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Summary: Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FELKemp, Laekan Zea
Summary: Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aarón and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEMBurton, Mary (Mary T.)
Summary: Agent Kate Hayden and Detective Theo Mazur aren't just working a homicide; they are facing a formidable enemy who knows Kate intimately. And she may become his next victim.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURSummary: When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEXThreadgill, Tom
Summary: "San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez discovers that a tragic accident involving a school bus full of kids may not be what it seems. One of the children may still be alive, and if he is, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Threadgill 2020Riordan, Rick.
Summary: When a violinist is killed in a hail of gunfire, Tres Navarre, a private investigator, takes on the case in an attempt to hunt down the killers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIOGraham, Heather.
Summary: When San Antonio becomes a dumping ground for the bodies of young women, Logan Raintree must use his powerful ability to commune with the dead to lead a group of elite paranormal investigators to solve this disturbing case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRARiordan, Rick.
Summary: A man comes home to San Antonio, Texas, to rescue his old girlfriend and solve the 12-year-old murder of his sheriff father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIORiordan, Rick.
Summary: When a dangerously violent criminal and his gang escape from prison, Tres Navarre wonders at the silence of employer and mentor, Erainya Manos, whose husband helped build the case that sent the man to prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIOBrown, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROSmith, Roland
Summary: "When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Chicago for their parents' concert, they uncover another plot by the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Windy City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMIEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTThreadgill, Tom
Summary: "After her rescue of nearly fifty kidnapped children made international headlines, Amara Alvarez gets what she's worked for: a transfer to San Antonio's Homicide Division. But reality sets in quickly when her first case, the suspicious death of a teenager at a crowded local water park, plunges her life into chaos. As the investigation moves forward, Amara finds herself stalked online by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THRBrandon, Jay.
Summary: When San Antonio attorney David Owens won an important divorce case, he hoped the victory would bring him some new business, but he never imagined that the First Lady, a Texas native, would walk through his office door. Shy and fearful, the First Lady explains that she needs to divorce the President, to get herself and her young son out of the White House. The President is engaged in dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAPalmer, Diana.
Summary: Top detective Rick Marquez had never met a case he couldn't solve -- or a woman he couldn't charm. In the midst of one of the toughest cases he's ever worked on, he's confronted by the one woman who just might be able to rein in this smooth-talking Romeo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PALSmith, Roland
Summary: "When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Texas for their parents' concert, they discover traces of the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Lone Star state"-Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMICisneros, Sandra.
Summary: The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CISBurton, Mary (Mary T.)
Summary: An urgent call brings FBI agent Kate Hayden back to San Antonio, the scene of her violent past. A brutal new murder shows hallmarks of a serial killer nicknamed the Samaritan. Tricky part is, Kate already caught him. Did she make an error, or is it a copycat? Paired with homicide detective Theo Mazur, Kate faces an enemy who knows her intimately. When a second body is found, the mode of death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURShotz, Jennifer Li
Summary: When twelve-year-old Dylan rescues Brave, he knows it will take hard work, patience, and training to convince his parents that he can keep the skittish stray dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: Shares the Lone Star State's bloody fight for independence from the Mexican government and features the exploits of historical legends, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Eickhoff, Randy Lee.
Summary: The story of James Bowie, the Texas frontiersman. It is told by some thirty people who range from Bowie's mother to a comrade-at-arms. A look from various points of view at certain aspects of Bowie's character and the historical events in which he participated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EICHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: A fictional chronicle centered around the fall of the Alamo provides a dramatic re-creation of an event that shaped the history and identity of Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARClagett, Thomas D.
Summary: "The final 13 hours at the Alamo began around 5 o'clock on the afternoon of March 5, 1836. Colonel William Barrett Travis drew a line in the dirt and asked all those who would stay and fight to cross it. Destinies played out that night for four people. Susannah Dickinson, a woman of surprising gumption. Young James Taylor who came to the Alamo to free Texas from the tyrannical rule of General...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAHale, Nathan
Summary: ""Remember the Alamo!" That rallying cry has been a part of Texas lore for generations. But who were the ragtag group of adventurers behind the famous slogan, and how did they end up barricaded in a fort against a Mexican army? Who survived, who died, and how? This sixth book in the bestselling Hazardous Tales series tracks the Lone Star State's bloody fight for independence from the Mexican...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019