Texas Ranch Sabotage


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With her family and her ranch at stake, can she trust him with her secrets? Someone’s dead set on sabotaging Tempe Calloway’s ranch, even if it means hurting her or her little girl in the process. Special agent Ewen Duncan doesn’t trust Tempe, but he’s sure the attacks have something to do with why the single mother took something from his home in Scotland. And he’ll risk everything to keep her safe…and uncover her secrets. From Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.




Texas Ranch Refuge


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A cowboy and his dog must keep a witness safe… even as he investigates her When cowboy Mac Dolan and his dog, Barnie, stop an attempted abduction, Mac is surprised to learn the target is attorney Liv Calloway—the woman the FBI contracted him to investigate. Letting Liv hide on his ranch is the perfect way to keep her close. But even as he protects her, Mac must figure out whether Liv is a murderer…or a witness being framed. From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.




Cold Case Trail


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Following the clues could be the last thing they do… Temporarily working in the cold case division was supposed to mean less danger for state trooper Trey Jackson and his injured K-9 partner, Magnum—until they thwart an abduction. Now he must protect profiler Justine Stark, even as she blames him for her friend’s death ten years ago. Can he right past wrongs by finally solving the murder…and making sure Justine lives to find closure? From Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.




Love Inspired Suspense June 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2


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Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: EVIDENCE OF INNOCENCE By New York Times Bestselling Author Shirlee McCoy Determined to find her father’s true killer when she’s finally exonerated and freed after seventeen years in prison, Kinsley Garrett puts herself right into a murderer’s crosshairs. But with help from her neighbor, police chief Marcus Bayne, can she survive long enough to expose the truth? TAKEN IN THE NIGHT (A Mount Shasta Secrets novel) By Elizabeth Goddard Danielle Collins has no idea how she and her daughter will escape the man who shot her brother—until her ex, Reece Bradley, comes to their rescue. Now on the run with the secret father of her child, Danielle must rely on Reece to figure out what someone wants from them…before it’s too late. TEXAS RANCH SABOTAGE By Liz Shoaf Someone’s dead set on sabotaging Tempe Calloway’s ranch, no matter who they hurt in the process. Special agent Ewen Duncan doesn’t trust Tempe, but he’s sure the attacks have something to do with why the single mother took something from his home in Scotland. And he’ll risk everything to keep her safe…and uncover her secrets. For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense June 2021 Box Set – 1 of 2




Love Inspired Suspense January 2022 - Box Set 2 of 2


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Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: ROCKY MOUNTAIN STANDOFF (A Justice Seekers novel) by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura Scott Someone will do anything to get Federal Judge Sidney Logan to throw a trial—even target her six-month-old foster daughter. And it’s up to US Deputy Marshal Tanner Wilcox to keep Sidney and little Lilly safe. But with a possible mole in the courthouse, trusting anyone could prove lethal… TEXAS RANCH REFUGE By Liz Shoaf After cowboy Mac Dolan and his dog, Barnie, stop an attempted abduction, Mac’s surprised to learn the target is Liv Calloway—the woman the FBI contracted him to investigate. Letting Liv hide from her pursuers on his ranch provides Mac the perfect cover. But is she a murderer…or a witness being framed? BURIED COLD CASE SECRETS By Sami A. Abrams Searching for her best friend’s remains could help forensic anthropologist Melanie Hutton regain her memories of when they were both kidnapped—and put her right back in the killer’s sights. But can Detective Jason Cooper set the past aside to help her solve his sister’s murder…and shield Melanie from the same fate? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense January 2022 Box Set – 2 of 2




Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986


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“A benchmark publication . . . A meticulously documented work that provides an alternative interpretation and revisionist view of Mexican-Anglo relations.” –IMR (International Migration Review) Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Book Award Texas Institute of Letters Friends of The Dallas Public Library Award Texas Historical Commission T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Best Ethnic, Minority, and Women’s History Publication Here is a different kind of history, an interpretive history that outlines the connections between the past and the present while maintaining a focus on Mexican-Anglo relations. This book reconstructs a history of Mexican-Anglo relations in Texas “since the Alamo,” while asking this history some sociology questions about ethnicity, social change, and society itself. In one sense, it can be described as a southwestern history about nation building, economic development, and ethnic relations. In a more comparative manner, the history points to the familiar experience of conflict and accommodation between distinct societies and peoples throughout the world. Organized to describe the sequence of class orders and the corresponding change in Mexican-Anglo relations, it is divided into four periods, which are referred to as incorporation, reconstruction, segregation, and integration. “The success of this award-winning book is in its honesty, scholarly objectivity, and daring, in the sense that it debunks the old Texas nationalism that sought to create anti-Mexican attitudes both in Texas and the Greater Southwest.” —Colonial Latin American Historical Review “An outstanding contribution to U.S. Southwest studies, Chicano history, and race relations . . . A seminal book.” –Hispanic American Historical Review




