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Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 1
Language
English
Description
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at, " is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman and has any power of her own, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York City. Years later, when a funeral forces her to return...
8) Bad chili
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
10) Rusty puppy
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Hap Collins, a white boy from East Texas, and Leonard Pine, an Africa-American, homosexual veteran, work with Hap's former lover to score a large sum of money.
14) The thicket
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects him from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The nationally best-selling author of House of Leaves and Only Revolutions has crafted a powerfully chilling novella--a ghost story for grownup readers. Late one evening at a party at an East Texas ranch house, five orphans gather to hear a story about a quest for a terrible weapon. Before them lies a long black box with five latches. As the owner of the box settles into a curious tale of revenge, the children grow more and more captivated, even...
16) Hap and Leonard
Author
Series
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of seven short stories highlights the adventures of liberal "good ol' boy" Hap Collins and conservative, black, gay Leonard Pine as they get into trouble in East Texas.
17) Leather maiden
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After a scandalous affair costs him his job in Houston, Cason Statler--Gulf War veteran and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist--returns home to the small east Texas town of Camp Rapture. Cason is a wreck. He drinks too much, he's stalking his ex-girlfriend, and he's wallowing in envy of his successful older brother. To get back on his feet, he takes a job at the local paper, and when he stumbles across his predecessor's notes on a cold case murder...
18) Heaven, my home
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 2
Language
English
Description
"9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark. Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had...
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