Target Reading Lone Star Table of Contents
This November, we at Lone Star Literary Life savour the chill autumn breeze, the leaves slowly globe-trotting from the treetops, that joy of breaking out the turtleneck collection -- and truly hope to experience information technology some day soon! This batch of Texas-continued titles fulfills our longings and musings on autumn with a feast of exciting new publications to autumn in love with. From paranormal investigations in San Antonio, to waxing poetic well-nigh Laredo, to finding the nirvana of Texas rivers, there's enough of reading to deepen your beloved of the Lone Star State.
Comfort Zone
Kimberly Fish
Anna Weber, an appraiser who gives value to other people's constitute treasures is on assignment to enquiry a handwritten canvas of music, After helping a stranded motorist, she discovers she's rescued retired NFL quarterback Jack Moses. His confidence and fascination for solving problems makes him incommunicable for Anna to ignore even every bit they both dart along separate deadlines to relieve the finances at an inner-city school. Fiddling does Anna know that as she wrestles with secrets from her past and a suspicious approach to people, Jack is running too. As a nemesis threatens Anna'south young daughters, these two unlikely partners discover that it's in stepping back from years of self-sufficiency that Anna and Jack can find the all-time treasure of all: a serial of sweet, second chances.
The Ghost Tracks
Celso Hurtado
Erasmo Cruz is from the wrong side of the tracks. His dad was a junkie who overdosed. His mom chose to run off rather than enhance him. His only passion is the supernatural, and his only family is his grandmother, whose aches and pains, he soon learns, aren't just from quondam age but from cancer. Desperate to help his grandmother pay for handling, Erasmo sets up shop as a paranormal investigator. Afterwards witnessing a series of inexplicable events, he must uncover the truth behind his clients' seemingly impossible claims. From hauntings to exorcisms, Erasmo soon finds that San Antonio is a much scarier place than fifty-fifty he knew.
Heidegger Looks at the Moon
R. Westward. Haynes
A collection of poems from Laredo, Texas, reflecting upon the ebb and flow of tradition, agreement, and happiness.
Irene in Danger
Judy Alter
Want a French recipe? Irene will teach you to make salad niçoise. Want murder and mayhem? Irene seems to attract both. With i calendar week until her wedding, Henny James is convinced Irene'south arrival from France volition ruin the biggest day of her life. One week to save Irene from the trouble she brings with her and salvage the wedding. Recipes included.
Nowhere to Hide
LynDee Walker
When Texas Ranger Faith McClellan is called to investigate a serial of gruesome pocket-sized-boondocks murders, she doesn't look to find a slaughtered pig—but she agrees to take the case, suspecting the latest murder was targeted at Kelsey Marie, the teenage handler of the victim.
Kelsey Marie is smart, pretty, and successful, supporting her family's lavish lifestyle with her highly lucrative YouTube channel. She's besides the target of massive online detest, with dozens of threatening letters sent to her channel each day.
Although the clues point to an online stalker, Religion suspects a killer much closer to home, and the listing of possibilities is endless: from jealous rivals at a local FFA affiliate to Kelsey Marie'south suspiciously missing mom and half brother.
When the killer carves up their first human victim, Religion knows she's running out of time—but with little bear witness, too many suspects, and a serial killer who outsmarts her at every turn, the odds are stacked upwardly against her.
And when the killer uploads the filmed murders to Kelsey Marie'due south YouTube channel, Religion will hazard everything to save the teenager's reputation…and her life.
Scattered Legacy
Marlene Grand. Bong
Antiquities practiced Annalisse Drury and tycoon Alec Zavos revel in a love thing brindled with treasure hunting, grand take chances, and the occasional expressionless body. Information technology'south autumn when Alec arranges a getaway from them to visit is mother's birthplace in Bari, Italy—a no-drama vacation to transfer his machine company to a rival. Just before they tin can depart New York, murder makes its familiar reappearance. Accompanied by detective friend Pecker Drake, Annalisse and Alec find themselves embroiled in a behind-closed-doors conspiracy that threatens the reputation and legacy of Alec'southward late father—linking him to the Mafia. An ancient rosary propels Annalisse down kleptomaniacal paths to expose the truth equally they uncover answers none of them are prepared for.
