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Love and Protect

Love and Protect
  • Author(s): Lori Ryan
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Laura Kensington is a desperate woman. She knows that if she doesn’t flee, not only is her life in danger, so is the life of her unborn child. With everything to lose, she flees to Evers, Texas with a...

Loving Country: An English Girl in Austin TX

Loving Country: An English Girl in Austin TX
  • Author(s): Julian Edge
  • Location(s): Austin
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A ROMANTIC TALE OF GUITARS, FAST CARS AND FALSE ACCOUNTS Jessica Fleet flies in from Manchester, England to Austin, Texas for the Country Music trip of her dreams. What she does not need right now is another over-protective man...

Memorial

Memorial
  • Author(s): Bryan Washington
  • Location(s): Osaka, Houston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Benson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years – good years – but now they’re not sure why they’re still a couple. There’s the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for...

Midnight Crossroad

Midnight Crossroad
  • Author(s): Charlaine Harris
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse, the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a new, darker world – populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that’s how the locals prefer it. Welcome to Midnight,...

Mockingbird

Mockingbird
  • Author(s): Sean Stewart
  • Location(s): Houston
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

Elena Beauchamp used magic the way other people used credit cards, and now that she’s dead, her daughters Toni and Candy have a debt to pay. Set in modern-day Houston, Texas, this is a funny and moving novel of...

My Summer Darlings

My Summer Darlings
  • Author(s): May Cobb
  • Location(s): East Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder, from the acclaimed author of The Hunting Wives. A woman in the forest thinks she’s going to die.  ...

News of the world

News of the world
  • Author(s): Paulette Jiles
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870

It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the...

Night Wherever We Go

Night Wherever We Go
  • Author(s): Tracey Rose Peyton
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre-American Civil War

An intimate look at the domestic lives of enslaved women, NIGHT WHEREVER WE GO is an evocative meditation on resistance and autonomy, on love and transcendence and the bonds of female friendship in the darkest of circumstances. On a struggling Texas...

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty
  • Author(s): Peter Gent
  • Location(s): Dallas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But when they leave the locker room they are only men. Peter Gent’s classic novel looks at the seedy underbelly of the...

Olympus, Texas

Olympus, Texas
  • Author(s): Stacey Swann
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A bighearted debut with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology (“Wildly entertaining” –Richard Russo) The...

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