Will Patton
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Series
Holland family saga volume 2
Hackberry Holland volume novel
Wheeler large print hardcover
Holland novel volume 10
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Hackberry Holland volume novel
Wheeler large print hardcover
Holland novel volume 10
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English
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From it's opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign on the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, House of the Rising Sun is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army. After a violent encounter that leaves...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 1
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English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux, a man haunted by his past, must face down the New Orleans underworld when he investigates the murder of a young prostitute.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
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English
Description
The grisly murder of two young women lead police to the door of Tee Bobby Hulin, a popular Cajun blues singer. However, Detective Dave Robicheaux isn't so sure. Hulin's profile doesn't fit the crimes. Robicheaux is intent on finding the true killer, but his addiction to painkillers leads him astray and into the underbelly of crime, corruption, and brutality. To catch the murderer, Robicheaux must first conquer his own demons, along with the growing...
4) Bitterroot
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Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
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English
Description
"Set in the rugged Bitterroot valley of Montana -- home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life and xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia -- Bitterroot features Blly Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky country at the request of an old friend in trouble."--from NoveList.
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From one of America's most widely acclaimed writers comes a masterwork of detective fiction, the most suspenseful, thematically complex, and dazzling accomplishment in the series featuring Dave Robicheaux. A movie crew has come to New Iberia, Louisiana, to film a Civil War epic, and star Elrod Sykes just can't seem to keep his lavender Cadillac on the road. Under threat of a drunk-driving charge, he offers Detective Dave Robicheaux information in...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since childhood; Rocque's hungry Cajun wife;...
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English
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Before The Lost Get-Back Boogie appeared to wide acclaim in 1986, James Lee Burke had been out of print in cloth for thirteen years and his fifth novel had received a record 111 rejection letters. "LSU Press put me back in the game and turned my career around," Burke says. The novels and stories Burke had written during those years of rejection eventually became the stuff of the Dave Robicheaux series, which has earned him two Edgar Awards.
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Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets. Among them is Vernon Smother's son, Lucas, a now-teenaged boy about whom few know the truth - Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son. When Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob must confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. Billy Bob knows the propensity of the town, Deaf Smith, Texas, to make scapegoats out of the innocent and to exploit and sexually...
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia--their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past, as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou. An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to...
10) The sea wolf
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
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1020L
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English
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An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentlleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a feindish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal.
11) Gone South
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English
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Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival, redemption, and the astonishing transformations love can create. Gone South chronicles a desperate man's journey through a desperate land. Flooded by memories, poisoned by Agent Orange, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of fear and fury-and changes his life forever. Pursued by police and bounty hunters, Dan flees south toward the Louisiana bayous. In the swamplands he meets Arden Halliday,...