Summary: "William Boston has just joined the all-black 24th infantry of the United States Army. A natural leader, Boston quickly rises within his troop and is looked up to by the others. When the men are sent to the South, where racism runs rampant in a merciless community, the troop is pushed to their limit. After endless brutal acts of violence, Boston and the men turn their fear and rage against the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWELindsey, David L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINRissman, Rebecca
Summary: When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RISSummary: Based on Lily Koppel's book, this limited series tells the story of the women who were essential players behind big events in American history. As America's astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, the lives of their young wives were transformed from military spouses to American royalty. As their celebrity rose, and tragedy began to touch their lives, they rallied together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Astronaut 2017Kim, Carol
Summary: Jina Jeong wants to start a club to introduce all the kids in her area to the nature activities she enjoys, but her parents suggest she start small--so Jina sets out to persuade her friend Sofia to go camping with Jina's family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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Summary: Jina Jeong loves pandas, but a visit to the zoo introduces her to a local endangered species, the Houston toad, and teaches her that it is not only cute and cuddly animals that need to be protected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIMLong, Mark
Summary: This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2012
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LONBurke, James Lee
Summary: On its surface, life in Houston in the 1950s is as you'd expect: stoic fathers, restless teens, drive-in movies, and souped-up Cadillacs. But underneath lies a world shifting under high school junior Aaron Broussard's feet. There's a class war between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' as well as a real war, Korea, happening on the other side of the world. It is against this backdrop that Aaron...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURLindsey, David L.
Summary: A police spy story starring Arnette Kepner, a former CIA agent in the Far East, now an independent operator. She is hired by the criminal intelligence division of the Houston Police Department for an undercover investigation of crooked cops involved in drugs and arms smuggling. By the author of Body of Truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINDiederich, Phillippe
Summary: When four Mexican-American teenagers from Houston travel to Diamond Park to buy a 1959 Chevy Impala from Magaña's godfather, something goes very wrong, and one of them, Susi, ends up arrested for murder. Convinced that the real killer is a drug trafficker called Anaconda, Flaco and Magaña head to Mexico hunting for him to clear Susi's name--but in the process of kidnapping Anaconda Flaco...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIEMathieu, Jennifer
Summary: In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: YA Fiction Mathieu 2021Summary: Bud Davis, a Texas oil refinery worker, meets and falls in love with Sissy at Gilley's, a popular country-western nightclub in Houston. However, their relationship becomes endangered when a mechanical bull-riding ex-convict schemes to steal Sissy's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBJohnston, Joan
Summary: A Houston attorney defends a pharmaceutical company whose drug may have killed a young girl, and when the plaintiff's counsel turns out to be his high school sweetheart, an unexpected romance ensues.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHGentry, Amy
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENMills, DiAnn.
Summary: Special Agent Bethany Sanchez and her new partner, maverick agent Thatcher Graves, investigate a Houston serial killer as his trail goes cold, until an attempt on the agents' lives gives them new motivation to solve the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILKelly, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: While visiting Houston, Texas, Mike and Kate tour the Johnson Space Center with an astronaut in the morning and at the Houston Astros' ball game that evening, the cousins search for the person who steals the astronaut's moonrock when he arrives at the stadium to sign autographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Summary: When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon,the son of another astronaut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STAHeath, Jack
Summary: Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate a missing university professor, Blake recognizes him as the dead man in his freezer. Then another man goes missing. And another. There's s serial killer in Houston, Texas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAWiggs, Susan
Summary: "Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rushed their beloved dog, Tim, to the emergency vet on Christmas eve. The good news: Tim survived after the vet cleared the obstruction--a pair of women's lace undies. The bad news: the undies were not Brenda's. A year after the breakup, Brenda has put her life back together. She's trained for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC WIGBoggs, Johnny D.
Summary: Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOGPatel, Sajni
Summary: "Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer, takeout enthusiast, and happily single woman. The moment she realizes her parents' latest dinner party is a setup with the man they want her to marry, she's out the back door in a flash. Imagine her surprise when the same guy shows up at her office a week later -- the new lawyer hired to rescue her struggling company. What's not surprising:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2020