Julia Gibson
Author
Series
Honey Creek volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Marcie Latimer longs to run away from Someday Valley--especially since her ex-boyfriend spun a web of lies that almost led to tragedy in neighboring Honey Creek. Little wonder so many locals have turned their backs on her. But not Brand Rodgers. The quiet cowboy comes to listen every time she sings at Bandit's Bar, offering a glimpse of safety and calm that Marcie's rarely known. After Texas Ranger Colby McBride saved Honey Creek's mayor, Piper Mackenzie,...
Author
Series
Honey Creek volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas welcomes readers back to the picturesque Texas valley that cradles the town of Honey Creek-a place where friendship and warm welcomes can be, relied on, and love always finds a way...
Benjamin Monroe is pretty, sure how his life will play out. He'll continue teaching chemistry in his small college, and spend his free time biking through the valley. Eventually, he'll retire to putter around in his garden...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett launched her remarkable career with the publication of her debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. On this 25th anniversary, read the best-selling book that is "beautifully written... a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion" (Boston Herald).
St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little...
Author
Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first novel in the Harmony series from New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas.
Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to Harmony, Texas, but keeps her distance from the welcoming townsfolk. Until prairie fires threaten Harmony-and Reagan learns the true meaning...
Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to Harmony, Texas, but keeps her distance from the welcoming townsfolk. Until prairie fires threaten Harmony-and Reagan learns the true meaning...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murder hits close to home as one of Pete's relatives is found dead in a seedy Manhattan hotel room. Missing from the scene is the dead man's teenage niece -- the last person to see the victim alive. It's been ten years since Pete walked the streets of New York, and now he has no choice but to return to the city's underground. When he finds the girl in the last place anyone would think to look, devastating family secrets emerge.
28) Indigo Lake
Author
Series
Ransom Canyon novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blade Hamilton is the last of his line. He's never even heard of Crossroads, Texas, until he inherits land there. Riding in on his vintage Harley-Davidson, Blade finds a weathered ranch house, an empty prairie and a dark river that cuts a decisive path between the Hamiltons' land and that of their estranged neighbors. When Dakota helps a stranger on the roadside, she isn't prepared for the charisma of the man on the motorbike -- or for the last...
29) Belle Teal
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country, and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away, her brother and father are fighting again, and she becomes involved with the two new children in her class.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Engrossed in a new relationship to the point that her studies begin to suffer, college junior Veronica is devastated when a plea for help goes unheeded, but a surprising request from her mother teaches her about family, love, and independence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When her radio host mother finds the dead body of the station's programming director, it is up to Sophie Kimball to solve this crime that is linked to the past when fingerprints are found on the murder weapon belonging to a woman who passed away years ago.
32) Nightshade
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Herbalist China Bayles reluctantly joins in when her half-brother Miles and her husband investigate the circumstances of her father's death, but she and McQuaid discover that Miles may be hiding secrets he is unwilling to reveal.
33) Ransom Canyon
Author
Series
Ransom Canyon novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O'Grady...or that she has her own secret that no one living knows. Young Lucas Reyes has his eye on the prize--college, and the chance to become something more than a ranch hand's son. But one night, one wrong decision, will...
34) One true heart
Author
Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Millanie McAllen is always logical. But after returning to her childhood home, she learns that some things are beyond explanation--like her undeniable passion for Drew Cunningham...After finding success as a singer on the road, Beau Yates returns to Harmony to make peace with his dying father--only to find the woman he's been dreaming of for years. But the secrets they discover might be too much for him to bear...When Johnny Wheeler is charged with...
35) Bleeding hearts
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While conducting a discreet investigation into allegations of improper behavior on the part of high school football coach Tim Duffy, China Bayles uncovers a mystery surrounding a young woman's death.
36) Coming up roses
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"1890, Oregon: recently widowed, Kate Blakely is struggling to make ends meet on her small farm as she tries to heal from the scars of her late husband's cruelty. When her handsome, brawny neighbor Zachariah McGovern almost dies while saving her four-year-old daughter from a near-fatal accident, Kate, despite being deeply wary of the man, brings him into her home to nurse him back to health. Gradually Kate realizes that underneath Zach's rough exterior...
37) Sinful
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 13
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After a tragic accident leaves Delta sergeant Connor Flynn a widower, he faces the toughest fight of his life: battling his in-laws for custody of his two young children. To win he'll need a make-believe bride to take care of the kids while he runs his Wyoming ranch. Who better than a woman he already knows and likes--his late wife's best friend? Ruthlessly forced from her home by her powerful father, King Grayhawk, Eve needs somewhere to go . . ....
38) Surrender
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 16
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fiancé Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate tête-à-tête with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous...
40) Shameless
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 14
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Scorned, pregnant, and facing a life without promise, Pippa Grayhawk is stunned when her father announces that they're leaving their home in Australia to take over his estranged father's sprawling Wyoming ranch. Drawn into bitter family rivalries and feeling like an interloper in her new home, Pippa rides out into the wilderness and meets an intriguing stranger and his pet wolf. The wolf doesn't scare her, but she's very much afraid to trust another...