Sissie Kline Is Completely Normal
Kris Clink
One mistake tin steal your innocence. One hope can plague a friendship. One clandestine tin tear apart a family. Sissie Klein barely remembers the dark that tore her from the carefree life she knew. Not long after the shocked teen is pushed into union, she'due south rushed to the hospital where a catastrophic commitment seals her destiny. Sissie is adamant to requite her daughter the opportunities she forfeited, only some fates can't exist avoided. Tragedy strikes, leaving behind a legacy of deceit—and an orphaned toddler. Told with heartbreaking honesty and shrewd humor, Sissie Klein Is Completely Normal examines the ties that bind united states—some inherited, others chosen—none without their share of agonizing tangles.
Viva Texas Rivers! Adventures, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways
By Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfieste
Many of Texas' leading writers have had their hearts captured past a river, and they have created sparkling accounts of the waterways they love. Editors Steven 50. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester accept assembled the best of those works into a revelatory collection of diverse literary voices. Ranging from the desert canyonlands of the Rio Grande to the swampy Big Thicket, from crystal articulate Loma Country streams to the Scarlet River's treacherous quicksand, Viva Texas Rivers! showcases many classic writings along with brand new essays written for this book. The literary nonfiction is complemented by flashes of poetry that brilliantly reflect these curving ribbons of light.
Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West'due south Almost Notorious Woman Bandit
John Boessenecker
On May 30, 1899, history was fabricated when Pearl Hart, disguised as a homo, held upward a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as word of her heist spread, and Pearl Hart went on to go a media sensation and the most notorious female outlaw on the Western frontier. Her early life, family and fate after her later release from prison have long remained a mystery to scholars and historians—until now.
Drawing on groundbreaking inquiry into territorial records and genealogical data, 's is the first book to uncover the enigma of Pearl Hart. Hailed by many as "The Bandit Queen," her ballsy life of crime and legacy as a female trailblazer provide a crucial lens into the lives of the rare women who made their mark in the American West.
101 Things Women Want from Their Men
Compiled by Author Annette Bridges. Illustrated by Lesley Vernon. Designed past Janie Owen-Bugh.
Hundreds of women were asked: "What'south one piece of advice you would like to give your human being?" Women freely shared what they wanted and what they didn't want. They revealed what they needed and what they didn't need. So fellas, if yous want to really know what women want, this book was designed especially for you lot, written collectively past hundreds of women who wanted y'all to know. There is much good communication in these 101 wants that is applicable to both partners in a human relationship. Being willing to hear, and in this case read, what some women said they want and don't want from their men may be a good identify to begin a word to consider what each of you wants or doesn't want in your own partnership.
Bee, Dear Bunny, and Me
Lavelle Carlson
Is it just a dream? Does Babe Bunny love or hate carrots? Are they Yucky or are they Yummy Carrots? Baby Bunny hates them then she loves them. What makes Baby Bunny change her mind when she hates carrots? How can the bees assistance to convince Leni? This delightfully illustrated book volition keep children enthralled as they dream along with Leni about the bunnies and the bees to come across how Baby Bunny changes her mind about carrots. Volition this also help Infant Leni love carrots as she dreams nigh Babe Bunny and the carrots and bees?
Existence Texan: Essays, Recipes, and Advice for the Solitary Star Way of Life
Editors of Texas Monthly
Big hats, large trucks, big oil fortunes—Texas clichés all. And while those elements do flourish throughout Texas, they lonely hardly ascertain the place. The Lonely Star State is and has always been a great melting pot, home to sprawling cities, trailblazing innovators, and treasured traditions from all over, many of which become ingrained in popular culture and intertwined with the American ideal.
In this collection, the editors of Texas Monthly have stock of their multifaceted, larger-than-life state, including the people, customs, land, culture, and cuisine that have collided and comingled hither. Featuring essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from the magazine's legendary roster of contributors, and accompanied by original drawings, Being Texan explores the landscapes that are home to more than than 29 million people; the joys and idiosyncrasies of Texan life; underappreciated episodes of Texas history; and distinctive strains of Texan arts and culture.
Illuminating, surprising, and entertaining, Being Texan reveals the Alone Star State in all its beauty, vastness, and complexity.
Black Cowboys of Rodeo
Keith Ryan Cartwright
They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursuits intersect with those of America'south struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social justice.
