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11/22/63: A Novel

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Print book

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King's heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination - a thousand page tour de force....
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)

Cormac McCarthy - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen...
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The Bottoms

Joe R. Lansdale - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

The talented voice of East Texas delivers a riveting, poignant, and suspenseful tale of a Depression-era serial murder seen through the eyes of a young boy.
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Jacqueline Kelly - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers...
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream

Buzz Bissinger

Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and rac
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The Gates of the Alamo

Stephen Harrigan

A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo, an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history. With its vibrant, unexpected characters and its richness of authentic detail, The Gates of the Alamo is an un
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Giant: A Novel (Perennial Classics)

Edna Ferber - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback

"A powerful story...truly as big as its subject." - Los Angeles TimesThe basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferbers sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons,...
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state...
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Goodbye to a River

John Graves - Knopf
Format: Paperback

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream's regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people...
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Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel - DOUBLEDAY.
Format: Paperback

great first novel
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Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Erik Larson
Format: Hardcover

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston,...
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Lone star : a history of Texas and the Texans

T R Fehrenbach - American Legacy Pr., 1983.
Format: Print book

Bibliography: p. 721-729. Includes index. Discusses the growth and development of the state and looks at the people, politics, and events that shaped Texas.
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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry - Simon and Schuster
Format: Print book

Set in the late 19th century, Lonesome Dove is an adventurous story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The narrative centers around two friends: Augustus McCrae, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women, and W. F. Call, whose talent for leadership conceals a secret sorrow. For Gus,...
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News of the World: A Novel

Paulette Jiles - William Morrow
Format: Print book

National Book Award Finalist - FictionIt 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 captain enjoys his rootless,...
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No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin,...
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The Son

Philipp Meyer - Ecco
Format: Paperback

Philipp Meyer, the acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic of the American West and a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family, from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the to the oil booms of the 20th...
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Texas

James A Michener - Random House
Format: Print book

"A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work....He manages to make history vivid and palatable to the reader."THE BOSTON...
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Terms of Endearment

Larry McMurtry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma. Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit...
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Texasville

Larry McMurtry

Jacy, the high school beauty, returns to Thalia from a career as a Hollywood star and changes the lives of her fellow townspeople
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