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1) Echo burning
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Jack Reacher novels volume 5
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English
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Jack Reacher finds trouble in Texas in the fifth novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is Carmen Greer. For Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen’s got a wild story to tell—all...
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is Carmen Greer. For Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen’s got a wild story to tell—all...
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Billy Bob Holland novels volume 1
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English
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"Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas's innocence--but proving it won't be easy amid the deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. That includes the poorly kept secret that Billy Bob isn't just Lucas's lawyer but, as the...
3) Borderline
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After the killings on Isle Royale leave Anna Pigeon drained and haunted, Paul, her husband of less than a year, takes her on a rafting trip in Big Bend National Park, hoping that the warmth and the adventure will lift her spirits, but when they come across a nearly dead pregnant woman caught between two boulders, they are sucked into a web of intrigue
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China Bayles mysteries volume 15
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English
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Between the herb shop, the catering business, and a weekend paper-making class, China Bayles has her work cut out for her. And now China's half-brother is opening up old wounds, trying to investigate their father's supposedly accidental death, and her husband is taking on the case-meaning she's just bound to get involved
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In Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry created some of his most memorable characters. He now reintroduces us to Aurora Greenway along with her family, friends and lovers, presenting a funny and bittersweet story about growing up and growing old. Since her daughter Emma's death, Aurora has tried her best raising her three grandchildren -- but Tommy is in prison; Teddy has just been released from a mental hospital; and Melanie is pregnant and doesn't...
7) Rain gods
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 2
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English
Description
When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily
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Blood bond series volume 14
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English
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When Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves came to Kansas, they didn't know the Governor had just made the state liquor-free. But it doesn't take Matt long to find a place to drink and a family of enterprising moonshiners with one stunningly beautiful daughter. Trouble is, while Matt is falling hard, Sam is being recruited by a sheriff who happens to have a lovely daughter of his own What happens when you mix 200-proof corn liquor with intoxicating women...
9) Unspoken
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THE MORE YOU KNOW
The envelope delivered to Shelby Cole's Seattle home contains no return address, just a photograph of a little girl. Shelby knows at once that this is the daughter she was told died at birth. And in that moment, Shelby knows something else: she needs to go back to Bad Luck, Texas.
THE MORE YOU TELL
She's not the only one coming home. A long-ago killing is in the news again following recanted testimony. A violent nightmare from...
10) Giant
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English
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The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first half of the twentieth century.
When larger-than-life cattle rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict arrives at the family home of sharp-witted but genteel Virginia socialite Leslie Lynnton to purchase a racehorse,...
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Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Tired of shooting, riding, and fighting, all he wants now is to settle down on the ranch for a nice, peaceful life. But the Texas Rangers are on his tail in a ride for vengeance, daring Wade to one last fight for his dream - and his life
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THE FINAL VOLUMEN OF THE LAST PICTURE SHOW/TEXASVILLE STORY In The Last Picture Show and Texasville, Larry McMurtry created a cast that achieved instant recognition, both in print and on the screen-Duane, his friend and rival, Sonny, Jacy, Ruth Popper, Karla, Lester, and the oil-patch town of Thalia. Now, in Duane's Depressed, McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty. Surrounded by
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel
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English
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Two youthful Texas Rangers, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, battle heat, thirst, bandits, Indians, and the Mexican Army in an expedition to New Mexico during the early days of the Texas Republic. By the author of Lonesome Dove.
14) Tough customer
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English
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Late one night Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley receives a phone call from his lost love, Houston realtor Caroline King, who asks him to come to Texas to help catch Oren Starks, a creepy over-the-top stalker who's out to kill Dodge and Caroline's 30-year-old daughter, Berry Malone. Dodge hasn't seen Berry since the day she was born. When Starks takes a shot at Berry in Caroline's house, hitting a work associate of Berry's instead, Dodge rushes to the rescue....
17) Old Wattles
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1975]
Physical Desc
92 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A Texas farm girl is continually frustrated by the elusive turkey hen whose eggs she is supposed to find.
19) Lone Star kid
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Eleven year old Brian Zimmerman is determined to bring Crabb, Texas- population 400- into the 20th century. What his town needs is a mayor, and young Brian believes he's the man for the job! With the help of his parents and wise old friend, Brian campaigns and makes history when he is elected. First he must battle skeptics and Houston land developers, however his biggest challenge is yet to come.
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