Where cotton and conscience collide, one good man bets his soul on the people the world tries to forget.
In 1951 West Texas, aging cotton grower William Allen Littlejohn watches as mechanization ends a way of life — and the lagunero migrant families who pick for him arrive for what both sides know will be their last season. Can one man’s quiet defiance of racism and exploitation can redeem a legacy rooted in slavery and empire?
Moodshine: A Caregiver’s Journey is a raw, deeply human memoir about loving someone through serious mental illness and learning how to keep going. Liz Colvin shares the realities of caregiving, from stigma and relapse to boundaries, faith, and hard-won hope.
Dispatches from Berlin: Wall and Secrets is a historical thriller by Carol J. Williams, the second novel in the Iron Curtain Chronicles. On the night the Berlin Wall opens in November 1989, veteran foreign correspondent Natalie Chester expects the story of a lifetime. Instead her editor sidelines her and pairs her with a photographer who wants nothing to do with her — and a name in an East German guidebook turns the assignment personal.
As mass deportations and escalating “border security” budgets dominate the headlines, Reconstructing Immigration: How to Rebuild America’s Economic Advantage, shows why America cannot remain a global economic leader without a modern, lawful way to attract, legalize, and retain the workers it clearly needs. It connects the dots between immigration reform, productivity, entrepreneurship, and regional development, giving readers a coherent plan for how the United States can turn a chronic political crisis into a durable competitive advantage. Drawing on construction, agriculture, healthcare, and technology, Steffy makes the case that an enforcement-first system has disadvantaged legitimate workers and honest employers while rewarding the people who exploit it.
From Tehran to the Permian is Scott Sheffield’s memoir on leading the Permian Basin shale revolution that made America the world’s top oil producer as founder and CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources — and on the FTC’s 2024 collusion accusations that barred him from ExxonMobil’s board after its $59.5 billion acquisition.
Evil rides the borderlands—and it knows your name.
Haunted by a witch only he can see, a traumatized Comanche-Mexican border agent joins an elderly rancher who shelters trafficked girls face cartel brutality, generational trauma, and spiritual warfare in the violent, unforgiving borderlands of West Texas.When girls start disappearing and turning up marked by Palo Mayombe ritual, the locals have a name for the supernatural creature they believe is doing it — The Witch of Sonora. In this borderlands thriller by Johnnie Bernhard, Nocona Ketemoczy, a Marine turned border agent, must stop the kidnappings while facing down the legend of an old woman with cataract eyes who has been in Nocona’s nightmares since childhood.
A Hard Left is a science fiction techno-thriller by Paul McGrath, Book Three of the Terran Incognita series. A Russian troll farm and a Texas tech billionaire are about to loose a “data vacuum” on the world’s banks. The only ones positioned to stop it are two Xylodonian Guardians living quietly as a Mississippi couple.
Deluge Before Dawn is Thomas R. Fox’s firsthand account of the flood that tore through Kerr County, Texas, on July 4, 2025, when the Guadalupe River rose in the dark. Fox, a Kerrville resident, gathered testimony from survivors, families, and responders — the overnight evacuation at Camp Mystic, the searches that followed, and the rebuilding.
An artist-farmer defends his North Texas homestead with a paintbrush, a shovel, and stubborn love. In this sequel to The Art of Farming, Sam Bartlett tends thirty acres of land, paints by night, teaches, gardens, raises animals, and faces the pressures of family change and suburban development. Told in a warm, wry voice, the novel celebrates stewardship, creativity, and community as acts of resistance.
Of Granddaughters and Mars is a poetry collection by Donald Mace Williams, written in traditional forms alongside riddles, monologues, and translations. The poems move between family tenderness and political anger — sequences on bugs and birds, a long poem reimagining the explorer Zebulon Pike, and closing translations from the German Romantics.
Play Like He Would is a true story by Heath Hamrick about the Bremond Tigers, a Texas high school football team that lost sixteen-year-old Jason Yancy to an undiagnosed heart condition during a game in October 1999. Hamrick, the coach’s son, was in the stadium that night, and built the book from interviews conducted in the weeks afterward. After Yancy’s death, his teammates faced an impossible question: How do you continue after losing your heart? This true story follows the Bremond Tigers as they honor their fallen friend’s memory with a simple motto: “Play Like He Would.”
