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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Samantha said 'I do' to Luca Ginelli, she knew she'd found a reliable soulmate--a strong, sexy man who'd stand beside her through thick and thin. And so she'd started her wedding day filled with joyful expectation, only to have her dreams shattered when the man she married years before shocking, unexpectedly, reappears, insisting she was still his wife! Seven years before, Luca's brother, Nick, had stubbornly set off in a sailing adventure,...
3) Moonrise
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
4) Exile
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Caught in the quarantined town of Exile, whose residents are wracked with rage and aggression due to a contamination spill, Heidi Palermo is desperate to get out, but she can't seem to pass the fed's sanity test. When her abusive brother is murdered by outsider Tank Benavides, Heidi thinks Tank may be the one to help her, but her actions put her at odds with her family, gunning for revenge against Tank.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014, c2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.
8) The kinfolk
Author
Publisher
Carter Literary Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
i, 201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Along the banks of the Neches river, surrounded by the dense piney woods of east Texas, where the humidity makes even the mosquitoes go a little soft in the head, there's a pack of liars and thieves that Mimosa Mabry reluctantly calls family. After a lifetime spent trying to put the place behind her, the kinfolk have come calling, and they want her home. Against her better judgement, Mo returns, but finds the answer she's searching for--the truth...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Endless questions from a shadow-filled East Texas childhood haunt Hadley Dixon. People said her mother, Winnie, was never quite right, but with one single, irreparable act, life as Hadley knew it was shattered. The aftershocks of that moonlit night left her reeling, but the secrets and lies had started long before. When a widowed and pregnant Hadley returns years later, it's not the safe harbor she expects. The mysteries surrounding a local boy's...
10) Picture perfect
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job, fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated ties that bind families together.
12) Take me there
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.