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  Isaac's Storm

  A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

  by Erik Larson

  September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what... (more)
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  Dark Water Rising

  by Marian Hale

  A poignant coming-of-age novel set during the Galveston Storm of 1900   I looked south toward the gulf, trying to keep an eye on the stalking sea. Wild waves rose up like a great hand and wrenched loose the Pagoda’s long staircase, sending planks tumbling through the air. With horror I watched the end of one twin building sway and dip into the surf. I yelled at Josiah, but my words disappeared on the wind. I... (more)
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  The Drowning House

  by Elizabeth Black

  A gripping suspense story about a woman who returns to Galveston, Texas after a personal tragedy and is irresistibly drawn into the insular world she’s struggled to leave.  Photographer Clare Porterfield's once-happy marriage is coming apart, unraveling under the strain of a family tragedy. When she receives an invitation to direct an exhibition in her hometown of Galveston, Texas, she jumps at the chance to... (more)
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  The Warrior Series: Book 1

  Warriors of the Cross

  by T. R. Graves

  Allison La Crosse, beginning a challenging family medicine residency, leaves the protection of her family. With the transfer, her worst nightmares come true. Her closely guarded mystical talents – those which seldom appeared before the move – unleash themselves from her confinement and reveal their presence with very little provocation. Allison’s most terrifying power is her compulsion to cure the dying with... (more)
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  Chisholm Trail Series: Book 18

  Galveston

  A History of the Island

  by Gary Cartwright

  Galveston-a small, flat island off the Texas Gulf coast-has seen some of the state's most amazing history and fascinating people. First settled by the Karankawa Indians, long suspected of cannibalism, it was where the stranded Cabeza de Vaca came ashore in the 16th century. Pirate Jean Lafitte used it as a hideout in the early 1800s and both General Sam Houston and General James Long (with his wife,... (more)
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  The Castle of Dark Dreams: Book 2

  Wicked Pleasure

  by Nina Bangs

  Second in the sizzling supernatural trilogy from the USA Today bestselling author. In an adult theme park, the Castle of Dark Dreams is home to three powerful brothers-each with a special gift for the woman bold enough to live out her secret fantasies.
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  Truman Smith: Book 4

  The Prairie Chicken Kill: A Truman Smith Mystery

  by Bill Crider

  In this enjoyable fourth series entry, Galveston PI Truman Smith (When Old Men Die, 1994) is hired by Lance Garrison, his still unpleasant but now rich high-school classmate, to investigate the shooting of a prairie chicken (really a kind of grouse) on Garrison's federally protected land in Picketville, Tex. Smith reluctantly agrees, largely because his high-school sweetheart, Anne Lindeman, now lives in... (more)
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  Whispering Mountain (Jodi Thomas): Book 4

  The Lone Texan

  by Jodi Thomas

  Three days after arriving in Galveston, newly widowed Sage McMurray is furious. She'd been gone from Texas long enough to forget what it takes to survive on the frontier, and finds herself taken hostage in a robbery. Sage fears if the outlaws discover who Are is, she may never see Whispering Mountain again.Her fears are about to come true when the outlaws decide to auction off their pretty captive to the... (more)
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  Galveston

  by Nic Pizzolatto

  For a mob enforcer and a teenage prostitute on the run, there's no escaping the violent past. Violence shadowed Roy Cady's childhood in East Texas. His alcoholic father fell to his death; his mother killed herself. She had worked for a bar owner and racketeer, and at 17 Roy started working for him too. Eventually he moved to New Orleans and became the muscle for another racketeer, Stan Ptitko. Now it's 1987, and... (more)
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  Riley's Fire

  by Lee Merrill Byrd

  Riley Martin is a boy whose great curiosity takes him to a place he never imagined and a future that might seem impossible. But impossible is a word that doesn't exist for Riley. A second grader from El Paso, Texas, he lies in a high hospital bed in the original Shriners Burns Institute in Galveston. He has third-degree burns over 63 percent of his small body and face, the result of his experiment with gasoline... (more)
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  Souls: Book 1

  Shattered Souls

  by Mary Lindsey

  Lenzi hears voices. She also sees visions--gravestones, floods, a gorgeous guy with steel gray eyes. She knows she must be going crazy, just like her dad did. Her boyfriend, Zak, can't do anything to help, and the voices just keep getting louder, the visions more intense. But when Lenzi meets Alden, the boy from her dreams, everything makes sense. Sort of. He tells Lenzi that she's a reincarnated Speaker--someone... (more)
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  China Bayles Mystery: Book 21

  Widow's Tears (China Bayles)

  by Susan Wittig Albert

  Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is “in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum.”* In Widow’s Tears , a haunted house may hold the key to solving the murder of one of China’s friends…   After losing her husband, five children, housekeeper, and beautiful home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her home, and later died there, having been driven mad with grief. ... (more)
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  A Weekend in September

  by John Edward Weems

  John Edward Weems, a freelance writer living in Waco, has published several books on Texas and American history, including To Conquer a Peace: The War Between the United States and Mexico , published by Texas A&M University Press
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  Weddings by Bella: Book 1

  Fools Rush In

  by Janice Thompson

  Bella Rossi may be nearing thirty, but her life is just starting to get interesting. When her Italian-turned-Texan parents hand over the family wedding planning business, Bella is determined not to let them down. She quickly books a "Boot Scoot'n" wedding that would make any Texan proud. There's only one catch--she's a country music numbskull because her family only listens to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Where... (more)
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  Resurrection Man: Book 3

  Galveston

  by Sean Stewart

  Sean Stewart's previous novel, Mockingbird , was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle , and one of the Best Fantasy Novels of the Year by Locus . Now in his most stunning novel yet, one of the most critically acclaimed fantasy writers of our time takes readers to Galveston--an island uprooted, and uplifted, by magic... Galveston had been baptized twice.... (more)
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  Pearl Island Trilogy: Book 1

  Falling for You

  by Julie Ortolon

  The forecast is smooth sailing for Oliver Chancellor, scion of Galveston's premier financier. Destined to take his place in the hallowed marble corridors of his family's bank, Chance is content with the future that's been mapped out for him, right down to his upcoming engagement to a prim debutante enthusiastically approved by his socialite mother. But when beautiful Rory St. Claire crosses his path, Chance... (more)
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  The Castle of Dark Dreams: Book 1

  Wicked Nights

  by Nina Bangs

  In an adult theme park, the Castle of Dark Dreams is home to three extraordinary brothers who promise ultimate fulfillment for any woman bold enough to accept their sensual challenge.
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  Under the Skin

  by James Carlos Blake

  James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression. Raised on an isolated West Texas ranch that he was forced to flee at age eighteen following the violent breakup of his foster family, Jimmy has found a home and a profession... (more)
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  The Great Galveston Disaster

  by Paul Lester

  The story of the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. History
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  Galveston

  by Suzanne Morris

  A powerful and absorbing story of three women whose lives shaped—and were inevitably shaped by—the success and failure of a city; a story that strangely parallels the intriguing history of this island of lost dreams.