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Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains,...
42) The Banty House
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"In the fading town of Rooster, Texas, all that's really left is a service station, a church... and the Banty House, a long-ago Depression-era brothel. For more than seventy-five years, Betsy, Connie, and Kate Carson have called their mama's house a home. The three eccentric sisters get by just fine with their homemade jams and jellies, a little moonshine on the side, and big hearts always open to strangers. Like Ginger Andrews. An abandoned teen...
44) Friendswood
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"A big, moving novel of one tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents' lives forever. Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, oil rigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and high school football games. When tragedy rears its head with an industrial leak that kills and sickens residents, it pulls on the common thread that runs through the community, intensifying everything. From a confused sixteen-year-old...
45) Teksas! Lucky
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Following a suspicious fire at his family's ranch, ladies' man Lucky Tyler, framed by old enemies, must find Devon Haines, the beautiful redhead he had rescued at a seedy bar and his only alibi in proving his innocence.
49) Ten jedyny
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Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family's mother.
50) Behind the eyes
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Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.
51) The big picture
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Katie Parker productions volume 3
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Dumped by her possible boyfriend at a drive-in theater, Katie returns home to find that her mother, a former convict and current addict, wants to take her away from her foster family, friends, and church, and Katie must make important decisions as she considers what family and home really mean.
52) Select: book one
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Julia Jaynes of Austin, Texas, is one of the select, a secret group of humans with abilities bordering on the supernatural, but, unlike her younger sister, she has never been entirely comfortable as part of the "perfect" family--and when she falls for a normal human guy and draws attention to her more-than-normal family she finds herself banished to that most ordinary of institutions: public high school.
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¿Es posible conocer verdaderamente a alguien?Por primera vez en una década Riley siente esperanzas. Nuevas pistas podrían evitar que su adorado padre sea ejecutado tras ser acusado de asesinato. Sin embargo, cuando la libertad le es denegada y la condena se vuelve inminente, Riley se embarca en una carrera contra reloj para demostrar su inocencia.Pero ¿merece su padre ser salvado?Una confesión desesperada pondrá a prueba la convicción de la...
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Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. But in this highly ordered world of garden clubs and debutante balls the money may flow as freely as the oil, but the freedom and power all belong to the men. What happens when a woman of indecorous appetites and desires like Joan wants more? Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom...
55) Star fish
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
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Having fled the rampaging revolutionaries in Mexico in 1911, thirteen-year-old Evangelina and her family face unexpected prejudice and violence in Texas.
"In this sequel to Evangelina Takes Flight, the young girl who left her home during the Mexican Revolution to start over in a small Texas border town is now seventeen. She has had several years of medical training with her mentor, Doc Taylor, but when a doctor from a neighboring town finds her helping...
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Deseo volume 1084
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"Chance McDaniel lo había tenido todo muy díficil desde que su mejor amigo lo había traicionado. El escándalo ya había estallado cuando apareció en escena Gabriella del Toro, la hermana de su amigo. La suerte de Chance estaba a punto de cambiar. Deseaba a aquella mujer bella e inocente y, de repente, seducirla se convirtió en su prioridad. Gabriella, que había crecido sobreprotegida y siempre había querido más, vio en aquel rico ranchero...
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