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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas-the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter-a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When Duncan shows up as her new boss, though, he's nothing like...
2) Lead me on
Author
Series
Pearl Island trilogy volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman-and a nation-struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Emily, a popular but bookish prep school senior, goes missing after a night out with friends. She was last seen leaving a party with Alex, a football player with a dubious reputation. But no one is talking. Now three mothers, Catherine, Leslie, and Morgan, friends turned frenemies, have their lives turned upside down as they are forced to look to their own children--and each other's--for answers to questions they don't want to ask"--
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Protecting a terrified young woman who has witnessed a crime in 1942 Texas, Ranger Virgil Tucker is drawn into the dangerous world of the New Orleans mafia when the murder of a prominent attorney reveals a takeover plot against Galveston's gambling empire.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A kaleidoscopic, emotionally charged debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino families on the Texas coast. Unflinching, lyrical, and singular, The Last Karankawas is a portrait of America rarely witnessed, where browning palm trees and oily waters mark the forefront of ecological change. It is a deeply imagined exploration of familial inheritance, human perseverance, and the histories we assign to ourselves, establishing Kimberly...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective, comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston. On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known “without affection” to members of the bosss crew as “Big Country” on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots,...
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