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Wedding planner Avery Crosslin may be a rising star in Houston society, but she doesn't believe in true love-- at least not for herself. When she meets wealthy bachelor Joe Travis and mistakes him for a wedding photographer, she has no intention of letting him sweep her off her feet. After a one night stand, Avery is determined to keep it from happening again. When she's hired to plan the wedding of the year complications start piling up fast, and...
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How do you change your luck? A young woman chooses to look for happiness in this marvelously entertaining and poignant novel from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire.
“A hilarious and touching take on what it means to be a grown-up.”—Julie Buxbaum, author of Admission and Tell Me Three...
“A hilarious and touching take on what it means to be a grown-up.”—Julie Buxbaum, author of Admission and Tell Me Three...
3) The price
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Bitter Creek series volume 4
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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...
4) The chase
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To the FBI it's a cold case. To Kariss Walker it's a hot idea that could reshape or ruin her writing career. Five years ago, a little girl was found starving to death in the woods behind a Houston apartment complex. Kariss reported on the terrifying case as a TV news anchor. Today, as a bestselling author, she intends to turn the unsolved mystery into a suspense novel. With the help of the FBI agent Tigo Harris, Kariss gets the case reopened and makes...
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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 Leon, the son of another astronaut.
6) Half a heart
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"When her biracial daughter appears suddenly after eighteen years searching for the mother who left her, former civil rights activist Miriam Vener begins a painful confrontation with her past." -- Amazon.com
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Jay Porter novels volume 2
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"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"--
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As a partner in a successful Houston ad agency, Danetta Harris can check one thing off her list of things to accomplish before thirty. In spite of being burned before, she's ready to concentrate on marriage and starting a family. Caring, charismatic, and sinfully sexy, Marshall Windham has had his fill of the single life. The perfect woman has been in his life all along - and it's Danetta. Will he be able to convince her that they should be partners...
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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...
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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.
11) Double cross
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"FBI agent Laurel Evertson's investigation into a scam targeting the elderly takes an unexpected twist when key evidence leads her to Morton Wilmington, a felon she arrested five years ago on her first undercover assignment. That case has haunted her since, and though she's vowed to forget Wilmington--and what she sacrificed to put him away--he is now her best lead. Houston Police Officer Daniel Hilton fears his grandparents may be the scammers' next...
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"From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still reeling from the fallout of her divorce-their move to...
13) Magnolia city
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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...
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After divorce-court judge Vanessa Colton-Kirk works late on the eve of her fifth anniversary, her husband, Thomas, decides he's had enough of Vanessa putitng work much higher in importance than starting the family he desperately wants. Can the two save their marriage?
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Emily Locke mysteries volume 2
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Single mom Emily Locke is building a new life with her daughter. Hoping to spend more time at home, she's put her career on hold to work part‑time for her private investigator friend, Richard Cole. It's a nice balance between work and family until Emily finds out she's been working for the attorney that defended her husband's killer. The discovery nearly destroys her friendship with Richard, but Emily resists abandoning his client, the socialite...
16) Lot: stories
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FPPL 2023 - Elizabeth Wetmore's Recs
LSS - Pride Adult Fiction
Pride Month 2023 - Green Hills Adult Fiction
FPPL 2023 - Elizabeth Wetmore's Recs
LSS - Pride Adult Fiction
Pride Month 2023 - Green Hills Adult Fiction
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"In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
17) The trophy wife
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Houston heiressElizabeth Stanton lostnearly everything when astunning betrayal by herex-husband left her with only afraction of the fortune her genteelSouthern family had worked so hard for.Even now Mimosa Landing, Elizabeth's belovedhome, could be stripped away unless she comes up with aserious infusion of cash.
When brilliant self-made millionaire Maxwell Reardonapproaches her with an audacious solution to her financialwoes, Elizabeth is speechless....
18) Deep extraction
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Oil and gas magnate Nathan Moore's killer used Moore's pacemaker as a seemingly perfect means of execution. And a bombing at one of Nathan's oil rigs days earlier indicates his death could be part of a bigger conspiracy. Special Agent Tori Templeton's first order of business is separating the personal from the professional: the victim's wife, her best friend, is one of the FBI's prime suspects. With the newest member of the task force, recently reinstated...
19) The cake man
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When his father, one of Houston's most notorious kingpins, is arrested and the money stops coming in, Chris King, not used to fending for himself, must learn how to rule the streets of Houston if he wants to survive another day.
20) Chill factor
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In Chill Factor, author Chris Rogers delivers a tale full of surprises and hard-hitting characters. When bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan arrives at the bank, she's shocked to see her longtime friend Edna Pine-a sweet and caring grandmother- robbing the bank. Edna escapes, but is gunned down by police after a violent chase where the stolen money goes missing. Local reporters are eager to lump Edna in with a string of other recent "granny bandits," but...
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