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Michael Barr
Remembering Bulldog Turner

Clyde "Bulldog" Turner rose from the West Texas plains to become an early lynchpin of the Chicago Bears and the NFL and one of the greatest linemen of the pre-television era. Fame, however, did …

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Cole Bedford
Engineering the Modern American West

During the second half of the 19th century, Americans dramatically altered the landscape of the arid American West---especially its precious few rivers. Engineers built ever more ambitious dams, canals, d…

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Heidi Brady, Scott White
Artists of the Horse

Since the frontiers of the American West were explored and settled, the horse has become its icon, representing freedom, individualism, toughness, determination, and the idiosyncratic way of life inherent…

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Jolene Brink
Overburden

On the surface of a mine, overburden is the excess landscape--soil, stone, roots--excavated and pushed aside to get to the valuable material below. But what accumulates when we displace and disrupt? Insid…

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Richard W Butler
Hill Country Ball

Hill Country Ball traces the vibrant emergence of baseball in a unique corner of the American West, where German settlers transformed the national pastime into a Sunday tradition. From the post--Civil War…

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Sarah Curtis
Daughter of a Song

A biographical memoir of motherhood, music, and the mythic figure of rock 'n' roller Sonny Curtis.

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John R Erickson
Small Town Author

More than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited the f…

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Emily Grandy
Cupido Cupido

When sixteen-year-old Ignatius "Egg" Girard is told he'll be spending the next three months on his estranged grandfather's failing farm in Hale Creek, Kentucky, getting the place ready to sell, …

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Amy M Hale
Drinking Wild Water

Amy M. Hale is writing love letters again. As she did in her previous award-winning books, she is writing to the universe, to individuals, to the land, to change, to work, and even, at times, to who she i…

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Gary Kulik
Conscientious Objectors at War

During the war in Vietnam, thousands of young men served as conscientious objector medics. They had been certified by their local draft boards as noncombatants, but many would know intense combat nonethel…

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Paul Linczak
Swinica

This debut collection takes readers to small-town Ohio, New York City, and beyond, presenting the unique voices of troubled characters--Polish and Ukrainian, young and old, rich and poor--as they face lif…

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Amy Von Lintel
Art at the Crossroads

Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle underscores the striking richness of art stories about the Texas Panhandle---a strange and wondrous place, where old and new, tradit…

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Bob Livingston
Gypsy Alibi

Born in San Antonio, raised in Lubbock, Bob Livingston drank from the same water that nourished musicians like Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines, Jesse Taylor, Butch Hancock, and others who were surfing …

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Valerie Sherer Mathes
Divinely Guided Revisited

The Women's National Indian Association (WNIA) was a volunteer organization of middle- and upper-class white women that grew out of Philadelphia's First Baptist Church's Home Missionary Society in 1877. T…

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Adán Medrano
The Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cookbook

A cookbook celebrating the plant-based cuisine of Indigenous Texas Mexican communities.

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Inette Miller
Girls Don't

The year is 1970; the war in Vietnam is five years from over. The women's movement is newly resurgent, and feminists are summarily reviled as "libbers." Inette Miller is one year out of college-…

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Celina Osuna
Desert Distortion

This book intersects environmental humanities, critical theory, and literary criticism with the Desert Southwest. It explores the fullness of desert places with regard to cultures, borders, and languages …

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Tuan Phan
Gills

From the backstreets of Saigon to the sprawl of suburban Texas, Gills gathers stories of longing, estrangement, and quiet transformation. In luminous, sometimes haunting prose, Tuan Phan captures the ways…

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Fazlur Rahman
The Temple Road

A veteran cancer physician, Dr Fazlur Rahman's story is astonishing. He was born and raised in a Mullah family, an old-line Muslim clan, in a remote village in what is now Bangladesh, with its hardships a…

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Dennis Roberson
Winning 42

There are two types of people in Texas: those who play 42 and those who need to learn. Winning 42 is written for both. A team game that no one tires of, 42 does not rely mostly on luck or memory. Skill an…

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