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• The Last Karankawas

  a Novel

  Garza, Kimberly, 1985-

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  This debut novel tells the story of a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino American families on the Texas coast.

• The Gulf

  a Novel

  Cochran, Rachel,

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  In a thriller set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women's liberation movement, a closeted young woman attempts to solve her surrogate mother's murder in a tight-knit, religious small town.

• The Wager

  a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder

  Grann, David,

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  #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.

• A Fever in the Heartland

  The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

  Egan, Timothy

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  A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist traces the Ku Klux Klan's rise to power in the 1920s and how a seemingly powerless woman brought them to their knees.

• Jackpot

  High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs

  Ryan, Jason

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  In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon.

• The Gulf

  the Making of An American Sea

  Davis, Jack E., 1956-

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  A compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though fated to exploitation by esurient oil men and real-estate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charleston

  Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

  Crawford, Susan

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  This nonfiction narrative shares similar themes of social justice and environmental disaster.

• The Boat Runner

  a Novel

  Murphy, Devin,

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  Epic in scope and featuring a thrilling narrative with precise, elegant language, The Boat Runner tells the little-known story of the young Dutch boys who were thrown into the Nazi campaign, as well as the brave boatmen who risked everything to give…Read moreRead more of this annotation