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  • JOHN PRINE
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    JOHN PRINE
    EDDIE HUFFMAN
    With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” and “Paradise” to the classic country music parody “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a songwriter’s songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has created critically acclaimed albums—John Prine (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time), Bruised Orange, and Th...

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  • THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS
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    THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS
    WAYNE THORBURN
    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 to gain a foothold in the Lone Star State, which had sided with the Confederacy and aligned with the Democratic platform. In The Republican Party of Texas, Wayne ...

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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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  • A SINGLE STAR AND BLOODY KNUCKLES
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    A SINGLE STAR AND BLOODY KNUCKLES
    BILL MINUTAGLIO
    Finalist, 2021 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award For John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner, there was one simple rule in politics: “You’ve got to bloody your knuckles.” It’s a maxim that applies in so many ways to the state of Texas, where the struggle for power has often unfolded through underhanded politicking, backroom dealings, and, quite literally, bloodshed. The contentious h...

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  • FROM A TALLER TOWER
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    FROM A TALLER TOWER
    SEAMUS MCGRAW
    We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise...

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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, this book 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 si...

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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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  • EXILE AND THE NATION
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    EXILE AND THE NATION
    AFSHIN MARASHI
    Honorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian 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 nineteenth century, when steam-powered sea travel, the increased circulation of Zoroastrian-themed b...

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  • THE ANCIENT ROMAN AFTERLIFE
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    THE ANCIENT ROMAN AFTERLIFE
    CHARLES W. KING
    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 hero-cult, the worship of dead emperors, or the Christian saints, the manes were incredibly inclusive—enro...

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  • MEDAL WINNERS
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    MEDAL WINNERS
    RAYMOND S. GREENBERG
    As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians’ few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants wer...

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  • DAKOTAH
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    DAKOTAH
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    “[Dakotah] is about hope, disappointment, impermanence and erasure. . . . This is a meditation Bowden fans will not want to miss.”—Arizona Daily Star “Bowden’s prose—bleak, fierce, surreal like a swirling sandstorm, like an endlessly ramifying arroyo—provided for me, in its rejection of facile theses and clear-cut answers, an honest mapping of our contemporary predicament.”—Lea...

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  • BISCUITS, THE DOLE, AND NODDING DONKEYS
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    BISCUITS, THE DOLE, AND NODDING DONKEYS
    NORMAN D. BROWN
    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 during the Roaring Twenties, detailing the effects of the Ku Klux Klan, newly enfranchised women, and Prohibition. Shortly before his death in 2015, Brown completed Biscuits, the Dole, and Nod...

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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
    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 to superstardom, concluding with the final recording sessions after his cancer diagnosis. Narrated from the rock star’s point of view, Bowie...

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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
    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 communication familiar, fun, and meaningful. ¡Dichos! (Sayings) brings us a vibrant compendium of both age-old and brand-new expressions from across Latin Ame...

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  • HOLLYWOOD IN SAN FRANCISCO
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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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  • THE MAN WHO WROTE THE PERFECT NOVEL
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    THE MAN WHO WROTE THE PERFECT NOVEL
    CHARLES J. SHIELDS
    When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams’s quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a...

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  • THE NEOLIBERAL DIET
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    THE NEOLIBERAL DIET
    GERARDO OTERO
    Why are people getting fatter in the United States and beyond? Mainstream explanations argue that people simply eat too much “energy-dense” food while exercising too little. By swapping the chips and sodas for fruits and vegetables and exercising more, the problem would be solved. By contrast, The Neoliberal Diet argues that increased obesity does not result merely from individ...

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  • THE BOOK OF MERLYN
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    THE BOOK OF MERLYN
    T.H. WHITE
    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 in 1977. While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard son, Mordred, Arthur returns to the Animal Cou...

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  • ALL I EVER WANTED
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    ALL I EVER WANTED
    KATHY VALENTINE
    Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, 2021 Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down. At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling b...

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  • GUITAR KING
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    GUITAR KING
    DAVID DANN
    Named one of the world’s great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone, Mike Bloomfield (1943–1981) remains beloved by fans forty years after his untimely death. Taking readers backstage, onstage, and into the recording studio with this legendary virtuoso, David Dann tells the riveting stories behind Bloomfield’s work in the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the mesmerizin...

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  • BIG WONDERFUL THING
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    BIG WONDERFUL THING
    STEPHEN HARRIGAN
    2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize 2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society "Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating ...

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  • WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS
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    WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS
    KAREN TONGSON
    In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's...

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  • ANIMATED PERSONALITIES
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    ANIMATED PERSONALITIES
    DAVID MCGOWAN
    A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019 Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century, outliving the human stars who were once their contemporaries in studio-era Hollywood. In Animated Personalities, David McGowan asserts that iconic American theatrical short cartoon...

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  • BLOOD ORCHID
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    BLOOD ORCHID
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and ...

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  • A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOUD
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    A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOUD
    CHRIS STAMEY
    Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, “the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.” In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery’s ...

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  • KILLER ON THE ROAD
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    KILLER ON THE ROAD
    GINGER STRAND
    True crime meets cultural history in this story of how America’s interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity . . . for serial killers. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began ...

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