DB 101551
It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church—a community that Justine at times finds stif... |
DB 107949
Everyone in 1920s New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune
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DB 108553
Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel's sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. |
DB 107997
After her father's execution during the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz seizes upon the security of a marriage proposal and a new home. But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. |
DB C00271
After sixty-four years of an active lifestyle, the author lost the sight in both of her eyes due to a stroke in the optical nerves. She could have played it safe, but she vowed to live life full tilt with her service dog, DaVida. |
DB 095384
Newly widowed ex-marine Jess Winslow counts on her loyal service dog, Lucy, who was trained by prisoner Mason Burke. Now released, Mason heads to Deception Cove, Washington, to see the dog. But the sheriff's department has seized Lucy until Jess can find a package stolen by her late husband.
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DB 095384
The memoir of a former Special Forces soldier. Wounded badly and told he would never walk again, Morgan's recovery was long, and his wife left him with their three young sons. At this lowest point, a special service dog named Napal entered his life
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DBC 12216
The Undefeated is the story of phenomenal winning. From the third game of the 1953 season until the eighth game of the 1957 season, the Oklahoma Sooners never lost, compiling a forty-seven-game winning streak that most likely will never be matched in big-time college football. |
DBC 18105
For a young boy growing up in Dallas in the 1960s, the Dallas Cowboys football team was a source of excitement and pride - even though the team was still years away from the celebrity of the Super Bowl era. |
DB 32152
This riveting classic of sports reporting was first published in 1989 and it documents the 1988 football season of a Texas high school team. Its legendary status has spawned television shows, documentaries, and film. Odessa is a dying oil patch town in West Texas, yet it is a town with a dream. |
DBC 1904
Historical account of life on the western Great Plains during the darkest years of the Great Depression, when drought and wind storms produced blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and even death. Based on interviews with survivors, diaries, and newspaper accounts, this book chronicles the dust bowl years of the 1930s... |
DB 87767
An examination of the 1920s murders of wealthy Osage Nation members in Oklahoma. When the newly-formed FBI bungled the investigation, Director Hoover turned to ex-Texas Ranger Tom White, who put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the Bureau.
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DB 91944
This bestselling portrait of Oklahoma City's revitalization in the early twenty-first century examines the success of its multi-year capital improvements program, the city's leaders, and especially how a consortium of business people purchased a basketball team and turned it into a champion.
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DB 41848
Larry McMurtry tackles the Pretty Boyd Floyd legend from the Great Depression era. Charley Floyd is a good-looking Okie farm boy needing money to support his wife and baby boy. After his first bank robbery, he just can't help buying a fancy flivver, fine jewelry, and an expensive suit, which draw the law's attention. |
DB 106834
This classic Tulsa-based novel never gets old. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old greaser, tells us what it is like to come from the wrong side of the tracks and to be bullied by their traditional, upper-middle-class enemy, the Socs. And then a tragedy occurs.
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DBC 12218
Oklahoma-native and pioneer female Rockabilly musician Wanda Jackson tells the story of how she began recording rock music, why she refused to return to the Grand Ole Opry for more than fifty years, and how her faith has sustained her for more than seven decades. |
DB 110786
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.... |
DBC 18959
A beautiful portrait of an African American family in a small town of Oklahoma Deborah Ronna Baker’s The Porch Down Home tells the story of seventeen-year-old Avie and her fifteen-year-old sister Cassie. |
DBC 18952
Trouble returns to Ryton, Oklahoma, when a murderer is on the loose. Reporter Lisa Trent, her librarian boyfriend Bernard Worthington, and police chief Charles Donaldson return in Murder by the Acre, the second book of the “Measurements of Murder Mystery” series. |
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