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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • TEXIAN ILIAD
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    TEXIAN ILIAD
    STEPHEN L. HARDIN
    The first complete history of the nineteenth-century revolt, drawing on original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield. Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a “Texian Iliad” in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick...

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  • WOMAN WALK THE LINE
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    WOMAN WALK THE LINE
    HOLLY GLEASON
    In this collection of personal essays, women music writers pay tribute to female country artists from June Carter Cash and Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country music and the women who make it, Woman Walk the Line is an intimate collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It celebrates how t...

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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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  • OAXACA AL GUSTO
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    OAXACA AL GUSTO
    DIANA KENNEDY
    A James Beard Foundation Award–winning record of the traditional regional cuisines of Oaxaca, from one of the world’s foremost authorities on Mexican cooking. No one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than Diana Kennedy. Acclaimed as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking, Kennedy has been an intrepid, indefatigable student of Mexica...

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  • A YOUNG PALESTINIAN'S DIARY, 1941–1945
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    A YOUNG PALESTINIAN'S DIARY, 1941–1945
    KIMBERLY KATZ
    Covering four crucial years of social and political change, this diary offers an intimate view of life in Palestine and sheds new light on its history.   Writing in his late teens and early twenties, Sami ‘Amr gave his diary an apt subtitle: The Battle of Life, encapsulating both the political climate of Palestine in the waning years of the British Mandate as well as the contra...

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  • FLINTKNAPPING
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    FLINTKNAPPING
    JOHN C. WHITTAKER
    A detailed, practical guide to the ancient craft of making stone tools, featuring an archaeological analysis. Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written fro...

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  • STANDING IN THE NEED
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    STANDING IN THE NEED
    KATHERINE E. BROWNE
    “The vivid story of one family’s ordeal in Hurricane Katrina . . . offers completely new and highly relevant insights into disaster response.” —Susanna Hoffman, disaster anthropologist and director, Hoffman Consulting   Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s experience after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this family of on...

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  • COUNTRY MUSIC USA
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    COUNTRY MUSIC USA
    BILL C. MALONE / TRACY E. W. LAIRD
    “Still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form . . . Bill Malone [was] an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary.” —Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, Country Music: An American Family Story This is the newly updated edition of Country Music USA, “considered the definitive history of American country music” (Los Angeles Times). Starting ...

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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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  • AMERICA'S NEIGHBORHOOD BATS
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    AMERICA'S NEIGHBORHOOD BATS
    MERLIN D. TUTTLE
    A guide to these frequently misunderstood animals that dispels unnecessary fears and encourages an appreciation of bats and their conservation needs.   Since its publication in 1988, America’s Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-da...

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  • FOUNDING FINANCE
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    FOUNDING FINANCE
    WILLIAM HOGELAND
    The author of The Whiskey Rebellion “dig[s] beneath history’s surface and note[s] both the populist and anti-populist dimensions of the nation’s founding” (Library Journal). Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes...

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  • TO ALCATRAZ, DEATH ROW, AND BACK
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    TO ALCATRAZ, DEATH ROW, AND BACK
    ERNIE LÓPEZ / RAFAEL PÉREZ-TORRES
    This prison memoir vividly recounts a life of abuse, crime, and incarceration, and reveals the harrowing reality inside America’s broken prison system.   When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, he would face beatings from his father for not bringing home enough money. When the beatings became unbearable, López took to petty stealing to make ...

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