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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sheriff Rhodes is asked to join the Clearview Barbershop Chorus, he suspects there's an ulterior motive, because he can't sing a note. Fortunately, his detecting skills hit all the right notes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate captures the heart and faith of small-town America in Talk of the Town. Daily, Texas, has never really been known for much until Amber Anderson becomes a finalist on a television singing show. The producers want to stage a surprise concert for one of the final episodes, only everyone in town seems to know the secret. And paparazzi are arriving. And word from Hollywood is that Amber has disappeared with...
6) Need you now
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When big-city life threatens the safety of one of their three teenagers, Brad and Darlene Henderson move the family to tiny Round Top, Texas. The adjustment is difficult for the kids, and when Darlene takes an outside job for the first time, tension rises. The widowed father of one of her students is paying too much attention to her. Trouble is, Darlene feels like someone is listening to her for the first time in a long time. If Darlene ever needed...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Ann McKenzie--'Jam' to everyone in Honey Creek--has fulfilled her dream of owning the best restaurant for miles around. Serving candlelit dinners to every couple in town on Valentine's Day is a reminder of another dream, one she's just about given up on. Until, that very night, Sergeant Tucson Smith clambers out of the muddy river and onto her land, bringing the promise of something they've both been searching for. When McCoy Mason crashes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
China Bayles gives up her law career in Houston to run the Thyme and Seasons herb shop in Pecan Springs, Texas, but finds that evil can come to even that small town when her friend is murdered.
9) Roses
Author
Language
English
Formats
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. A deeply moving love story of struggle and sacrifice across generations, Roses is steeped with nostalgia for a time when honor and good manners were the rule.
11) Shadowmaker
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Katie Gillian's mother is a dedicated investigative reporter. Her articles have helped innocent men on death row and have halted the illegal dumping of toxic wastes. Now the Gillians have moved from their home in Dallas to a small, quiet Texas town, where Katie's mother is taking six months off to write a novel. In the local high school, Katie feels like an outsider. But as she meets the townspeople, she begins to feel fear as well. Someone prowls...
12) A Texas bond
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Learning he's an uncle shocks Ross Lyles--but after years of handling his brother's bombshells, at least this surprise is a blessing. A pair of five-year-old blessings Ross is determined to meet, if he can convince their aunt to give him a chance. Fiercely protective, Stacia Keyes is worried he'll try to take the children...and lassoing her trust is harder than he ever imagined." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Large print ed. ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
318 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
To commemorate Elvis Presley's birthday, Hogg's Drive-In in Salt Lick, Texas displays an "actual" pair of Elvis's blue suede shoes until someone swipes them right out of their display case. Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin are shocked and the plucky, detecting duo agrees to help the town's inept sheriff track down the royal blue loafers.
14) Somerset
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Bradshaw owns the Bouree restaurant, home of the best catfish within a hundred miles of Brenham, Texas. Besides being known for his cooking and for being one of the town's nastiest residents, he also happens to have invented a machine that several venture capitalists and one former NFL star would like to invest in at almost any cost. But Bradshaw---stubborn and miserly---cannot be enticed. Nobody gets a look and nobody gets to know how the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Port Sabine, the air is thick with oil, superstition reigns, and dreams hang on making a winning play. All eyes are on Mercy Louis, the star of the championship girls' basketball team. Mercy seems destined for greatness, but the road out of town is riddled with obstacles. There is her grandmother, Evelia, a strict evangelical who has visions of an imminent Rapture and sees herself as the keeper of Mercy's virtue. There are the cryptic letters from...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
1st Square Fish ed.
Physical Desc
10 books (227 pages ; 20 cm) 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.