Janis Arnold - Daughters of Memory [FICTION ARNOLD]

• An intense rivalry between two very different sisters culminates in a shocking discovery and a reaffirmation of the healing power of love.

Sarah Bird - Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains [FICTION BIRD]

• Alamo House is the scene of the extraordinary friendship of three women, Mary Jo, Fayrene, and Collie, who embark on an all-out attack on the fraternity house across the street.

Mitch Cullin - Whompyjawed [FICTION CULLIN]

• High school football hero Willy Keller struggles to make sense of himself in the backwash town of Claude, Texas.

Al Dewlen - The Session [FICTION DEWLEN]

• Dave Youngman, an idealistic freshman legislator in the Texas House, is drawn into a rollicking battle of wills with some thoroughly corrupt old-time politicians.

Lars Eighner - Pawn to Queen Four [FICTION EIGHNER]

• The larky escapades of a 60-ish Austin drag queen, Madam Agnes, who presides over the Court of the Jade Chimera.

Robert Flynn - Wanderer Springs [FICTION FLYNN]

• Through the eyes of Will Callaghan, the story of the dusty Texas town of Wanderer Springs unfolds.

Lionel G. Garcia - Hardscrub [FICTION GARCIA]

• A young man comes of age while trying to salvage his identity and family integrity from the mindless whirlwind created by his father, who is meaner and tougher than the West Texas desert.

William Goyen - Arcadio [FICTION GOYEN]

• An extraordinary being who is half man, half woman, half Mexican, and half Texan recounts the haunting story of his life.

Patricia Browning Griffith - The World Around Midnight [FICTION GRIFFITH]

• Dinah Reynolds is abruptly uprooted from her comfortable life in Dallas when her father dies and she must take over the newspaper in her quirky hometown of Midnight, Texas.

Stephen Harrigan - Aransas [FICTION HARRIGAN]

• Jeff Dowling returns to his hometown of Port Aransas to work in a porpoise show, where he is swept up in a passion that leads him to the pivotal decision of his life.

William Hauptman - Storm Season [FICTION HAUPTMAN]

• Just out of high school and floundering for direction, Burl Drennan becomes hooked on the thrill of chasing tornadoes at a time when other kinds of storms are sweeping into his life.

Kate Lehrer - When They Took Away the Man in the Moon [FICTION LEHRER (also LARGE PRINT FICTION LEHRER)]

• H.A. Reese, a high-powered political consultant, is entering the critical phase of a campaign for a possibly shady candidate when she is called home to Texas to deal with her mother's sudden stroke.

Larry McMurtry - All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers [FICTION MCMURTRY (also CASSETTE MCMURTRY)]

• Danny Deck, a promising young writer rapidly losing touch with the things that fostered his talent, drifts from his native Texas to California and back looking for ties that will bind him to people and places.

Turk Pipkin - Fast Greens [FICTION PIPKIN]

• As two aging Texas wildcatters settle a decades-old vendetta on the golf course, their 13-year-old caddy learns some surprising truths about golf, life, and his heritage.

Mary Powell - Auslander [FICTION POWELL]

• Four women explore the many ways one can be an outsider as they chronicle the life of a close-knit German family in the Texas Hill Country.

Louise Redd - Hangover Soup [FICTION REDD]

• In between her duties as tutor for the "student-athletes" at U.T.-Austin, Faith Evers struggles with her D.J. husband Jay's alcoholism.

Clay Reynolds - Vigil [FICTION REYNOLDS]

• When her teenage daughter disappears during a stopover in a tiny Texas town, Imogene McBride sits on a park bench to wait until her child reappears -- a vigil that takes day, months, years.

Joni Rodgers - Sugar Land [FICTION RODGERS]

• As children, the Smithers sister performed throughout Texas as the Sugar Babes; but those glory days of adoring fans and gold lame gowns are long gone, and Kit and Kiki must now learn to deal with the cheating spouses, balloon mortgages, and lost opportunities of real life.

Sandra Scofield - Opal on Dry Ground [FICTION SCOFIELD]

• Pushing 60 and married to her third husband, Opal welcomes her two troubled daughters and her surly granddaughter into her new husband's home.

Gail Donohue Storey - The Lord's Motel [FICTION STOREY]

• Houston librarian Colleen Sweeney is in love with the wrong man, but her good friends at the Lord's Motel -- an apartment building so named by its ascetic, New Age manager -- head her in the direction of Mr. Right.

Cole Thompson - Chocolate Lizards [FICTION THOMPSON]

• When a Harvard-educated aspiring actor finds himself broke and desperate in Abilene, he is drawn into the world of Merle Luskey, a hard-drinkin' tough-talkin' wildcatter with an outrageous proposition.

Kurt Tidmore - Bigger 'n Dallas [FICTION TIDMORE]

• Like moths to a flame, the people of Tyrone are drawn to Bigger 'N Dallas, the Texas dance hall where everyone and his brother comes to drink and find comfort.

Diego Vázquez - Growing Through the Ugly [FICTION VAZQUEZ]

• Buzzy Digit, a dead Chicano soldier returning from Vietnam in a coffin at age eighteen, narrates this dark, impressionistic story of his childhood in the El Paso barrio.