Summary: On August first, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. This documentary combines archival footage with animated re-enactments of the dramatic day, based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors, in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWBayonne
Summary: Hypnotic, enveloping songs from a few repeated musical phrases.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BAYSandmann, Jeff
Summary: Celebrates the past thirty years of live music in Austin, Texas, and looks at challenges faced by musicians and music venues through the story of the Saxon Pub.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTSummary: Directed by Richard Linklater, presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on sixteen mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SLAContents: Devil's eyes -- Walls -- gettin out alive -- Change of pace -- Set us free -- Cuz I'm here -- Before BP -- Late night slice -- For you -- Moonshadows -- Check the gas -- B Sizzle -- It's so good to be alive.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GREBarnes, Danny
Contents: Get myself together -- Rat's ass -- Big girl blues -- Get me out of jail -- Sympathy for the devil -- Cumberland Gap -- Let your light shine on me -- Cut a rug -- Corn kingdom come -- Wasted mind -- Get it on down the line -- Cat to the rat -- Big shoe.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BARBentley, 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 New Fiction, Call number: FIC BENGoudeau, Jessica
Summary: "The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.83 GOUSpoon (Musical group)
Contents: Utilatarian 1.51 -- The minor tough -- The guestlist/The execution -- Reservations -- 30 gallon tank -- Car radio -- Metal detektor -- June's foreign spell -- Chloroform -- Metal school -- Staring at the board -- No you're not -- Quincy punk episode -- Advance cassette.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPOGimenez, Mark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIMGourds (Musical group)
Contents: Piss and moan blues -- Caledonia -- Dying of the pines -- Jenny Brown -- Clear night -- Sweet Li'l -- When wine was cheap -- Money honey -- Hondura -- Ringing dark and true -- Pine tar -- Makes me roll -- Trampled by the sun -- Well before you walk into it -- I come up -- All the labor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill Records 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GouSummary: Inside Wildsam Austin, you'll find city stories from prize-winning writers, past and present; illustrated maps to barbecue, film and Austin soul; interviews with magazine editors, garden designers and neon artists; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic Austin experiences and trusted travel essentials.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.643 AUSTIN WILDave, Laura
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 DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVZunker, 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 ZunFriedman, Kinky.
Summary: A tour of the city of Austin, Texas, offers an offbeat guide with facts, descriptions, profiles, personal reminiscences, and unusual advice to guide tourists through the "coolest city in Texas."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Journeys 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.6431 FRIRiordan, 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 RIOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction RiordanTubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: Luna has always wanted to be a therapy dog at Therapy Dogs Worldwide. Now she's a whisker away from reaching her fifty-visit pin that will make it official. But when her "clients"--the children who visit her--are put into a therapy group, Luna's routine is upended. Like the moon, Luna shows different faces at different times. And her clients each have different needs--Beatrice is tangled in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBWard, 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 WARAnderson, 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 Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ANDLowry, 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 East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWMichaels, 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 MICWard, Amanda Eyre
Summary: Alice Conroe is a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARAbbott, 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 ABBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABBAbbott, 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