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1) The price
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston has captivated millions of readers with her sprawling, sensuous novels about the two opposing dynasties of Bitter Creek, Texas -- the Blackthornes and the Creeds. Now in her highly anticipated hardcover debut, Johnston tells an impassioned story of love and danger, ambition and family, that features the popular character Luke Creed, a young man who has turned his back on his family's ranch to pursue...
2) Lot: stories
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”
"Phenomenal" —Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Brilliant" —Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight...
"Phenomenal" —Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Brilliant" —Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
“A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Filled with wit and heart, Get Lucky by Katherine Center explores the deep bonds of sisterhood. Sarah Harper's whole world revolved around her job at a New York advertising agency before an email snafu got her fired. Now she's seeking refuge at her sister Mackie's home in Houston. But Mackie, who's unable to get pregnant, is also down-and-out these days. So Sarah decides to do something good and becomes a surrogate mother.
4) A cold mind
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1983
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Jeremy, the son of another astronaut.
8) Final edge
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Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Jove ed.
Physical Desc
457 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
9) Chill factor
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Dixie Flanagan returns in a novel in which she's the victim of a con, the witness to a crime, and the only bounty hunter in town with the brains, the muscle, and the heart to stop a coldly calculating killer.
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English
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Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
Karina Chopra would have never imagined becoming friends with the boy next door--after all, they've avoided each other for years and she assumes Chris is just like the boys he hangs out with, who she labels a pack of hyenas. Then Karina's grandfather starts tutoring...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
519 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A police spy story starring Arnette Kepner, a former CIA agent in the Far East, now an independent operator. She is hired by the criminal intelligence division of the Houston Police Department for an undercover investigation of crooked cops involved in drugs and arms smuggling. By the author of Body of Truth.
12) Good as gone
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She...
Author
Publisher
Persea Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A trial marriage between a librarian and a doctor in Houston. She is Colleen who has just left a man, he is Gabriel, a divorced doctor with a condo. The trial leads to an engagement, which is when problems start, her father being a homeless man.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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"Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and newly rich oil barons, where the elite live in beaux art mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as a real estate deal, is grooming his daughter Hetty to marry Lamar Rusk, scion of the Splendora oil fortune. Instead, at the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival of 1928, beautiful, rebellious Hetty encounters a mysterious man...
15) Pleasantville
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Series
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English
Description
"Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
16) Brown-eyed girl
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Avery Crosslin is a talented young fashion designer. But when the company goes into liquidation, Avery finds herself without a job and a boyfriend who decides to leave her. When her father falls ill, Avery is by his side day and night. But one evening she notices a young man, Joe, in distress and offers to help. Their instant attraction to one another is magnetic but even though she is unexpectedly charmed by the good-looking stranger, Avery tells...
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Series
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2032, America is supposedly safe from terror, Iranian nuclear weaponry is no longer a threat, and the United Nations' treaties and technologies are keeping the peace. Then a suicide bomber targets Houston, Texas and a famous physicist is kidnapped. The ensuing search by a decorated U.S. Marine war hero and veteran of special ops, not only places the physicist's family in grave danger, but exposes an even more ominous threat to the country,...
18) The Astro outlaw
Author
Series
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting Houston, Texas, Mike and Kate tour the Johnson Space Center with an astronaut in the morning and at the Houston Astros' ball game that evening, the cousins search for the person who steals the astronaut's moonrock when he arrives at the stadium to sign autographs.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For five days teenager Hannah Ashton has been living a nightmare because Greater Houston is devoid of people and totally silent, but then she finds Leo Sterling, a boy from her school whom Hannah considers to be both hot and trouble; together they set out to explore their city, and their own emotions--but above all they need to find out what has happened to their world, or risk being separated forever.
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English
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"Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rushed their beloved dog, Tim, to the emergency vet on Christmas eve. The good news: Tim survived after the vet cleared the obstruction--a pair of women's lace undies. The bad news: the undies were not Brenda's. A year after the breakup, Brenda has put her life back together. She's trained for a marathon, is writing a children's novel, and she's found purpose...
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