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  • HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
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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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  • VIOLENCE IN THE HILL COUNTRY
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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  • 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 ninet...

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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, though...

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  • MEZCAL
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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
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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
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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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  • THE ANCIENT ROMAN AFTERLIFE
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    THE ANCIENT ROMAN AFTERLIFE
    CHARLES W. KING
    A comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society. In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the  manes, watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives' lives. But unlike the Greek...

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  • DAKOTAH
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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
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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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  • THE EYE OF THE MAMMOTH
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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
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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
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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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  • ¡SÍ, ELLA PUEDE!
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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
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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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  • LEAVING THE GAY PLACE
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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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  • 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 Wil...

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  • WHY THE RAMONES MATTER
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    WHY THE RAMONES MATTER
    DONNA GAINES
    "Unequivocally fresh and engrossing. Even the biggest fans will find something new to enjoy here." ― Razorcake   The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who's somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of alienation at h...

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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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  • SOME OF THE DEAD ARE STILL BREATHING
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    SOME OF THE DEAD ARE STILL BREATHING
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    The third book in Charles Bowden's "accidental trilogy" that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: "How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?" As humanity moves further into the twenty-first century, Bowden continues to interrogate our roles in creating the ravaged land...

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