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Buffet on the Bayou

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Getaways Less Than Two Hours

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Heat from another sun

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The Ultimate Food Lover's Guide to Houston

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#hardcover #truecrime #texaskillingfields #I45 #deliverus #murder #houston #galveston #colettewilson #debbieackerman #mariajohnson #laurakatesmither

Three decades of murder and redemption in the infamous I-45/ Texas killing fields

Deliver Us

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Iowa

"Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off!"  --Barry Hannah
 
From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our world today, a story of choices and doubts and transgressions.

The Hardings are teetering on the brink. Elson--once one of Houston's most promising architects, who never quite lived up to expectations--is recently divorced from his wife of thirty years, Cadence. Their grown son, Richard, is still living at home: driving his mother's minivan, working at a local coffee shop, resisting the career as a writer that beckons him. But when Chloe Harding gets kicked out of her East Coast college, for reasons she can't explain to either her parents or her older brother, the Hardings' lives start to unravel. Chloe returns to Houston, but the dangers set in motion back at school prove inescapable. Told with piercing insight, taut psychological suspense, and the wisdom of a true master of character, this is a novel about the vagaries of love and family, about betrayal and forgiveness, about the possibility and impossibility of coming home.

In Between Days

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Stories

One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” "Phenomenal" --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals "Brilliant" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun “A profound exploration of the true meaning of borders.” —The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 in the New York Times by Dwight Garner A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 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 of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra. Bryan Washington's brilliant, viscerally drawn world vibrates with energy, wit, raw power, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.

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Now in a completely revised, updated and thoroughly researched third edition, "Houston Dining on the Cheap" will help you discover and learn about the 300 best inexpensive restaurants culled from the thousands of increasingly diverse dining options available in America's fourth largest, and most sprawling, city and its surrounding areas. Informative, interesting, opinionated, and very easy to use, there are descriptive profiles for each of the 300 recommended restaurants, which are ordered alphabetically. There are also useful indices that list the restaurants by cuisine, area, and another with helpful, more miscellaneous listings, plus ten Houston restaurant-related asides scattered among the profiles.

Houston Dining on Cheap

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A story of love, loss, and rebirth

Spanning the years 1930-2014, Drops of Cerulean chronicles the lives of Ilona, the daughter of a Greek restaurateur, who marries into a prominent Houston family; her son, Cadmus, who becomes a professor and then moves into a retirement home after his husband passes away; and Delphina, an anxiety-ridden woman with a mysterious recurring dream. 



Ilona and Cadmus have a falling out when Cadmus is a young man, and before they are able to reconcile, Ilona dies. Cadmus is plagued with guilt and feels responsible for the death of his mother. Two worlds collide when, years later, Delphina comes to understand that she had been Ilona, Cadmus's mother, in her previous life. Well written and engaging, Drops of Cerulean deals with topics such as socioeconomic class, LGBT rights and acceptance, rebirth, and past-life regression.



Set in Houston and revolving around the city's ever-changing skyline, Drops of Cerulean is an amazing debut from a gifted writer. 

Drops of Cerulean

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North Carolina

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Florida

My Leap of Faith

The Olympic gold medalist shares the story of her life and how her faith allowed her to persevere and reach her dreams.

Grace, Gold and Glory

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#hardcover #fiction #comingofage #debutantes #femalefriendships #motherhood #houston #1950s. Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. No page folds or creases. 

A Novel

Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1957 Houston social scene. Best friends with Joan since pre-school, Cece Buchanan is either Joan's chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on the night and whom you ask. When Joan starts to drift out of reach and beyond the borders of their confined world the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, for better or for worse.

The After Party

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#paperback #free #houston #galveston #travel #thingstodo 1981 ed. Excellent condition for a 41 year old book!

