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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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Many Rivers to Cross

Thomas Zigal

• Hardcover | Engels
• Hurricane Katrina struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in late August of 2005. In the aftermath of the category-three hurricane, the churning waters of Lak... Lees meer

Sam Bass

Bryan Woolley

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Tradition | nr. 36
• The story of Sam Bass, both outlaw and romantic figure, has become a familiar part of Texas folklore and is well documented in nonfiction. But in this... 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

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

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

Turning the Pages of Texas

Lonn Taylor

• Paperback | Engels
• Turning the Pages of Texas is a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for bo... Lees meer

The Search for a Chili Queen

Marian L Martinello

• Paperback | Engels
• Blending careful research and creative storytelling, The Search for a Chili Queen explores the lantern-lit world of the young hostesses who staffed ni... Lees meer

Learning Through a Prism

Tracy Rundstrom Williams

• Paperback | Engels
• In the emerging field of intercultural competence, this book is one of the first to propose a pedagogical framework and provide both the theory and to... Lees meer

Forging the Tortilla Curtain

Thomas Torrans

• Paperback | Engels
• Some have called it the tortilla curtain. Others have viewed it as a Third World entity where primitive conditions and poverty exist alongside the lat... 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