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2) Roses
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"Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families"--Provided by publisher.
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Last picture show volume 3
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Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of town. But his attempts to go off the grid are far from successful, and he struggles with increasing depression....
4) Somerset
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Gone with the Wind meets The Help in the stunning prequel to Leila Meacham's bestselling family epic Roses.
"From birth, Jessica had eschewed the role to which she'd been born. Was it because she sensed that her father's indulgence was compensation for his disappointment in her? Jessica thought too much, questioned, challenged, rebelled. Sometimes Eunice thought her daughter should have been born a male."
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"From birth, Jessica had eschewed the role to which she'd been born. Was it because she sensed that her father's indulgence was compensation for his disappointment in her? Jessica thought too much, questioned, challenged, rebelled. Sometimes Eunice thought her daughter should have been born a male."
Born into...
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Honey Creek volume 4
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The interwoven stories of Honey Creek residents and visitors, as their lives and fates intertwine in Honey Creek, Texas and at the Sunflower Inn.
6) Rainwater
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In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
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Dan Rhodes mysteries volume 16
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2009
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385 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Asked to join the Clearview Barbershop Chorus, Sheriff Dan Rhodes suspects an ulterior motive - mainly because he can't sing a note. Shortly afterward Lloyd Berry, the director of the chorus, is murdered. Berry was suspected of embezzlement, and had also spread the word that a chorus member ordered a singing valentine for a woman who wasn't his wife. Rhodes must deal with the usual assortment of small-town crimes while trying to solve the murder.
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2009
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307 p. ; 25 cm.
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Sylvester Bradshaw owns the Bouree restaurant, home of the best catfish within a hundred miles of Brenham, Texas. Besides being known for his cooking and for being one of the town's nastiest residents, he also happens to have invented a machine that several venture capitalists and one former NFL star would like to invest in at almost any cost. But Bradshaw---stubborn and miserly---cannot be enticed. Nobody gets a look and nobody gets to know how the...
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