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Half Broke Horses

Half Broke Horses
  • Author(s): Jeannette Walls
  • Location(s): Arizona, Texas
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Half Broke Horses, set in Texas and Arizona, is a true life novel of Lily Casey Smith, author Jeannette Walls’s sassy, swaggering pioneer grandma. Fans of Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle will appreciate going deeper into the Walls family...

Heaven, My Home

Heaven, My Home
  • Author(s): Attica Locke
  • Location(s): Texas, Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

When the young son of an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang captain goes missing, Ranger Darren Matthews has no choice but to investigate the crime. Following the election of Donald Trump, a new wave of racial violence has swept...

Horseman, Pass By

Horseman, Pass By
  • Author(s): Larry McMurtry
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes the novel that became the basis for the film Hud, starring Paul Newman. In classic Western style Larry McMurtry illustrates the timeless conflict between the modernity and the Old West...

Kurt’s War – The Boy who knew too much

Kurt’s War – The Boy who knew too much
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): England, Poland, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

Kurt is an English evacuee with a difference, his father is a Nazi. As Kurt grows into an adult and is forced to pretend that he is someone he isn’t for his own protection, can he survive in the...

Lake Success

Lake Success
  • Author(s): Gary Shteyngart
  • Location(s): Texas, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Barry Cohen, master of the universe, has just had a very public meltdown involving a dinner party, an insider trading investigation and a $30,000 bottle of Japanese whisky. So he flees New York City, leaving behind his beautiful young...

Last Light Over Galveston

Last Light Over Galveston
  • Author(s): Jennifer L Wright
  • Location(s): Galveston
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900

I walked until I could go no farther, until open water was all I could see. Galveston, Texas. September 1900. Only months ago, Kathleen McDaniel returned from finishing school in Switzerland to her family home in New York s...

Life or Death

Life or Death
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Why would a man escape from prison the day before he’s due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million...

Lone Star State Monsters: Cryptids & Legends of Texas

Lone Star State Monsters: Cryptids & Legends of Texas
  • Author(s): David Weatherly
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Texas—The Lone Star State. Land of wide-open spaces, cattle, cowboys, and monsters! Bigfoot roams the state and is especially active in the thick eastern woodlands, but he’s not the only hairy biped reported. People have also encountered Goat Men,...

Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove
  • Author(s): Larry McMurtry
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived . . . From the author of The Last Picture...

Lot

Lot
  • Author(s): Bryan Washington
  • Location(s): Houston
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice. In the city of Houston – a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America – the son of a black mother...

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