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Women in Texas
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Ann Fears Crawford |
This historic collection is the most complete and authoritative history of the women who have contributed to the life of the Lone Star State. |
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The Hogg family and Houston
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Kate Sayen Kirkland |
"Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position… |
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Moss Bluff rebel
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Philip Robert Caudill |
Reveals a detailed portrait of a fascinating Texan, William Duncan-- businessman, county sheriff, cattleman, and Confederate officer-- capturing his wartime emotions and his postwar struggles to rein… |
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Justice at Guantanamo
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Kristine A. Huskey |
A tell-all journey of how one woman landed the toughest legal career on the planet--defending suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay--by using personal strength, courage, and never letting anyone te… |
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Jungle combat with the 112th Cavalry
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Robert Peyton Wiggins |
"This narrative tracks the experiences of three veterans, providing an account of Troop G activities during the war years. The text follows the regiment from its time as mounted cavalry based in Fort… |
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The boy kings of Texas
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Domingo Martinez |
"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of … |
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Rooster
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Brett Cogburn |
"Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was born in 1866 in Fancy Hill, Arkansas, the descendant of pioneers and moonshiners. Six foot three, dark eyed, and a dead shot with a rifle, he was as hard as the rocky … |
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Lit
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Mary Karr |
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suic… |
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Travels with Lizbeth
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Lars Eighner |
"Lars Eighner's account of his descent into homelessness and his adventures on the streets has for twenty years moved, charmed, and amused readers. A beautifully written account of one man's experien… |
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One more warbler
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Victor Emanuel |
Victor Emanuel is widely considered one of America's leading birders. He has observed more than six thousand species during travels that have taken him to every continent. He founded the largest comp… |
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Ten dollars to hate
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Patricia Bernstein |
Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s--by far the most "successful" incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War--and the first prosecutor in t… |
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The big rich
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Bryan Burrough |
In The Big Rich, bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century—T… |
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Bad kid
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David Crabb |
"Discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David Crabb what every bully already knew: he was gay. What saved him from high school was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being… |
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Waylon
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Jennings, Terry (Music executive) |
"An intimate account of the life of the legendary country music artist and leader of The Outlaws, written by his eldest son, describes how the author toured at his father's side with such legends as … |
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Faustian bargains
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Joan Mellen |
"Perhaps no president has a more ambiguous reputation than LBJ. A brilliant tactician, he maneuvered colleagues and turned bills into law better than anyone. But he was trailed by a legacy of underha… |
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Outrageous Texans
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Mona D. Sizer |
Many larger-than-life personalities are profiled. |
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Texas Women
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Rebecca Sharpless,Juliana Barr,Stephanie Cole,Elizabeth Hayes Turner |
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on… |
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Texas women
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Ann Fears Crawford |
Biographies of 24 pioneering women from Texas in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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Buried memories
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Irene Pence |
1985, Gun Barrel City, Texas: Police searching for missing Fire Department Captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly-tended garden of his wife, 48-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not … |
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Real kids, real adventures in Texas
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Deborah Morris |
Presents the true stories of four teenage heroes and survivors from the State of Texas. |
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