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1) Confess
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At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major...
2) Seeing red
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Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he was photographed leading a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews but then suddenly dropped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now Kerra is willing to use any means necessary...
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When a monster named Isaac McQueen, taken down by homicide cop Eve Dallas back in her uniform days, escapes from Rikers Island, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.
4) Play dirty
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After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving. Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, are a golden couple. Successful and wealthy, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly...
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 2
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Ace Books
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English
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In the new Southern Vampire series from acclaimed mystery author Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas is the sequel to Dead Until Dark. When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done.
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"A partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing. Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of the heap at the Dallas firm of Ford Stevens. But when Clark McCall, wayward son of a Texas politician, gets himself murdered after a night of booze, drugs, and rough sex, Scott is assigned to defend the prime suspect, a heroine-addicted hooker named Shawanda Jones....
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[publisher not identified]
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Aging cowboy and bronco-buster Wes Hendricks just wants to be left alone on his poor ranch, even when town developers offer him big money to sell it. Wes's grandson reluctantly tries to convince him to give up his home, but that was before he, too, succumbs to the ranch's--and a young cowgirl's--wild beauty.
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Blue Sky Hill volume 3
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English
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When soon-to-be college student Tam Lambert learns that her family's finances are collapsing, the privileged life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move to a tiny house owned by her father's company, Householders, in the Dallas neighborhood of Blue Sky Hill. Shasta Reid-Williams and her husband have just purchased their first home in Blue Sky Hill, and it's the perfect place to raise her children. Even better is having a great...
10) Trial by fire
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Dutton
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English
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A legal drama featuring two women district attorneys turned enemies. One is Dallas DA Stella Cataloni who has an incredible 100 per cent success rate, but is still haunted by the one case she never cracked, an arson fire 15 years earlier that killed her parents. Stella succeeds in persuading her friend, Houston DA Holly Openheimer, to re-open the investigation. The next Stella knows, she is arrested for the murder of her parents. Not only that, Holly...
11) The deception
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"When missing turns to murdered, one woman's search for answers will take her to a place she never wanted to go. After searching for her sister for two years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she's called to the morgue to identify Chrissy's body, the runaway teen the victim of a brutal attack. Kate failed Chrissy once, and she won't do it again--even if finding her sister's killer means following a lethal bounty hunter into the heart of darkness....
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Blue Sky Hill volume 1
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NAL Accent
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English
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For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart when she discovers that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, and his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. Now Rebecca must put aside old resentments and return to her childhood home. In this moving story of separation and forgiveness, two women will unravel the betrayals of the past and discover the true meaning of family.
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Bethany House
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English
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The past has harbored guilt and fear for Denali Deveraux, and she's beginning to think that her attempts to understand her beginnings may be forever shrouded in mystery. Her grandfather has manipulated her life. And her aunts -- the only ones who may possess the truth -- are under the tyrant's control too. Her quest to learn the truth brings her to Dallas where her work for the family design business teams her up with Michael Copeland, a man whose...
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Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
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English
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It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over: Fountain Place Old Red Courthouse Pegasus Sign Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Cotton Bowl Cathedral Santuario Big Tex Statue Texas Star Ferris Wheel Reunion Tower Dallas City Hall Magnolia Theatre "Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Dallas!".
15) The dime
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Detective Betty volume 1
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
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First edition.
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English
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Betty Rhyzyk, Brooklyn's toughest female police detective, relocates to rough-and-tumble Dallas, Texas, where she must contend with a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend.
17) Can't stop
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Urban Books
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English
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"Jason Gaines, better known as Hot Shot, has just buried his mother, father, and little brother after a home invasion. Now the only thing on his mind is finding the people responsible and punishing them severely for taking all that he cared for in this world. Before he can take action, he has to get his money right, and that means turning up his hustle. So, it's off to Dallas, Texas to get money from the streets. He has the connects to give him everything...
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Texas brave and strong volume 1
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Goat Mountain Press
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English
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"It had seemed so romantic when Morgan Darnell courted Sara in Tennessee, finally convincing her they should marry and join an 1856 “Gone to Texas” wagon train traveling along the “Trail of Tears,” through Indian territory, and across the Red River into Texas. Sara arrives in Dallas a nineteen-year-old widow--armed with plenty of pluck--determined to open a general store in the tiny settlement of log cabins on the Trinity River. But Dallas...
19) Burning water
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Tor
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First trade paperback edition.
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English
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Discovering that local cattle mutilations and a series of ritualistic murders are the work of a risen Aztec god, Guardian witch Diana Tregarde and psychic police detective Mark Valdez team up to protect the human race. Original. By the author of Children of the Night.
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Debutante dropout mysteries volume 5
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Avon Books
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English
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They call them "pretty parties," and they're the latest rage among Dallas debutantes -- get-togethers with light refreshments, heavy gossip, and Dr. Sonja Madhavi and her magic Botox needles. Former socialite Andy Kendricks normally wouldn't be caught dead at such an event, but she's attending as a favor to her friend, a society reporter in search of a juicy story.
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