LibGuides: Authors from the Lee College Service Area: Works with Texas Gulf Coast Settings or Subjects

Fiction

Hidden legacy series by Andrews, Ilona
Publication Date: b. 2014

Urban fantasy series set in Houston.
Drowning House by Black, Elizabeth
Publication Date: 2013

Set in Galveston.
Ruby: a novel by Bond, Cynthia
Call Number: PS 3602 .O65645 R83 2014

Publication Date: 2014

Author born in Hempstead ; novel set in Liberty.
Jesus out to sea by Burke, James Lee
Publication Date: 2007

Contains the short story, "Texas City, 1947."
The killing storm by Casey, Kathryn
Publication Date: 2010

Suspense / thriller set in Houston.
What you wish for by Center, Katherine
Publication Date: 2020

Pop fiction set in Galveston; author is from Houston.
The big blow by Lansdale, Joe
Publication Date: 2000

Set in Galveston, featuring boxer Jack Johnson. Texan author.
Black water rising by Locke, Attica
Call Number: PS 3612 .O247 B57 2009

Publication Date: 2009

Author from Houston ; set in Houston and Pasadena.
Galveston by Morris, Suzanne
Call Number: PS 3563 .O87448 G3 1976

Publication Date: 1976
Galveston: a novel by Pizzolatto, Nic
Publication Date: 2010
Friendswood: a novel by Steinke, Rene
Publication Date: 2014
Lot: stories by Washington, Bryan
Call Number: PS 3623 .A867 A6 2019

Publication Date: 2019

Short stories set in Houston.

Nonfiction

Mother love, deadly love: the Texas cheerleader murder plot by Anne McDonald Maier
Publication Date: 1992

True crime account of a Channelview woman's plot to assassinate her daughter's cheerleading rival.
City on Fire by Bill Minutaglio
Call Number: F 394 .T4 M56 2003

Publication Date: 2003

Non-fiction account of the Texas City Disaster of 1947.
Through a Night of Horrors by Casey Edward Greene (Editor); Shelly Henley Kelly (Editor)
Call Number: F 394 .G2 T49 2000

Publication Date: 2000

Primary sources from the Storm of 1900 in Galveston.
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
Call Number: F 394 .G2 L37 1999

Publication Date: 1999

Galveston in the Hurricane of 1900.
Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward
Call Number: GV 1196 .J64 W37 2004

Publication Date: 2004-10-26

Biography of the boxer Jack Johnson, born and raised in Galveston.
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis
Call Number: F 296 .D38 2017

Publication Date: 2017

Environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico.
Deliver us: three decades of redemption and murder in the infamous I45/Texas Killing Fields by Kathryn Casey
Publication Date: 2015

True crime covering murders on I45 between Houston and Galveston.
The Fishermen and the Dragon by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Call Number: HS 2330 .K63 K63 2022

Publication Date: 2022

Nonfiction account of the KKK's attempts to oust Vietnamese American fishermen from the Seabrook / Kemah / TX Gulf Coast waters.
Walking Home by Sarah Cortez
Call Number: PS 3553 .O7227 Z46 2012

Publication Date: 2012

Memoir of Texan Sarah Cortez, set in Houston.