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The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers "a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy" (New York Daily News).
Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene...
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The dramatic story of the oil boom that transformed the history of a state, drawn from archives and first-person accounts.
As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy that built cities, attracted out-of-state workers...
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Two very different cousins head to Italy to fight in World War II in this absorbing novel, a winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal.
This is the story of two cousins and their journey from south Texas to the distant shores of wartime Italy.
Sam Taft is a rancher, fiercely devoted to his wife, Margaret, and intent on surviving the war and returning to Texas. Each skirmish, every battle, is one-step closer to home. His cousin Perkin...
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Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century-the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt...
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This colorful memoir brings the Texas frontier to life, from smuggling adventures to fighting in the Texas Revolution and serving as a Texas Ranger.
Having left Kentucky at nineteen, Noah Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827 to seek his fortune in a "lazy man's paradise." He left in 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. Looking back at that time, blind and nearing ninety, Smithwick recounted the story to his daughter, and so...
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A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs.
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory-they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed land...
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The definitive biography of the legendary Empresario who colonized Texas for the Mexican government before leading the Texas Revolution.
First published in 1925, “The Life of Stephen F. Austin” remains one of the finest works of Texas biography. An historian at the University of Texas, Eugene C. Barker spent nearly twenty-five years researching and writing this magisterial narrative, combining impeccable academic standards with engaging and lively...
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"Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas." –Journal of American History
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang...
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This "beautifully written . . . and meticulously researched" Civil War history vividly recounts one of the most decisive battles fought in Texas (Civil War News).
Jefferson Davis once said the Battle of Sabine Pass was "more remarkable than the battle at Thermopylae." But unlike the Spartans, who succumbed to overwhelming Persian forces at Thermopylae more than two thousand years before, the Confederate underdogs triumphed in a battle that...
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These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas- those rugged men and, sometimes, women- who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, these hundreds of real-life stories, some humorous, some chilling, some rambling, all interesting, form an invaluable cornerstone to the literature, history, and folklore of Texas and the West. First...
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When he returns to Texas from overseas, U.S. Marine Carter Wallace makes good on a promise. To tell a fallen soldier's wife that her husband loved her. But widowed Savannah Blackmore, pregnant and alone, shares a different story with Carter-one that tests everything he believes. He brings Savannah back to the Triple C ranch, where family secrets-and siblings he hadn't known about-await him. Now the marine who never needed anyone suddenly needs...
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When the Brazilian military overthrew President João Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a "100 percent Brazilian movement." It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United States had an invisible but pervasive part in the coup.
Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and Kennedy presidential libraries, Phyllis Parker...
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The history of a dictatorship's demise-and the many power struggles that followed on the rocky road to democracy in early twentieth-century Mexico.
The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and ambitious sociopolitical experiments in modern times. This history by Charles C. Cumberland addresses the early years of this period, as the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz was finally overthrown and he was driven into exile due to the...
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The renowned writer describes coming of age during the violent Mexican Revolution and living as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.
Pillar of Salt is Novo's incomparable memoir of growing up during and after the Mexican Revolution, shuttling north to escape the Zapatistas, only to see his uncle murdered at home by the troops of Pancho Villa, and his initiations into literature and love with colorful, poignant, complicated men...
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A political scientist and Republican party insider examines how Texas made its dramatic shift from Democratic stronghold to GOP dominance.
In November 1960, the Democratic party dominated Texas. Democrats held all thirty statewide elective positions as well as the entire state legislature. Fifty years later, this stronghold had not only been lost-it had reversed. In November 2010, Republicans controlled every statewide elective office, as well as...
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In this book, pilot and historian Barbara Ganson brings to life the colorful personalities that shaped the phenomenally successful development of the aviation industry in the Lone Star state. Weaving stories and profiles of aviators, designers, manufacturers, and those in related services, “Texas Takes Wing” covers the major trends that propelled Texas to the forefront of the field.
Covering institutions from San Antonio's Randolph Air Force...
17) Saddles and Soot
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Veterinarian Georgina Greyson will only be in Whispering Springs for three months covering for the town veterinarian while he is on a research trip. She isn't looking for love or roots, just maybe a good time before she moves on.When his parents leave on their dream fantasy RV trip, Tanner Marshall is left in charge of his family's cattle ranch, as well as his two younger brothers and sister. When he isn't ranching, he's doing duty on the volunteer...
18) The Sheriff
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Meet the West Texas Watchmen. "A smashing beginning! . . . The Sheriff is tightly plotted; the action is breathtaking and the characters captivating." -Fresh Fiction
Sheriff Pete Morrison knows the secret in his past could destroy his father. Yet instead of resigning his job and exposing the lie, he finds himself protecting Andrea Allen-a beautiful astronomer who witnessed a gun-smuggling operation and a college student's abduction. Determined...
19) Texas Dawn
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Stella Duval always fantasized about seeing her beloved Logan Cafferty again, but she never imagined that when the day came, it would be as his captive. Before the Civil War-a time that now seems like nothing more than a dream-Stella and Logan had been in love with plans to marry. But war broke out, leaving them on opposing sides.
Now Stella finds herself face to face with Logan again, only as his prisoner. But their passion for one another has not...
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Passion, heat, and desire...Only they can ignite her animalistic fire. Still grieving and trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, Charlotte "Charlie" Mason attempts to rebuild after a tragic loss. But when she's betrayed by her uncle and finds herself in harm's way, the courageous she-wolf must enlist the help of the two men she sent away--the same two men who left with what remained of her broken heart. Trying to resist the temptation...
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