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Tres Navarre mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1997
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A man comes home to San Antonio, Texas, to rescue his old girlfriend and solve the 12-year-old murder of his sheriff father.
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Amara Alvarez volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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Three years ago, a collision between a fast-moving freight train and a school bus full of kids led to devastation and grief on an unimaginable scale. But a fresh clue leads San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez to the unlikely conclusion that one of the children may still be alive. If she's correct, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie. With time running out, Amara must convince others--and herself--that despite all...
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Boxcar children volume 58
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are given the opportunity to be extras in a movie about the Alamo, but they are called upon to use their sleuthing skills when Claire, the star of the film, is implicated in the theft of a valuable ring.
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Tres Navarre mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
While the worst-case scenario envisioned by most professors at the University of Texas at San Antonio probably involves lost essays or a failed tenure bid, recently the medievalists at UTSA have wound up deader than their favorite language. At first, the deaths seemed like accidents.
5) The Alamo
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[2013]
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"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Texas for their parents' concert, they discover traces of the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Lone Star state".--Provided by publisher.
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Confused about all her emotions, Erica "Chia" Montenegro looks to her mood ring to figure out what she is feeling. She has not seen Blue for Peaceful in a long time, but she often sees Black for Stressful--especially since her mother's sickness keeps getting worse. Visiting a famous church, Erica makes a "promesa" to God to raise funds for research into her mother's condition, so long as God makes her mother better.
7) Charade
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A TV personality with a transplanted heart feels compelled to leave Hollywood for San Antonio to host a TV show spotlighting adoptive children with special needs at the same time that other patients who received donor hearts meet with fatal accidents.
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[2022]
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Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native...
9) The unseen
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1800s. San Antonio, Texas: In room 207 at the Longhorn Saloon, in the long shadow of the Alamo itself, a woman renowned for her beauty was brutally murdered. Her killer was never found.One year ago: In that same historic room, another woman vanished without a trace. Her blood was everywhere...but her body was never recovered.Now: In the last month, San Antonio has become a dumping ground for battered bodies.All young women, many of them long missing,...
10) Brave
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American dog volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When twelve-year-old Dylan rescues Brave, he knows it will take hard work, patience, and training to convince his parents that he can keep the skittish stray dog.
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Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 10
Description
Autograph-seekers interfere with Stanley Lambchop's hopes for a fun vacation with friends while sightseeing in Texas.
12) Drift
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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
This story is an unflinching vision of the menace of adolescence, the hard edge of physical labor, and the debts we owe to family.
13) No good deed
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Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 10
Pub. Date
2015
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"Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA Agent Nicole Rollins behind bars for murder, conspiracy, and gunrunning. But when Rollins makes a daring escape--jeopardizing a busload of children and killing five officers--Lucy becomes the key to the biggest manhunt in Texas history--and the target of a brilliant...
14) Drift
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Pub. Date
c2003
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Robert Lomos, a sixteen-year-old Mexican American boy, plans on saving money and reuniting his troubled family.
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Peter Macklin novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2002
Description
"Peter Macklin is a killer - or was. He got out. He quit the mob, left Detroit, and finally met Laurie, a gorgeous, smart, passionate woman who makes him feel that perhaps life holds more for him than the deadly game of his former profession." "Los Angeles. Honeymoon. Only the memories hurt, and she's so good she knows not to ask him about what he won't discuss. Then comes the phone call. He's got to travel to Sacramento to take care of a business...
17) Goddess of filth
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Pub. Date
c2021.
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"One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely - smearing herself in black makeup, shredding...
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Henrie O mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1999
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"No character is more complex or human than sixty-something sleuth Henrie O, whose decades of newspapering have taught her that every fact is suspect, but goodness can still be celebrated."--BOOK JACKET. "A frantic phone call from an old and dear friend on the other side of the world sends Henrie O to the fabled city of San Antonio, Texas, in search of her friend's devoted granddaughter, Iris Chavez. Iris had been working on San Antonio's famous River...