History’s greatest debates, served at the dinner table. What if you could witness history’s most pivotal controversies as they unfolded, not from a textbook, but from the heated discussions of those who lived them? Whether you’re a student of history or simply someone who loves a good argument, you’ll discover that the best way to understand the past is through the controversies that defined it.
Passion, Power, and the Price of Change. Discover the sweeping saga of ambition, family, and the American spirit in this richly layered novel set against the dramatic backdrop of wartime and postwar Texas. Follow the unforgettable journeys of Brooks and Ray Oakley, two brothers whose divergent paths take them across military frozen landscapes, bustling Austin cafes, cutthroat oil fields, and the booming postwar restaurant scene.
Based on the author’s experiences, this meticulously researched thriller captures forbidden love against perestroika’s historic upheaval—where idealism faces deadly consequences. American correspondent Natalie Chester arrives in Moscow in 1986 and soon falls for Soviet diplomat Anatoly Kuznetsov. Together, they navigate Chernobyl’s aftermath, KGB surveillance, and the collapsing Cold War. Dispatches from Moscow: Spies and Lies by Carol J. Williams, Book One in the Iron Curtain Chronicles is a tale of professional ambition and personal sacrifice, of idealism tested by reality, and of a love that burns brightest in the shadow of the Iron Curtain’s final days.meticulously researched thriller.
Outcry Witness: A Former Prosecutor’s Guide to Healing and Justice After Sexual Violence is JoDee Neil’s account of surviving sexual assault, written from the perspective of an attorney and former prosecutor who spent her career in the courtroom on the other side of cases like her own. It is part memoir and part practical guide to what disclosure actually does — for the person disclosing, and for a justice system that handles it badly.
A young woman on the run. A life built in the shadows. A story that refuses to be forgotten. At fifteen, Frankie ran from an abusive home with nothing but her wits and a gambler’s promise of escape. What she found was a world of speakeasies, bootlegging, and survival on the edge of the law. Now, decades later, her story is ready to be told—one of grit, defiance, and a woman who refused to be broken.
In Left is Right, Book Two of Paul McGrath’s Terran Incognita series, Anton and Ellie, two former Centurion Guardians from the planet Xylodon, are working the seamier side of America while Ellie teaches third grade in Mississippi and tries to make sense of Earth’s cruelty.
Now fugitives on two worlds, the Xylodonians find themselves drawn into the orbit of nationalist militias and human trafficking as the mission becomes deeply personal. This second genre-blending installment in the Terran Icognita series fuses satire, sci-fi, and social commentary into a wildly original tale of identity, rebellion, and connection.
An immersive tribute to America’s oldest ballpark and the cradle of countless diamond dreams and dramatic showdowns. Rickwood is a deeply personal chronicle of fathers and sons, community pride, and the cultural tides that shaped the South and the sport. Rediscover Rickwood Field—a place where legends are made, memories endure, and baseball becomes forever.
A brutal winter storm pushes Texas to the brink in Dark Texas, a gripping near-future thriller about power loss, resilience, and survival. Through the stories of four ordinary Texans, Charles Petrie, Jr. explores what happens when modern systems fail and community becomes the last line of defense. Inspired by real events, this is a tense, timely novel for readers drawn to disaster fiction with heart and realism
A compelling historical biography that offers an in-depth look at one of Texas’ most influential and controversial figures during the tumultuous mid-19th century. In The Old Alcalde, John Adams, Jr. offers a balanced and nuanced portrayal of a controversial figure — Oran Milo Roberts — Texas jurist, secessionist, and governor, and one of the most consequential figures of the state’s nineteenth century. Adams follows him from an Alabama boyhood to the bench, through the convention that took Texas out of the Union, and into the governor’s office.
