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Cline, Ernest

Summary: After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLI

Philippe, Ben

Summary: When Norris, a black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clich©♭s from "a bad 90s teen movie."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PHI

Bentley, Don

Summary: "A brotherhood born in battle is endangered by a deadly secret in the latest astonishing thriller from the New York times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Zero Hour and Hostile Intent. As a team, Matt Drake and his partner, Frodo, have watched each other's backs through some very dark days. But one thing they've never doubted was their commitment to each other...until now. Frodo has been...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Lowry, Mary Pauline

Summary: "Meet Roxy. She's a sometimes vegan, always broke artist with a heart the size of Texas and an ex living in her spare bedroom. Her life is messy, but with the help of a few good friends and by the grace of the goddess Venus she'll discover that good sex, true love, and her life's purpose are all closer than she realizes. Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOW

Anderson, Jessica Lee

Summary: Naomi and her club are having a busy day rescuing snakes, searching for a missing tortoise, and investigating reports of a "mean" snake near the pond. Includes glossary, discussion, and writing suggestions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AND

Anderson, Jessica Lee

Summary: Naomi and her snake-saving club rescue a ball python, not a species native to Austin, Texas, so they need to investigate whether this pet is an escapee, or simply dumped when the owner got tired of it. Includes discussion questions, writing prompts, and web resources.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED AND

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AND

Markovits, Benjamin

Summary: "Twelve-year-old Ben is a shy, quiet kid. His life isn't perfect, but he feels at home in his New York City apartment. Then his dad takes a job in London, and everything changes. His parents separate, and Ben's mom moves them back to her hometown of Austin, Texas. Ben's simple life is suddenly complicated. He misses his apartment, his best friend, Jake, and his dad. Then he meets Mabley, who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAR

Capetta, A. R.

Summary: Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin's queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical--and makes everyone who eats them break up. Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAP

Dave, Laura

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAV

Michaels, Fern.

Summary: A hugh barbecue at Sunbridge, the Coleman's 250,000-acre estate near Austin, Texas, becomes the backdrop for bitter rivalries, jealousy, resentment, broken romances, conflicting loyalties, and tragedy for the high-living Coleman dynasty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1986

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIC

Dave, Laura

Summary: "Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DAV

Zunker, Chad

Summary: "Inside a prestigious law firm, a rookie lawyer is pulled into a dark maze of lies and violence. An ambitious Stanford graduate, David Adams has begun a fast-track career at Austin's most prestigious law firm. It's a personal victory for the rising superstar--a satisfying reversal from his impoverished and despairing childhood. Now he has the life he's always wanted: an extravagant salary, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Zun

Ward, Amanda Eyre

Summary: "The bonds between three picture-perfect, viciously protective mothers are tested when their sons uncover a horrible crime in this provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters. In Austin's Zilker Park, vigilance and money are enough to keep one insulated from the world's problems and inconveniences. Here, three mothers-Whitney, Annette, and Liza-have grown...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WAR

Heard, Wendy

Summary: "Sean Suh is done with killing. After serving three years in a psychiatric prison, he's determined to stay away from temptation. But he can't resist Annabelle--beautiful, confident, incandescent Annabelle--who alone can see past the monster to the man inside. The man he's desperately trying to be. Then Annabelle disappears. Sean is sure she's been kidnapped--he witnessed her being taken...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HEA

Riordan, Rick.

Summary: When his brother Garrett, a wheelchair-bound computer genius, is accused of killing his oldest friend, Texas private detective and English teacher Tres Navarre ventures into a world of high-tech evil to find the real killer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Riordan

Philippe, Ben

Summary: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PHI

Hynes, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYN

Zunker, Chad

Summary: Former up-and-coming hotshot attorney David Adams left his glamorous corporate law firm to fight for the disenfranchised. With a caseload of petty offenses, a meager office in a crumbling building, and little in the way of compensation, David needs a real case. When he agrees to represent Rebel, David recognizes this will be the biggest challenge of his young legal career. The mentally...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 0000

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Zun

Abbott, Jeff.

Summary: Two men are thrown together by an unexpected, violent event. While they are vastly different - one is a corporate consultant mourning the murder of his wife, the other is ex CIA, on a very dangerous assignment with a fringe agency - they realize they must work together in order to escape the setup planned for them.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABB

Michaels, Fern.

1 hold on 1 copy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001

Sorry, no copies available

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Abbott, Jeff

Summary: "One seemingly perfect American family finds themselves targeted for destruction after the shocking murder of a family friend in the park behind their backyard. Early one morning, Danielle Roberts, who lives next door to the Pollitts and has for a decade been like family to them, is found dead just beyond their property line, throwing the exclusive Winding Creek neighborhood of a wealthy Austin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABB

Abbott, Jeff.

Summary: After finding his mother murdered, documentary filmmaker Evan Casher discovers that every aspect of his life has been fabricated and that he is being targeted by a ruthless organization of killers.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABB

Markovits, Benjamin

Summary: When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan is hoping to become a Federal judge. Susie's husband has taken a job in England. Jean has asked her boyfriend and boss to meet her family. Paul has broken up with Dana, mother of their son Cal. But their parents have plans, too, and invite Dana to stay, hoping to bring the couple back together. As...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Ward, Amanda Eyre

Summary: "The bonds between three picture-perfect, viciously protective mothers are tested when their sons uncover a horrible crime in this provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters. In Austin's Zilker Park, vigilance and money are enough to keep one insulated from the world's problems and inconveniences. Here, three mothers-Whitney, Annette, and Liza-have grown...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

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