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  • HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
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    HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
    PATRICK KEATING
    An essential work of twenty-first-century cinema, Alfonso Cuarón’s 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemporary cinematic trends, including serial storytelling, the rise of the fantasy genre, digital filmmaking, and collaborative authorship. With craft, wonder, and wit, the film captures the most engaging elements of the novel while ...

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  • WHY LABELLE MATTERS
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    WHY LABELLE MATTERS
    ADELE BERTEI
    Finalist, 2022 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture  Crafting a legacy all their own, the reinvented Labelle subverted the “girl group” aesthetic to invoke the act’s Afrofuturist spirit and make manifest their vision of Black womanhood. Performing as the Bluebelles in the 1960s, Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash wore bouffant wigs and c...

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  • VIOLENCE IN THE HILL COUNTRY
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    VIOLENCE IN THE HILL COUNTRY
    NICHOLAS KEEFAUVER ROLAND
    2022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country that examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century. In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of ...

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  • BORDERLANDS CURANDEROS
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    BORDERLANDS CURANDEROS
    JENNIFER KOSHATKA SEMAN
    2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College A historical exploration of the worlds and healing practices of two curanderos (faith healers) who attracted thousands, rallied their communities, and challenged institutional powers. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos—faith healers—who, in the late nineteenth and ea...

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  • RENEGADES AND ROGUES
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    RENEGADES AND ROGUES
    TODD B. VICK
    2022 Atlantean Award, Robert E. Howard Foundation You may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. In hundreds of tales detailing the exploits of Conan, King Kull, and others, Howard helped to invent the sword and sorcery genre. Todd B. Vick delves into newly available archi...

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  • APOSTLES OF CHANGE
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    APOSTLES OF CHANGE
    FELIPE HINOJOSA
    2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book, International Latino Book Awards Winner of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book Award Unraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban...

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  • THE LEGO MOVIE
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    THE LEGO MOVIE
    DANA POLAN
    What happens when we set out to understand LEGO not just as a physical object but as an idea, an icon of modernity, an image—maybe even a moving image? To what extent can the LEGO brick fit into the multimedia landscape of popular culture, especially film culture, today? Launching from these questions, Dana Polan traces LEGO from thing to film and asserts that The LEGO Movie is...

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  • EXILE AND THE NATION
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    EXILE AND THE NATION
    AFSHIN MARASHI
    “Groundbreaking. . . . There is little doubt [this book] will become foundational reading for any student of Iranian modernity and nationalism.” —Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies   In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral land until the ninete...

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  • TEXAS PLACE NAMES
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    TEXAS PLACE NAMES
    EDWARD CALLARY / JEAN K. CALLARY
    “[A] linguist . . . takes readers on a tour across the state, using names and language to tell its history.” ―Alcalde   Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought...

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  • JERICHO
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    JERICHO
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    When Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind an archive of unpublished manuscripts. Jericho marks the fifth installment in his venerable “Unnatural History of America” sextet. In it he invokes the cycles of destruction and rebirth that have defined the ancient biblical city over millennia. From the ruins of Jericho’s walls Bowden reflects on the continuum of war and violenc...

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  • TEXAS SEAFOOD
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    TEXAS SEAFOOD
    PJ STOOPS / BENCHALAK SRIMART STOOPS
    “A valuable compendium no matter where you live, Texas Seafood encourages you to explore uncommon varieties from your local fishmonger.” —The Wall Street Journal   The abundance of seafood available from the northwest Gulf of Mexico includes hundreds of delicious species that are often overlooked by consumers. Celebrating this regional bounty, Texas Seafood showcases the expert...

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  • BISCUITS, THE DOLE, AND NODDING DONKEYS
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    BISCUITS, THE DOLE, AND NODDING DONKEYS
    NORMAN D. BROWN
    “A fascinating tour of Texas state politics during the Great Depression” from the historian and author of Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug (Keith J. Volanto, author of Texas Voices).   When the venerable historian Norman D. Brown published Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug in 1984, he earned national acclaim for revealing the audacious tactics at play in Texas politics durin...

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  • WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE CULT OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
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    WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE CULT OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
    CASEY RAE
    A history of the writer’s impact on some of the biggest names in rock music from the Beatles to Bowie, and his role as a secret architect in the genre. William S. Burroughs’s fiction and essays are legendary—but his influence on music’s counterculture has been less well documented―until now. Examining how one of America’s most controversial literary figures altered the destinie...

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  • HUMAN MATTER
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    HUMAN MATTER
    RODRIGO REY ROSA
    This prizewinning Guatemalan author’s meta-novel delves into the secret police records and history of political violence in his homeland.   In 2005, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa started visiting the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against humanity. I...

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  • REVENGE OF THE SHE-PUNKS
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    REVENGE OF THE SHE-PUNKS
    VIVIEN GOLDMAN
    A dazzling survey of women in punk, from the genre’s inception in 1970s London to the current voices making waves around the globe. As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman has an unusually well-rounded perspective on music journalism. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity, money, love, and protest—to explore what makes pun...