A gripping tale of small-town intrigue and corruption
In this crime thriller from Conor McAnally, Mike Carson, a disgraced New York journalist, returns to his Texas hometown to sell his late uncle’s house. Asked to look into a suspicious death while he is there, he finds self-dealing and drug trafficking running straight up through local government and law enforcement. What should be a simple task quickly spirals out of control as Carson uncovers a web of lies, self-dealing, and drug trafficking, and with each revelation, he finds himself dragged deeper into a powerful conspiracy.
Fast-paced, with a colorful cast of characters and razor-sharp dialogue, Bullets in the Water is a must-read for fans of crime fiction and investigative thrillers.
David Dale’s memoir of a military flying career, Aviation Therapy chronicles Dale’s personal transformation through flight—from B-52 nuclear alert missions during the Cold War to wartime refueling in Desert Storm and Bosnia, then flying General Tommy Franks after 9/11. Dale went from a quiet navigator to commanding the elite squadron responsible for carrying the nation’s top military leaders. This inspiring memoir reveals how aviation shaped one man’s journey from quiet navigator to commanding an elite squadron.
Llano Estacado is a historical Western novel by Max L. Knight set in 1870s Texas. A Comanche war leader and a Texas homesteader each lose their families to a massacre — and each spends a year hunting the other’s people. A story of the frontier cycle of vengeance, in the tradition of The Searchers.
2026 Spur Award-Winning Finalist for Best Western Contemporary novel.
Everyone knows who killed Maggie Schneider. But why? Inspired by true events, novelist Cynthia Leal Massey weaves an intricate tale that spans the decades from the Great Depression to the crippling drought of the fifties. The 1958 murder of champion turkey breeder Maggie Schneider in south central Texas is not a whodunnit. The mystery here is more profound: Why did he do it?
Why We Struggle to Go Green is Thomas Manuel Ortiz’s assessment of the clean energy transition, written by a mechanical engineer with thirty years across conventional and renewable energy. His argument is that no technological fix solves human-induced climate change on its own, and that a credible path requires giving up the hope of building our way out. The rhetoric and politics around climate change obscures a troubling truth: Clean energy technologies alone cannot solve the problem of human-induced climate change.
Why We Struggle to Go Green offers a clear-eyed assessment of our efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change from a mechanical engineer who’s spent 30 years looking for solutions.
Winner of the 2025 Sarton Award in historical fiction
A Family of Good Women by Teddy Jones is a historical mystery set in Borger, Texas, during the oil boom. When Imogene Good, still grieving her mother’s death, leaves behind a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in a rough, near-lawless town, she faces danger, loneliness, and a question that cuts to the heart of the story: what does family really mean?
An enchanting story that brings to life four constellations in the night sky while telling a tale of friendship, wonder and the beauty of the cosmos. The second book in the Night Sky series from the mother-daughter duo of Amy Jackson (Starry Sky Austin founder) and Donna Paredes, Little Sky Bear and the Dragon is a must-have for young dreamers, stargazers, and lovers of magical adventures.
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote many short lyric poems of remarkable beauty and intensity. Donald Mace Williams has selected some of the best and brought these works of one of the 20th century’s most influential poet to English-speaking audiences.
The Bugbear Hunter follows David Crockett through his years in Congress, between the frontier reputation that got him elected and the Washington he had to survive. Around him are Dr. William A. Caruthers, Ivy Green, and R.C. Crabtree, and behind them the Jackson presidency, the National Bank fight, and the widening gap between wealthy elites and struggling pioneers.
A child’s desperate mental health struggles. A mother’s battles with addiction. A system that failed them both. And a woman determined to help other families avoid the tragedy that befell her own. No Saints Here tells the story of one family’s crisis and how others can avoid the same pitfalls.
Voices of Camptown unlocks the stories lying beneath an overgrown cemetery in Washington County, Texas, and reconstructs the lives buried there — the churches, schools, and businesses African Americans built after Emancipation, under Reconstruction and then Jim Crow. The authors, Charles Swenson, Tina B. Henderson, and Robert R. Bubb, present more than a local history. Voices of Camptown is a celebration of community, resilience, and the enduring power of remembrance. It revealsthe overlooked story of the “Birthplace of Texas Independence”— where half the population received their independence only following the Civil War.
