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Journalist Reba Adams, trying to file a feel-good Christmas piece for the local El Paso magazine, must interview the owner of Elsie's German Bakery--and she's no easy subject. Reba finds herself returning to the bakery again and again, anxious to find the heart of the story. For Elsie, Reba's questions are a stinging reminder of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII. And as Elsie's, Reba's, and Reba's fiance ́Riki...
2) Border war
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The border is a tough place to work, especially for FBI agent Tom Eriksen. With a history of violence, he cannot afford any on-duty screw-ups. So when an investigation ends in a bloody shootout and the shooting is deemed "questionable", the bureau reassigns Eriksen to an office known as "the Island of Misfit Cops": A resting place for those who have screwed up enough to warrant being dumped in El Paso.But when his partner is murdered, Eriksen must...
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Outlaw Lawrence Grey is a notorious outlaw who has been captured in El Paso. Marshal Neilan has a proposal for Grey: Neilan will set Grey free from prison provided he attempts to locate John Ray. When last heard from' Ray was living in San Vicente' Mexico. But all the men previously sent by Neilan have either quit the job - or disappeared. Grey agrees to Neilans proposal' unaware of the intrigue and danger ahead.
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Shootist volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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Young Gillom Rogers has just given the coup de grace to a famous gunfighter involved in a bloody saloon shootout in 1901 El Paso. After swiping J.B. Bookss matched Remington pistols off his body, Gillom thinks he may be able to ride this spectacle to fame and glory as the last shootist. But he's an eighteen-year-old with lots of growing up to do, and showing off his new pistols quickly gets him into a gunfight he didnt bargain for. Gillom sets out...
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2022.
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"As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Jur̀ez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"--
When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry...
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Devon Gray mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
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El Paso detective Devon Gray is involved in a murder investigation that leads to kidnapping and his subsequent suspension from the police force. This emotionally catapulting sequel to the critically acclaimed Patricide proves once again, by following Devon's uniquely convoluted tracks, that crime doesn't pay.
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Barely missing everything volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
11) Patricide
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Devon Gray mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2000
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Investigating a murder in a family too much like his own, El Paso Homicide Detective Devon Gray walks a tightrope between protecting his kin and upholding the law. When his ex-con brother is implicated in the case, Devon strives to keep silent about his brother's complicity while seeking the truth. Award-winning author Elizabeth Fackler deftly portrays the two families opposed across the field of one detective's love and honor. "Incisive dialogue...
12) El Paso
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[2017]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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"Armando Salguera is a tight end at El Dorado High School and is aiming to make his NFL aspiration come true. But his dream is threatened when--after 15 years of silence--his estranged father, Oswaldo, sends word that he will be coming across the border, back into Armando's life. Could this mean that Armando's dreams of making the pros are over?"--Provided by publisher.
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[2007]
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The wild ones. Into the 1870s West comes a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daughter whose beauty and singing voice could make the most hardened frontiersmen weep. But the Fontaine family is unprepared for the hardship they endure across the Mississippi. Their only hope: If the young Lillian can sing her way to success in the rising boomtown called Denver.
El Paso. It is 1881. El Paso, Texas, is at a crossroads....