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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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  • 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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  • MEZCAL
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    MEZCAL
    CHARLES BOWDEN
    Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind as only the very best books manage to do."—Harry Crews "The author . . . excavat...

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  • AGENT OF CHANGE
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    AGENT OF CHANGE
    CYNTHIA E. OROZCO
    Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association 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...

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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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  • TEXAS SEAFOOD
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    TEXAS SEAFOOD
    PJ STOOPS / BENCHALAK SRIMART STOOPS
    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 expertise of longtime fishmongers and chefs PJ and "Apple Srimart" Stoops. Readers will find familiar fish like Red Snapper along with dozens of little-known finfish and ...

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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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  • ROAD SIDES
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    ROAD SIDES
    EMILY WALLACE
    An illustrated glovebox essential, Road Sides explores the fundamentals of a well-fed road trip through the American South, from A to Z. There are detours and destinations, accompanied by detailed histories and more than one hundred original illustrations that document how we get where we’re going and what to eat and do along the way. Learn the backstory of food-shaped building...

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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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  • 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
    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 destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be tra...

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  • RECENT STUDIES INDICATE
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    RECENT STUDIES INDICATE
    SARAH BIRD
    When Sarah Bird arrived in Austin in 1973 in pursuit of a boyfriend who was “hotter than lava,” she found an abundance of inspiration for storytelling (her sweetheart left her for Scientology, but she got to taste a morsel of Lynda Bird Johnson’s poorly preserved wedding cake as a temp worker at the LBJ Library). Sarah Bird went on to write ten acclaimed novels and contribute h...

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  • SÍ, ELLA PUEDE!
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    SÍ, ELLA PUEDE!
    STACEY K. SOWARDS
    Winner, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Latina/o Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2020 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...

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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • FREDDIE MERCURY
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    FREDDIE MERCURY
    ALFONSO CASAS
    The music of Queen and powerhouse lead singer Freddie Mercury are best experienced with the volume turned all the way up. Alfonso Casas’s Freddie Mercury delivers a sonorous homage to the formidable singer and the turning points that produced a game-changing body of music that continues to inspire fans around the globe. First published in Spain and now available worldwide, this...

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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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  • HERODOTUS AND THE QUESTION WHY
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    HERODOTUS AND THE QUESTION WHY
    CHRISTOPHER PELLING
    In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive examination of the methods behind the Histories and the challenge of documenting human experiences, from the Persian Wars to c...

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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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  • COLONEL SANDERS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
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    COLONEL SANDERS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
    JOSH OZERSKY
    The James Beard Award–winning food writer serves up “a quirky and rewarding exploration of a ‘very real time, place, product, and person’” (TriQuarterly).   Among the most recognizable corporate icons, only one was ever a real person: Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders launched a fried chicken business ...

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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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  • ALL I EVER WANTED
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    ALL I EVER WANTED
    KATHY VALENTINE
    “Recounts in vivid detail the gloriously debauched path of the Go-Gos through early rock success . . . and the darkness that such freedom can breed.” —Los Angeles Times   Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction   At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go’s and the band ne...

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