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English
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Redheads like Maggie O'Connell are nothing but trouble. But Trace Rawlins, a former army ranger turned private investigator, takes the case anyway. After all, he knows a thing or two about women.
Trace can sense that something is wrong--Maggie isn't telling him everything. If these menacing calls and messages are real, why won't the police help her? And if they aren't real, what is she hiding?
As Trace digs deeper to...
4) Houston
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Donna and Kim Boon moved to Houston, Texas with their aunt Lisa when they were orphaned at ten years old. Lisa raised the girls as her own, showering them with everything a young woman could want. The girls have grown up into beautiful and privileged Houstonites and are two of the most eligible bachelorettes in the city, with more suitors than they know how to handle. Life seems perfect, but when Aunt Lisa is gunned down in cold blood, the girls discover...
5) The price
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Luke Creed has sacrificed everything for his career at the prestigious law firm DeWitt & Blackthorne: a chance to run his family's ranching empire, his marriage, even time with his two daughters. Defending a major client in a wrongful death case, Luke crosses paths with his school sweetheart, Amy Hazeltine Nash, an advocate for the bereaved plaintiff.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A novel exploring the early years of Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander, protagonists in a current black PI series. The setting is Texas, the time the 1930s, and the two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo, sex and murder.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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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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Series
Wolfe security volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator Kira Vance spends her days navigating the intricate labyrinth of Houston's legal world, and she knows all of its shadowy players and dark secrets. On a seemingly normal day, she's delivering a report to her top client when suddenly everything goes sideways and the meeting ends in a bloodbath. Twenty-four hours later, the police have no suspects but one thing is clear: a killer has Kira in his sights."--Publisher description.
11) Good as gone
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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...
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Series
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate a missing university professor, Blake recognizes him as the dead man in his freezer. Then another man goes missing. And another. There's s serial killer in Houston, Texas, and Blake is running out of time to solve the case. His...
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Grounded for the summer by her sometimes-evil stepmother, seventeen-year-old vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke gets permission to join a Quidditch team, where she makes new, if nerdy, friends.
Vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke has one muggy Houston summer left before college. When she is grounded for the entire summer by her (sometimes) evil stepmother, all her plans are thrown out the window. Ellen convinces her parents to let her join the local...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
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Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called "The Lab" in Houston's Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins "Save the Eighth," a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. At first, she's only...
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Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Having overcome the clutches of one of Houston’s undisputed heavyweights, Young Mack finds himself at war once again with enemies he could never stand a chance against alone. But, the blood of his parents runs deep in his veins and even against all odds he is determined to conquer his newest foe, Gurdo, the inheritor of his father’s murderous drug empire. After a decade and a half in federal max custody, Mackentosh ‘Mr. Mackmillions’ Miller...
17) Brown-eyed girl
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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...
18) Wings of ebony
Author
Series
Wings of ebony volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Half-god, half-human Rue is snatched from her Houston home to Ghazan, a secret land of gods, by her estranged father, then must face an evil determined to steal everything from her.--
When her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for Rue and her sister Tasha changes forever. Taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, Rue is forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked away to Ghizon-- a hidden island of magic wielders....
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Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Born into the laps of luxury, as the son of kingpin parents, Mackintosh 'Young Mack' Miller was destined to be crowned the next king of Houston's underworld . . . until the unexpected happens and Young Mack is forced to come into his own at a very young age. Is he ready for the smoke? Sworn to the streets, Young Mack has to do what he does to survive while murder, treachery, and betrayal lurks around every corner of the game. Trials and tribulations...
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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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