The nights are getting longer, making it the perfect time to curl up in a cozy spot with a new book. Need ideas? We have an abundance of new Texas-connected books to make the fall evenings sparkle with mystery, history, romance, and more. Don't forget to explore the delightful new releases for the little ones—books to be truly thankful for this season! Lone Star Lit has exciting new options to fit all your bookish needs.
Kimberly Fish
October 10, 2024
The last book in a trilogy covering a year in the life of retiree, Gloria Bachman. Home to Comfort begins with mayhem and adventure in Mexico and brings resolution to several storylines created in previous books.
ML Condike
October 22, 2024
An attorney hires genealogist RaeJean Hunter to locate the heir of a women she met a year ago. RaeJean has six months to locate the person, or they lose a forty-million-dollar estate to a local university. While searching the deceased’s townhouse, RaeJean finds a doll with mystical qualities and books about perfume heiress, Dorothy Arnold who vanished in 1910. She suspects Dorothy connects to her case. She follows leads to Idaho and New Zealand amid challenges and life- threatening events. But why would someone threaten her life if the inheritance either goes to the heir or the university?
McFall & Hays
October 22, 2024
Set in the funkiest of funky restaurants in the rad pre-internet 1990s, before cells, social media and streaming, and featuring a quirky cast of chefs, waiters and customers who fall in and out of love (and bed), the Restaurantland Romance novels crackle with off-beat humor, joy and passion.
Cliff Hudder
November 1, 2024
East Texas college professor Wyatt Sallow travels to a down-at-its-heels market town in the north of England to trace an ancestry it turns out he does not have. Echoes of his past do follow him, however: a catastrophic marriage, the shadow of a lost child, and—there, in person, emerging from Sallowsfield’s faux-Victorian train station—“X,” the object of his unrequited passion and a figure as perplexing as an algebraic variable. On his eight-day tour/pilgrimage/mock epic journey, Wyatt pursues the specter of his unrequited love and crosses paths with the citizens of Sallowsfield as they struggle to grasp the all-consuming obsessions, ghosts, and X-factors that confound their days.
Margaret Izard
November 4, 2024
A kiss under the Mistletoe brings good fortune, but can a Christmas wedding stop a deadly feud?
The soft beauty beside him at the altar would make the perfect bride. Roderick MacDougall would do anything to stop the feud without more bloodshed. Too bad the gorgeous woman is the daughter of his greatest enemy who murdered his da.
Mary Comyn wants to stop the clan wars. Tricked by her father and forced by the English king to marry her clan’s enemy, Mary fears she’s scarifying finding true love for peace. A Christmas wedding sounds romantic, but why would her greatest clan enemy, love her?
When betrayal looms from within, can enemies find love and forge a new future for both clans?
BJ Sloan
November 5, 2024
“Don’t he look like a sweet little bunny?”
The kind-hearted delivery nurse had no way of knowing that her well-intentioned words would doom Bunny Boy Potts to a lifetime of ridicule. Well, that and the unfortunate way his ears stuck out like two ping-pong paddles.
Living with his unhinged single mother, his entire life is spent apologizing for existing.
Food and love—neither is freely available but the sharp sting of the strap is always on stand-by. When Bunny meets Raquel, he thinks she could take him from scarecrow misfit to normal teen. But Bunny Boy Potts wasn’t meant to have a life like everyone else. Debut author BJ Sloan serves us hope and despair in this gripping family sage set in 1970s rural Texas.
Elizabeth Hobbs
November 5, 2024
Marigold Manners is a bicycle-riding, suffragist, New Woman of the 1890’s, studying to become an archaeologist when the death of her parents leaves her destitute and sends her up the craggy, fog-shrouded coast of New England to uncover a dark family secret and learn that sometimes, there is no difference between justice and murder. Full of wit and wickedness, MISERY HATES COMPANY is a historical mystery that pits the gothic eeriness of Crimson Peak against the comic absurdities of Cold Comfort Farm.
The Best General in the Civil War
Conrad Bibens
November 12, 2024
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.
Frances Flamingo: Rainbows and Roller Skates
Dottie Lee
November 12, 2024
When Frances Flamingo spots a dazzling rainbow during migration, she simply has to follow it—even if it means losing sight of her flock! Mistaking the glowing pink lights of the Rainbow Roller Rink for her flamingo friends, Frances glides into a world of wheels and sparkles. Despite a few tumbles along the way, her determination pays off, and Frances learns to skate with flair, discovering a new kind of confidence as she finds her place in the spotlight.
M.W. Devers
November 19, 2024
In the small village of Rhigov, fifteen-year-old Astraya Myna dreams of little more than escaping the confines of her kitchen duties. Everything changes when a malevolent force known as Vronti shatters the village’s tranquility, sending Astraya on a journey she never imagined.
Guided by a legacy she barely understands, Astraya joins forces with her brother, Raustra, and a small band of allies. Together, they embark on a dangerous quest to protect their home from wingroans—dragon-like creatures with mysterious intentions and lethal capabilities.
With each step, Astraya uncovers more about her family's past and her own untapped strength, until she must decide: how far will she go to save her people and what is she willing to sacrifice to discover the truth about herself?
