Braun, Matthew: El Paso [PBRACK WESTERN]

Western; It is 1881. El Paso is at a crossroads. A booming sin city crawling with corrupt politicians and gunslick outlaws, the town now faces its greatest challenge: the savagery of the notorious Banning Brothers. Dallas Stoudenmire is the marshal El Paso has hired to bring a quick end to the Bannings' reign of terror. Bloodshed erupts as the Bannings hire an assassin to send Stoudenmire to an early grave. Now the former Texas Ranger will rely on nerves and a quick gun to save his own life—and bring swift justice to a desperate town.

Demarinis, Rick: Sky Full Of Sand [FICTION DEMARINIS]

Uriah Walkinghorse, Tucson bodybuilder turned slum-apartment manager, takes a part-time gig as a faux enforcer for a dominatrix. When the dominatrix’s client, who happens to be a real-estate tycoon and drug-money launderer, expires in the shower from a postparty heart attack, our hero finds himself unwillingly drawn into a cover-up and willingly involved in a tempestuous affair with the victim’s wife. The plot quickly splinters off in multiple directions, each in its own right a small masterpiece of absurdity, black humor, Peckinpahish violence, and, yes, just a touch of genuine tenderness lurking around the edges of the mayhem.

Fackler, Elizabeth: Patricide [MYSTERY FACKLER]

Mystery; El Paso police detective Devon Grey investigates a homicide involving sexual abuse.

Gilb, Dagoberto: The Last Known Residence Of Mickey Acuna [FICTION GILB]

Mickey Acuna arrives at the El Paso YMCA on the run from an unknown past event looking only for anonymity and a mailing address. Plagued by inertia and self-doubt, waiting for a check that never arrives, obsessed with obtaining an "unpolluted understanding" of his surroundings, Mickey gradually fraternizes with the other disenfranchised Y residents. Gilb focuses on the slow passage of time at the Y and the daily interactions of Mickey’s neighbors, like the Charles Manson-esque Reverend Miller and the paranoid loner Charles Towne, both of whom fixate desperately on the delivery of mail.

Gilb, Dagoberto: Magic Of Blood [FICTION GILB]

Short stories about Mexican-Americans in El Paso & Calif.

Kiefer, Warren: Outlaw [FICTION KIEFER]

Western; Rustler & rancher, Rough Rider & oilman, lover & husband, & father & murderer, Lee Garland has seen it all—war in Mexico & Cuba, success & failure in business, all sorts of joy & sorrow. His no-nonsense account of his life mixes history & fiction on a grand scale until he finally comes against an adversary too big for him—Uncle Sam. Set in El Paso, Utah & Mexico in the late 19th to early 20th century.

Lee, Linda Francis: Looking For Lacey [PBRACK ROMANCE]

Romance; Determined to change her life, Lacey Wright finds herself the new manager of a local sports bar, but her determination to make a success of her new job is undermined by her irresistible new boss, football legend Bobby McIntyre.

Mitchum, Hank: Stagecoach Station 23: El Paso [WESTERN MITCHUM]

Western; Branson Howard, a captain of the Texas Rangers, worked hard to put his violent past behind him and use his gun-skills to uphold law and order. Turk Killam organized a criminal operation that would make him disputed master of the range and bring ruin upon El Paso.

Schumacher, Aileen: Affirmative Reaction [MYSTERY SCHUMACHER]

Mystery; 3rd in Tory Travers series. Tory discovers a woman's body has been stuffed in a manhole while she's inspecting a community development site. The body turns out to belong to a contentious city employee who vehemently opposed affirmative action programs. Years before, the Hispanic contractor who built the now-abandoned subdivision apparently committed suicide. Unless it was murder. Did the dead woman know something about it? Or maybe the recent return of the dead woman’s ex-husband was a plan for revenge; or perhaps her political views finally sent someone over the edge—like the son of the dead contractor, who knows something, but doesn't want to reveal his information to Tory or David.

Schumacher, Aileen: Engineered For Murder [MYSTERY SCHUMACHER]

Mystery; 1st in Tory Travers series. Tory Travers is a young, widowed structural engineer, living with her son on the outskirts of a campus town in New Mexico. Her life changes when a scandal erupts regarding the structural problems of the new football stadium. Tory's business is financially threatened if she carries out her duties as inspector. Things escalate when lab records disappear and someone is found murdered. Enter El Paso Detective Alvarez. When Tory starts receiving death threats, the two work together to solve the mysteries.

Schumacher, Aileen: Framework For Death [MYSTERY SCHUMACHER]

Mystery; 2nd in Tory Travers series. El Paso police detective David Alvarez is called to investigate an unexplained collapse in the residence of an affluent matron, where he discovers the dead matron and another body in a concealed room in the basement, and, unexplainably, a live infant upstairs.

Vazquez, Diego: Growing Through The Ugly [FICTION VAZQUEZ]

Buzzy Digit, a young soldier killed in Vietnam, recalls growing up Chicano during the 1960s in El Paso. His life with an extended family on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, and his escape from the claustrophobia of home to the war in Vietnam are shown in flashbacks as he returns home from Vietnam in a casket.

Yanez, Richard: El Paso Del Norte: Stories On The Border [FICTION YANEZ]

A collection of stories whose characters live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders—between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death.