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Mimi: The Perilous Journey of a Free-Spirited Texas Woman
$24.99 Read moreMimi: The Perilous Journey of a Free-Spirited Texas Woman tells the extraordinary true story of a Texas debutante who lived a life few could imagine.
A niece of Texas Senator John Tower, Mimi’s journe
- Author: Wright, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0875659632
- Language: English
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Blood Ties: How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy
$24.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power
- Author: Kolb, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657885
- Language: English
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Everything in Life Is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022
$21.95 Add to cartDrawn from eight acclaimed books of poetry and spanning forty years, Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022, is 2021 Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells’s long-awaited retrospect… [more below]
- Series: Tcu Texas Poets Laureate #19
- Author: Cassells, Cyrus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0875659098
- Language: English
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Bragging Rites: College Football’s Disputed Titles
$25.95 Add to cartWho is the best team in College Football? Sports fans have argued this question for decades. Over 40 times in the last 90 years more than one team has claimed to be national champion, and for a quarte… [more below]
- Author: GÃ¥ddie, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: May 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0875659101
- Language: English
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El Bowie Bakery
$24.95 Add to cartAs a ninth-generation Bordercana, Toni and her family are a mestizo mix of Native American and Mexican American heritage. They never left the Border. Growing up, she was never made to think of the Bor… [more below]
- Author: Muñoz, Toni Viva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 22 2025
- ISBN10: 087565911X
- Language: English
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3… 2…1… We’re on the Air: An Inside Look at Sports Television, Journalism, and Gender Equity
$34.95 Add to cartImagine what it’s like to make hundreds of decisions in just two hours on “live” network television with your work seen by millions of people. That’s what a sports television producer does each time t… [more below]
- Author: Steinfeld, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658806
- Language: English
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El Paso 120: Edge of the Southwest
$35.00 Add to cartMark Paulda, accomplished photographer and wandering wayfarer, doesn’t just showcase scenery in El Paso 120; he makes a powerful statement: “El Paso is not at the edge but instead at the very center o… [more below]
- Author: Paulda, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0875656021
- Language: English
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Laurie Ann Guerrero: I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake; New and Selected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartThis collection of Guerrero’s new and selected work documents the struggle to both honor and disrupt cultural, social, and familial traditions and histories. Hers is an honest and fearless examination
- Series: Tcu Texas Poets Laureate
- Author: Guerrero, Laurie Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 25 2021
- ISBN10: 087565746X
- Language: English
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Austin Music Is a Scene Not a Sound
$45.95 Add to cartMichael Corcoran culminates 40 years of writing about Austin music with a history of the scene, going back to the German singing societies of the late 1800s and ending with the ascent of South by Sout… [more below]
- Author: Corcoran, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 31 2025
- ISBN10: 0875658660
- Language: English
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Austin Relativity: A Memoir in Prose & Poetry
$25.95 Add to cart“Dave Parsons exquisitely captures the essence of what it was like for many to come of age in Austin, Texas, in the 1960s. He writes entertainingly about his antics, running buddies, neighbors, drinki… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0875659071
- Language: English
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Hispanic Roots of the Hollywood Western
$24.95 Add to cartHispanic Roots of the Hollywood Western explores how the Spanish history of the American Southwest influenced a movie genre that became a worldwide phenomenon: the Western. Numerous aspects of the His… [more below]
- Author: Gladstein, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658911
- Language: English
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Jackrabbit Jewel and the Butterfield Overland Stagecoach
$24.95 Add to cartJackrabbit Jewel and Conejo Grande find themselves immersed in a new adventure along the Butterfield Overland Mail route. This mail route covered a distance of 2,800 miles, beginning in St. Louis, Mis… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Trey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658865
- Language: English
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The Day the Cowboys Quit: Volume 7
$21.95 Add to cart- Series: Texas Tradition #7
- Author: Kelton, Elmer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0875650546
- Language: English
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Running in Borrowed Shoes: Thane Baker and the 1952 Summer Games
$29.95 Add to cartThane Baker grew up in the Kansas Dust Bowl. An Olympic medal winner from his small town gave seven-year-old Thane hopes for his own Olympic glory. Yet a work injury at age fourteen shoved steel behin… [more below]
- Author: Nicholson, Catherine Baker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658695
- Language: English
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Dust-Covered Lies
$24.95 Add to cartSet in Texas during the 1870s and in the 1930s at the height of the Dust Bowl, Dust Covered Lies tells the story of Frances Abbott, or Frannie, an orphaned immigrant who faces a terrible choice that w… [more below]
- Author: O’Connor, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658830
- Language: English
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Wards of the League: The Untold Story of the First NFL Team in Dallas
$34.95 Add to cartWards of the League is a long-lost tale from pro football’s buried past. Very few people even know that the 1952 Dallas Texans ever existed and played in the National Football League. Before the Dalla… [more below]
- Author: Cobern, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658849
- Language: English
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Tough Times Never Last: The Coach Fran Story
$24.95 Add to cartDennis Franchione, known as Coach Fran, is one of the winningest coaches in college football history. He successfully turned around football programs at every stop during his head coaching career. Fro… [more below]
- Author: Franchione, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0875658822
- Language: English
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Letters to Oma
$18.95 Add to cartWhen fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Von Scholl learns that her family will leave their German homeland to seek freedom in Texas, her greatest sorrow is leaving behind her beloved grandmother. And s… [more below]
- Series: Chaparral Books
- Author: Gurasich, Marj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 21 2016
- ISBN10: 0875650376
- Language: English
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Cowboys and Indian
$24.95 Add to cartCowboys and Indian: A Doctor’s First Year in Texas is an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor’s first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. Besides the challenges of being an imm… [more below]
- Author: Mathur, Sandip V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657729
- Language: English
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Big Bend Vistas: Journeys Through Big Bend National Park
$24.95 Add to cartA superb souvenir of this exotic terrain, Big Bend Vistas takes you on five journeys that begin at Panther Junction and travel to Study Butte; then on to the Chisos Basin, Santa Elena Canyon, Boquilla… [more below]
- Author: MacLeod, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0875656714
- Language: English
