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Texas mail order bride / by Broday, Linda.;
North Central Texas, 1878. Rancher Cooper Thorne thinks his life is finally on an even keel, until Delta Dandridge steps off the stagecoach and claims she's his mail order bride. Brash and quick-witted, the meddling Southern Belle is everything Cooper thought he never wanted, and everything his heart is telling him he needs.
Subjects: Historical romance fiction.; Western stories.; Ranchers; Mail order brides;
© c2015., Sourcebooks Casablanca,
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With love from Rose Bend / by Simone, Naima.;
With love from Rose Bend -- The love list.To boost business for her family's southern Berkshires Inn, perfectionist Leontyne Dennison volunteers at Rose Bend's annual spring festival, where she comes face-to-face with the hottest one-night stand of her life, retired professional football player Owen Stafford, who needs her to pretend to be his girlfriend.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Festivals; Hotels;
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Devils kill devils / by Compton, Johnny,author.;
"Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that readers fell in love with in The Spite House to a new roster of monsters-angels, devils, vampires-and a heart-pounding race to save the world. When all hell breaks loose, you need a devil on your side Sarita has been watched over by a guardian angel her entire life. She calls him Angelo, and keeps him a secret. But secrets can't stay buried forever ... When Angelo murders someone she loves, Sarita begins to see what's really been lurking in the shadows surrounding her. And she will have to embrace the evil within if she hopes to make it out alive. Johnny Compton, critically acclaimed author of The Spite House and master of dread, takes you on a terrifying race of one woman against the hordes of hell."--
Subjects: Vampire fiction.; Horror fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Demonology; Good and evil; Secrecy; Vampires; Women;
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Victory city : a novel / by Rushdie, Salman,author.;
In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with the great city of Bisnaga. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry--with Pampa Kampana at its center.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Parvati (Hindu deity); Cities and towns; Goddesses;
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Ashes / by Anderson, Laurie Halse.;
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--Provided by publisher.Ages 10-14.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; African Americans; Sisters; Slavery;
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A tale of sorcery... / by Colfer, Chris,1990-; Dorman, Brandon.;
The Southern Kingdom is in the grip of Emperor Seven and his war on both magic, books, and learning; even worse, a malignant darkness is rising and threatening everybody, including Brystal Evergreen, who has gathered allies among the fairies and other magical creatures to confront the threat, but she is also aware that the days of her life are slipping away, and if she does not find the Book of Sorcery in a few weeks she will die.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Magic; Witches; Fairies; Good and evil; Books and reading;
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An American beauty / by Abé, Shana,author.;
"When a railroad baron falls for a uniform girl at a gambling parlor thirty years his junior, he moves her to New York posing as a well-heeled Southern widow where her shrewd investing instincts build her a fortune"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Businesspeople; May-December romances;
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The trials of empire / by Swan, Richard(Fiction writer),author.;
"The Empire of the Wolf is on its knees, but there's life in the great beast yet. To save it, Sir Konrad Vonvalt and Helena must look beyond its borders for allies - to the wolfmen of the southern plains, and the pagan clans in the north. But old grievances run deep, and both factions would benefit from the fall of Sova. Even these allies might not be enough. Their enemy, the zealot Bartholomew Claver, wields infernal powers bestowed on him by a mysterious demonic patron. If Vonvalt and Helena are to stand against him, they will need friends on both sides of the mortal plane-but such allegiances carry a heavy price. As the battlelines are drawn in both Sova and the afterlife, the final reckoning draws close. Here, at the beating heart of the Empire, the two-headed wolf will be reborn in a blaze of justice ... or crushed beneath the shadow of tyranny"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Alliances; Demonology; Government investigators; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Judges; Kings and rulers; Magic;
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Four leaf cleaver / by Day, Maddie,author.;
"There's no mistaking Saint Patrick's Day at Pans 'N Pancakes. Robbie may only be Irish by marriage to Abe O'Neill, but the shelves of vintage cookware in her southern Indiana store are draped with glittery shamrocks and Kelly-green garlands and her restaurant is serving shepherd's pie and Guinness Beer brownies. The big event, however, is a televised cooking competition to be filmed on site ... ."
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; General stores; Murder; Women cooks;
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Authority / by VanderMeer, Jeff,author.;
For thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X has taken the form of a series of expeditions monitored by a secret agency called the Southern Reach. After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (a.k.a. "Control") is the team's newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselves--and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he's promised to serve. And the consequences will reach much farther than that.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Scientific expeditions;
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