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1) Somerset
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the lives of two antebellum southerners, Silas Toliver and his best friend Jeremy Warwick, as they head into a new territory known as "Texas" in search of black gold.
2) Roses
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Language
English
Description
"Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families"--Provided by publisher.
3) Cold-blooded
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Series
Hell's half acre volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Jess Carey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible, taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas, infamous for murder, mayhem, prostitution, and every random act of bloodshed imaginable. Now the no-good politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Jess Carey's town than hanging 'em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open. Freed outlaws, gunslingers,...
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Series
Firestick novels volume 2
A Firestick Western volume Book 2
Thorndike Press large print hardcover Western
A Firestick Western volume Book 2
Thorndike Press large print hardcover Western
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As sleepy as Buffalo Peak's been, legendary marshal, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen, and his deputies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up -- by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town. Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin'. Firestick doesn't see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-be -- and unwittingly...
5) Blackbird
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in Ark-La-Tex, Detective Jim Bonham has been assigned to a new case. On the outskirts of the town, a woman has been found brutalized and nailed to a cross. Bonham recognizes her immediately: it is Dr. Deborah Gold, one of the town's psychologists. The questions pile up quickly. How many perpetrators would it have taken to commit this atrocity? Why was a Roman coin found at the foot of the body? And why a murder as gruesome and cruel...
6) Firestick
Author
Language
English
Description
"In his mountain-man days, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name "Firestick." His two best buddies are Malachi "Beartooth" Skinner -- whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers -- and Jim "Moosejaw" Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas ... What he finds ... is a town dramatically changed: once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer...
Author
Publisher
Universe
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Presents an abridgment of the author's pictorial tours of great cities and other places in the United States, including Manhattan, the nation's capital, the John F. Kennedy Space Center, the Lone Star State, and the city by the Golden Gate.
10) The unforeseen
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head to head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. When an ambitious real estate developer sets out to transform thousands of acres of pristine hill country around Austin, Texas into a suburban development, threatening a nearby natural spring, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see a microcosm of the struggle between...
11) Green queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books/Capstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Earth Day is coming, and Kylie Jean and the other second graders decide that the perfect way to celebrate is to clean up and beautify the school playground--and the whole town.
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Once There Was a Lawman by Diana Palmer : FBI agent Thomas Kincaid Jones has soured on love and Christmas, but Annalisa Davis could change all that. Except the lovely nurse isn't looking to get involved with someone whose job requires a gun on his hip. And Tom has a case to solve which has nothing to do with love. Yet the spirit of the holidays just might spark a lifetime connection. — Christmas Creek Cowboy by Delores Fossen : In Christmas Creek,...
13) Raggedy man
Publisher
Universal Picture
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A young divorced woman and her two children try to forge a life for themselves in a small Texas town during World War II.
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