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This Stubborn Self

Bert Almon

• Hardcover | Engels
• A. C. Greene claimed he wrote his autobiographical A Personal Country "to find out, from one life in one region, if all of us are not gifted from the ... Lees meer

Between the Enemy and Texas

Anne J Bailey

• Paperback | Engels
• Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could pro... Lees meer

Texas Wineries

Melinda Esco

• Hardcover | Engels | Texas Small Books
• Melinda Esco blended her love of Texas travel with an appreciation for wine and toured as many of the esteemed Texas wineries as possible. She discove... Lees meer

Dancing Naked

Mary Rogers

• Paperback | Engels
• Almost every journalist asks the subjects of profiles to tell the truth. Only Mary Rogers requires them to "dance naked." To Rogers, an award-winning ... Lees meer

Slow Moving Dreams

Tom Hardy

• Paperback | Engels
• Tom Hardy's new novel, Slow Moving Dreams , tells the story of Tom Carter, a city man who is forced by the death of a cousin to return to his rural ro... Lees meer

State Fare

Don Graham

• Hardcover | Engels | Texas Small Books
• From the earliest days of film, Texas and its colorful history offered promising story lines comprised of heroes, images, lore, and legend that filmma... Lees meer

Memphis Bluff

Gerald Duff

• Paperback | Engels
• Memphis, the Bluff City, is at the heart of Gerald Duff's hilariously violent story about lies, crimes, and those who must dig down to the ugly truths... Lees meer

Mem'ries Sweet, Comrades True

• Paperback | Engels
• The TCU Retirees Association cookbook is a compilation of a variety of delicious recipes from the association's members. Some recipes have been passed... Lees meer

But Not for Love

Edwin Bud Shrake

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Tradition | nr. 29
• This Texas Traditions Series reprint takes us back to the Lone Star State during the Cold War at the beginning of the 1960s. The postwar generation is... Lees meer

Radio Elvis and Other Stories

John Irsfeld

• Hardcover | Engels
• Urban legends, Las Vegas, and life in the U.S. Army are deftly captured in these stories by novelist John Irsfeld. With imagination bordering on the q... Lees meer

In the Rough

David Hueber

• Paperback | Engels
• There has never been a book about the inner workings of the golf business or its leading players from an insider's point of view. In the Rough reads l... Lees meer

Dancing with Lyndon

Donley Watt

• Hardcover | Engels
• A novel of ambitions and desires thwarted in a small Texas town, Dancing with Lyndon brings the early 1950s to life. Living in a small conservative an... Lees meer

The Quaker Sergeant's War

Gene Allen

• Paperback | Engels
• The Civil War posed a dilemma for American Quakers, who abhorred slavery as much as they hated violence. Fighting for the Confederacy was unthinkable.... Lees meer

Dark Thicket

Elmer Kelton

• Hardcover | Engels | Texas Tradition | nr. 27
• In this novel, first published by Doubleday in 1985, Texas novelist Elmer Kelton returns to the Civil War period, once again examining, as he first di... Lees meer

The Orphans' Nine Commandments

William Roger Holman

• Hardcover | Engels
• When Roger Bechan was six, his mother packed his suitcase and told him they were going to Oklahoma City to visit an uncle. Instead, she took him to th... Lees meer

Thin Men of Haddam

C W Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Tradition | nr. 15
• Set in southwestern New Mexico, "Thin Men of Haddam" deals with the problems of Hispanics trying to make their way in an Anglo world. Orphaned as a ch... Lees meer

Baja Oklahoma

Dan Jenkins

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Tradition | nr. 40
• Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, Baja Oklahoma , features protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically commentate with the best of ... Lees meer

Preaching and Teaching

• Hardcover | Engels
• Paul G. Wassenich was a beloved and much-honored professor of religion at Texas Christian University after serving as Bible Chair of the University of... Lees meer

The Art of Texas

Ron Tyler

• Hardcover | Engels
• Critic Michael Ennis stated twenty-five years ago that there has never been more than a cursory overview of Texas art from the nineteenth century to t... Lees meer

Honors at Tcu

• Hardcover | Engels
• Celebrating Fifty Years of Achievement: Honors at TCU traces the history and impact of Honors at TCU from its beginning as a small program in the earl... Lees meer

Mexicans at Arms

Pedro Santoni

• Hardcover | Engels
• The decades that followed independence from Spain in 1821 transformed Mexico from a strong, stable colony to a republic suffering from economic declin... Lees meer

Shale Boom

Diana Davids Hinton

• Paperback | Engels
• Shale Boom describes how independent oilman George P. Mitchell developed technology that would unlock trillions of cubic feet of natural gas in the No... Lees meer

Texas in Poetry

• Hardcover | Engels | Texas in Poetry
• Texas in Poetry 2 can be read straight through as a commentary on life in the Lone Star State. Or it can be read a poem or author at a time. But if re... Lees meer

Mexican Workers and the State

Norman Caulfield

• Hardcover | Engels
• Almost eighty years before the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Ricardo Flores Magón--revolutionary, anarchist, labo... Lees meer