James Lee Burke - Two for Texas [FICTION BURKE]

• The story of Son Holland and Hugh Allison, two prison escapees from Louisiana, and their whirlwind trip into Texas territory during the revolution of 1835-36.

Cindy Bonner - Lily [FICTION BONNER (also LARGE PRINT FICTION BONNER)]

• Lily Delony, 15, tells her own charming version of what happens on Christmas Eve 1883, when her father's vigilante group strikes against a gang of outlaws that includes the man who will become the love of her life.

Billy Lee Brammer - The Gay Place [FICTION BRAMMER]

• Inspired by Lyndon Johnson, this three-part novel paints a portrait of a pure politician, Governor Arthur Fenstemaker, and the circle of politicos, movie stars, grafters, and reformers who surround him.

Anita R. Bunkley - Black Gold [FICTION BUNKLEY (also LARGE PRINT FICTION BUNKLEY)]

• Leela Wilder, a proud and beautiful African American woman, is torn between two men while struggling for survival in the 1920s oil-boom.

Elizabeth Crook - The Raven's Bride [FICTION CROOK]

• This fictionalized portrait of Eliza Allen, Sam Houston's first wife, unravels the dark romantic mystery of their brief marriage.

Carol Dawson - Body of Knowledge [FICTION DAWSON]

• Victoria Grace Ransom, a 600-pound recluse, recounts the tragicomic story of her cursed family dynasty in a mythical Central Texas town.

Edna Ferber - Giant [FICTION FERBER]

• Coming fresh from Virginia to a two and a half million acre Texas ranch, new bride Leslie Benedict must adapt to a brash, grand-scale way of living.

Reginald Gibbons - Sweetbitter [FICTION GIBBONS]

• Turn-of-the-century East Texas is a world that offers no home for Reuben Sweetbitter, who is half-Choctaw and half-white, especially after he begins a relationship with a lawyer's headstrong daughter.

Jovita González - Caballero: an Historical Novel [FICTION GONZALEZ]

• A mid-nineteenth-century Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas must face struggles with race, class, gender, and sexual contradictions.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey - A Woman of Independent Means [FICTION HAILEY]

• Told through letters spanning more than fifty years, the story of the invincible Bess Steed Garner begins at the turn of the century in the tranquillity of Honey Grove, Texas, and concludes amid the turbulence of the late sixties.

Rolando Hinojosa - Klail City Death Trap [FICTION HINOJOSA]

• This multivolume series explores generations of alienation and desire reflecting the class and race relationships between Texas Mexicans and Texas Anglos in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

Tina Juárez - Call No Man M*A*S*T*E*R [FICTION JUAREZ]

• Despite being of mixed blood in the racially stratified society of colonial Mexico, Carmen Rangel's firm sense of identity leads her to become a daring participant in the wars of Mexican independence from Spain and of Texas independence from Mexico.

Elithe Hamilton Kirkland - Love is a Wild Assault [FICTION KIRKLAND]

• The story of Harriet Potter, the delicate, dark-eyed girl who became a legend during the stirring days of the battle for Texas Independence.

Jeff Long - Emprie of Bones: A Novel of Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution [FICTION LONG]

• From the surrender and execution of Davy Crockett through the battle of San Jacinto, this retelling of Texas's fight for independence probes moral dilemmas as well as tactical maneuvers.

Max Martinez - Schoolland [FICTION MARTINEZ]

• DESCRIThe daily life of a Mexican-American family in rural Texas during the year of a great drought in the 1950s.PTION

Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses [FICTION MCCARTHY]

• In 1949, as 16-year-old John Grady Cole finds himself at the losing end of a long line of Texas ranchers, he is beckoned across the border on an idyllic, yet painful, adventure.

James Michener - The Eagle and the Raven [FICTION MICHENER]

• Sam Houston and Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, similar in many ways but radically different in others, meet only once, in a battle which lasts eighteen minutes and changes the fate of two nations.

James Michener - Texas [FICTION MICHENER (also CASSETTE MICHENER)]

• Combining fact and fiction, this epic saga spans four centuries and two continents as it charts the formation of several great Texas dynasties from the age of the conquistadores to the present day.

Suzanne Morris - Galveston [FICTION MORRIS]

• Between 1877 and 1920, the lies, deceits, and political struggles of three generations of people help shape the burgeoning island city of Galveston.

Leonard Sanders - Fort Worth [FICTION SANDERS]

• A multi-generational story of the Spurlock family's rise to fortune and their involvement in the building of Fort Worth.

Steven Saylor - A Twist at the End: A Novel Of O. Henry [FICTION SAYLOR]

• In 1906, two decades after a series of brutal murders in Austin, the writer O. Henry is drawn back to Texas when he is blackmailed about his role in the case.

D. Marion Wilkinson - Not Between Brothers: an Epic Novel of Texas [FICTION WILKINSON]

• The birth of the Lone Star State unfolds through the eyes of a young white immigrant, his Tejana wife, and a fearless Comanche warrior.

Janice Woods Windle - True Women [FICTION WINDLE (also LARGE PRINT FICTION WINDLE or CASSETTE WINDLE)]

• From the battle of the Alamo to World War II, a fact-based story of three generations of strong, wise women in Seguin, Texas.

Jane Roberts Wood - The Train to Estelline [FICTION WOOD (also LARGE PRINT FICTION WOOD or CASSETTE WOOD)]

• In 1911, 18-year-old Lucinda Richards boards a train for Texas to take a teaching job in a one-room schoolhouse in the harsh, windblown prairie.