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- Location(s): West Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Late twentieth century
From romantic comedy to razor-sharp satire to moments of quiet reflection, these tales transform a fictional West Texas town into a tapestry of human experiences. “A lush tangle of small-town life branches out in this engrossing collection of short...
The Ballad of Midnight and McRae
- Location(s): Arizona, Texas
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): late 19th and early 20th centuries
For Caleb McRae—devout Baptist, Texas Ranger, hero of the Wild West—life is simple: lawmen bring bad guys to justice and hellfire’s a sinner’s fate. But Caleb’s world turns upside down when he falls in love with the outlaw Henry...
The Best Little Motel in Texas
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
A charming, edgy mystery about a young woman who unexpectedly inherits the best little motel in Texas – replete with a feisty set of golden working girls, a poisoned priest, and a sleepy hometown thrown into chaos. After a...
- Location(s): Galveston, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1900
Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
The Edgar Award winning thriller The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting form with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air...
- Location(s): Bentley, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips this remote corner of Texas. Joel Whitley was shamed out of conservative Bentley ten...
- Location(s): Mexico, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy’s critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World...
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
- Location(s): Liberia, Texas
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in...
- Location(s): Austin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Father and son detectives Bill and Tommy Ross work for the Travis County police cold case unit in Austin, Texas. In 2005 in the backyard of a vacant home in Austin, a woman was found lying on a recliner...
- Location(s): Texas, California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times . . . Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she’d yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the...
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