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21) The ruling class
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Sick of being bullied and harrassed, a new girl at a wealthy suburban Dallas high school plots revenge on the girls in the ruling clique.
23) Leroy
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Leroy wants to study art and become a painter. Although he has good relationships with his family and friends, Leroy is far from being happy. With his older brother now in jail, Leroy feels even more trapped by his big secret. He is gay and doesn't dare come out and disrupt an already difficult time for his family. Leroy goes on an incredible--yet painful and terrifying--journey from Dallas to Taos, and from fear to love"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen--if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated. And then in walks...
25) The pledge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Things are looking up for Detective Betty Rhyzyk. She's settled into a happy marriage and been promoted...But when a hostage stand-off puts her on the phone with legendary cartel leader The Knife, things take a turn. The Knife has heard a rival is making a play for the streets of Dallas, none other than Evangeline Roy. The matriarch of a ruthless cult, Evangeline also happens to hold a personal vendetta against Betty. So who better to draw Evangeline...
26) Truth catcher
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A forensic psychologist's attempt to prevent the imminent release of a dangerous prisoner is complicated by a distress call from an old friend.While interviewing inmate Daryl Collins in a Seattle prison, Dr. Breeze Copens gets a sudden vision of an imperiled little girl in a blue dress. Having such a vision is not unusual; Breeze, a synesthete, works from paranormal messages like voices that she sees as colors. But this vision disturbs her and, along...
27) The Season
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"When her mother enters her and her twin sister as debutantes for this year's deb season in Dallas, soccer star Megan McKnight is furious. She has no interest the dress-filled life of a socialite deb, but her season turns out to be one full of twists and turns - and more than one dashing suitor!"--
28) Prime: a novel
Author
Series
Rickey and G-man series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Two years after the opening of Liquor, New Orleans chefs Rickey and G-man are immersed in their restaurant, until a bad review hints that their "silent" backer has ulterior motives, and they realize it may be time to end their dependence on him. When Rickey is offered a plum consulting job at a Dallas restaurant, it seems the perfect way to beef up their bank account. But taking the gig will mean a reunion with an older chef with whom Rickey shared...
30) The dime
Author
Series
Formats
Description
When Detective Betty Rhyzyk moves from Brooklyn to Dallas she faces mounting problems. Her first investigation goes sideways. Added to that, she's got unruly subordinates, a stalker, and an unsupportive girlfriend. Will the situation break the unbreakable detective?
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby Crenshaw any differently. Ruby's a runner, living in Dallas and only reluctantly talking to their mother, Birdie, when she calls from prison. Pearl is still living in her mother's fixer-upper and finds herself facing a line in the sand: her weight is threatening to kill her. She's hundreds of pounds beyond the point where she can celebrate her curves or benefit from the body...
32) Dallas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Bobby Dupree is a backup quarterback and has always been a backup kind of guy--both when it came to seeing the field, and also with girls. But when the starting quarterback goes down with a knee injury, things change for Bobby. He is thrust into the starting role, and the hopes of Trinity High School rest on his shoulders. Will the spotlight be too bright for him to handle? Dallas is from Texas Fridays, an EPIC Press series.