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  • TAKING THE LAND TO MAKE THE CITY
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    TAKING THE LAND TO MAKE THE CITY
    MARY P. RYAN
    This historical study shows how San Francisco and Baltimore were central to American expansion through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.   The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But early settlements and towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as...

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  • DICHOS! THE WIT AND WHIMSY OF SPANISH SAYINGS
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    DICHOS! THE WIT AND WHIMSY OF SPANISH SAYINGS
    JOSEPH J. KEENAN
    A language guide “exploring nearly 300 old and new expressions, proverbs and folk wisdom” from the author of Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish (The Eagle).   One of the most challenging—and entertaining—aspects of learning another language is the idiom. Those quirky phrases, steeped in metaphor and colorful cultural references, enliven conversation and make your cross-cultural...

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  • THE MAN WHO WROTE THE PERFECT NOVEL
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    THE MAN WHO WROTE THE PERFECT NOVEL
    CHARLES J. SHIELDS
    An “engrossing” biography of a brilliant novelist underappreciated in his own time who became a twenty-first-century bestseller, from the New York Times–bestselling author (The New Yorker). When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet the quietly powerful tale of Midwestern college professor Will...

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  • THE NEOLIBERAL DIET
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    THE NEOLIBERAL DIET
    GERARDO OTERO
    This “remarkable, comprehensive” study of neoliberal agribusiness and the obesity epidemic “is critical reading for food studies scholars” (Contemporary Sociology). Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much “energy-dense” food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger tha...

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  • WHY THE BEACH BOYS MATTER
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    WHY THE BEACH BOYS MATTER
    TOM SMUCKER
    “An excellent introduction to the band that might have evolved, [the author] suggests, into the Beatles.” —New York Journal of Books Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we ...

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  • THE BOOK OF MERLYN
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    THE BOOK OF MERLYN
    T.H. WHITE
    The long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King, in which King Arthur faces his final battle against his son. This magical account of King Arthur’s last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication i...

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  • FRIDA KAHLO
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    FRIDA KAHLO
    MARÍA HESSE
    “A vibrantly illustrated biography of Kahlo . . . [Hesse’s] drawings and graphics [flow] seamlessly with the narration.” —Houston Chronicle One of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is renowned for both her paintings and her pe...

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  • THE RED CADDY
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    THE RED CADDY
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The author of Blood Orchid and Blue Desert presents a biography on his friend, the writer and environmentalist, Edward Abbey. A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire e...

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  • DESIERTO
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    DESIERTO
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The acclaimed author of Blue Desert explores life on the arid borderlands of southern Arizona in this “compelling and wonderfully poetic” essay collection (Ron Hansen, New York Times Book Review). In Desierto, Charles Bowden brings his signature eye for vivid detail and penetrating insight to the Sonoran Desert. Travelling across this unforgiving terrain, he explores struggling...

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  • WHERE NO BLACK WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE
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    WHERE NO BLACK WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE
    DIANA ADESOLA MAFE
    A look at African American women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror: “A compelling contribution to the scholarship on speculative cinema and television.” —Journal of American Culture   When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet severa...

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  • SCREENING STEPHEN KING
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    SCREENING STEPHEN KING
    SIMON BROWN
    “Gathers together the unruly mess of King adaptations . . . And places it within the sociocultural and industrial context of four decades of horror.” —Philip L. Simpson, author of Psycho Paths   Starting from the premise that Stephen King has transcended ideas of authorship to become his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening Stephen King explores the impact a...

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  • MISINFORMATION AND MASS AUDIENCES
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    MISINFORMATION AND MASS AUDIENCES
    BRIAN G. SOUTHWELL, EMILY A. THORSON, AND LAURA SHEBLE
    Lies and inaccurate information are as old as humanity, but never before have they been so easy to spread. Each moment of every day, the Internet and broadcast media purvey misinformation, either deliberately or accidentally, to a mass audience on subjects ranging from politics to consumer goods to science and medicine, among many others. Because misinformation now has the pote...

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  • THE MEXICAN MAHJAR
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    THE MEXICAN MAHJAR
    CAMILA PASTOR
    This prize-winning study of Levantine migration to Mexico brings “a new and revelatory light” to the subject (Christina Civantos, author of Between Argentines and Arabs). In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas. After a pause during World War I, this intense mobility resumed in ...

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  • THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
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    THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
    MICHAEL HURD
    The history of black high school football in segregated Texas: “Though this book is long overdue, it is also right on time.” —Texas Observer  At a time when “Friday night lights” shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Temple Dunbar, Austin Anderson, and other segregated high sc...

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  • CLASSICS FROM PAPYRUS TO THE INTERNET
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    CLASSICS FROM PAPYRUS TO THE INTERNET
    JEFFREY M. HUNT / R. ALDEN SMITH
    A “valuable and useful” history of the efforts and innovations that have kept ancient literary classics alive through the centuries (New England Classical Journal).   Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many c...

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