Keith Ryan Cartwright brings to life the stories of such pioneers equally Cleo Hearn, the first Black cowboy to professionally rope in the Rodeo Cowboy Association; Myrtis Dightman, who became known every bit the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo after beingness the first Black cowboy to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo; and Tex Williams, the start Blackness cowboy to become a state high school rodeo champion in Texas.
Blackness Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years of stories, told by these revolutionary Black pioneers themselves and fix against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and somewhen the integration of a racially divided country.
Da Mayor of Fifth Ward: Stories from the Big Thicket and Houston
Robert "Bob" Due east Lee and Michael Berryhill
n March 2017, Bob Lee—freelance author, customs organizer, social worker, social justice warrior, child of Houston'south Fifth Ward and its abet, former Chicago Black Panther—died at the age of 74. Alongside his larger legacy, he left behind this collection of fourteen stories published in the Houston Relate'southward Sunday Texas Magazine betwixt 1989 and 2000.
Framed by journalist and scholar Michael Berryhill, these youthful recollections and tales of his E Texas relatives reveal Lee'south stupor at learning that his elderly aunt and uncle, who lived in Jasper, Texas, were lifelong Republicans; recount his discovery at the age of 19 that white people, also, could be poor; recall integrating a small-town eating place with the help of the white rancher who hired him; explore the earth of Black longshoremen and offer meditations on the mysteries of death.
As he lay suffering from cancer, Lee told Berryhill that he wasn't thinking about dying, just focusing on dearest. Berryhill, who was Lee's first editor at the Houston Chronicle, has lovingly collected and edited Lee's stories, which are complemented past an introduction and biographical essay. Treasured storyteller Bob Lee'due south essays offer to readers the experience of Black history in both urban and rural settings by invoking the unproblematic details and events of everyday life.
The Particular
Dana Wayne
Detective Jessica Foster's world is organized chaos. She hunts a killer, juggles a heavy caseload, and forbidden feelings for her partner, Seth Hamilton.
But are those feelings one-sided?
When their suspect is arrested in Denver, the detail is simple - bring him back to Texas.
Until a disastrous plough of events changes everything, and a ruthless killer escapes with one thing on his heed - Revenge.
The Terminal Standing Cowboy
Carla Cassidy
A cowboy's back on the ranch… and gear up to rescue his boss
Hired to piece of work as a horse trainer, Mac McBride discovers that his new employer, Marisa Lindale, is as untrusting as her mustang. Years ago, she was tormented past a mysterious criminal and now her abductor has returned! Mac finds himself irresistibly drawn to Marisa and desperate to protect her…merely her plans for revenge might run a risk both their lives.
Glove for a Lady
by Gerónima Garza , ilustrated by Noé González Garza
Teresa'south schoolhouse is abuzz with the upcoming visit of President Lyndon B. Johnson. With her friend Licha in tow, Teresa has a hazard run across with Lady Bird Johnson. In this delightful story of friendship, set in the celebrated Welhausen Schoolhouse in Cotulla, Texas, readers volition encounter the bear on of treating the less fortunate with dignity.
The Pledge
Kathleen Kent
Things are looking up for Detective Betty Rhyzyk. She's settled into a happy spousal relationship and been promoted to Sergeant in the Dallas Police Department. But when a hostage stand up-off puts her on the phone with legendary cartel leader The Knife, things accept a turn. The Pocketknife has heard a rival is making a play for the streets of Dallas—none other than Evangeline Roy. The matriarch of a ruthless cult, Evangeline likewise happens to hold a personal vendetta confronting Betty. Then who better to draw Evangeline out of hiding? Betty's got two weeks to catch her. Or else.
With Betty's young charge Mary Grace already missing—having left her seven-month-erstwhile baby behind in Betty's care—and the drug dealers of Dallas donning strange red wigs and delivering cryptic messages, Betty'due south in a race for answers. With the clock ticking downwardly, information technology volition take everything she's got to finally put an cease to Evangeline'south reign of terror, and to keep her honey Dallas—and her own family—safe at concluding.
Sister, Blood brother, Family unit
Willie Nelson, Bobbie Nelson, Chris Barton, Kyung Eun Han (Illustrator)
The outset ever children's book by music legend Willie Nelson and his sister and bandmate Bobbie Nelson!
