Told in fifty-four short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, this novel follows Taja Brown on her journey from middle school to high school while living in Houston, Texas.
Texas
- Author:Tamani, LiaraSummary:
- Author:Shrake, EdwinSummary:
Fort Worth lawyer Ben Carpenter is facing an almost unwinnable case against a powerful Dallas businessman. It could shatter Ben's career. When his friends throw him a riotous 30th birthday party, at first Ben is depressed. But someone...
- Author:Maberry, JonathanSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry returns to the world of Rot and Ruin with this first novel in a brand-new series that's more thrilling and filled with exceptionally terrifying adventures. Ever since her mother's death...
- Author:Barr, NevadaSummary:
While vacationing in Big Bend National Park, roving park ranger Anna Pigeon and her new husband find themselves sucked into a riptide of danger and intrigue that surges from the Mexican desert to the Texas governor's mansion.
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
This action-packed tale finds Murdock and his trusted five-shot Deane Adams revolver enforcing order in a world of chaos.
- Author:Simon, MichaelSummary:
When an assassination attempt on a black community activist kills a young girl and leaves a little boy critically wounded, Detective Dan Reles heads the investigation. The brass decide, however, that a black detective should handle this...
- Author:Wingate, LisaSummary:
Seattle architect Heather Hampton goes to quiet Moses Lake, Texas, where a promotion at her firm hinges on the sale of family farmland for a proposed industrial plant. Her plans hit a few snags thanks to her quirky family and a handsome...
- Author:Lucas, WalterSummary:
In 1874, the vast plains of Texas are home to buffalo, the Comanche, and the Kiowa tribes. When the white men come to hunt the great beasts and drive the Indians out, the tribes gather and head to their towns armed for war.
- Author:Chappell, HenrySummary:
In the lage 1830s, the Mexican War is winding down, but tensions between the Texans and the Comanches threaten the fledgling Texas Republic. Towns are being raided and hundreds of murdered settlers litter the countryside. Sam Houston...
- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the...
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century Two hard luck, hard-living cowboys, Bo Creel and Scratch Morton, are the heroes of this new adventure by USA Today bestsellers William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone--in a bloody all-out...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
The high school principal asks China Bayles to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships. Soon after China confirms the coach's predilection for teenage girls, one of his victims...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack must bring the woman he once loved, Ella Lang, a.k.a. The Queen of the Outlaws, and her bloodthirsty saddle partners to justice, a dangerous job that could be the death of him.
- Author:Fisher, ClaySummary:
When a courageous Mestizo priest needed a man of strength to fulfill his vision, there was only one warrior fierce enough to turn to. It was the one they called the Black Apache.
- Author:Washburn, Livia J.Summary:
In the latest from the nationally bestselling author of The Candy Cane Cupcake Killer, Phyllis Newsom returns with a blackberry and blueberry pie recipe that's to die for... It's late summer in Weatherford, Texas and Mike Newsom's...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups. A trip to a nearby town introduces J.R. to a ghost...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Biggie is active planning the town's Pioneer Days festival when she learns of Mayor Gribbons' scheme to establish a landfill right next to her family cemetary. She meets the mayor at a local diner, but the man suddenly falls dead into...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Mailman Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone's mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it's no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day. Time for Biggie to offer her sleuthing...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
Shenanigans are afoot in Job's Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks on police deputy Butch Jenkin's cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes--until Aunt Vita straight-arms Cooter and sits on him. Meanwhile, Biggie's 12-year-old...
- Author:Bell, NancySummary:
A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table--with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffed mouth. Biggie and her 10-year-old...