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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS

WAYNE THORBURN

The former executive director of the Texas GOP offers a "granular blow-by-blow account" of his party from Reconstruction to the 21st century ( Publishers Weekly). On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched statewide support for the Democratic Party and their own internal divisions, Republicans struggled...

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HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

PATRICK KEATING

This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón's 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema. 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 capture...

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WHY LABELLE MATTERS

ADELE BERTEI

"A smart, shrewd, joyful read, as piercing as any top C shriek from the woman who gave Labelle their name." —Barney Hoskyns, author of Glam! Bowie, Bolan, and the Glitter Rock Revolution Performing as the Bluebelles in the 1960s, Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash wore bouffant wigs and chiffon dresses, and they harmonized vocals like many other girl groups of the er...

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VIOLENCE IN THE HILL COUNTRY

NICHOLAS KEEFAUVER ROLAND

In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As...

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BORDERLANDS CURANDEROS

JENNIFER KOSHATKA SEMAN

"A refreshing new perspective . . . reframes borderlands history by focusing not only on faith healers, but squarely on the populations that they served." — Western Historical Quarterly 2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos—faith healers—who, in the late nineteenth ...

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RENEGADES & ROGUES

TODD B. VICK

This biography of the creator of Conan the Barbarian is " deep dive work," in which "this 'mysterious' Texas scribe gets his most complete story arc told" ( Houston Press). Robert E Howard's 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 an...

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APOSTLES OF CHANGE

FELIPE HINOJOSA

This "important and well-researched" study of 1960s urban Latino activism and religion is "brimming with the ideas and voices of . . . Latinx activists" (Llana Barber, author of Latino City). In the late 1960s, American cities found themselves in steep decline, with poor and working-class families hit the hardest. Many urban religious institutions debated whether to move to the...

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SOLDIERS & SILVER

MICHAEL J. TAYLOR

"Taylor's study critically compares the manpower and revenues of Republican Rome with those of Carthage and the Antigonid, Seleucid and Ptolemaic kingdoms." —Dominic Rathbone, author of Civilizations of the Ancient World By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing...

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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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COMMON INSECTS OF TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES

JOHN C. ABBOTT / KENDRA ABBOTT

A comprehensive field guide to Texas's insects, featuring 1,300 species and over 2,700 photographs. Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30,000 species of insects, likely making its insect population the most diverse in the nation. Ranging from eastern and western to temperate and tropical species, this vast array of insects can be difficult to id...

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A THIRSTY LAND

SEAMUS MCGRAW

"An important story not just about [Texas's] water history, but also about its social, economic, and political identity" ( Western Historical Quarterly). As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water f...

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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, though...

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MEZCAL

CHARLES BOWDEN

The acclaimed author "excavates his own tormented life—and its relation to the land he loves—in a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays" ( Kirkus Reviews). "Romping drunkenly into Mexico, protesting the Vietnamese war at the University of Wisconsin, marching on the capitol in Washington, hiking into the Pinacate, returning to the family farm in Germantown, Iow...

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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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AMERICAN TACOS

JOSÉ R. RALAT

This culinary travelogue is "a deeply researched guide to north-of-the-border taco culture and history" ( Los Angeles Times). Tacos may have been created south of the border, but Americans have made this Mexican food their own, with each style reflective of a time and a place. American Tacos explores them all, taking us on a detailed and delicious journey through the evolution ...

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AGENT OF CHANGE

CYNTHIA E. OROZCO

The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901–1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. At last presenting the full story of Sloss-Vento's achievements, Agent of Change revives a forgotten history of a major female Latina l...

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DAKOTAH

CHARLES BOWDEN

The author of Blood Orchid explores the history of the Sioux alongside that of his own family in this posthumous work. When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed "Unnatural History of America." Bowden uses...

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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 exper...

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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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ROAD SIDES

EMILY WALLACE

This illustrated A to Z guide covers detours, destinations, and culinary delights for your next road trip through the American South. Essential in any traveler's glovebox, Road Sides explores the fundamentals of a well-fed road trip across the Southern United States. Entries feature detailed histories and more than one hundred original illustrations that document the many col...

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THE EYE OF THE MAMMOTH

STEPHEN HARRIGAN

History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can ...

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BOWIE

MARÍA HESSE / FRAN RUIZ

"An entertaining and informative glimpse of Bowie's public and private life, music and disappearance from this earth." — Shelf Media Group David Bowie was a master of artifice and reinvention. In that same spirit, illustrator María Hesse and writer Fran Ruiz have created a vivid retelling of the life of David Robert Jones, from his working-class childhood to glam rock success...

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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

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

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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RECENT STUDIES INDICATE

SARAH BIRD

"These essays are a pleasure; Bird makes her readers feel smart, urbane, and in on the joke, and that their own stories are worth sharing too." — Publishers Weekly When Sarah Bird arrived in Austin in 1973 in pursuit of a boyfriend who was "hotter than lava," she found an abundance of storytelling inspiration (for example, her sweetheart left her for Scientology, but she got ...

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¡SÍ, ELLA PUEDE!

STACEY K. SOWARDS

A "valuable" analysis of the speeches, letters, and interviews of the United Farm Workers cofounder and Latina activist ( Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies ). Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers' rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s...

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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-cultura...

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HOLLYWOOD IN SAN FRANCISCO

JOSHUA GLEICH

One of the country's most picturesque cities and conveniently located just a few hours' drive from Hollywood, San Francisco became the most frequently and extensively filmed American city beyond the production hubs of Los Angeles and New York in the three decades after World War II. During those years, the cinematic image of the city morphed from the dreamy beauty of Vertigo to...

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LEAVING THE GAY PLACE

TRACY DAUGHERTY

"By turns a strong, clear biography (with shades of rock n roll memoir), a poetic ode to various places and people in midcentury Texas and an oral history." — Texas Observer Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. When he published his first and only novel, The Gay Place, in 1961, li...

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