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500 Things to Do in Houston for Free

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Tennessee

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Houston, a fast-paced city filled with Midtown lofts and to-die-for shopping malls is where Darcy Daniels calls home. At first glance she comes off as shallow as a wading pool and as wrong in how she pursues the ideal life as offering a can of Budweiser at a Junior League event. The need to portray success clouds her head with every desire from the perfect pair of shoes to the outfit that might catch the eye of Mr. Right. Fashion magazines and celebrity television have created a distorted bubble which hovers overhead, skewing her vision of a meaningful existence. No one knows her self-esteem is as low as her opinion of the clothing she snubs at discount stores. She's someone she's not. And she knows it. When she unravels the string holding together her shabby-chic faux existence, what will she find? Her key to happiness glistening like a crown jewel in a display case? Or a handful of diamonds in the rough rejects lacking the designer seal of approval.

SIGNED - Partly Sunny

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The Story of America’s exploited street kids

Sometimes God Has A Kid’s Face

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Colorado

Memorial

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 A BOTM version of Bryan Washington’s acclaimed short story collection, LOT • One small puncture mark on the back book jacket.

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New Jersey

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Missouri

A suddenly single woman encamped in a trailer home and the other hapless residents of Rito, a town among the citrus groves of the Santa Bernita Valley, where nothing ever goes as planned, work out their destinies. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

Round Rock

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Oregon

A Riveting Story of Strength and Family

Spanning from rural Ireland to New York and Texas in the early 1900s, this novel explores the relationship between two sisters whose lives take very different directions after they survive the perilous voyage from Ireland to America aboard the Titanic.

The Titanic Sisters

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South Carolina

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"My perfect ten of a book!" -- Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of BEACH READ and BOOK LOVERS


She's got his back.
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker.

He's got her heart.
Jack Stapleton's a household name--captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid.

They've got a secret.
When Jack's mom gets sick, he comes home to the family's Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn't want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah--against her will and her better judgment--finds herself pretending to be Jack's girlfriend as a cover. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it.

What could possibly go wrong???
Hannah hardly believes it, herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because it's easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That's the hardest thing she's ever done.

More Praise for The Bodyguard:
"Great rollicking fun! Prepare to laugh and swoon and grin your pants off."--Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author of The Heart Principle

"Utterly charming... Center's latest might be her most winning yet. It's not only a must-read for her fans, but
it will likely garner her new devotees as well." --Booklist (starred review)

"My perfect 10 of a book. As funny and sweet as all the very best nineties rom-coms, but with Center's signature heart-tugging depth. I wish I could erase it from my mind just to read it again for the first time. A shot of pure joy."--Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers

"The Bodyguard is absolutely, unequivocally delightful!"--Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here

The Bodyguard

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Houston Junior Forum Staff (Editor)

Buffet on the Bayou

Carol Barrington

Day Trips from Houston - read description

David L.Lindsay

Heat from another sun

Teresa Byrne-Dodge (Editor-In-Chief, Editor); Eric Sandler (Associate Editor); Amber Ambrose (Associate Editor); Spindletop Design (Cover Design by, Designed by)

The Ultimate Food Lover's Guide to Houston

Kathryn Casey

Deliver Us

Andrew Porter

In Between Days

Bryan Washington

Lot

Mike Riccetti

Houston Dining on Cheap

Dawn Adams Cole

Drops of Cerulean

Bryan Washington

Lot

Gabrielle Douglas; Michelle Burford

Grace, Gold and Glory

Anton DiSclafani

The After Party

Joel A. Bloom; Peggy Bloom

500 Things to Do in Houston for Free

Bryan Washington

Lot

Terry Lee (Original Author)

SIGNED - Partly Sunny

Bruce Ritter

Sometimes God Has A Kid’s Face

Bryan Washington

Memorial

Bryan Washington

Lot

Michelle Huneven

Round Rock

Patricia Falvey

The Titanic Sisters

Patricia Falvey

The Titanic Sisters

Katherine Center

The Bodyguard

Bryan Washington

Lot

Bryan Washington

Memorial