In the summer of 1900, Dr. Douglas Schuler is fresh from medical school and interning in the thriving coastal city of Galveston, Texas. It’s a year of great progress in medicine, but his skills will be tested as the Great Storm approaches. Can he survive, win the girl of his dreams, and become the doctor he hopes to be?
A tribute to bar bands, musical dreamers, and offbeat ambition….
The Rise of the Mad March follows four mismatched musicians — Christine on lead, Henry on rhythm, Gretchen on bass, Melissa on drums — through the year they became a band and the month they toured. It’s a tribute to the greatest band that never was — a novel about the bands that never headlined, never got signed, and never had an answer when someone asked why they weren’t famous.
A coming-of-age tale set against the sun-soaked beaches of 1970s Port Aransas, Rhudy weaves a love letter to the people and culture of the Texas coast and the enduring allure of the Gulf of Mexico.
From the author of Little Hatchet, this gripping historical saga continues—a powerful story of resilience, family, and the price of ambition. Perfect for fans of epic generational tales and action-packed historical fiction.
An award-winning sci-fi satire of alien espionage, southern charm and chaos on Earth! With Left, Book One in the Terran Icognita series, debut novelist Paul McGrath delivers a sharp, witty, and wildly entertaining sci-fi satire that asks: What if an alien held up a mirror to America—and we didn’t like what we saw? Anton-7 was sent to observe Earth, not to live on it. Stranded in Hernando, Mississippi after missing his ride home to Xylodon, he breaks the first rule of alien espionage — never interfere — and interferes.
Espionage, Survival, and the Fight for Texas Independence
From the author of the French Letters trilogy comes a sweeping historical adventure full of unforgettable Texas legends. Laced with exuberant, historical figures such as Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Jack Hays, Dangerous Latitudes is a quest across a war-torn frontier that becomes a race to save two hundred captured Texans who the Mexican army has marked for death.
Rediscover the Magic of the Night Sky with Cassandra and the Night Sky
Brought to life by the mother-daughter duo Amy Jackson (Starry Sky Austin founder) and Donna Paredes, this beautifully re-released classic from Stoney Creek Publishing is a must-have for young dreamers, stargazers, and lovers of magical adventures.
The Confederacy might still exist if not for George Thomas, a Southerner who supported the Union. In this autobiographical novel, Thomas tells his story for the first time, taking readers inside the mind of The Best General in the Civil War.
Richard Coke: Texan is a biography by Rosser Coke Newton, Sr., an indirect descendant of its subject. As governor, Coke brought Texas out of Reconstruction — a young Virginia lawyer who settled in Waco, served in the Civil War, and took office only after his predecessor occupied the Capitol with armed men rather than leave it.
After Apollo 14, astronaut Alan Shepard gave his barber Carlos Villagomez an autographed golf ball. But did it fly to the moon? This extensively researched account explores their extraordinary friendship and the mystery surrounding one of history’s most intriguing pieces of space memorabilia, offering rare insights into NASA’s golden age.
T. D. Motley’s novel The Art of Farming celebrates a symbiosis of plants, humans, dogs and livestock, with wildlife cousins on the fringes. Retired art teacher, Sam Bartlett, works thirty acres outside the town of Elysia. Texas. Aided by his lovely “sidekick,” Annie, and a handful of local after-school teens, Sam markets herbs and produce, and face off with his most formidable antagonist, a miniature donkey named Sol who schemes daily to outwit him.
This new translation of the oldest narrative poem in English—the first in more than twenty years—is designed for easy, pleasant reading. It cuts the scholarly touches to a minimum, using simple margin notes to explain some word or phrase. With students, young readers, and Beowulf fans in mind, Donald Mace Williams has approached his translation as both a published writer of modern metrical poems and a scholar in the verse structure of Beowulf.
The Mushroom Girl is Dagmar Grieder’s memoir of childhood in Germany at the end of the Second World War. Her father was conscripted and has not been heard from in months; her mother takes her and her younger brother west ahead of the advancing Russian Army. Food is scarce, so she learns the forests, and becomes expert at finding the best mushrooms.
