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Playing Dead

Playing Dead
  • Author(s): Julia Heaberlin
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Letter: A few weeks after her father’s death, Tommie McCloud receives a letter in the post from a stranger. The woman claims that Tommie is her biological daughter, kidnapped from her as a baby over thirty years ago....

Stardust

Stardust
  • Author(s): Carla Stewart
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Shortly after burying her unfaithful husband, Georgia Peyton unexpectedly inherits the derelict Stardust motel from a distant relative. Despite doubts from the community and the aunt who raised her, she is determined to breathe new life into it. But...

Tequila Sunset

Tequila Sunset
  • Author(s): Sam Hawken
  • Location(s): El Paso, Juarez
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

El Paso and Ciudad Juárez sit across the Texas / Mexico border from each other. They share streets, share industry, share crime. One gang claims territory in both: Los Aztecas. This single criminal organisation is responsible for most of...

Texas Destiny

Texas Destiny
  • Author(s): Lorraine Heath
  • Location(s): West Texas
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Old West (late 19th century)

She was his brother’s wife… Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. The tall cowboy at the station wasn’t Dallas. He was Houston, Dallas’s...

The Baker’s Daughter

The Baker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sarah McCoy
  • Location(s): El Paso, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking...

The Last Days of Summer

The Last Days of Summer
  • Author(s): Vanessa Ronan
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

She can forgive. They can’t forget. After ten years in the Huntsville State Penitentiary, Jasper Curtis returns home to live with his sister and her two daughters. Lizzie does not know who she’s letting into her home: the brother...

The Last Pilot

The Last Pilot
  • Author(s): Benjamin Johncock
  • Location(s): California, Houston, Mojave Desert
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in American history, The Last Pilot begins in the bone-dry Mojave Desert during the late 1940s, where US Air Force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier....

Why Stuff Matters

Why Stuff Matters
  • Author(s): Jen Waldo
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jessica, a grieving widow, inherits an antique mall from her mother she also inherits the stallholders, an elderly, amoral, acquisitive, and paranoid collection. When one of the vendors, a wily ex-con named Roxy, shoots her ex-husband, she calls...

The Martian

The Martian
  • Author(s): Andy Weir
  • Location(s): Houston
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the Habitat breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. If...

An Ocean of Minutes

An Ocean of Minutes
  • Author(s): Thea Lim
  • Location(s): Galveston
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the world is suddenly pulled apart by a deadly virus. Within months, Frank...

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