn to ex-ranger Stone for help. With threats at every turn, outrunning a merciless villain could be the last thing they do."--Back cover.
2) Savage sin
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Bellamy brothers volume 1
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English
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Out on parole for a crime he did not commit, Falcon Bellamy needs to focus on a family emergency, but the physical chemistry with his parole officer Savannah Gallo is too strong to ignore.
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2024.
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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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"Caught in a serial killer's deadly game with nowhere to turn...Interrupting an attempted murder - and leaving with incriminating evidence - makes Sissy Spencer a serial killer's next target. With a flash drive in her possession containing disturbing proof of multiple murders, Sissy has no choice but to trust her ex-boyfriend, private investigator Beau Brighton, to keep her safe. But can they unravel the clues and track down a killer...before he catches...
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2024.
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"In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it -- with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed...
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"Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy. The nation was still healing from the War Between the...
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Ruinous love trilogy volume 1
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Zando
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English
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"When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the...
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In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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Rance Dehner westerns volume 5
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Center Point Large Print
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2024.
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English
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"The wild west becomes even wilder as violence erupts over booze in the Texas town of Red Horse. A play, The Devil's Brew, which demands the abolition of liquor, is greeted with gunfire. The author is brutally murdered, and the cast threatened with death by the appearance of devil dolls. Detective Rance Dehner quickly discovers that no one in the cast of the play believes in abolition. They are struggling actors trying to make a living. But powerful...
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"From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during a hurricane. Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still reeling from the fallout of her divorce--their move to Houston,...
12) Meadow Falls
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"Angela Marie has spent all of her thirty-five years on Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for generations. It wasn't her plan. It was an obligation. Now that her parents -- less loving kin than strangers -- have passed, the whole shebang belongs to Angela. And a legacy she never wanted is hers to uphold. She can't forsake it now. Her beloved nanny, Mandy, who was always more of a mother, needs a caregiver herself. And Mandy's...
13) Legends of Texas
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society volume no. 3
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Folklore Associates, Inc
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1976, ©1924
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English
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society Number III. Original copyright 1924.
14) Change of venue
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A Texas Ranger Rames C. Blawcyzk novel volume 11
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Center Point Large Print
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2023.
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English
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"Sixth generation Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk has ruffled the feathers of his superiors at Company F one time too many. He's offered a choice: Either transfer to Company E, and an isolated post in far west Texas, resign, or be terminated. Knowing he'd be a better fit in the wild, wide-open spaces of the Big Bend anyway, Jim accepts the transfer. He and his family prepare to pack up and move west. Any illusions Jim might have had about crime being...
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Tackett trilogy volume 2
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Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
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[1994], c1994
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English
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Del Tackett, a wandering cowboy, rides into town just as Liddy Doyle, a teacher, is diddled out of $50,000 in cash and her share in a silver mine. Tackett goes to Liddy's aid to recover the inheritance left by her gunned-down father.
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Children's Books Press
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[2005]
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English
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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...
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Center Point Large Print
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2023.
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English
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"Ghosts on the range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores, striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country . . . But maybe, Slade told himself, they're not ghosts, just smart owlhoots wrapped in tin plate. So the Ranger ace went "ghost"-hunting -- with hot lead and fighting fury! But Slade didn't know how close he himself would come to being made a ghost . . ."--
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A Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk novel volume 12
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"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...
20) Buried deception
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Montlake
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[2022]
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English
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"After a young woman is brutally attacked on a popular hiking trail, the evidence points to the notorious Black Cat Stalker. The town of Skull Hollow enlists Dr. Mia Frost to provide a psychological profile and assist in the investigation. When another person goes missing, Mia partners with Easton Crew, former marine and current CEO of a tactical tracking company. Both Mia and Easton are stubborn, strong-willed, and independent, but neither can deny...