The Real World of Texas Politics argues that the state runs two political systems — one for the privileged and one for everyone else. Its authors are a political scientist, a union leader, and a former state representative, and they hold leaders in both parties responsible. The analysis builds on the work of political scientist James Lamare.
When his brother is kidnapped from their New Mexico cabin, 12-year-old Walter Oakley sets off in pursuit, launching a multi-generational saga. Following the Oakley family from 1800s frontier life among Apaches and Comanches through Prohibition-era Texas, Little Hatchet chronicles their courageous struggle for survival amid unimaginable tragedy, violence, and determination.
In 1943, a Texas doctor and his wife were murdered in Littlefield. Their five-year-old daughter witnessed the crime but stayed silent for 70 years. Author Christena Stephens spent a decade researching this unsolved case, convincing Jo Ann Hunt to share her story and uncovering new evidence about her parents’ killers.
These sixty-one poems, only a few of which are longer than a page, have the clarity and terseness that newspaper reporters strive for. No wonder—Donald Mace Williams spent most of his long adulthood as a newspaper writer and editor. They are his observations, full of joy and sadness, about life, loss, and nature.
A neurologist grapples with the aftermath of his traumatic brain injury, forever changing how he treats patients and their families, in this moving examination of recovery and healing.
In this epic re-release, Donald Mace Williams adapts Beowulf to late nineteenth-century Texas in Wolfe. In Being Ninety, he reflects on more than nine decades of devotion to the writing life.
An elderly man visiting San Antonio confronts mortality while encountering supernatural voices from the 1836 Alamo siege. Texian, Tejano, and Mexican souls seek recognition beyond myths. Max L. Knight’s Ghostly Bugles explores memory, forgotten voices, and the fight to preserve history, offering a fresh perspective on the Alamo’s enduring legacy.
Grinders: Baseball’s Intrepid Infantry tells the stories of the game’s unheralded foot soldiers who took the hard knocks road, bouncing between the Show and obscurity, never quite achieving their dreams, all for a chance to play the game they love.
Someday Belongs to Us is a romance by Margie Seaman. Kate Caldwell is seventy-two, has written more than thirty novels, and cannot start the thirty-first. Her publisher wants more explicit scenes; she thinks love is more than that. She books a Panama Canal cruise with her granddaughter to break the block, and does not find the quiet she planned on.
Silver Winner — Best New Fiction, IBPA’s Ben Franklin Awards
The Big Empty is a novel by Loren C. Steffy and a silver winner for Best New Fiction in IBPA’s Ben Franklin Awards. A ranch manager and a semiconductor executive collide on a West Texas highway, and then keep colliding over the future of Conquistador — a dying town one of them intends to save by building a chip plant in it.
Deconstructed reveals how decades of immigration policy failures created today’s crisis. Following the Marek family journey from Czech immigrants to major contractors, this definitive account challenges divisive myths and offers a pragmatic blueprint for immigration reform that benefits workers, businesses, and the American economy.
Silver Winner — Best New Nonfiction, IBPA’s Ben Franklin Awards
Legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens, cut from a lucrative Permian Basin oil deal, fights back with trial lawyer Chrysta Castañeda. This riveting true story chronicles their billion-dollar courtroom battle against powerful oil industry adversaries, offering an intimate portrait of a business icon’s final fight and the determination required to win.
The first definitive biography of George Mitchell, “the father of fracking,” who perfected drilling techniques that transformed America from being oil-dependent to a major producer. Yet he also created The Woodlands, pioneering sustainable community development. Steffy examines the “Mitchell Paradox”—his conflicting legacy in energy innovation and environmental protection.
The first person ever to reconstruct an ancient ship from its sunken fragments, J. Richard Steffy said ships spoke to him. In this biography and adventure story of the highest caliber, learn of Steffy’s unlikely transition from small-town electrician to the world’s leading authority on ancient ships and how he helped build a field of study that continues to harvest new discoveries from the depths of the world’s oceans.