"We had so footling money, only so much love."
He was a boy with a guitar. She was a daughter with a piano. Raised by loving grandparents in Depression-era rural Texas, their apprehensive beginnings playing local shows to put food on the table started Willie and Bobbie Nelson on a remarkable path to global distinction. In a story filled with details of a childhood in rural Texas—with church building socials, general stores, and boondocks dances—Willie and Bobbie weave together an inspiring story of a long-ago time. With triumphs and tragedies, hard work and determination, hither is a deeply personal, gorgeously-written, and profoundly moving tale of hope.
The Boys in the Brazos River Bottom
Peter L. Scamardo
Mumford, Texas, the summer of '69. Matt Ruggirello believes he is doomed to enter the farming life, just similar everyone else in his family unit. Josh, his centre blood brother, wants nothing more than Papa's blessing. While lilliputian brother Tommy observes all the happenings in and around the Ruggirello family unit home of Three Pecans, a nickname christened by the iii brothers.
Withal Matt receives news that could have him away from the cotton fields and into the big city. The obstruction in the style is Papa, whose suspicions brand him fearful of change in the family.
Along the mode the brothers experience rivalries, machine crashes, a torrential tempest, familial stories of the past, the music of KTSA 550 San Antonio, and the dinner table discussions that define the Italian-American household.
Inspired by stories his family has told over the years, Peter 50. Scamardo II provides a window into the lives of the Central Texas farming communities, and a different perspective on the Italian-American experience.
Merely WAIT, THERE'S More than!
There are so many Texas-connected books publishing this month that we couldn't feature all of them. The following books also publish in November:
Art and Design
Abandoned Texas: Nether A Alone Star Moon by Mike Cooper
Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert by Helen Thompson and Casey Dunn
Biography and Memoir
Beaumonster: A Memoir byJesse Dayton
Feet of Clay: Gus C. Garcia, Tragic Hero of the Ceremonious Rights Movement past Millie Diaz
John B. Denton: The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger by Mike Cochran
Rare Integrity: A Portrait of 50. W. Payne, Jr. by Hansen Alexander
True Love Cast Out All Evil by Brian T Atkinson
Other Nonfiction
Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra by Anima Adjepong
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language Man Experience by Bren é Chocolate-brown
Breaking Away How the Texas A&K Academy Arrangement Inverse the Game by Tim Gregg
Civil Rights in Blackness and Chocolate-brown : Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas by Ed. By Max Krochmal and Todd Moye
Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Corruption past Howard Campbell
For a Merely and Better Earth- Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 past Sonia Hernandes
Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the The states United mexican states Borderlands past William Kiser
The Last Letter of the alphabet: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust (Legacies of State of war) by Karen Baum Gordon
Heighten a Fist, Take a Articulatio genus by John Feinstein
Red Messages: 2 Fervent Liverpool FC Supporters Correspond through the Ballsy Season That Wouldn't Finish by Michael MacCambridge and Neil Atkinson
Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Research by Joshua DiCaglio
Sul Ross at Texas A&M past John A. Adams
Sweet Talk Cookies: Creative Designs for Birthdays, Holidays, and Everyday by Hayley Callaway
Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts by Teresa Palomo Acosta
To Alive and Play in Dixie: Pro Football's Entry into the Jim Crow South by Robert D. Jacobus
Fiction
A Cowboy's Christmas Star past Vickie Phelps
Texas Abduction (An O'Connor Family Mystery Book 6) by Affront Han
Way We Weren't by Phoebe Fox
You and Me by Becky Wade
A Deal Made in Texasby Michelle Major (bonus volume withinSnow in Cold Creekby RaeAnne Thayne)
The Marching Ant: A Novel Inspired By True Events by Allyson N Chapa
Young Adult and Children
Faith Greater Heights by Julie Tater
The Terminal Stand up of the Can Can Soldiers by Doug Murray and James D Hornfischer
Giraffes in my Closet by Debra Young Hatch
Revolutionary Women of Texas and United mexican states Coloring Volume : A Coloring Volume for Kids and Adults past Kathy Sosa, Lionel
Xxx Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narvaez Varela (paperback/eBook)
When Jesus Speaks to a Brave Male child by Matt Koreich
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