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5) Footsteps
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
362 p. : port. ; 21 cm.
Description
Debra Patterson's children are missing... and her husband appears responsible-her whole world is collapsing. Alone and spiritually broken, where will she find strength to face tomorrow?
9) Gone fishin'
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A novel exploring the early years of Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander, protagonists in a current black PI series. The setting is Texas, the time the 1930s, and the two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo, sex and murder.
10) A taste for love
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Both high school senior Liza Yang and her mother share a love and talent for baking but disagree on the subject of dating, especially when Mrs. Yang turns her annual baking contest into a matchmaking scheme.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
275 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Rising from the ashes of the past, a woman of the Houston area seeks life's charm amid some of its deepest pain. Cassidy is making a fresh start, managing a store in a new town. She's repented of her prodigal teenage years -- but can she prove she's worthy of anyone's love? Can God bring about charm from the chaos of her life?
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Cal Lewis's volatile father has been picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars. This means leaving Brooklyn-- and Cal's career plans as an aspiring journalist-- to move to Houston, Texas. Now life is a media circus, and Cal and his parents struggle to be the "perfect American family." He meets and falls head over heels for Leon, whose mother is also an astronaut. As the frenzy around the mission mounts, Cal suspects secrets are being...
13) Brown-eyed girl
Author
Series
Travis family romances volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Wedding planner Avery Crosslin may be a rising star in Houston society, but she doesn't believe in love -- at least not for herself. When she meets wealthy bachelor Joe Travis and mistakes him for a wedding photographer, she has no intention of letting him sweep her off her feet. But Joe is a man who goes after what he wants, and Avery can't resist the temptation of a sexy southern charmer and a hot summer evening. After a one night stand, however,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Lulu Saad doesn't need your advice, thank you very much. She's got her three best friends and nothing can stop her from conquering the known world. Sure, for half a minute she thought she’d nearly drowned a cute guy at a party, but he was totally faking it. And fine, yes, she caused a scene during Ramadan. It's all under control. Ish.
15) Memorial
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Houston for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke has one muggy Houston summer left before college. When she is grounded for the entire summer by her (sometimes) evil stepmother, all her plans are thrown out the window. Ellen convinces her parents to let her join the local muggle Quidditch team. An all-gender, full-contact game, Quidditch isn't quite what Ellen expects. There's no flying, no magic, just a bunch of scrappy players holding PVC pipe between their legs...
17) Lot: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
18) Wings of ebony
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
When her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for Rue and her sister Tasha changes forever. Taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, Rue is forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked away to Ghizon-- a hidden island of magic wielders. Rue is the only half-god, half-human there, where leaders protect their magical powers at all costs and thrive on human suffering. Desperate to see Tasha on the anniversary of their mother's...
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Formats
Description
Not the Girls You're Looking For is debut author Aminah Mae Safi's honest and smart audiobook about how easy it can be to hurt those around you even if -especially if-you love them.
Lulu Saad doesn't need your advice, thank you very much. She's got her three best friends and nothing can stop her from conquering the known world. Sure, for half a minute she thought she'd nearly drowned a cute guy at a party, but he was totally faking it. And fine,...
20) Diamond Park
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When four Mexican-American teenagers from Houston travel to Diamond Park to buy a 1959 Chevy Impala from Magaña's godfather, something goes very wrong, and one of them, Susi, ends up arrested for murder. Convinced that the real killer is a drug trafficker called Anaconda, Flaco and Magaña head to Mexico hunting for him to clear Susi's name--but in the process of kidnapping Anaconda Flaco discovers how little he understands about what really happened...
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