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"Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early...
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Honey Creek volume 2
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"Marcie Latimer longs to run away from Someday Valley--especially since her ex-boyfriend spun a web of lies that almost led to tragedy in neighboring Honey Creek. Little wonder so many locals have turned their backs on her. But not Brand Rodgers. The quiet cowboy comes to listen every time she sings at Bandit's Bar, offering a glimpse of safety and calm that Marcie's rarely known. After Texas Ranger Colby McBride saved Honey Creek's mayor, Piper Mackenzie,...
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2016.
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Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet charms of Too Much, Texas to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She's relieved to be moving back to her hometown-and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented cohost and color consultant, and who happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dell's...
5) Need you now
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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...
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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A temporary pit stop...or a forever homecoming? Aspiring pastry chef Nicole Evans is just waiting to hear about her dream job, and in the meantime, she goes to work in the café at the local bookstore. But that's before the recently widowed Nicole meets her temporary boss: her first crush, Liam Mendez! Single dad Liam has always kept his life--and his heart--closely guarded from Oak Hollow gossip. Will his simmering attraction to Nicole be just one...
7) Walk me home
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Silverlake Ranch volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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"A feel-good, funny second chance romance proves it's never too late for love in the small Texas ranch town of Silverlake. Firefighter Jake Braddock is used to fixing things, and he's never met a problem he couldn't solve-except for his sweet ex-girlfriend Charlotte Nash. Charlie Nash has been a big-city girl ever since her family made a clean break from their small town, after the tragedy that drove a wedge between Jake and her wealthy parents. She's...
8) Stillwater
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Skyhorse Publishing
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[2015]
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"Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as Chief of Police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife's disappearance a year earlier. With a low crime rate and a five-man police force, he expected it to be a nice, easy gig; hot checks, traffic violations, some drugs, occasional domestic disturbances, and petty theft. Instead, within a week he is investigating a staged...
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Montlake
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[2024]
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"Unsure of the future but ready for risks, Libby O'Dell trades big-city life for whatever the back roads hold. In this case it's the small community of Sawmill, Texas, where Libby's taken a temporary job putting an antique store in order. Her new boss, Benny Taylor, a handsome charmer with a three-legged dog named Elvis, isn't a bad change of scenery, either. Across the street Benny's surrogate grandmothers--the widows Minilee and Opal--are ready...
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Orchard Inn novels volume 2
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Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
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What if the dreams you had are no longer the ones you want the most? Chef Aurora Shipley spent years slicing, dicing, and chopping her way up the ladder of L.A.'s competitive restaurant scene, but when her sisters needed her, she dropped everything to help out. But soon she'll be leaving the Orchard Inn and her small hometown behind to head back to the city--especially before Jude Jones stirs up any more painful memories best left forgotten. As a...
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Mended hearts (Varina Denman) volume 2
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David C Cook
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Fawn Blaylock is a young, single woman who loses everything due to her unplanned pregnancy. Yet as her small town judges her, one man steps up to remind her of God's forgiveness.
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[2022]
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"In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive--until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda's return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history. And just when they thought it couldn't get more...
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