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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
3) Whip it
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Bliss Calendar is a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family's footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track, literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes 'Babe Ruthless', the hottest thing on eight wheels.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
"August Evening follows an aging undocumented farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe ... As the rural Texas life they've known quickly disappears, Jaime and Lupe make their way to San Antonio," and face further changes.--Web site.
5) Leatherface
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A teenage leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.
8) Bernie
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede was one of the town's most beloved residents. He taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was always willing to lend a helping hand. Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent, an affluent widow who was as well-known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Bernie frequently traveled with Marjorie and even...
Series
Son volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The sweeping family saga that spans 150 years and three generations of the McCullough family.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Luke Chisolm is a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford. But Johnny is more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper's The Texas chain saw massacre terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in 1974.
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of 'regulators' (masked vigilantes) and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown.
16) Pearl
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped on her family's secluded farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and domineering watch of her devout mother. Yearning for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.
17) A perfect world
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In Texas, an escaped convict takes a young boy hostage and they form a bond, while being chased by a Texas Ranger, the FBI and local lawmen.
18) Urban cowboy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A young Texas farmer comes to Houston to work in a refinery and learns about life and love hanging out at Gilley's, a roadhouse bar.
19) X
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1979 some young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast members find themselves in a fight for their lives.
20) Death in Texas
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An ex-convict with a wicked past must race against time to get the resources that will save his dying mother's life, even if it means stealing from the cartel.
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