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Well, let me tell you a story. During Christmas break we were traveling in our RV to AZ where my husband's family lives. We stopped one night in Las Cruces, NM, and as my husband was connecting everything outside while I was readying the inside, he was commiserating with the guy in the next parking spot as they worked in the cold. Somehow in their conversation, they discovered that both their wives wrote for publication. We got together and I discovered that the next-door lady was *published*! She has numerous mass-produced romance novels and, I believe, they all have historical settings. At least the ones I read do. After we met I made it a point to read _Texas Silver_ and _Texas Jade_ (the 3rd one is due out this summer). They are very light reading and fast. I told her that I couldn't recommend them for purchase for a high school library because of the sexually explicit descriptions, but I would not hesitate to recommend them for reading by more experienced high school readers. They appeal mostly to females because the protagonist is a strong character, a medicine woman who had an anglo father and Indian mother (the first one did). The men in their lives are all respectful of the woman's skills and knowledge (of course, the villains aren't). Now the clincher....they (Arlene Hodapp aka Holly Harte aka Arlene Holliday) and her husband travel around the country in their huge 5th wheel RV and explore/research her settings and ethnic backgrounds. Her novels are set in the West of the 19th century, and the Texas ones that I read are accurate geographically and historically. Talk about an ideal job! That sounds *almost* as much fun as being a librarian! :-) Although the books are very light reading, I recommend at least the "Texas Healing Women Trilogy". (I haven't read any of the others.) I don't have her web site address at hand, but I think a "Holly Harte" web search might get it. I think the Texas members of LM_NET would probably enjoy the settings as much as the stories! (One thing that I noted though, the *cover* of one of the books was supposed to depict the Davis Mountain region of Texas. The text description was accurate, but the picture looked like the Colorado mountains! I think the cover is the publisher's prerogative.) I, too, am saving all of your good suggestions for summer reading. Betty -- Betty Dawn Hamilton, LRS * mailto:bhamilt@worldnet.att.net Historian, Terry County Historical Commission Librarian, TEXAS LIBRARY JOURNAL Contributing Editor 911 East Oak Street, Brownfield, Texas 79316 http://www.angelfire.com/tx/bhamilt =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 3) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=