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Series: Gracious Poems from the 21st Century South Paperback John Poch 9781682830642 $53.95 POETRY Oct 27, 2020

John Poch?s newly curated collection, Gracious: Poems of the 21st Century South, spotlights both emerging and notable voices from this poetry-rich region. This book promises to be the best and most influential anthology of Southern poetry published in over thirty years. Gracious steers away from stereotypical mockingbird-and-magnolia verse and instead amplifies a variety of lyric voices covering a wide breadth of Southern experience. Bryan Giemza?s timely introduction situates the anthology among the current discourse in Southern studies. Graci... + Read More
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Series: At Close Range A Memoir of Tragedy and Advocacy Hardcover Leesa Ross 9781682830499 $40.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 02, 2020

Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific and sudden death that led her to write At Close Range. Her debut memoir is the story of what happened after her son Jon died in a freak gun accident at a party. Ross unsparingly shares the complexities of grief as it ripples through the generations of her family, then chronicles how the loss of Jon has sparked a new life for her as a prominent advocate for gun safety. Before the accident, Ross never had a motivation to consider the... + Read More
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Series: A Haven in the Sun Five Stories of Bird Life and Its Future on the Texas Coast Hardcover B.C. Robison 9781682830635 $47.95 NATURE Sep 08, 2020

In A Haven in the Sun, nature writer B. C. Robison presents a unique portrayal of birds of the Texas Coast. Through the stories of birds that have a special bond with coastal Texas--Attwater?s Prairie Chicken, White-tailed Hawk, Whooping Crane, Redhead, and migratory shorebirds and songbirds--Robison shows not only the importance of the Texas Coast to North American bird life but also the intimate dependence of coastal birds on our use of the land. At the heart of these stories lies the natural landscape and an account of how we have altered it... + Read More
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Series: Winning 42 Strategy and Lore of the National Game of Texas (5th Edition) Paperback Dennis Roberson 9781682830574 $25.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Mar 01, 2020

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 and strategy separate the best from the rest. Veterans who relish the logic of each domino played will find challenge in the advanced chapters and fascination in the history and lore. Many who've grown up with 42 are nonetheless surprised by its utterly Texan heritage, reaching back over a century and a quarter. Beginners will find easy instructi... + Read More
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Series: Peace and Conflict Series Rain in Our Hearts Alpha Company in the Vietnam War Hardcover James Allen Logue 9781682830673 $60.95 HISTORY Nov 20, 2020

With words and photographs, Rain in Our Hearts takes readers into Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 196th LIB, Americal Division in 1969?1970. Jim Logue, a professional photographer, was drafted and served as an infantryman; he also carried a camera. ?In order to take my mind off the war,? he would say, ?I took pictures.? Logue?s photos showcase the daily lives of infantrymen: setting up a night laager, chatting with local children, making supply drops, and ?humping? rucksacks miles each day in search of the enemy. His camera records... + Read More
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Series: Wilmettie Paperback Sue Houser 9781682830659 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 4 - 6 Aug 10, 2020

Wilmettie is the story of one family?s covered-wagon journey from West Texas to New Mexico Territory in the early 1900s. When Wilmettie?s stepfather decides to follow his dream and claim a homestead of his own, Wilmettie?s younger brothers are excited about the journey. But twelve-year-old Wilmettie is reluctant to leave her familiar surroundings and the grandmother she loves. The book takes readers along for her family?s adventures on their way to what will become their new homestead: covered wagon trains are formed, rattlesnakes are encounter... + Read More
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Series: Voice in the American West On Becoming Apache Paperback Harry Mithlo 9781682830598 $40.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 05, 2020

This is the story of Watson Mithlo, Chiricahua Apache, his family, and his life. Watson?s story embodies the life of the Chiricahua Apache people, who in 1886 were forced into exile to Fort Marion, Florida, by the US government and considered prisoners of war until 1914. This story tells Watson?s lived history as the Chiricahua were relocated from Arizona to Florida to Alabama and finally to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But this is also a story of Harry Mithlo, Watson?s son, and Conger Beasley, Harry?s friend. It is a story of telling a story. The thre... + Read More
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Series: Judith Keeling Book Finding Karen An Ancestral Mystery Paperback Dorothy Allred Solomon 9781682830611 $37.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 10, 2020

Since her groundbreaking memoir In My Father?s House, which recounts an agonizing break from fundamentalist polygamy, Dorothy Allred Solomon has continued to publish on the lives of Mormon women and the dissonance many experience in connection to fundamentalist pasts. The more Solomon delved into issues of agency, the more she felt her own dissonance and began to look for answers in her ancestral past?those early women she knew only through family stories. Finding Karen: An Ancestral Mystery springs from a decade of research into Solomon?s pate... + Read More
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Series: Dark Eyes, Lady Blue María of Ágreda Paperback Marilyn H. Fedewa 9781682830567 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2020

Dark Eyes, Lady Blue tells the story of Sister María of Ágreda's remarkable life. María was born in Ágreda, Spain, in 1602, and vowed there as a nun at age seventeen. From birth to her death in 1665, she never left the small town. Yet her accomplishments had a lasting impact in Spain and as far away as the American Southwest, where she is celebrated to this day.Although cloistered in Ágreda's Monastery of the Immaculate Conception, María grew to be a renowned mystic, a widely read author, and an advisor to the King of Spain. She experienced rel... + Read More
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Series: Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You A Novel Hardcover Estelle Glaser Laughlin 9781682830680 $40.95 FICTION Oct 23, 2020

Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You is a historical novel written by Estelle Laughlin, a Holocaust survivor. Laughlin grew up in Warsaw before she was deported to multiple Nazi death camps, from which she was eventually liberated in January 1945. Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You is an imagining of what might have been. The book tells the story of Malka, a teenaged Jewish girl in the Warsaw ghetto who is smuggled to the Christian neighborhood and given a new identity. The novel highlights a historically accurate Holocaust narrative not frequently told: that ... + Read More
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Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest Opus in Brick and Stone The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University Hardcover Brian H. Griggs 9781682830444 $40.95 ARCHITECTURE May 15, 2020

Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University explores the campus architecture of the Texas Tech University System, which was inspired by the sixteenth-century Plateresque Spanish Renaissance architectural style. This book details the parallels between the buildings of Texas Tech and those of their forebears from this relatively short period in Spanish architectural history, while exploring the remarkable stories behind the construction itself. A crucial element of Opus in Brick and Stone is to provid... + Read More