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
There are so many Texas-connected books publishing this month that we couldn’t feature all of them. The following books also publish in November:
CHILDREN'S, MIDDLE GRADE, & YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Blindcat and Tadpole by Lisa Johansson; illustrated by Bianka Santillan
The Covenant by Terry Overton
Cross Country Boy by J.L. Wright
The Girl Whose Frown Shook the Ground by Melody Trowell
Goodnight, West Texas by Callie Fuqua; illustrated by Richard Cowdrey
Pedro the Pirate by Ciara O'Neal
A Queen's Game by Katharine McGee
Sacred Coven's Secret by Michael Todd & Michael Anderle
The Shadows Rule All by Abigail Owen
When Justice has Claws by Isabel Campbell and Michael Anderle
Willie Mays by Anne Wynter
MYSTERY / HORROR
All's Fair in Love and Treachery by Celeste Connally
April Storm by Leila Meacham
Boots, Blitzen, and Burglary by Leanne Leeds
The Christmas Presence by Eva Pohler
Crossroads by N.L. McLaughlin
Delta County Blues by Gina Hooten Popp
Last Call by Travis Tougaw
Murder Creek by Jeff Kerr
Seven Days Off by Luana Ehrlich
Sheer Window by Diane Vallere
The Skin You're In by Ashley Robin Franklin
A Trinket for the Taking by Victoria Laurie
Walker Prairie by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
NONFICTION
Abilene's War on Whiskey by Jay Moore
Anatomy of Desire by Dr. Emily Jamea
Andrew Sansom: A Life in Conservation by Laura Raun
Blinded by the Lights by Don Albrecht
Carmen in Diaspora by Jennifer M. Wilks
Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci by David Ladensohn
For the Bees by Tara Dawn Chapman
Four Against the West by Joe Pappalardo
Geographies of Travel by Susan Roberson
The Great Ice Cream War of Summer 2016 by John A. Brock
Kenney's Fort: 19th Century Saga of the First Anglo Settlement in Williamson County, Texas by Elroy Haverlah
Lessons from Leopold by Stephen A. Nelle
Marfa Garden by Jim Martinez, Mary Lou Saxon, Jim Fissel, Martha Hughes
Mestizaje by Kathy Sosa
Monday Motivation: Inspirational Quotes To Start Your Week Right by DC Gomez
A Naturalist's Guide to the Texas Hill Country by Mark Gustafson
Rehab on the Range by Holly M. Karibo
A Reservation Undiminished: The Saginaw Chippewa Case and Native Sovereignty by Todd Adams, Gary Clayton Anderson And R. David Edmunds
The Streets of Laredo by José E. Limón
Texas Red by Red Steagall and Jim Jennings
Uvalde's Darkest Hour by Craig Garnett
Violence in the Hill Country by Nicholas Keefauver Roland
Wars of the Mexican Gulf by Benjamin J. Swenson
OTHER FICTION
All Men are Created Equal by JB Phillips
Battle for Pointer's Bluff by Bradford Bates and Michael Anderle
Burn with Prejudice by Isabel Campbell and Michael Anderle
Feminine Rising by Amy W. Vogel
Five Women and the Star by Donald L. Robertson
The Hanging Party by William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
The Mission Trip by Marion Surles
My Itching Scales by Bridget E. Baker
Stalking Ghosts by Alexander Juden
Wheel of Infinite by Martha Wells
POETRY
Zombie Vomit Mad Libs by Duy Đoàn
ROMANCE
Burning Secrets by Denise Diana Huddle
Catching a Christmas Cowboy by Leah Vale
Christmas Baby for the Cowboy by Jamie K. Schmidt
The Christmas Cowboy by Eve Gaddy
Come Home to the Bride by Lacey Davis
Deadly Christmas Inheritance by Jessica R. Patch
Five Hundred Miles From Friona by Kellye Hefner
The Forgotton Rescue by Ginny Sterling
Fortune's Holiday Surprise by Jennifer Wilck
Fourth Down by Britney Bell
Ghost of Ex-Mas Past by Liz Alden
Haystacks and Hoaxes by Jo Grafford
Hellfire & Bowties by A.M. Rose
A Kiss Amiss by Carolyn L. Dean
A Legend in the Baking by Jamie Wesley
Lone Star Redemption by Delores Fossen
A Miracle for the Reserved Flyboy by Ginny Sterling
Monster Pucker by Clio Evans & Ashley Bennett
Mr. Notorious and the Nefarious November by Shana Galen
My Frozen Ever After by Erin Bedford
New Dawn Book 1 by Ella Cooper
New Dawn Book 2 by Ella Cooper
New Dawn Book 3 by Ella Cooper
The Party Line by Carolyn Brown
Protecting the Newborn by Delores Fossen
Protecting Wren by Susan Stoker
Red Lipstick Kisses and Small Town Wishes by Kathryn Kaleigh
Rescue Me by Barb Shuler
The Rogue's Christmas Gift by Cecilia Rene
Safe With You by Caitlyn Brown
Santa Is A Sl*t by Drea Denae
Second Chance Season by Emily March
Someone Worth Living For by L.J. Breedlove
Stolen Dances and Big City Chances by Kathryn Kaleigh
Tattoos and Tinsel by Kindle Alexander
Tinsel Trail by Hope August
Tricked by the Durands by Erin Bedford
Unforgivable by Erin Rose
A Very Merry Nanny by Lyra Parish
Wild Bliss by Lexi Blake
Wrangling a Christmas Cowboy by Katie Lane
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