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A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.

Drei Cowboys... drei unerwartete Begegnungen und die ganz große Liebe in Texas. Sean Tasher lebt seit einigen Monaten zurückgezogen auf seiner Ranch, um seine Wunden zu lecken. Der gut aussehende Cowboy hat keine Lust auf die Gerüchte, die nach der Scheidung von seiner Ex-Frau Nicole kursieren. Aber in dem Örtchen Kings Creek kann man sich nicht ewig verstecken. Vor allem nicht, als die wunderbar witzige und hübsche Joanna Hilfe braucht, die er ihr mit Freuden anbietet.

Er ist Rinderfarmer, sie will sich den Traum einer eigenen Pferdezucht erfüllen. Auf demselben Grund und Boden. Das kann ja nicht gutgehen, oder? Zac ist mit Leib und Seele Cowboy. Doch als sein Vater stirbt, vererbt dieser die Ranch zu selben Teilen an ihn und seine Schwester. Und sie verkauft ihren Anteil einfach an dieses furchtbare Großstadtmädchen Cassy! Ein Teil seiner Rinderfarm soll zu einem Ponyclub werden. Einem Ponyclub! Für Zac steht fest, dass er die Blondine so schnell wie möglich loswerden muss.

Drei Cowboys... drei unerwartete Begegnungen und die ganz große Liebe in Texas. Jaxon Kensington und Tree Sutter haben ihre gesamte Kindheit zusammen in Kings Creek verbracht, bis ein Schicksalsschlag sie auseinanderriss und Tree nach New York floh, während Jaxon seine Ranch in Texas weiterführte. Auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Karriere als Fotografin erhält Tree eine schreckliche Nachricht, die sie dazu zwingt, in die Stadt zurückzukehren, die für sie Schmerz und vor allem auch Schuld bereithält.

As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena Pederson, then a young reporter with UPI, started following the elusive thief while she managed the night desk. With gymnastic skill, he climbed trees and crawled across rooftops to take jewels from heiresses, oil kings, corporate CEOs.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Contract comes a sexy romance full of family secrets, riveting suspense, and a pretend boyfriend who makes one woman start to feel things that are all too real. Named one of the "Hottest Romances of 2019" by Goodreads!Named one of the...

Opposites attract in this sexy new contemporary romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Contract. The rebel. That's how Samara Mallick has always thought of Beckett King. And he's absolutely living up to his unpredictable ways when he strides into her office and...

On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within 24 hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nation's imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern-day lynching. In this superbly written examination of the murder and its aftermath, award-winning journalist Joyce King brings us on a journey that begins at the crime scene.

A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consulting King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a "war" for dominance of...

This is the story of an unforgivable con man. Vulnerable families were his prey. His promise was an impossible dream and a lie. Peter Candlewood understood the system. That’s how he could commute prison sentences and reunite hopeless families with incarcerated loved ones. For a price. Except there was no Candlewood. No hope. Just a lowly Texas con artist who bet on the desperate - and won. And he wasn’t working alone. The multimillion-dollar deception cost the betrayed more than their savings.