Product Description: What is it that distinguishes Texas women—the famous Yellow Rose and her descendants? Is it that combination of graciousness and grit that we revere in First Ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson? The rapier-sharp wit that Ann Richards and Molly Ivins used to skewer the good ole boy establishment? The moral righteousness with which Barbara Jordan defended the US constitution? An unnatural fondness for Dr Pepper and queso?In her inimitable style, Sarah Bird pays tribute to the Texas Woman in all her glory and all her contradictions...read more

An elegant, eligible, and enormously wealthy bachelor inherits an old estate, charming and amazing his new neighbors while trying to keep a secret. Reprint.

Product Description: From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest...read more

Product Description: Blythe Young—a wannabe Texas princess, a heroine as plucky, driven, and desperate as Vanity Fair’s Becky Sharp—is plummeting precipitously from up- to downstairs, banging her head on every step of the Austin social ladder as she falls...read more

In Albuquerque, two young women--shy teenager Cyndi Rae and Didi, the school bad girl--become entranced by young flamenco guitarist Tomás Montenegro and by the hypnotic storytelling of Doña Carlota, his great aunt, and decide to dedicate themselves to the disciplines and demands of the university's Flamenco Academy. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, two young women--shy teenager Cyndi Rae Hrncir and Didi Steinberg, the school bad girl--become entranced by young flamenco guitarist Tomás Montenegro and by the hypnotic storytelling of Doña Carlota, Tomás's great aunt, and decide to dedicate themselves to the disciplines and demands of the university's Flamenco Academy. 35,000 first printing.

While living at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Bernadette 'Bernie' Root, hoping to escape her oddball military family, takes a job as second banana to a third-rate comedian touring Japanese military bases, only to be reunited with her family's former maid, Fumiko, and uncovers a painful family secret.

Product Description: The sorority sisters of Alamo House at the University of Texas may be at comic odds with each other, but at least they have one thing in common: They all hate the fraternity rats across the street, the Sigma Upsilon Kappas—aka the SUKs...read more

Assigned to cover a convention of romance writers and bored with the prospect, Gretchen Griner is surprised to find the authors intelligent and offbeat, and is even more surprised when two of the writers attempt to fix her up with the perfect boyfriend.

Product Description: At thirty-eight, Trudy Herring is a dreamer, a sculptor of whimsical clay figures, and a permanent temporary worker at the San Antonio Museum of Folk Art. But all that changes when she agrees to incubate a child for Hillary Goettler (her boss) and Hillary’s husband...read more

Product Description: Book by Vessey, Barbara Ed. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If you liked the offbeat heroine of "Fried Green Tomatoes," you'll love Sonja Getz - the town loner, a cowgirl/intellectual - who's bursting to get out of her small Texas town and find the trick-roping father who left her as a baby...read more

Sonja Getz, a strapping, loud-mouthed outcast from small-town Texas, hitches up with an over-the-hill trick roper to search for the father who abandoned her as an infant.

Product Description: Gretchen Griner is an overworked, underpaid photographer for a shoestring magazine in Texas. The rent is due, her philandering boyfriend is long overdue, and Gretchen is ready for some major changes in her life. A romance-writers' convention in Dallas brings wild and hilarious complications...read more