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Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
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When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
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Chisholm Trail volume no. 2
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1984.
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To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man's biggest enemy is one he can't control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight...
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2013.
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Devoting her life to the Rainbow Valley Animal Sanctuary, Shannon North hires rodeo rider and former high school crush Luke Dawson, and as they work closely together, passion rages between them until he reveals that his heart is anywhere but in Rainbow Valley.
85) Dead giveaway
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[2005]
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Hired to locate the birth family of Will Knight, a college athlete, Texas heiress and PI Abby Rose finds her investigation taking a deadly turn when Verna Mae, the woman who found Will years ago, is murdered, leading her on a dangerous quest to find the truth and catch a killer.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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Features the travels and toils of a 16 year old East Texan boy.
87) Jackson
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2021.
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"Aja Everett longs to turn her old family ranch into a place where anyone can find rest and healing. But her big heart's bound to get her in trouble if she's not careful--someone wants her gone, and they'll do whatever it takes to drive her away from the land that's her lifeblood. Whether she's willing to admit it or not, she needs help. She needs a man like Ranger Jackson Dean. Jackson doesn't trust love. He once made the mistake of following his...
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"Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early...
92) Pedrito's world
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[2007]
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In southern Texas in 1941, six-year-old Pedrito holds onto his hope for a better future as he helps to grow watermelons on his parents' farm and sell them in San Antonio, and attends school five miles from home.
93) Firefly island
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Moses Lake volume 3
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"A whirlwind romance--and a leap of faith--has made Mallory Hale a mother and a rancher's wife in small-town Texas. Can she survive the wild adventure?"--Provided by publisher.
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Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father...
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"Attempting to escape his abusive father and generations of cyclical poverty, young Jonah Hargrove joins the mysterious River--a teenage girl carrying thousands of dollars in stolen meth--and embarks on a southern gothic odyssey through the East Texas river bottoms. They are pursued by local drug kingpin John Curtis and his murderous enforcer, Dakota Cade, with whom River was romantically involved. But Cade and Curtis have their own enemies, as their...
98) Wish girl
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[2014]
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Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
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Cowboys and brides volume 2
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"After a year in Kuwait, Lucas Allen can't wait to get back to his ranch for Christmas and meet his gorgeous Internet pal in person. When he pulls in, there's Natalie Clark right in his front yard with a pink pistol in her hand and a dead coyote at her feet. Lucas is unfazed. But wait... is that a baby in her arms?"--P. [4] of cover.
100) The crimson cap
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[2009]
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In 1684, wearing his father's faded cap, eleven-year-old Pierre Talon joins explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier on an ill-fated expedition to seek the Mississippi River, but after the expedition falls apart Pierre, deathly ill, is taken in by Hasinai Indians. Includes historical facts.
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