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A historical novel set in nineteenth-century Texas. It is a coming-of-age story involving Billy McCulloch, a fifteen-year old boy who accompanies a former Texas Ranger, a black man, and two of his uncles on a quest to rescue a fourteen-year-old girl.

Colonel Thurman Shuller's war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. Shuller's diary brings his wartime experience back to life, and his accounts of life among the British during the war bring a fresh look at the air war.

Tells the story of a double survival: first of the destruction of the idealistic but tragically flawed Peoples Temple community, then of its aftermath. Having survived, Eugene Smith has hard questions for today's America.

Haid Shelton is his small-town church's song leader as a teen and dreams of becoming a rock singer. His enduring gifts are in his tenor voice and success as a Golden Gloves boxer. This tale embraces themes of race relations, friendship, and the American culture of violence.

First published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. The book portrays an Austin-based live music explosion variously described as progressive country, cosmic cowboys, and outlaw country.

A book to be read for pleasure and to build confidence in children and students who are not alone in facing difficulties with speech and language impairments. It comes with 'secret tips' to tackle speech and language disorders, and most importantly, bring smiles along the way!

A tongue-in-cheek novel about the most dangerous act of nuclear terrorism in the twenty-first century, a romp of international intrigue and espionage by a man who spent thirty-three years in the field.

Explores the musical history of Dallas, Fort Worth, and the surrounding area from the nineteenth century to the 1960s, and the continuing echoes of that transformative decade. With nearly five hundred images, the book moves through a host of genres and eras.

Offers an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor's first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. This book shows a doctor's life at an intimate level, with its many rewards, struggles, and exchanges. This memoir reveals that humour, compassion, and humility make the practice of medicine fulfilling and inspiring.

Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Creative Writing program at Texas Tech University, serving as poetry editor from 1975 to 1995, and retired 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. TCU Press honours his career in this tenth book of the TCU Press Texas Poet Laureate Series.

Collects dozens of personal accounts of military life from World War II to the present day. These narratives from Texas Christian University students, faculty, staff, alumni, and family range from deadly combat to downtime, from family dynamics to life after military service.

First published in 1966, Hannah Jackson chronicles the turbulence of the '60s and remains a highly relevant novel depicting the oppression of social conventions during times of change.

Most would not expect a book about a stroke to be entertaining, but this memoir will force you to laugh through a tragedy, then cry, then laugh again. What emerges is a revealing critique of the hospital experience, the insurance industry, and rehab culture.

Follows the characters introduced in Plum Creek as they meet the challenges that life presents them. Billy McCulloch faces some tough moral choices as he embarks upon the practice of law. Ada Adams and Everett Hardeman become engulfed in a crisis arising from her marriage to a cruel husband. And Lily Poe is forced to deal with tragedy.

The hilarious autobiography of James Hampton, who for over fifty years has been one of the most familiar faces in American television and film. A wonderful slice of life in Hollywood told through the personal stories of one of its most prolific actors, this book will appeal to nostalgia buffs, classic film and television aficionados.

Tells the story of the development of the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra (FWSO) and the Cliburn competition as the internationally renowned conductor John Giordano knew them. These enlightening and often humorous chronicles give readers insight into the expansion of the FWSO and the Cliburn during Giordano's tenure.

Imagine sharing your name with a devastating hurricane. Seeing and hearing your name over and over in a scary, negative light.... The constant commentary is enough to make a kid wonder if he is bad too. This is the story of a boy on a mission to find out if his mischievous ways may be to blame for sharing his name with a hurricane.

This collection of Guerrero's new and selected work documents the struggle to both honour and disrupt cultural, social, and familial traditions and histories. Hers is an honest and fearless examination of racism, sexism, domestic abuse, illness, and loss.

George T. Ruby was the most widely known of the first generation of black politicians in Texas, establishing during the Reconstruction both a local and national reputation as a strident advocate of equal rights. This book shows Ruby to be a principled politician committed to bettering the place of African Americans in white America.

Memphis, the Bluff City, is at the heart of Gerald Duff's hilariously violent story about lies, crimes, and those who must dig down to the ugly truths hiding beneath false claims made by movers, shakers, and criminals high and low.

This engaging account reveals the complexity of the Mexican Revolution, with a cast of characters that includes officers and officials of the Porfirian regime, revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries, US investors, crackpots, German spies, Japanese schemers, Chinese workers, and purveyors of every sort of vice.

Traces ten years of a child's life in baseball, from his first struggles on the sandlot to his final high school game. The book is illustrated with period memorabilia and twelve pages of handwritten letters from Ty Cobb, plus others from Hall of Fame players like Eddie Walsh and Frankie Frisch.

This novel is both a traditional Western - tense, authentic, fast-paced - and an anti-Western that tells the story of what was perhaps the bloodiest range war in US history, Arizona's 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

Explores the exceptional architectural legacy of Waxahachie, Texas. Beginning with the landmark Ellis County Courthouse designed by James Riely Gordon, the guidebook documents residential, commercial, and institutional buildings - both large and small - as well as the individuals who designed, built, and owned them.

'Ghost notes' is a musical term for sounds barely audible, a wisp lingering around the beat, yet somehow driving the groove. The Texas musicians profiled here, ranging from 1920s gospel performers to the first psychedelic band, are generally not well known, but the impact of their early contributions on popular music is unmistakable.

Spencer Hays grew up in a small town in a family of very little means to become a business leader and a wealthy philanthropist by way of sheer grit and hard work. Beloved by friends and employees alike for his self-effacement and generosity, Spencer Hays wanted the principles that his corporations operate by to be the primary focus of this book.

There has never been a book about the inner workings of the golf business, or its leading players from an insider's point of view. In the Rough reads like a novel, but it could be required reading in a business school. It takes the reader on a ride through the author's unusual professional career and what he discovered in the most revealing settings and scenes of the golf industry.

The poetry of Carol Coffee Reposa reflects the wide diversity of her life experience as a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, traveller, musician, gardener, swimmer, and lover of the arts. Although born in California, she comes from an unabashedly Texan family, and her work draws heavily on the history, climate, and culture of the Lone Star State.

Traces the history and impact of Honors at TCU from its beginning as a small program in the early 1960s to the present day, highlighting how its courses and cocurricular activities not only enrich student learning but also campus culture.

This novel is "a riveting page turner and a deadly serious meditation on the confusion and hypocrisy" that continue to shake the Catholic Church and its devoted followers today.