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Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.

Part of the Border triology, this work features John Grady Cole who is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. He sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives.

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat.

'This is a story of friendship with the cleverest of plot twists, and descriptions so vivid you can feel the heat of Stanley's desert prison burning off the page. A total must-read' The Times 'Totally absorbing and beautifully written' The Bookseller

Charts the boyhood of Johnson through the depression years to his debut as congressman and his defeat in his first race for the Senate. The first of a four-volume biography by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize.

A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'.

Built upon the fortunes of a 14 year old kid, this book covers the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.

Mary Karr grew up in East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. This memoir looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a heavy-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club.

Orphaned and in her uncle's care, fiercely independent Quincie may be the most over-achieving high-school student around, but even she has her hands full with a hybrid-werewolf boyfriend and the opening of Sanguini's, her hip vampire-themed restaurant, which turns out to have way more bite than she'd intended.

Jack Reacher is six foot five and dangerous, adrift in the hellish heat of Texas, and looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A pretty young woman is alone. Her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and lawyers won't help. Reacher is her last option.

Abel Haggard lives on his family's farm in Dallas. To the south in suburban Austin, Seth Waller is devastated when his mother is diagnosed with an early-onset form of Alzheimer's. Though neither one knows of the other's existence, they share a unique tradition: as children, both were told stories of Isadora, a land free from the sorrows of memory.

Combines extreme violence with black humour. Jesse Custer is a small-town preacher slowly losing his faith, until he merges with a half-angelic, half-demonic being called Genesis. Now he has his first-hand knowledge of both heaven and hell, he sets out to find God.

Liberty Jones fell in love with Hardy Cates when she was fourteen and three quarters and he was seventeen. However, Hardy wasn't going to let even love stand in the way of his ambition to escape the poverty of his childhood. He had left town and Liberty broken hearted. But Liberty is also a survivor - and determined to make a better life.

Includes features you need to identify the wildflowers of Texas. This title contains 381 full-colour, close-up photos that show every wildflower in the book, including over 200 photos. It also includes indexes to help you identify flowers by their Latin name and common name.

A history of the Texas Rangers, from their origins as fighters on the Texas frontier, to their role as lawmen of the Old West. The author shows how, under the leadership of men like Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch, these fiercely independent fighters became a well-trained, cohesive team.

Takes us on a tour of the author's favourite city: Austin. This work includes a bunch of stuff, from descriptions of Austin's notable trees and directions to skinny-dipping sites to lists of haunted places and quizzes and puzzles.

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better.

Karr is once again trying to run from thrills and terrors of her psychological and physical awakening by crashing up against authority in all its forms, shuttling between principal's office and jail cell. Yearning, like a teenager, for love or heart's companion who will make her feel whole again, she throws in her lot with an outrageous band.