California Cultivator


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The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia


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WONDER NO MORE—GET ALL THE FACTS ON DC COMICS’ FOREMOST SUPER HEROINE! She’s as beautiful as Aphrodite and as wise as Athena, stronger then Hercules and swifter than Hermes. Blessed at birth by the gods themselves, Princess Diana left an idyllic island paradise ruled by wise and brave women to bring the peace, love, and nobility of the Amazons to the tumultuous world of humankind. In January 1942, Wonder Woman took the world of comics—and its pantheon of superpowered males—by storm. Wielding her impervious silver bracelets and golden Lasso of Truth, she’s battled forces of evil from the Axis powers to a slew of super-villains worldwide, teamed up with the likes of Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash, and become a high-flying feminist icon and pop-culture superstar. Now, for the first time in more than thirty years, here’s a definitive A-to-Z volume that draws together all the knowledge about the star-spangled, action-packed history of Wonder Woman. In more than 400 fact-packed pages you’ll find • the complete story of Wonder Woman’s origins, as imagined and reinterpreted by generations of comics writers—including her groundbreaking creator, William Moulton Marston • biographies of every major character in Wonder Woman’s universe, including her mother, Hippolyta; sister, Donna Troy; and mortal ally Steve Trevor—as well as such classic foes as Ares, Cheetah, Hades, and the members of Villainy Inc. • classic black-and-white comic book artwork throughout • two sixteen-page full-color artwork inserts—plus a dazzling original cover illustration by fan-favorite artist Adam Hughes Written by veteran Wonder Woman artist and writer Phil Jimenez and comics historian John Wells, The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia is the ultimate archive, proving that die-hard devotees of the gorgeous go-to goddess don’t have to visit Paradise Island for a taste of heaven on earth. From the Trade Paperback edition.




Cow Boys and Cattle Men


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Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.




Power Failure


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“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.” Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode… Power Failure is the electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the collapse of Enron, the high-flying gas and energy company touted as the poster child of the New Economy that, in its hubris, had aspired to be “The World’s Leading Company,” and had briefly been the seventh largest corporation in America. Written by prizewinning journalist Mimi Swartz, and substantially based on the never-before-published revelations of former Enron vice-president Sherron Watkins, as well as hundreds of other interviews, Power Failure shows the human face beyond the greed, arrogance, and raw ambition that fueled the company’s meteoric rise in the late 1990s. At the dawn of the new century, Ken Lay’s and Jeff Skilling's faces graced the covers of business magazines, and Enron’s money oiled the political machinery behind George W. Bush’s election campaign. But as Wall Street analysts sang Enron’s praises, and its stock spiraled dizzyingly into the stratosphere, the company’s leaders were madly scrambling to manufacture illusory profits, hide its ballooning debt, and bully Wall Street into buying its fictional accounting and off-balance-sheet investment vehicles. The story of Enron’s fall is a morality tale writ large, performed on a stage with an unforgettable array of props and side plots, from parking lots overflowing with Boxsters and BMWs to hot-house office affairs and executive tantrums. Among the cast of characters Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins observe with shrewd Texas eyes and an insider’s perspective are: CEO Ken Lay, Enron’s “outside face,” who was more interested in playing diplomat and paving the road to a political career than in managing Enron’s high-testosterone, anything-goes culture; Jeff Skilling, the mastermind behind Enron’s mercenary trading culture, who transformed himself from a nerdy executive into the personification of millennial cool; Rebecca Mark, the savvy and seductive head of Enron’s international division, who was Skilling’s sole rival to take over the company; and Andy Fastow, whose childish pranks early in his career gave way to something far more destructive. Desperate to be a player in Enron’s deal-making, trader-oriented culture, Fastow transformed Enron’s finance department into a “profit center,” creating a honeycomb of financial entities to bolster Enron’s “profits,” while diverting tens of millions of dollars into his own pockets An unprecedented chronicle of Enron’s shocking collapse, Power Failure should take its place alongside the classics of previous decades – Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker – as one of the cautionary tales of our times.