Lily

Cindy Bonner, Cynthia Bonner. Onyx Books, $4.99 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-451-40439-8

First novelist Bonner's sensitive, winning western, set in Texas in 1883, depicts the romance between a 15-year-old farmer's daughter and the youngest member of a gang of notorious outlaws. (Feb.)

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Lily

Cindy Bonner, Cynthia Bonner. Onyx Books, $4.99 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-451-40439-8

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