Last Gangster in Austin: Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia (Jess and Betty Jo Hay)
By: Jesse Sublett
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for …
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1. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
By: Sebastian Mallaby
4.10
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred h… read more
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2. The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
By: Skip Hollandsworth
4.33
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Te… read more
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3. Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way
By: None
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A candid, compelling, and rollicking portrait of the pirate captain of Margaritaville--Jimmy Buffet… read more
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4. Locked Rooms (Mary Russell, #8)
By: Laurie R. King
3.97
Format: None pages,
En route to San Francisco to settle her family's estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sh… read more
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5. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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6. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
By: Sally Denton
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more
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7. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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8. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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9. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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10. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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11. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more
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12. Tiger Chair
By: Max Brooks
3.57
Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition
When China invades America, guerrilla warfare explodes on the streets of Los Angeles in this provoc… read more
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13. Mr. Texas
By: Lawrence Wright
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more
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14. The Madstone
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more
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"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
15. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America
By: Harry N. MacLean
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more
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16. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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17. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
By: Justin Fenton
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more
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18. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
By: Dean Jobb
3.62
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more
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19. Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic
By: Billy Jensen
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author, co-host of the hit podcast and Discovery + docuseries Long Island Serial Kill… read more
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20. Last Gangster in Austin: Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia (Jess and Betty Jo Hay)
By: Jesse Sublett
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for … read more
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21. Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America
By: Stephen L. Klineberg
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents fascinating and groundbreaking research that shows how the c… read more
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